Thread: E3 2010 Discussion Topic

Really bummed that Miyamoto mentioned Pikmin 3 but didn't give any other news than that it's in production...

Hell, Pikmin/Pikmin 2 used to be common titles and sources of discussion. Now hardly anyone even knows what they were.

Originally Posted by Solstatic

Considering they were pulling out all of the "big guns" you would think that pikmin could be a big enough title to at least give a 10 second mention. Oh well, who am I to tell them what to do. haha

Miyamoto mentioned that they didn't want to talk about Pikmin right next to big releases like Zelda and Metroid for fear that it would be overlooked and forgotten, so he at least had a reason.

Still, this E3 was great for nearly everything else. Personally I'm not very interested in this motion control buzz, but a lot of the other new games look magnificent.

Yeah...Sony is definitely the worse offender for completely mimicking Nintendo's motion control, since they think that's why the Wii supposedly prints money. We'll see how successful that turns out to be. Maybe it'll work out, but I've got doubts about it. At least Microsoft's Kinect still brings something generally new to the table.

Originally Posted by Solstatic

Yeah, the only reason I'm excited about the move is that I think that it has the potential to finally create good core motion games. Something that nintendo (and from the looks of it microsoft) has pretty much forsaken in favor of shovelware titles that involve mindlessly shaking the wii remote (or in the case of kinect, your body).

True. Nintendo does at least have some good titles coming in the future, but I've never heard the word "shovelware" more than in the last 3-4 years...and nearly all referring to the Wii. Sony's games have still been mostly solid this generation, but their console hasn't really done anything to innovate, and when it came out the PS3 was very overpriced. Hopefully there will be some better business direction from them now.