E3 2011: Wishes, Expectations, Surprises, and Disappointments

[Glass Joe]

Both the MS and Sony conferences were horrible.

And LOL at people saying Vita is a better buy than 3DS, which actually has functionality that no other game machine has.

3D is a gimmick and a kind of shitty one at that. The Vita has two touch screens, dual analog , and horse power to burn. All things the 3DS does not. The only thing the 3DS will have going for it is Nintendo made games. The Vita kills it in every other category.

[Cowdisease]

The move stuff was kept to a minimum? Were you watching the same conference I was? Everything they announced PS3 wise had some current or future Move compatibility. Still, some of it looked nifty.

I was comparing Sony's Move demos with Microsoft's Kinect abundant demos in my mind, so my scale of minimum was influenced by that. Still, it didn't drag on like last year's five-minute Tiger Woods Move demo, so that's a plus.

[Razor Ramon]

$250 for a portable is nuts. I aint getting any of this shit.

[Tain]

3DS having 3D doesn't really mean anything. It's a useless, headache-inducing gimmick.

I might have enough of a tech boner to buy a Vita, but I'd feel dumb if there were no great games. Hopefully it gets a few must-plays (I'm not sure if the PSP had many, in retrospect), because I really want an excuse to buy one.

[George]

Sony made the move they knew they needed to make. It's a good price for a nice machine. I really hope the software support is stronger than it was for the PSP. The ball is in Nintendo's court now. Maybe they'll price cut by Christmas. More likely they'll introduce a bundle for the same price with a first party pack-in.

[Chux]

Uncharted looked pretty fucking strong, if you like uncharted. There's wipeout for it too, right?

[Despair]

If Vita anything like PSP in regards of great games (both GOW games for example), then it will be well worth the price.

As for $250 for portable tech - fucking cellphones run this much nowdays.

[Shin Johnpv]

They need to drop the 3DS to 199.99 before Vita comes out. I'm REALLY surprised Sony hit the 249.99 price point with the wifi model. I really expected that to be 299.99. Sony is trying really hard to do better with the Vita than they did with PSP. Hopefully they'll do a better job of supporting it with software for more than a year after launch this time.

[PKBMax]

LOL at the 3ds gimmick crowd. Sony sure seems to think 3d is important. So which is it?

[George]

Uncharted looked pretty fucking strong, if you like uncharted. There's wipeout for it too, right?

Well I mean more like I hope there's not this long, drawn out drought of ANYTHING for the thing like what happened to the PSP. Remember when we made jokes and got mad when a PSP exclusive wasn't ported to the PS2 or PSN?