Capcom president on E3 2010, new motion controllers

This would normally be the year we could expect new hardware reveals, so I would say most are pretty excited to see what new kinds of experiences are possible in Next Gen 2.0: Electric Waggaloo

Everyone thinks every E3 is going to be lame every year.

I dunno, there are a few announcements that will probably happen that I'm looking forward to, at minimum it will be OK

yeah, we all get that feeling..
..until sony announces Halo for ps3. yes, bricks will be shat.

I actually get the feeling it's going to be one of, if not the absolute best E3s.

What do we have so far this fall? Reach, LittleBigPlanet 2, and Fable III . . . Everyone's playing first party titles close to their chest, and they'll all be showing at least one huge surprise game, and that's not even including the probable Zelda reveal we all know is coming. We're going to finally get dates on The Last Guardian and GT5, we're going to see what Rare's been working on, and Nintendo will have at least one other core franchise title to showcase for Wii, and it will be their NSMBWii counterpart that pretty much takes us by storm and releases this fall, my guess and hope is Pikmin (Zelda? I think that's a 2011 release personally).

3DS, Natal, and Move will probably cannibalize the other coverage, but I still think the first party software reveals alone will really make an impact that captures the new-hardware-naysayers attention more than the new hardware itself.

3DS and Zelda, this is likely Nintendo's year, unless someone else pulls out something truly surprising (and though 3DS and Zelda are known, they are largely unknown. They could arrive in any form, and therefore still have the shock value that's so critical to taking E3)

E3 is always good for laughs.

I'm sure Natal will be every bit as embarrassing as You're In The Movies at E3 2008. Microsoft always has this combination of awkwardness and smugness that makes every attempt by them to "look cool to the common consumer" ridiculous.

you say every year is nintendos year mr. khan. lol. I don't think Zelda and 3Ds are enough to claim this a victory for them before the conference even starts. I could see MS easily winning this E3 with some big time Natal reveals. I'm not saying Nintendo won't win but it's going to take much more than a new ds and a new zelda.

Resistance 3 or inFamous 2, possibly.... Or Bully 2 xD

Give this man a prize.

This is the ee cummings of Joystiq comments.

microsoft is holding a different one for motion control, and sony already spent gdc talking about it, so i doubt it ill take all of it's e3 to. They will obviously talk about it, but it won't be that big.

Oh god The1stMJC. Come on. You're not one of THOSE gamers missing out on the 1 console this gen with the most A+ exclusives are you?

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foetoid,

the wii is not something all gamers must own to avoid "missing out". I don't think anyone seriously considers the wii to be like the 360 or PS3 beyond the very broad category of gaming machines that connect to a television.

It's for you, but it's not for me. I think Nintendo has found itself a new niche, and I'm outside it, but more power to them.

Niche, Gimboa? I don't think that word means what you think it means.

I think the word "niche" means a habitat or activity that some thing is suited for.

For example, the wii is suited for group gaming and casual gaming and maybe fitness gaming. This niche is different than the Gamecube or N64's.

Oh well, I'm probably arguing below my weight class to even respond to this.

The PSP Go was a major mistake, hopefully Sony will be able to make up for it.

I imagine 3D is only the window dressing for whatever the device can really do. When Nintendo originally unveiled the DS, they simply showed it as a device with dual screens, leaving out that oh-so-critical touchscreen functionality.

Something similar is probably happening here.

STICK TO THEM SHADOWFAX

GOTTA SHOW THESE COMPANYS WHO'S BOSS, THEY CAN'T SHOVE US AROUND

WE GAMERS, MAN, WE GAMERS

Just 3D and analog control are confirmed so far, right? Was accelerometer confirmed? (bit of a no-brainer).

boring guesses:

- at least better-than-PSP graphics
- support for recent wireless standards (hopefully, even when emulating DS games, but don't bet on it)
- larger quantity of flash RAM to store downloaded games

less boring guesses:

- stereo 3D camera (either front-facing for motion tracking or else just for taking silly 3d pictures of your friends).
- virtual handheld: DS games available for digital download along with GBA, GBC etc; other handhelds (finally, a way to play California Games without an Atari Lynx) announced later.

not very likely guesses:

- nintendo gets rid of friend codes, announces special 'groom mode' feature where you can automatically search for vulnerable 10-year-olds to chat with

I'm thinking the stylus will rumble when it moves over certain things on the screen, kinda like how the wiimote does when you move the pointer over buttons onscreen.

The 3D image plus the tactile feedback in the stylus would be pretty good at providing a new experience. Especially in japan with all those touching date sims..

Or it'll be another complete wash as all they do is reveal 2 new mario games, a new sports based party title and maybe a Link, zelda or metroid game. Oh 3d DS big deal. I'm sure they'll just sell another 2 million of them with no effort at all.

Doubtless Nintendo isn't letting them say anything about any projects that may exist, as that could lead to indications of what the device is capable of, or lead to indications of when it may release, something Nintendo's keeping tightly under wraps.

yeah except for that leaked motherboard fiasco earlier today that showed an analogue nub.

There's a reason 3rd parties have a hard time with Nintendo, and it's not the third party's fault. Nintendo has a corporate culture that has ranged from nearly hostile to simple disinterest in 3rd party success. It is a short sighted plan, and it's why the wii is fundamentally not as dynamic as it ought to be.

Nintendo's strength is in its 1st party work. Capcom is not going to make or break any of their stuff.

People often times remember things as being better then they actually were.

of course the dark knight would be better in 3-d ... duh. if something is already awesome it can only be improved by 3-d (see avatar) ... if something blows then it's going to suck just as hard in 3-d.

I am so sick of people freaking out about 3D. They *always* use the term gimmick, like they can't think for themselves.

I've never seen anything like it. If you don't like 3D, then you should be absolutely delighted by it, because it's making 2D stuff very cheap. You win!

And the idea that 3D is a gimmick for video games is patently absurd. I don't even think you folks understand what the word gimmick means. When you play a game, YOU are the mental state of the player. Anything that immerses you into the player's sense of speed, distance, direction, fear of objects approaching... anything like that is a direct enhancement to your immersion. It cannot be a gimmick unless it actually fails to work well enough to convey those aspects.

I don't know if Nintendo's stuff works, but they saw the PS3 3D demo of GT5 and immediately went to the drawing board because the PS3 3D demo of GT5 is SCARY it's so immersive.

3D in concept cannot be a gimmick in gaming. In practice is can fail and be tacked on... that's up to the devs, but the concept itself is a major advancement. It's enough to cause GT5 to be delayed a full additional year onto the already late deployment, and I ask everyone who doubts the potential to find a friend or store that has a GT5 demo (in the near future) and give it a whirl.

Well, of course the crap will outnumber the exceptional 3D games. Otherwise we'd have to completely revamp the English language.

I wouldn't tell someone that just because Avatar was yet another brain dead James Cameron idiot movie that 3D is a gimmick. And I wouldn't tell someone that the Wii's nerf game (which is really good, btw), proves anything about the motion control idea.

Most consumers are poorly informed, and there's a lot of money to be made in shovelware. And if you become informed, you have little to worry about.