e3 2010

xbox 360 slim

What does it mean to win E3, well aside from a lot buzz in the media and Fanboys chatting away on the Internet? It means that people will more likely want to know more about the products coming out for that company. This year Microsoft won the event hands down for the 3rd year in a row.

Last year Microsoft just gave us a tease of Project Natal but this year we get a new name, games and date but no price. This is not won the show for them because on it’s surface the games were very Wii’ish. I know that is not a word but that is what they looked like. What made the Kinect a must have was it’s seamless integration into the Xbox Dashboad. To be able to have a system recognize your voice and face is incredible. I see this feature getting integrated into 3rd party televisions.

What really won the E3 event was the X also known as the New Xbox 360. The system came out of the blue. No one expected to see it. The new system has everything the Xbox fanboys wanted and Sony fanboys used as ammo in the fight. The new system has internal wifi, removable hard drive and is much smaller. The only thing the system is missing and most likely will never get is Blu Ray. Microsoft would not want to pay Sony for every system they sale.

The games and demos were relative. This year was about hardware. Sony’s Move is just a Wii mote. Sorry Sony but I’m going to skip that. Nintendo’s 3DS was at best cool. But in a world of iDevices it’s going to take more to impress us in the mobile world. In future E3’s it would be nice to see Apple up there talking about it’s mew system or platform. The iDevices have become a force to be reckoned with in the gaming world. If not addressed by the big 3 of gaming. Never mind there is no big 3. Nindendo is the only one that needs to be concerned for now since Microsoft has no portable system and the Sony’s PSP is well…you dead.

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By Rubens Saintel

Proud father, #Haitian, photographer, consultant, writer & entrepreneur. I love video games, movies, plays, technology (surprise), beta testing apps and all things sci-fi. SaintelDaily.com |AppleWatch101.com | NBA101.com