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hey guys and welcome to this week's episode of d3 live so today we're going to be talking about how it's hard to think and talk at the same time I'm just kidding you're just talking about some of the bloopers of course we're going to be talking about the Nintendo Wii U against the Xbox 360 Kinect as well as the PlayStation Move all these new next-generation motion and non Xbox Playstation controllers all the kind of new stuff so of course or if you guys missed it earlier this week at e3 Nintendo rather unveiled their brand-new Wii U um they really didn't talk about the console much pretty much it was all based on the controller and of course Nintendo that's what the Wii was all about was that new controller that motion control you get to go and Bowl and do all kinds of fun stuff so of course everyone was really keeping their hopes up for the Wii U and I'm gonna say it's innovative I don't think anybody can you know knock Nintendo for not being innovative it's a really interesting looking controller it's got some pros and cons so go ahead go over some of those and again I could try to get you guys at least a little bit of a comparison between the other all three rather so the first thing about the Wii U is of course gotta be the screen now it's a pretty large screen um in my opinion I think they probably could have made the screen a little bit smaller without it being a big deal but you know that's kind of it besides the point of course you do have a screen and one of the really cool things about that is that you can play games on the controller rather than using your TV now that's probably the number one thing about the we view that's really gonna set it apart from other people so of course you know you know like if you guys saw they had a commercial or like a like a demo of it they're chewing like somebody comes in like steals the TV from you of course you know if you're playing video games people always do that and of course all you need to do is just continue playing on the controller TV that you don't even need to have a TV on or you might not even ever need a TV in general so that's one of the big things about the Wii U's of course you can have that screen or it's got also gonna be nice for inventory and whatnot of course it does have some other things such as it allows you to do video chat there's some pretty cool things as far as like sending content over to your TV but on the other hand though one of the big things about it that I'm not really hugely excited for is the fact that there are basically abandoning motion control so if you think about it of course it does have some motion controls but there's a very different thing between being able to do games with two separate motion controls you know where it's an attraction everything as opposed to one really large one you can't use one hand you can't hold that huge thing up with one hand that just be awkward so basically you're limited from being able to do stuff like this to being able to like this and well I'm not saying that's necessarily gonna be bad I think that it's definitely taking a kind of a reverse angle from where the Wii was so how that's gonna relate I've definitely remains to be seen but there are definitely some pros and cons about the Wii U controller then moving on to the stuff that we've actually used since supports that we use pretty new not a whole lot of people got their hands on it but of course since the PlayStation Move in Kinect already I can go ahead and talk a little bit more freely and you guys some of my hands-on impressions of that so first thing is is the move now I'll be honest when the move came out I thought that was just gonna be the Wii Remote I mean it looks and works very similarly and in fact it does have a lot of the same characteristics of course there's a main controller and there's a sub controller you can use you know all that kind of stuff hopefully you guys know about the PlayStation Move but where the move really separates itself from everywhere else is in the hard core game so when I again when I first saw it I was really afraid - all we're gonna be doing is just seeing the Wii HD we're gonna see some kind of fun cool looking games but nothing really you know for the hardcore audience that loves the PlayStation 3 well if you guys take a look at some of the cool games that have come out for example the number one thing that I love is Killzone 3 there are some really innovative stuff so and on top of the 3d which looks pretty decent of course you do have the the sharpshooter I mean I totally forget the name of course there's a gun attachment where you can just slide the move in there and kind of use it and that's something that's really innovative and really unique now it's not going to work perfectly I've definitely tried to add a lot of time with that CES and I loved it but it doesn't work perfectly but it just really gives something innovative is you can't actually use a real like light gun style you know really accessory on the other platforms as well and so that's one of the number one things about the moves that I liked now moving away from that you of course we do have the Kinect and the Kinect is kind of the wild card you know the Kinect there's no controller and that's one of their big tag lines you are the controller and there's a lot of good stuff about that but again there are some stuff that I'm not super excited about so of course with the Kinect you know there's all kinds of cool stuff since a trex your body in real time so you know you can like push the balls on the screen and that yeah you can do all kinds of stuff and use your body as a controller and all kinds of stuff like that and there's some cool stuff however one of the biggest things they were Microsoft's was pushing an e3 this year was the voice commands so of course you know you can talk into it and say Xbox play next song things like that but they're also expanding that into games so for example they showed Mass Effect where you can go tell your squad to go this way or that way where and use voice commands well I really like that and I think that's interesting I kind of questioned the need to buy $130 camera basically to use audio controls when we shouldn't the Xbox be able to do that in general so kind of not sure about how that's gonna work but I definitely say that there's no doubt that all three of these are unique they do have all of their own and you know strengths and weaknesses about them ok guys so for the second segment of d3 live I will be taking live questions from everyone in the chat as always every episode of d3 life is filmed in front of a live audience we've got quite a few people in here who are going through some technical difficulties so go ahead and try to answer a few questions alright um so do I think the PS Vita will have a terrible launch in terms of games like the 3ds well if you guys are not don't know about the PS Vita I'm absolutely loving it I love the power I love the price I love a lot about it and while it's definitely a possibility I don't think that Sony's gonna make that same mistake I mean the 3ds I would have bought one day one if they would have had some good games but honestly like I was like gonna go get one I look over like there's literally not one game I want to buy so I didn't get one I just don't have one and I think that's a big problem I mean if you launch a big new system it had better to have some good games so well I don't know I don't know of any games they're actually gonna be out they haven't announced it yet I would certainly hope that Sony's not gonna make that same mistake well the Wii U have apps for the controller yes see that's one thing that I think a lot of people don't understand is that while Nintendo did show off the Wii U at e3 they shut off the controller they didn't show off much of anything for the console and say how powerful it was really they showed some tech demos but most of those weren't even from the Wii U and then a lot of stuff was just like we don't know how the interface is gonna be we don't know if it's gonna have like apps like Netflix and stuff you know it's gonna have you know like some kind of xbox live equivalent so there's a lot that we don't know about the Wii U so as far as apps especially for the controller I would certainly hope so like they showed that checkers little thing that was running on the controller I would hope so but honestly we really just do not know they just have not said much of anything yet the Zelda Wii U was a proper tech demo yes that was about the only real tech demo I mean they show a couple of them that were running on the Wii U supposedly I mean you never know but you know that did show off some graphics the graphics do look pretty decent but again like I said we don't know a lot of beyond just a rough idea of the graphics and some about the controller do I think the PS Vita price and the specs what do I think about the PS Vita price and specs for that price some question a little bit oddly worded yeah I'm really really excited about the PS Vita I think that for the price for $250 when you can directly compare it to the Nintendo 3ds the Vita comes way out ahead I mean it's got a really nice 5-inch LED display with a high resolution um you've got a rear touch panel you've got force the front is a touch you've got motion controls you've got dual thumb sticks you have all the standard buttons from the PSP or at least all the other shoulder buttons all kind of stuff now let's happen that you have a quad-core processor which is way way way more powerful than what you'll find in the 3ds so yeah for the price I mean especially for 50 dollars more you can get 3G which and that helps it sure how many people want 3G on their console mean it might be nice for some people I haven't decided if I really want that on mine yet but um for the price I'm actually satisfied with PS Vita I think they did a great job minecraft on the Wii U now I tell you what minecraft on the we would actually be pretty cool I mean you're being able to have your inventory on the one screen you're being able to play but you know coming back in kind of circling around something I talked about a little bit earlier with the Wii U most of what we've seen was just have to do with like putting like menus and inventory on the secondary controller screen well that's great that'll work I think a lot of it is going to come down to what the developers can come up with what new and innovative things that we can see like for example like I say were doing like throwing shuriken you know from the controller at the screen that's something really interesting and if that we you can do a lot of really cool interesting things like that I think will be fantastic I believe Sonia is actually innovated with this in the 3ds how do you think the rear touch panel can be used well you see I think a lot of the rear touch panel is more of so he's like well hey we're gonna add this and just see what our developers think I don't think they actually have any specific ideas I mean I've seen a couple of things where like ModNation racers where like the front I'm like you're building a track and you can kind of like adjust the land and so if you touch on the front panel like it'll push the land down if you push from the back it'll push the land up so you know very similar to if you were actually you put you your fingers in like on adjusting stuff but as far as we're touch panel goes I mean I can see it maybe like kind of like if you had like a trackpad on your computer like you being able to control the characters be able to press buttons from behind I mean there's a lot of ideas so I don't think it's gonna be as a most useful feature in the world but again I think it's nice that it has and I'm think it's a big deal it's not like it really hurts anything by adding that so you know guys that's it for this week's slightly extended 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