The Importance of Being Idle

Dull Day, E3 Wreckage

Well today was a fairly ordinary day, after all the excitement of the past week. I did laundry, took the car down to the garage to book the repairs, applied for jobs. Not a lot of thrills there eh? Good news though, is that Ronnie's passed all the security checks and references and stuff, so now all we're waiting for is the landlords final approval, and we'll have our new place! That IS exciting. I may even hand in my notice on this place tomorrow, just to have it done, and so that my rent payment on Saturday will be the last one here!
It has been suggested that I should talk a little about E3, so here goes.
Firstly, there's still remarkably little about the Xbox360 that interests me; for all the talk of second generation games for the 360, it's still the same old games, but in a higher resolution. That said, it's light years in terms of interest beyond what Sony seem to be doing with the PlayStation 3! That must be the longest and most expensive resignation letter that any member of that company has ever written... I mean, seriously! A price of £400-500, lumbering the system with blu-ray discs which in all probability nobody wants, and stealing all the competitions ideas (no, the online service isn't anything like Xbox Live is it? And that motion sensing controller, never seen that before!), being last to market and... where are the games? God knows I've never been a fan of Sony in the video games market, I've always felt they've diluted it by being a populist consumer electronics firm, but I honestly have no clue what they think they're doing with the PS3. It's almost enough to make me think I don't care about video gaming anymore. But it's not all doom and gloom, one company has decided not to bother with all this hi-def madness, and they've decided to do something crazy: make games fun! Obviously, that company is Nintendo. Despite renaming the Revolution as Wii (uh huh, I know, I struggle to imagine playing with my Wii), everything I've seen out of them has been uniformly exciting! New ways to play, new control methods, the backwards compatibility of the virtual console... it's all looking incredibly exciting! Add to that the return of Mario, Link, Samus and strong third-party support... I know where I want to play and its not in Microsoft and Sony hi-tech, hi-def, hi-cost playground. Long live the revolution (okay, Wii)!

posted by BadMonkey @ 11:09 PM