Gadgetory

what's up internet kevin here with tech both lunch and dinner bringing our recap of today's events at nintendo's e3 conference which to me left me kind of confused to be honest it started out okay they did this whole celebration about the 25th anniversary of Zelda which was basically just talking about the three big Zelda games coming out links awakening for the 3ds as a download title author of time 3d and then obviously Skyward Sword coming out for the Wii later this year there wasn't a whole lot of new info other than that they're releasing a special gold Wii controller for the release of Skyward Sword it looked cool but nothing too huge about that then they moved on to talk about a bunch of the 3ds titles focusing on five major titles aside from Legend of Zelda first off they showed off mario kart for the 3ds which looked like mario kart not too much has changed it added a few little things such as now there's like hang glider segments driving underwater propellers it looks like it's gonna be fun but not too big of a shift away from the formula they've been using after that they showed off starfox 64 and three DS which the big announcement there was for multiplayer you can now use the camera to actually like show your face in the match so people can see how happy you are that you're killing everyone or if you're raging cuz just losing really bad I'm wondering this is gonna be optional or not because I'm not sure how many fans are going to be completely excited about this idea then they showed off the new mario for 3ds which looks like a lot of fun uh looks like a kind of sort of a standard almost a bit like Mario 64 but with little better graphics and a few more segments like top-down views looked really fun enjoyable looking forward to trying that one out after that they showed off kid icarus which the voice acting was kind of annoying sounded like almost like a bad team drama kind of nails on a chalkboard but actual gameplay itself looked really fun they also announced a multiplayer function for three on three battles which just looked really addicting combat looks fast really fun looking after that they announced one brand new title which is luigi's mansion 2 for the 3ds I'm not entirely sure how many people are super excited about this luigi's mansion was a fun game but it definitely isn't one of like the big time trendsetters for Nintendo so while it is well worth while entering into the series i'm not sure if that was the big announcement everyone was hoping for for the 3ds titles at least then it came time for Nintendo's really big announcement which was of course their new console no longer titled project jefe the official name is the wii u awesome name i know try to contain your excitement however it did look actually kind of cool the problem is is that mostly what we saw was lots and lots and lots of tech demos there was a lot of talk of what it can do what it could do how interesting is going to be basically the main idea so far is that the controller is a tablet with buttons and control normal button inputs on the sides control pad sticks buttons and the whole idea is that you'll be able to play games on your screen which they can then continue to play on the actual controller some games one of all multiple controls such as the game being played on the screen and inventory menu is being shown on the controller it kinda reminded me almost of having like a giant d/s console where your TV is the big screen and then the controller is the secondary screen there was a lot of talk of what the people do with this but not a whole lot in terms of actual games the only thing we got for sure is that there was going to be a lego game on it contain your excitement but the biggest thing for sure is that there was actually talk of Sakurai deciding to make a new super smash brothers for both not only 3ds but also the Wii U so that got a lot of people excited but once again it was basically just sort of a thrown out announcement no actual game playing nothing's known about it other than it is happening now at the end of nintendo's conference they actually started doing what I think was the most important part not in terms of big surprise announcement stranding like that but the big focus was on showing all the different third-party groups and how excited they are to actually develop for the Wii U they actually had the head of EA come up on stage and talk about how excited he is to start developing games for it whereas it was pretty on president because he hasn't really worked with Nintendo at all in a very long time not exclusively at least they did have interviews with a couple different developers from major companies they started announcing a lot of games we already know about that will actually be on the Wii U as well as ps3 and 360 for instance Darksiders 2 batman arkham city and ninja gaiden 3 although it had a little extra subtitle which i'm guessing means it's going to play a little different than the other versions thanks to the new controller now what this means is mostly nothing to be honest right now everything is just showing off tech talking about possibilities we're not really seeing a whole lot of what it actually does yet we're not seeing a lot of actual games being released so at one side it's kind of hopeful it's kind of like okay this can be cool this is a good technology everyone's excited about it but until we actually see games for it I'm holding Mike Symon for now because we've heard this big speech a lot before from not only Nintendo but a lot of other companies and it hasn't always worked out in their favor so I'm hopeful but i'm not sure if it's gonna end up working out the way they want until we actually get some more solid info because all we know is basically that it's happening no release date no prices only confirmed game is lego and there will be a super smash brothers on the horizon at some point so overall III this year was a little lackluster Microsoft more or less bombed strong i'll close stuff you could do with kinect but didn't really get a lot of people excited halo 4 was their big announcement really overall sony had a really good strong finish with the vita but the overall conferences up was lacking a bit in terms of any other big surprises and nintendo while the wii u is like i said kind of pool and we could be really excited about it once we see actual games for it but right now it's mostly promises and what it could do not what it's going to do for sure so hopefully this means that next year's e3 will be a lot more exciting will get a lot more actual final announcements about what the wii u's going to be like maybe next year Sony and Microsoft will also have new consoles to show off or at least announced and talked about so I'm actually almost really hopeful for next year now because there was a lot of build up this time without as much surprised or fell off so we'll see how next year goes till then I'm Kevin for TLD thanks for watching you