[Akileese]

Apparently you're not familiar with Nintendo because that's what they do at keynote conferences.

The way I looked at it, Sony dissapointed me in the sense that they kept backing their huge titles in 08 (Honestly, I doubt MGS4 hits before Summer 08) and kind of neglected Holiday 07.

Nintendo had nothing to prove to anyone, but solidified their 3 big holiday games (MP:3, SSBB, Mario Galaxy). Fairly happy about most of the online components for most games. EXTREMELY dissapointed in the lack of online for SSBB. I swear to god, if I don't hear about it at TGS, I'm going on a fucking Postal-esque rampage.

Microsoft was the one that dissapointed me the most. They were kind of clutching on to their top spot (only reason they have it is with a 1 year head start and when you're barely ahead of your competition with a 1 year head start, you are in no fucking position to gloat).

Remember something, this is July. You're 4 months away from the holiday season. MS is pretty much banking on Halo 3 and GTA IV to push most of their consoles and it'll work well. Sony's PSN titles looked very good yeah, but I mean common. You're gonna move systems on fucking marketplace games? You think people will buy a PS3 just because FFXIII and MGS4 are coming in 2008? No. They'll get it when the time comes. They're in for another long holiday week. As I said, Nintendo focused mostly on their Holiday 2007 lineup (only big 08 game announced was Mario Kart and I doubt that will be out before Q2). TGS is where you should be focusing on 08 and E for All is where you should do a little of both (kind of like the old E3).

As for the handhelds, DS really doesn't need much to boost it. They have Zelda coming here which will push even more hardware and brain age 2 should do fairly well. Once again, Nintendo was all about the numbers and the holidaywhich is nice.

The PSP redesign pissed me the fuck off. I really want to see a few comparitive pictures before I believe it's really 33 percent smaller. After talking with a friend who has a PSP and saw the conference, he said the same thing I did. That redesign may look thinner and lighter, but it looks significantly longer. Maybe I'm wrong and it's not that much longer, but that really bugged me. The added functionality was cool, but SWBF looked fucking awful. Why would you even show a game that runs at that ridiculous of a framerate? I was ranting about that in the IRC room and it still pisses me off. Major bonus points for Chewie though.

Overall, not even remotely surprised. It was a slow slew of conferences. TGS and E for All should be a lot more interesting, although I doubt we'll be able to get live feeds of TGS.