Next Generation Consoles

WOW, that press conference was amazing.

The controller was very impressive, and the motion sensor was very cool with Warhawk.(he would pull on the controller and the jet would slow down :D )

The i-toy was so great I was almost laughing at it's awesomeness. The card display was so cool, if you every watched Yugi-oh then you have a good idea of what it was like

Sony really did deliver this year, and I have no problem playing $641.98(this with the tax of the 599 price)(give or take...).

But still if you had to make me choose between the consoles then I would give up videogames for life.......probably

It didn't take long for the OMG Sony ripped off Nintendo pictures to show up. Best one I've seen http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2...nythief8tv.jpg. And yea that Eye Toy game was pretty cool, I might actually pick it up since I'm a fan of Yugioh and that Duck card owned.

I guess I'm one of the detractors on this issue. With these announcements, I think Sony just lost the next console war.

The motion tracking controller they released has trigger elements of the old xbox controller (the L2 and R2 buttons), the LIVE button straight off the 360 controller, and a half-ass attempt to put motion control in. If you watch the video and listen to what he said, it only has 6 degrees of movement. That is not much better than our old friend the Powerglove. From the video, it also looked like he was having a difficult time getting it to do what he wanted with any type of smooth motion. The controller

Compare this to the recent
TIME magazine article where a reporter almost completely unfamiliar with gaming had a great time using the Wii controller in front of Miyamoto and Iwata.

It's also pretty good to note it only has 4 LED lights to indicate which controller is which. That's quite a different story from the 7 that were promised.

I think with the price tacked on, even if it doubles as a media center and Blu-Ray player, the price will turn off a HUGE number of parents buying consoles for their children. If I was one, I sure as hell wouldn't buy my kid a $500 gaming console. Even the SNES in today's dollars is only $300 or so.

I think Sony single handedly lost themselves a console war, as well as an HD format war.

Consider one more PS3 available for the rest of you to buy. You can take FFXIII too, I'll happily play the next Dragon Quest on the Wii.

Holy crap, I can't fricking believe it! First sony killed sega now there going for Nintendo as well. Yesh I really feel sorry for the big N since no matter how hard they try it seems as if Sony isn't going to let them have a break. I can only imagine the sony engineers working their asses off these past few months to get the damn thing working. All I can say is that if most PS3 titles utilize the motion sensor then nintendo has effectively lost their major advantage. Then again, they did say that they had one final secrete about the Wii which they haven't reveiled yet so hopefully they haven't put all of there cards on the taple yet.

As for the price, it seems resonable, I myself plan on buying three or four then selling them on ebay where there value will easily double or even triple, because you know that there is no fricking way Sony is going to produce enough systems to meet demand. Well here's hoping Nintendo has been keeping itself quite for a a damn good reason and has some kickass software to show off tomorrow.

I agree with Ryllharu. Even though Sony may not have directly ripped off Nintendo's motion sensor idea for the controller, it looks like they did a bad incorporating it anyway (compared to the Wii, that is).

The only way I see the ps3 "winning the console war" is because of its inherent popularity. Hardcare gamers are gonna buy a Playstation, no matter how much it costs.

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Originally Posted by XanBcoo

I heard from a friend who watched the Sony Conference that ps3 is using a controller with a motion senser now...just like the Wii. Looks like they realized the capabilities of the design, despite all the flack the "Wiimote" is getting. I wonder if perhaps they'll even do a better job of it.

I also heard the ps3 is going to be $500 for the 20GB version and $600 for the 60GB one. That's pretty insane.
Sony conference details.

I'm getting up early tomorrow to watch the Nintendo conference. Can't wait :D .

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"Wiimote?" Haha, I'm sorry, I just had to say how that cracked me up. I agree though, those prices are pretty insane. Guess they want to squeeze people for every penny eh?

I have to say that I'm very disappointed with Sony. I already hated all the rootkit nonsense they were putting on the Blu-Ray format. Some of this is just sad. After Months of talking about how 1080p was going to be the only "true" HD resolution What happens? Unreal Tournament and Virtua Fighter 5 reveal they will be running at the same 720p xbox 360 games do.

Another Problem is that the 500 dollar version doesn't just have a smaller hard drive. According to the Official Spec Sheet the 500 dollar verion has no wifi, no memory card reader, and no HDMI.

I'll definitely get the 60gb version.
I can spare part of my salary for this jewel :D


samsonlonghair:
well... we can't expect first generation games of a new console to run at the top specs of a console? can we?

NINTENDO LIVE!. NOW!!

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Soooo....did anyone catch the price of the Wii at the press conference?

B/c I sure as hell didn't....

That Nintendo conference was pretty awesome. I came. Twice. Seeing the Wii controller in action was really something. Not a lot of specific information was revealed, but we do now know that the Wii will be out 4th Quarter 2006, along with the new Zelda game - which will also be released on the Gamecube. They gave a demonstration of it using the Wii controller, and it looked great. Like using the Nunchuck (which also has a motion sensor) to sheild and attack while Z-Targetting, and using the right-hand controller to aim with the bow and arrows. They also showed demos of Red Steel, Mario Galaxy (new Mario!), and Metroid.

It seems the final secret about the remote is the built in speaker: IGN article here.

I also thought it was funny how Nintendo was able to take a jab at itself: "About the name: We want to thank all the people that wrote good things about it the first time they heard it...both of you." I lol'd. Seeing Miyamoto play Tennis was also hilarious. He's the goofiest fucking guy.

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Originally Posted by Knives122

Soooo....did anyone catch the price of the Wii at the press conference?

B/c I sure as hell didn't....

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I'm willing to bet it won't be $500. They were sparse on details, but they did seem to stress how it would be cheaper than its competitors.

Can't see the video =/

And any shred of respect I had for Sony is now lost

You can't see the video for the Nintendo conference b/c it's over :p (you'll have to wait to dl it at gamespot)

You'll have to wait for the Microsoft conference, which I may end up missing -_-

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I'm waiting for the conference to be available for download...

I'm assuming the price will be somewhere around $199. As its been said a couple hundred times, every Nintendo console has been launched at that. Maybe due to the technology in it, it will be $199 +/- 50.

I have to admit, I was expecting a little more out of it. The transcript didn't really give off anything, I'll just have to wait until I can see it in action.

MICROSOFT!!! LIVE NOW!!!!

The nintendo press conference sucked..

GAMESPOT OFCOURSE YOU IDIOT!


EDIT: nope not yet like Knives122 mentionet...

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Originally Posted by Thi3f

Because they used 6-7 years old technology?

*cough* http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...ndups/tiltpad/ *cough*


Well, depending on the price, I might get a Wii. I'm definetely not getting a PS3 (I've never bought a PS, why change a winning concept?), a bit curious of the 360, for pirating reasons and some of the games.

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The existence of the technology is irrelevent. It's the execution of the technology that counts. Virtual reality's another technology that's been created in the past as well, but without a successful execution, it's worthless. If the PS3's marketing campaign was centered on a strong VR foundation and Nintendo surprise-announced a half-assed VR attachment for their console, then I'd say the same thing about that as well.

An example of execution vs existence: 4 player console support. The concept was around since the NES, probably even earlier, but until the N64 came out, it was nothing more than a gimmick attachment.

http://www.vidaextra.com/images/ps3grill.jpg

I'll have my hamburger well done thank you.

Anywho, GSpot hasn't put up the link for the press conference yet, which means we'll all have to dl it later today........great. -_-

lol on gamespot, they now have a thumbnail for a wii page.

Anyway, video game news!

Wii controller hands on

Article over Zelda Twilight Princess on Wii

Article over Metroid Prime 3: Corruption on Wii

Article over Halo 3

all articles have videos

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just watched the zelda video... amazing... simply amazing...