I Game Therefore I Am

E3 Continued, New Project in Works!

   I'm going to be writing more about E3 soon, but as it is getting late right now I'm just going to comment on Nintendo while I'm sitting here thinking about it. It's rather sad to see the current state of Nintendo's creative department. This is the company that single handily revived gaming. This is the company who has thought of all of the new ideas brought into gaming from motion control, to the use of tablets. But their problem is they just don't seem to think far enough a head. I don't know if its the Japanese business mentality, or if their still stuck in some ideas from the past, but Nintendo just always seem to take a step forward and leap back four.
   For my first example lets look at their new system, the Wii U. They basically made a controller on the sides of a tablet. This is further proven by the fact that most of the demo games they have showed us is played on the Wii U"Tablet" controller. The game play that is displayed on this controller is then displayed on the TV for others to see. There has been a few obscure uses for it such as one player seeing a private screen while the others all look at their controllers and TV, but still, its just a tablet. Alright Nintendo made a step forward, then Sony and Microsoft promptly knocked them back four steps. Sony made it so you can use your Vita and your PS3 and just play the same games back and forth. Basically a tablet that plays PS3 games, not ones specifically made for it. Then Microsoft said hey, everyone already has phones and tablets, lets just make a App so they can use all their old things they already own.
   If that's not bad enough, Nintendo at first glace appears to be ignoring most of the internet once again. Their sticking to their idea of getting the whole family to sit around and play 4 player games. Good on paper, but I have never met a family who all sat around and played video games. When it comes to getting 3 of my buddies to come over and play games, I haven't been able to convince them of that in years. The internet ruined couch play and as much as I miss sitting around getting drunk with my friends playing games, I just don't see us going back in that direction, we're going forward into the full digital age.
   I have a lot more to say about E3 but its getting late and I'm getting tired. More to come.
   Side note, it almost seemed like Reggie was going to flip out on the G4 interviewer when asked why anyone would play these 2 year old games, aren't they the same content?
-InfectedCrow

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