The Official E3 2011 Thread

[Peanut]

You're f*cking retarded if you think that Sesame Street game isn't a piece of god damn genius.

[The Stryker]

Originally Posted by ThirdMarioBro

Microsoft is pretty much just running blind on the good graces of third parties at the moment. They're a company with no sense of vision, and I don't really know what direction they're going from here, but judging by the time spent on Kinect garbage (Seaseme Street, really?)

It's Sesame street BTW and it looked adorable.

[Cure]

Uncharted looks awesome. Resistance does not.

[AquaParade]

Peanut telling someone not to use hyperbole? Yea...

Nothing too surprising for me today, but I am definitely excited to see where Far Cry 3 ends up. For all of its nagging issues, I feel that Far Cry 2 had a lot of potential.

Still hoping to see Final Fantasy XIII Versus, The Last Guardian, and more Arkham City.

Edit: Why didn't anyone tell me there was Ninja Gaiden 3 footage up???

[Slap-Happy]

Sony just named the NGP: Playstation Vita

"Vita means life, blurring the lines between your life and gaming."

Lots of groaning at AT&T partnership.

[Peanut]

Didn't you hear!? It means LIFE! Also, hilarious that he got booed when he announced the 3G network stuff with AT&T.

[Slap-Happy]

Uncharted looks good. The "painting edges" isnt as revolutionary as they seem to be making it out to be.

EDIT: Love the hint of sarcasm in the guy's voice who says, "Thanks Chris and John, looks amazing..."

[Peanut]

Sony just f*cking stepped the portable sh*t UP! Not really with the Vita itself, but with the price. $249.99!? INSANITY!

[Slap-Happy]

Looks really good. I might have to get this, even being a 360 loyalist.

I was expecting this to be around $350-$500

[Cure]

Man, the hand held race is on.

[deadpoolRKO]

definantly a great price tag.


That tekken X Stret fighter looked nice

[Ninjinister]

Cole MacGrath in Street Fighter X Tekken. Now see, this is the s**t I was talking about. Now I've never played Infamous, so I can't say I'm excited, but seriously, nobody saw that coming at all.

Thank you Sony/Capcom/E3.

[ThirdMarioBro]

FINALLY. We have a bloodbath brewing. PSP was flawed as sh*t, but Vita is rock solid in every way. Only problem was the potential price. Slam dunk, Sony.

Expect Nintendo to drop to $199 in the morning and announce all those games they always consider holding back at the last second.

PlayStation Vita, Day-Freaking-One purchase.

[Peanut]

Biggest problem with the Vita is still going to be the games. Nintendo knows how to make portable games, Sony doesn't. Making a smaller, less visually impressive version of the same game you can play at home isn't the way to do it at all. If they can overcome that huge obstacle, which is most definitely the one that held back the PSP, they have a shot. If they fall into that same hole, the Vita is just going to be the PSP2.

[sdp]

Vita is not going to do very well. I don't understand the praise for the price either, $250 is too much any higher price than that and it would have been laughed at. I think people are just happy with the price because its technically superior to the 3DS that has the same price tag but that doesn't mean its a viable price. Sony is repeating the same mistakes from the PSP but unlike last time its not just Nintendo but smartphones its competing against. And guess what, the target audience is going to buy a smartphone for the same price instead of the Vita. What I especially fear about Vita is the battery life, especially since it wasn't even mentioned.

Nintendo is still in a better position, first of all their target audience is younger and the parents are not going to buy them smartphones. Second Nintendo has much stronger first party offerings and system sellers that will be coming to the 3DS, hell even if they had none and only had Pokemon would guarantee the success of the system. Nintendo is also making a profit from the 3DS and because of it it'll be easier to drop the price unlike Sony which I'm sure they only went with that price so try to cut-off Nintendo, they won't be able to cut price too much since I'm sure they're taking a loss already on it.

[Peanut]

Everyone expected the Vita to be priced well over the 3DS, but they went ahead and priced it competitively, that's why people are praising the price. No one would have laughed at a higher price, because it's what most people expected, but they certainly would have scoffed. Is it still too much at $250? Probably, but at least it's competitive and not an astronomically ridiculous sum.

If it's $350-$400, I'm not buying. At $250 I'm willing to bite the bullet for a shiny new piece of hardware that'll at the very least end up having a few decent games. I'll just cut back to half a dozen games a month when it drops.

[Ninjinister]

I've got a PSP and a DS and love both so I'm willing to eventually get a 3DS and a Vita. We still don't have a bunch of solid game commitments from either but at this point, it's looking like anybody's war. The 3DS comparatively flopped out the gate (it's already going for reduced price in some places) and so you can't just say that Nintendo is "obviously winning" this one.

[Powder]

Just a quick question, pardon the ignorance- The Nintendo portion won't be on TV anywhere will it?
I know I can tune in on http://www.e3.nintendo.com/ but on the tube would be better.

[ThirdMarioBro]

To be fair, Sony's wasn't either. Microsoft buys that airtime on Spike.

[sdp]

I'm pretty sure G4 will be airing the Nintendo conference and they aired the Sony one, they have the exclusive for those two while Spike got the exclusive for the Microsoft one, so no, Microsoft did not buy the air time. G4 will air the Microsoft one tomorrow/today, but Spike had the exclusive to air it live.