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hey what is going on everybody I'm Noah crabs from TechnoBuffalo calm I've got a quick recap for you of the day's news from e3 focusing on to the heavyweights in the gaming industry Sony and Nintendo big product announcements coming from both of them Sony the newest portable the NGP is now officially called the PlayStation Vita reminds me of let dolce vita not a gaming system but whatever PlayStation Vita and then the ps3 3d monitor very interesting with a unique 3d exclusive I think they call a unique feature there also Nintendo finally taken the wraps off of what was codenamed project cafe is now officially called the wii u and yes there is a display in the controller and a little bit of I don't know if you want call it controversy but something a little strange happen at the press conference play about that in a second first off you can check out all of our e3 coverage over on the website John render is actually at e3 today hopefully we get some hands-on time with some of these hot new products and report back from the show floor and our man Jack has been doing a bang-up job covering III from afar keeping everybody up to date on all the product announcements new games new features all stuff going on Microsoft yesterday so need to tend up today so check out their coverage for sure for more on all this stuff but to get back to it sony playstation vita portable device five-inch OLEDs screen capacitive touchscreen super high res 960 x 540 for on a touchscreen the device itself is said to be kind of large but actually feel really nice apparently it's it's solidly made but it's lightweight and so that sort of mitigates a little bit how large is because the 5 inch display with the controller to the other side that's a pretty big device but you've got the 5 inch display on the front capacitive touchscreen and then you've got another touch panel around back on the backside so kind of like the motorola kick flip phone if a you know that phone touch screen on the back and then you can reach around for additional controls that looks gross I shouldn't do that additional controls on the back side and then of course you've got your regular controls dual amp dual analog stick d-pad your four button array and then your top trigger buttons well and then all kinds of sensors in the device the six axis sensor system with a gyroscope and accelerometer and also a digital compass you've got Wi-Fi built-in you've got bluetooth you've got GPS again there's an AT&T model that i'll have 3g the u.s. pricing 250 and 300 for Wi-Fi and 3g respectively not different prices for different countries abroad as well launch date i forgot to mention is towards the end of this year holiday 2011 is what we're hearing but then you've also got front and rear cameras on the device so that just opens up all kinds of possibilities from all kinds of interesting games you know regular controlled games games that use the touchscreen games that use that back back touch panel games that use the motion sensors for you know steering or force feedback whatever have you but then augmented reality games could use the camera that you know the outward facing camera that forward facing camera you can do all kinds of stuff with screenshots or possibly video chatting or even you know talking trash to people with video while playing the game I mean who knows I'm just making stuff up here but a lot going on with that device and it's powered by an ARM Cortex a9 processor with 4 cores so that's a quad core product quad core mobile gaming products a lot of pixels to push around that screen but a lot of horsepower to do it plus a separate GPU and apparently from what I've heard from folks at the show it's living up to the hype at least in pre-production demo mode the screen is apparently just gorgeous you know some some glitches here and there in the software but it's all just use tradeshow stuff it's not it's not in final form yet but apparently the screen looks really really nice Oh LED known for very very vivid colors that pop very high contrast ratio so sort of lends itself well to gaming you know ladies popular display technology in the cell phone world so I make sense you know that it would be there on the PS Vita so exciting news from sony coming out there and also the playstation 3d monitor that's pretty interesting this will be out in the fall october november time frame we're hearing and really seemingly aimed at the college crowd given that they on the show floor recreated the dorm room from animal house too College movie to show this thing off but area it's a 24 inch monitor 1080p resolution 3d comes with an HDMI cable a copy of the game resistance three and one set of active shutter 3d glasses you can purchase additional it's 500 bucks you can purse it purchase additional glasses for sixty nine dollars each so two players set up is going to run yet you know close to six hundred dollars with tax and everything and the deal with this modern is that it's not just 3d but it has this exclusive technology sony has some patents on multi-person 3d multi-picture viewing and this seems to be the first fruits of those patent labors and what it is is you can have two people playing and you can either both be looking at the same 3d image or you can have a split screen setup where you each have your own image and you see your image only in 3d so it's not like some kind of crazy thing where you've got competing 3d views going on but apparently there's technical glasses actually have a button I guess so let you switch between viewing modes but you can see you know either the shared view or just your view in 3d ah sounds pretty cool sounds like one of those things like well split-screen gaming's been around for a while on 3d games being around for a while why why didn't anybody else think of this sooner they probably did that sony held the patents at any rate again you know first first eyes on reports from the show floor say it seems to work pretty well we'll have to see what kind of games were developed for it and how oracle is actually out in the wild and you know production production run for Matt and not just these one-off demos on a show floor but kind of an interesting thing they're building on that line of PlayStation accessories the 3d monitor again you get the Mater you get one game you get one set of glasses an hdmi cable 500 bucks and you can use it not just for these exclusive you know these games with the exclusive viewing mode but you can use it for any 3d content apparently so you can have one monitor using your PlayStation use it for 3d movies you know hook it up your pc all that kind of stuff now back to Nintendo they took the wraps off of what was being called Project cafe the code name and now has the official name wii u capital w I I space capital u wii u it's their next-generation gaming console it's going to be out sometime in 2012 no specific date is given no pricing was given and the deal is that the console steps it up with an IBM processing unit multiple cores from their power line apparently it's the same process processor technology used in the Watson the supercomputer that recently went on in one jeopardy so got some brains behind it full 1080p gaming you know it's said to have the horsepower right now to surpass what a ps3 or an xbox 360 can do in terms of just pure you know pure graphics performance you know what we'll have to see you know how that bears out meds have it comes to market what rumors there might be about the next-gen of those consoles but no matter Nintendo stepping it up full 1080p gaming you know kind of taking that we think i'm not a huge gamer but you know i have a wii and even i know you know i love Nintendo's quirkiness and i love their gameplay and then they're so inventive and innovative but the graphics on we leave a lot to be desired so it's great to see them stepping it up in the graphics regard and then in terms of the quirkiness and innovation I mean potentially a whole new level here with the controller the controller on the Wii U has a screen in it just like all the rumors say it's a 6.2 inch touchscreen apparently it's not multi-touch but single touch no resolution specs given on the display but people in the show floor said that it looks pretty good so it's a 6.2 inch display widescreen 69 aspect ratio inside of controller that has your standard thumb controls on both sides so you've got dual analog sticks you've got a d-pad you've got buttons you've got more buttons on top you know all the buttons you've got all the motion control sensors you've got a camera you've got a microphone you've got stereo speakers you've got Rumble vibration feedback in the device in the controller you've got a sensor strip and it's got a stylist so I mean literally just about every form of input imaginable you know like we were saying about the PlayStation Vita it goes up a notch with the stylus and the sensor strip as well and in the demos they showed off you've got all kinds of different scenarios where you're playing the game on the main screen and then you've got additional information on your touchscreen you know for managing your arsenal of weapons or seeing player stats or if it's sports game controlling your lineup you know power-ups whatever is you're doing right so you can each have you know every player can have want to do their own thing or you're playing a game somebody else wants to watch TV transfer the game you're not playing the game on the local screen the thing itself can't be the controller can't be used as a portable gaming device the games all get beamed from the console to the controller but apparently you can just you know play the game on the controller so you don't have to use the TV and you can take it around the room they showed somebody doing a Wii Fit kind of thing where they were tracking just in the controller's then have to be in front of the TV as long as they were within wireless range of the console where it gets really interesting though is in demos they showed that kind of split the gameplay up between the main big screen the controller screen and even another controller because the the wii u will support all legacy wii controllers so they showed a golf game where the main you know the golf course is on the main screen the controller has the golf tee on it set it down on the floor take one of the wii controllers the wii remotes use that as your golf club stand over the controller line it up with the virtual T swing and then you see the ball goal go on the mainstream swing anyway another demo showed where the controller was a rifle sight snapped into a plastic rifle you know accessory and now you're lining up your target on the main screen but you're seeing it through the new wii u control there with that six inch screen that's your rifle sight you line it up so all kinds of potential there for really clever interesting games and the thing with Nintendo again not being a huge gamer of knowing this much is you know is it going to be that the first party games that all the good games are Nintendo all the innovative ones all the clever ones or a third-party developers really going to take the system will intend to give them what they need will developers developers want to do it and really come up with some really cool innovative games for this new system that aren't just from Nintendo not to say that you know we don't want to see the the next generation of the Mario franchise and the carts and you know all the great Nintendo French sizes on the new system but be great to see some some really cool third-party franchises take advantage of these new control systems as well so that's the big news from sony and nintendo nintendo the wii u with the crazy controller the screen in it Sony's got the 3d monitor setup for PlayStation and the PlayStation Vita which is what the NGP is now officially called sony stuff coming out later this year Nintendo sometime next year and a little bit of see how sort of controversy I mentioned real quick is that apparently during the Nintendo press conference they showed off game footage as part of introducing the wii u they showed off little snippets of titles after the fact a Nintendo exec one on record saying oh yeah those are our wii u games we showed that footage is from xbox 360 and playstation 3 there are no wii u titles that are far enough far enough along that the system is not going to be out for a year how could we have any titles but we wanted to show what titles are coming so we showed footage from the other console I don't know does that matter is that a lame move because they weren't upfront about it or is it fine because they mentioned it afterwards and you know those titles are coming doesn't even matter I don't know just throw it out there I'm just reporting the news so let us know what you think hit the website for much much more coverage on all this stuff and then some all the other stuff going on at e3 Microsoft's announcements yesterday all the other business going on let us know in the comments listen on the website listen on Facebook and Twitter what do you think are you excited for Wii U could you care less do you want to PlayStation Vita or as portable gaming does it not matter because your droid or your Xperia Play or your iPhone you know the games are good enough and they're fun enough that you can use that for portable and then do your hardcore gaming when you're back home in the console what do you think you're the herd let us know for technobuffalo I'm Noah Kravitz much much more on this heck no Buffalo site the YouTube channel all the usual places we'll see you later