Wii E3

So I met up with Chris and co on Friday. What’s cool about Chris is that he’s one of the few remaining friends of mine that is a TOTAL and UBER geek. He’s not only a geek, but he’s pretty damn proud of it. Damn right as well. The way you should be. Wear your geekiness on your sleeve. Anyway he turns around to me and tells me:

So erm what did you think of the Nintendo E3 conference?

Completely BLANK face from me.

This kinda disappointed him for like 2 seconds as he LAUNCHED into this massive rant about how SHIT the Sony PS3 presentation looked and how on the ball Nintendo seemed to be with the Wii. So here’s a few movies I was able to grab off Youtube for those interested in what all the fuss was about (it’s apparently the future of gaming, which to be honest I can actually see). The closest approximation I can come up with is a movie with an exceptional story. The audience will seriously forgive a lot of things (like slightly dodgy acting or whatever). Substitute story with GAMEPLAY. It’s an interesting concept no :).

  1. Video Conference Part 1
  2. Video Conference Part 2
  3. Miyamoto Orchestra Introduction
  4. Doubles in Tennis (annoying presenter though)

After he was done going on about the Wii he then looked at me again and said:

You do have a Nintendo DS right?

Once again I disappointed him to inform him that in fact I didn’t. He claims it’s the best thing since sliced cheese and that it’s easily the most playable console he’s ever had. I’ve always been a Sega boy to be honest. Nintendo always seemed too Vanilla for my liking to be honest. When Sega died, Sony seemed like a good extention of that market ethic. Then Sony showed it’s PSP, to Nintendo’s DS, which looks like crap right? Nothing on the PSP right?

Apparently I’m completely off base here; It’s not about the looks, the gameplay is the real focus for this system. Nintendo seem to have seen the errors of their way with that as well which is why they’ve released the DS lite, which is smaller, lighter and slightly more stylish, thus addressing my FUGLY comment about the original DS.

See what’s interesting is that I’m not a gamer at all and yet this push Nintendo are doing is actually pushing the right buttons for me, so they must be doing something correctly right?