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Here is what happened on Thursday the 17th. The second day of this years E3.
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Wow was this a busy day. I started at the Keynote and moved on to expo. I only played a couple of games here and there. Most of the day I spent picking up freebies, taking pictures and looking around to see what was hot.

Lets start with what was hot. Well, Halo, Munch, MGS2, a FF Movie promo video, a video promo of the new Disney RPG made by Square and Nintendo. Yes I said Nintendo. Their section was packed. It was the busiest area of the show by far. Thanks to a bunch of playable 1st and 2nd party GameCube and GameBoy Advance games. Overall I would have to say that Nintendo rules this years E3.

How about the Keynote? Well instead of the normal one person doing the speech they did a 3 person panel descution. Robert Bach (MS), Peter Main (Nintendo) and Kazuo Hirai (Sony) were the members. Who was the best? Peter Main seemed to be the most confident and had the best answers. Kazuo Hirai was the most arrogant. ugh.. I swear he though Sony was god. Well here is what I got out of it.

Nintendo Sony MS
Focus on Developers Focus on Consumers Focus on Developers
Games are importaint Arrogant Who is #1 in 3-4 years is Importaint
Inovation is importaint We are #1 and #2 attitude Online is Importaint
GBA -> GCN connectivity HD/BBA in November Multiplayer is importaint
All the consoles on a level playingfield 3rd Party Online by late 2001 or early 2002
Simplicity Help the Publishers Voice over Internet in games
Flexability Transition from Offline to Online to be simple 3rd Party focus
Right Now/RIght Here Focus on teens - 34 Work with developers
1st/2nd Party Episodic games
Quality over Quantity Early focus on 16-26 year olds
Wait and see on Online

 

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