An assortment of tidbits and thoughts from the showroom floor at E3 today:
* I spent a good deal of time at EA’s booth this morning. I got to play the upcoming “Harry Potter” game, “Grand Slam Tennis” and a little bit of “My Sims: Agents.”
There are elements of “Harry Potter” that are fun. The dueling game, where you hold a wand and square off against other Hogwarts students is particularly enjoyable. Indeed, for my part, EA could have built a whole game just around wand duels.
The games industry frequently surprises me … and not in a good way.
One of the most obvious things about the current console cycle has been that the Wii is the dominant platform. To date, Nintendo, has sold 50 million Wiis worldwide. In contrast, Sony and Microsoft have sold about 52 million PlayStation 3s and Xbox 360s — combined.
At least in the United States, the Wii’s lead on the other two consoles has just kept getting bigger. In recent months, the Wii has typically outsold both the PlayStation 3 and the 360 combined — by a wide margin. Read the rest of this entry »
First Microsoft unveiled Project Natal. Now Sony says it has a “motion controller” in the works.
Two-and-a-half years after Nintendo’s Wii hit store shelves, the company’s chief rivals have stopped firing at each other long enough to try to match the Wii’s motion-sensing game controllers.
Given that the Wii has been the breakout hit console of the current generation since its launch, you’d have thought Sony and Microsoft wouldn’t have tarried so long. Regardless, they clearly have Nintendo in their sites.
In addition to blogging and writing articles for the newspaper, I’m Twittering intermittently from E3 this week.. You can follow my tweets <a href=”http://twitter.com/troywolv”>here</a>. Or you can come back to this post and follow the feed below:
Nintendo seems to be getting just the slightest bit smug.
For its E3 presentation yesterday, Microsoft brought out the remaining Beatles and showed off Project Natal, a piece of technology straight out of the “Minority Report.” At its press event, Electronic Arts brought out tennis legend Pete Sampras and a stage full of Jedi warriors. Ubisoft had James Cameron, Pele and a cool new camera accessory for the Wii.
Nintendo … Well, Nintendo today showed off a glorified pulse meter. The company’s presentation included no celebrities, few real surprises in terms of games or new accessories and was kept to a relatively curt 72 minutes.
One of the most obvious things about the current console cycle has been that the Wii is the dominant platform. To date, Nintendo, has sold 50 million Wiis worldwide. In contrast, Sony and Microsoft have sold about 52 million PlayStation 3s and Xbox 360s — combined.
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