Big Three Confirm Pre-E3 Events 40
In unsurprising news, Gamasutra reports that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all have pre-E3 events planned. From the article: "These conferences, which taken place during the two days preceding the three-day expo, have historically laid the groundwork for the entire week's events, revealing key information about the company's plans for the next year. 2005's press conferences revealed many initial details about the upcoming Revolution and PlayStation 3 consoles, as well as the Xbox 360 which launched later that year."
Damnit.. (Score:4, Funny)
"Since when do car manufacturers do E3?"
But that couldn't be it. Slashdot wouldn't cover car news! Start up the lateral thinking thrusters!
"Well, they used to refer to IBM, Amdahl and Hitachi as the Big Three too I guess. But they won't exactly be at E3 either."
No go on that decisive thrust into thought. I fell back to 'Attack Plan Beta':
"IBM, HP, and Compaq? That must be it! Err. Compaq bought HP."
"No, wait. HP bought Compaq."
"Could it be IBM, HP and Dell? That must be it!"
Then I see the article, and was most unimpressed.
The Big Three are General Motors, Ford, and (Daimler-)Chrysler, boys. Have been since since the 60's.
Re:Damnit.. (Score:2, Insightful)
I guess more than one industry can use a really generic term?!?!?! Amazing!!!!
And you need to get out of the 60s- Chrystler's a non-entity and Ford is facing bankruptcy. Any list of big car manufacturers with none of the Asian ones in it is a joke.
Re:Damnit.. (Score:1)
Ford is losing money int he US, but its european devision more than makes up for it.
GM is the American car company truly in trouble right now, as it hemmerages massive amounts of money with no end in sight.
Stop freaking arguing your all right (Score:4, Informative)
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Unsurprising news indeed... (Score:5, Insightful)
To counter this non-news news, Nintendo fanobys (especially those eager for the Revolution) might want to check out AOL's sweepstakes page [aol.com]. A contest, starting today and ending on the 28th, gives one lucky winner a three day visit to CA, passes to E3, and to be the first commoner to play the actual Revolution.
Did I mention you'd play it in front of an audience of thousands? Unfortunatly, only one entry per person.
Re:Unsurprising news indeed... (Score:5, Funny)
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So what does MS do this time? They schedule their conference at the lat
Re:Unsurprising news indeed... (Score:1)
What about Blizzard (Score:2, Interesting)
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Re:What about Blizzard (Score:2)
Hey, I can dream can't I?
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But I was instantly turned off by WarCraft 3's graphics. I guess to me an RTS is just more pure when it's sprite-based, maybe things just felt simpler that way.
Re:What about Blizzard (Score:1)
Starcraft is based on such interactions that make it awkward to operate in 3D.
The surrent system is perfect in '98 graphics.Replicating this at 3D is unlikely and wasteful of resources.
Its the Gameplay Mechanics needs fixing
UMS cannot be designed efficiently,maphacks and crashes,memory/sprite limits,
Each game has 5sec delay before start.
Lag screen cannot be turned off without hacks.Hacks aren't fixed in multiplayer.
A bunch of people who h
But Look at who left (Score:2)
http://www.flagshipstudios.com/index.php?option=c
Re:What about Blizzard (Score:3, Insightful)
WoW has hit a mainstream market. Every Starbucks I enter has somebody playing WoW in it. NPR has had at least 3 reports on it in the last six months. Any non-MMOG that Blizzard does now will look small in comparison.
Re:What about Blizzard (Score:1)
Two simple reasons:
1) Good game designers enjoy the challenge of a single player experience. Blizzard has alot of good game designers (an understatement) and single player games will *NEVER* go away (ditto).
2) Much of the game mechanics that made WoW a phenomenon in the first place were created and refined in Blizzard's non-MMO games.
They lost key devs too (Score:2)
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Pre-E3 events? (Score:2)
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sony and MS logo (Score:4, Insightful)
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It's only MS that we truly hate; slashdot has never even pretended to aspire to objectivity.
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I have a question... (Score:2)
The only purpose of E3 this year.... (Score:3)