: E3 Whingers and Losers
The annual Electronics Entertainment Expo has come and gone, but even with this year's stripped-down, overly subdued version, console fanboys battle over who "won" the event, and none harder than the beleaguered Sony camp. Note that prior to E3, the 60GB PS3 dropped in price, but the cut was done to phase out the machine while introducing a new 80GB PS3 with software-based (read: much weaker) emulation for PS1 and PS2 games.
Then, over at Wired's Game|Life, Chris Kohler writes a glowing post about one of the games exhibited, the PS3-exclusive LittleBigPlanet. Despite this positive bit of Sony-related blogging, the comments start off with a gripe:
Interesting -
... -- "On the whole, Sony didn't have a great E3. Their PlayStation 3 "price cut" came unraveled. Their PSP redesign was a flop.
Thank goodness, then, for LittleBigPlanet. It's no exaggeration to say that this creative, innovative game is the best thing PS3 has going right now, and having gotten my hands on the demo, I'm even more excited than I was when it was unveiled at GDC." --
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It never ceases to amaze me that people can find a way to bash SNE when they are trying to bring the BEST of everything to everyone. I don't see what the other comapanies are doing that would deserve a GREAT showing at e3.
Did Wired not see the show where after SNE's conference Keighly (specifically) and Sessler stated that it was the best presentation by far? This is even more signifivcant when you consider how jaded Keighly had become after being "lied" to after the KZII trailer of '05.
Why people continue to disdain this comapany simply on name or the way the wind blows simply amazes me. There were a lot of good things that SNE showed at the Conference other than LBP -- hell, I can think of one in particular, but who cares about that right? Certainly not Wired. Wired also mentions the pricedrop unraveling?
As if you are going to wait until all of the 60GIGS are sold out and then complain? No! Go buy one now and save $100USD. I don't understand.
Maybe a free PS3 with 4 free games and 2 Monster Brand HDMI cables would suffice for you curmudgeons, but somehow I think you would find a way to complain about that too. Sometimes I wish SNE would just stop making electronics of all kinds just so people can see what life is like with average, bland, cheap products. Nope, that wouldn't help either, because then they would complain that they quit and abandoned all their customers.
In that case: Onward through the fog!
Posted by: Maddens_Raiders @ N4G | Jul 14, 2007 3:03:48 PM
Maddens_Raiders' comment did not go unnoticed. ( Of journalistic integrity and the REAL winner of E3 )
The annual Electronics Entertainment Expo has come and gone, but even with this year's stripped-down, overly subdued version, console fanboys battle over who "won" the event, and none harder than the beleaguered Sony camp. Note that prior to E3, the 60GB PS3 dropped in price, but the cut was done to phase out the machine while introducing a new 80GB PS3 with software-based (read: much weaker) emulation for PS1 and PS2 games.
Then, over at Wired's Game|Life, Chris Kohler writes a glowing post about one of the games exhibited, the PS3-exclusive LittleBigPlanet. Despite this positive bit of Sony-related blogging, the comments start off with a gripe:
Interesting -
... -- "On the whole, Sony didn't have a great E3. Their PlayStation 3 "price cut" came unraveled. Their PSP redesign was a flop.
Thank goodness, then, for LittleBigPlanet. It's no exaggeration to say that this creative, innovative game is the best thing PS3 has going right now, and having gotten my hands on the demo, I'm even more excited than I was when it was unveiled at GDC." --
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It never ceases to amaze me that people can find a way to bash SNE when they are trying to bring the BEST of everything to everyone. I don't see what the other comapanies are doing that would deserve a GREAT showing at e3.
Did Wired not see the show where after SNE's conference Keighly (specifically) and Sessler stated that it was the best presentation by far? This is even more signifivcant when you consider how jaded Keighly had become after being "lied" to after the KZII trailer of '05.
Why people continue to disdain this comapany simply on name or the way the wind blows simply amazes me. There were a lot of good things that SNE showed at the Conference other than LBP -- hell, I can think of one in particular, but who cares about that right? Certainly not Wired. Wired also mentions the pricedrop unraveling?
As if you are going to wait until all of the 60GIGS are sold out and then complain? No! Go buy one now and save $100USD. I don't understand.
Maybe a free PS3 with 4 free games and 2 Monster Brand HDMI cables would suffice for you curmudgeons, but somehow I think you would find a way to complain about that too. Sometimes I wish SNE would just stop making electronics of all kinds just so people can see what life is like with average, bland, cheap products. Nope, that wouldn't help either, because then they would complain that they quit and abandoned all their customers.
In that case: Onward through the fog!
Posted by: Maddens_Raiders @ N4G | Jul 14, 2007 3:03:48 PM
Maddens_Raiders' comment did not go unnoticed. ( Of journalistic integrity and the REAL winner of E3 )