E3 2010

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lol it was long but i have to agree Nintendo wins for sheer amount of surprises, sonys and xbox where on things we already knew sadly

One thing I will give Sony credit for is that because Move is such a Wii-too device, it actually has a chance of convincing me to buy games for it instead of the 360.

What a fucking asshole.
Playstation Move interests you, but Kinect doesnt?Talk about double-standards.

Oh thanks.

Kinect doesn't interest me at the moment because it doesn't have any games that I want. Move interests me because it has games that I want. How hard is it to understand that simple concept?

If Wii had no games that I had any interest in then I wouldn't want a Wii either... but I do have a Wii because it has games I am interested in.

Funny how that works.

rofl whoa hostile hostile, just proved his immaturity level by insulting you right off the bat with out actually reading what you posted no doubt. I maybe bold to say hes an xbox fan boy. I agree with what Lynk says the Kinect games wise has nothing so I am certainly not going to buy it just because its something that xbox has, so before you fly off the handle and call people names.

respect his opinion and wind your fricken neck in.

Alright,"hostile" I am.I actually did read the whole thing.And what gives you the impression that I'm a fanboy?Because I insulted someone who seems to be a Sony fanboy?(I dont really give a crap about the console wars,or "Fan dumb").

What I meant to say was that Lynk dude was being hypocritical.He said Kinect didnt interest him, yet Move does.Are they not similar?

Well for one hes no fanboy lynk is about as far from a sony fanboy as anyone can be, he owns all three consoles wii be the one he plays th emost as thats always been his thing,

He isnt hypocritcal the way i see what your trying to say is. It like saying he should own a ps3 even though he has no interest in it, if anything ps3 has games that will use the Move function that lynk and many others wil purchase. Kinect has nothing at the moment that interests him so why should he splash cash for something that right now doesnt appeal to him.

i wont be getting kinect or MOve until i see what games they get and how well they function with said games. however i do hope for more mature games and none of this party style gaming so until i see somethign i like i wont be purchasing either of them

Kinect, Move and Wii are motion control technologies from three different companies using three different methods.

Wii uses an infrared sensor bar along with a small camera located at the front of every Wii Remote to determine how far the Wii Remote is away from the TV and calculates where the Wii remote is pointing in relation to the sensor bar.

In addition the Wii Remote also has an accelerometer that tracks the movement of the Wii Remote, its orientation and the speed in which it's moving... but to add to that, if you have a Wii MotionPlus accessory attached to the Wii Remote it will enhance the motion sensing ability of the Wii Remote through the use of a gyroscope.

Move is similar to Wii in terms of its motion controls because it uses much of the same technology. The difference comes from the glowing ball and the use of the PlayStation Eye. Basically it's set up the other way around from how the IR pointer works on Wii.

The PlayStation Eye looks at and tracks that glowing ball on the PlayStation Move and tracks it around the room. This gives it a much more accurate tracking ability over Wii since the Eye is able to keep track of the glowing ball no matter what the player does with it... unless they hide it behind their backs or the couch or something, obviously.

Kinect is the technology which is the most different from the previous two. Basically Kinect uses two cameras to view the players. It has two cameras so it can sense depth, just like we do with the two eyes we have stuck in our heads.

In addition to that it also has a heat sensor and microphone in the unit as well. All of this is used to track the player without any other external input devices.



If you're looking for differences between Kinect and Move, there is quite a difference. In fact, Move is much more similar to Wii than it is with Kinect since it requires a controller. Kinect on the other hand requires no controller and the games being made for it use no controllers aside from a persons body itself.

Now the key to why I like Move over Kinect, as I said in my previous post are the games... Killzone 3 interests me a lot more than Kinectimals... as cute as Skittles was, I don't have interest in playing with him... just like I have no interest in playing with a Nintendog.

All the in-depth tech details stuff was unnecessary.All 3 are technologies that translate the motion of something(body/controller) from the real world onto the screen.Hence, "similar", not identical.

And it's not as if no other FPS games are going to come out for the Kinect ; it's only just been unveiled. Heck,it took more than a year for the PS3 to get some truly awesome titles of its own.It's your choice,though.

Anyway,I apologise for calling you a "fucking asshole",it's only teh internets. Anonymity tends to make people act like dicks.

That's alright, it was fun

Well, if you want to come right down to it. I do think there's great potential in Kinect. I really want to see head tracking used in some future games... I mean, imagine how Gears of War 3 would look if there was some head tracking enabled with Kinect. THAT would be awesome. However, in relation to E3, they didn't show any of that. All they showed were expanded audience games which is why I preferred Move over Kinect for my E3 post.

The key thing that Kinect doesn't have but Move does have are buttons to go along with the motion based controls. I can also sit down and enjoy both Wii and Move while Kinect actually does require people to be standing. From what I hear the only applications designed to be used while sitting for Kinect are the motion gesture menus on the Kinect enabled 360 dashboard.


Kinect may come out with stuff later, but I'm talking about the here and now at what I saw during E3. Move showed me more of what I wanted... Kinect did not.

The only thing that even remotely interest me about Kinect is the hint Molyneux gave that there may be some "surprises" for Natal Kindest in Fable 3. However, with only Molyneux word for it I'm not holding my breath.

Nice super long exhausting blog. Thanks for sharing the information.

Hopefully the hint he gave suggests that there's some level of interaction in the game that's similar to the "Milo" tech demo they showed off last year... cause that would be pretty awesome.

This E3 proved that you don't win E3 with things that people know about, you win E3 with surprises. I completely agree with the Nintendo>Sony>Microsoft order and not because I don't own a 360.

Nintendo showed a shift back to their old first party games/characters. Donkey Kong, Kirby, Kid Icarus and more, Nintendo is finally paying more attention to their core market, the ones that remember the NES. Also, I want a 3DS yesterday. The only thing that concerns me about the 3DS is that a lot of the announced launch titles are remakes of older games, like Starfox 64 and Zelda:OoT, while great games I don't want the 3DS to be a copypasta of the Wii VC. Hopefully these remakes are just to help the 3DS get on its feet and we wont get spammed with remakes and shovelware.

Sony had no real grand surprises, their biggest surprise was Twisted Metal and I wouldn't say I'm excited for it, but I will definitely be following its development progress. What Sony with the Move better than Microsoft did with Kinect is that they showed how it could be integrated to their core games, with demos on Killzone 3 and SOCOM 4. Also while I really want to know what it's like playing Killzone 3 in 3D with the Move it is just way too far from being reasonably affordable right now with 3DTV's ranging from $2000 to $5000 USD. I was really disappointed that we didn't see a PSP2 though, but there are still some good games to come for the PSP, a Knights in the Nightmare port, Kingdom Hearts:Birth By Sleep and Valkyria Chronicles 2.

Microsoft focused entirely too much on trying to attract that new audience with Kinect, I think it's reasonable to do that... but not at E3. E3 has traditionally been known as the "hardcore gamer's" press conference, Kinect should not have been the main feature. Kinect really has me... confused, it has the potential to do great things in games, but it hasn't shown any of its potential. Some may have seen that tech demo of sorts where the guy used a Wii-mote helmet to do head-tracking. Some may know that Microsoft hired that guy to help with Natal/Kinect.... yet I see no Kinect head-tracking usage. These things take time though so hopefully we will see greater uses for Kinect in some time. Now the primary reason (aside from having a gaming PC) I have never had an Xbox/360 is that Microsoft has not shown me that they are truly committed to their gaming consumers. Now, what do I mean by that? Well, what I mean is they haven't shown me that they are investing in their 1st party game development there has never been a game developed by Microsoft Game Studios that made me think to myself, "I absolutely must play this!" Before someone comes and says, "but what about Haloz and Gears, those are epic, are you stupid?" First of all, I don't have much of an interest in those games, but besides that they also aren't developed by Microsoft, they're what I'd call, "2nd party" games. Why so I see the need for MS to develop it's own games... well it is simple really, with game development costs on the rise the age of 3rd party console exclusivity is coming to an end, which only leaves 1st party games as the main differentiator. That's why.

Hmm I've seem to rambled on... well I haven't read the Zelda stuff, too tired right now, maybe later.

so funny, and yet so true

[Episode] LucasCast: E3 2010 Special - LucasForums

I'm a guest star along with Jeff on the latest episode of LucasCast.


...man I sound so tired on the podcast x.x I end up starting to slur some of my words in it too. Though it's no wonder considering the fact that I got next to no sleep during E3 and then they made me stay up all night so we could record that at (for me) early Sunday morning. I start to waken up a bit at the end though but that's because I've drank all of a very large class of coke...

I did end up sleeping practically all the way through Monday to recover from E3 though x.x

I'm a cry baby, Lynk

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention.... the mole they added the Samus' face in Other M... I don't like it

That is all.