E3 2009 – Who “won” the press conferences?

Exactly who is it that said: “Agent isn’t actually an exclusive”

I don’t belive that that ever happened here.

@Psycho: No. The bet is that Agent isn’t a 100% PS3 exclusive.

Which is basically what I said with regards to our other bet.

Mike: That’s a never ending bet… no-one can win. Which is why I stipulated a time frame.

Ok, then. Agent we be “announced” as multiplat either before, or within a year after PS3 release.

£50.

Change multiplatform to “coming to the 360″ and you’re on.

I’m not getting caught by some PC shenanigans.

If GT:5 releases this year I reckon it’ll just be in Japan.

So everybody’s right then

Deal.

*shakes*

Didn’t Rockstar / Sony announce in 2008 that they would be working on an exclusive PS3 game? Which presumably is Agent?

Why would they back out of it now?

Fools!

Winners don’t gamble.

Who said I was gambling?

If you’ve got info from one of vg247′s usual “sources”… then I like my odds.

Hahah!

@psycho: It’s your money.

Your not a hedge fund manager by any chance, Mike?

Not even slightly concerned.

Besides, it’ll be entertaining to watch you have to sell your DS or something when you lose.

Let’s be totally realistic here. Unless Sony has ponied up millions, Agent *will* be multiplatform sooner or later.

What I liked most about the Sony conference was the bit at the beginning where Tretton pointed to the big screen behind him and said that only PS3 could render to that resolution… hahahahaha

For me Nintendo won it. Sony 2nd and Microsoft (obviously) 3rd.
Nintendo were a joke last year. An absolute travesty that deserved all the mockery they got. This year they redeemed themselves. Their conference was not perfect by any means. I skipped loads of it due to the usual tat being shown. I even skipped the vitality sensor bit completely and i was skipping along in small chunks. It looks crap though so no problem there.

Yes, most of Nintendos conference was pretty bad but what did it for me was firstly Super Mario Bros Wii. The game looks fun and 4 players on screen at once makes me think of LBPs mayhem. I guess it wont be online so I’ll barely be using it which sucks but hey at least it’s there

I didn’t expect more mario but then came the bombshell that shares joint honours with one other game (The Last Guardian). Super Mario Galaxy 2…O-M-G. I could not stop smiling when i realised this was coming. I enjoyed Galaxy immensely so for me this is fantastic news. Metroid was reasonable news. The trailer looked good and i just hope it’s better than the other 3D metroids which have not impressed me. 2D metroid being so awesome to blame for that.

I found i didn’t skip too much of Sony’s conference. Some huge games shown and their motion control looks reasonable.

Skipped a load of Microsofts due to stuff i personally don’t care about. I detest guitar hero and shit like that so skipped beatles rock band entirely. Few promising games but overall i wasn’t too impressed.

Their motion tech is the most impressive in how it can recognise your movement (if it works as well as they showed) but im more impressed with sonys because i think it stands a better chance in translating into some decent games. I can’t stand all those shit wii games and i see microsoft going down that path moreso than sony. I have nothing against them going after the casual market and enticing in people who don’t mind playing tat. I just want there to be some “hardcore” motion control games that don’t suck ass. Maybe it’s just not possible. Time will tell.

So for me it’s about the games that i enjoy and will play. Nintendo had 2 of the biggest. Job done. Although i cannot stop watching The Last Guardian trailer. Awesome, awesome stuff

Sony were the clear winner for me. When they started using a bow and arrow in the PS3 motion control demo they won me instantly.

Flicking your hand to operate a menu? Vaguely flailing your avatar about to ‘BAM! There it is!’? Mechanical Turk AI demo? Fuck that.

Sony’s attempt seemed like it had true depth detection which means it could actually be a decent, accurate way of controlling a character. Accurate three axis control is the way forward instead of this shadow puppet recognition nonsense or hit ‘n’ miss accelerometers. It wasn’t a 100% on the day, but the bow and the writing demos sealed the deal for me. Give it another year and it’ll viable.

The half-decent games line-up helped too. No wow factor on the games front for me personally, but more than enough to keep me interested, and much better than last years piss-poor showing.

I’m astonished at how many people suddenly care about motion control now that it’s on the 360 and the PS3.

Always been a fan of it. The Wii was a big disappointment for me on that score as it always seemed wrongly implemented (mindless waggle) or sloppy and inaccurate.

I’d love to see a fighting game done properly with motion control. Those few minutes in the Sony demo showed more potential than anything a Wii developer or Nintendo have managed to come up with.

If some developer shows the balls to implement it into a game beyond flailing around to build a meter up or sloppily moving a cursor around the screen then we might be onto something.

I’m curious on what happened to Epic announcing a game for the PS3?

That rumour was only ever floated by the smaller fan-blogs, wasn’t it?

Actually, did Epic show anything other than Shadow Complex?

I’d say Sony and MS tied. The write up is okay but too harsh on the Sony motion controls.

Sure the glowing knob looked funny but its clearly more mature, ready to go tech than Natal, and with EA already stating it will likely be easier to support initially I think you’re downplaying its likely impact. It sure didn’t look that old – 1:1 accuracy, double input device, waggle wand and camera hardly came across as something everyone already has in their living room.

Interesting lack of stuff around Epic and Insomniac I thought.

Rockstar too – where the hell were they?

To be fair out of all the press conferences I watched, EA’s was the most enjoyable of all of them. Bioware stole the show for me, when all the jedi’s came out on stage I thought i was gonna die of laughter. Also the trailer they showed for “The Old Republic” was EPIC.

1st. Sony
2nd. Microsoft
3rd. Nintendo

P.S. I own all systems so don’t flame me.

@Dr.Ghettoblaster

Agreed.

yep i like scratching my ass in my house at night ..what about you guys.

Hilarious, Kaz. Tretton powered up. Res Evil for PSP, FFVII for the US PSN, then the first proper biggie: Rockstar North’s Agent as an “exclusive” (we’re assured it isn’t). Eyes appreciatively widened.

really Patrick really !!!!!

Press Release from Take Two or Patrick “Crackdown 1.5, TRICO not at E3, GT5 not at E3″ Garratt?.

I am going with the Press Release. It’s timed, no doubt, but it’s as exclsuive as they get!

It’s been a title they’ve been working on for 5 years, so that might be the confusion. The IP was never assumed exclusive before. No doubt Sony needed something to show for E3 though.

@ No_PUDding

Listen, rumors from blogs are one thing but common sense is another. If Rockstar has been working on a PS3 exclusive for 5 years don’t you think they would have had something to show for their announcement? Ruffian have been working on Crackdown 2 for all of 7 months. Even Crytek faked it with their Crysis 2 announcement. Trust me, Agent is barely in it’s preproduction stages and wont make an appearance before Spring 2011.

Disagreed, Sony’s conference was better.

And no, that’s not fanboyism talking, because I’m not one, I just thought it was more impressive. MS did have some pretty great stuff, too, though.

Oh, and Nintendo didn’t even come close to second, never mind first.

“The motion tech was next. This was not pretty. The two guys doing the demo couldn’t get it working properly at first, and compared to the promise of Natal it looks distinctly “old”. Time will tell.”

I disagree, I thought it was pretty neat. it may not be as mind blowing as Natal, but it looks like it has great response and accuracy. Im certain that Ms could rig up something similar though to work with natal, but it was still really interesting.

I would score it MS – 8, Sony – 7, Nin – 4.
Is a new mario, Metroid, Zelda truly a megaton? To me a Megaton, is a surprise, and Nintendo milks their IP’s conistantly. If they announced a new Franchise that look and played incredible, thats a megaton!.

Sonys was the same, Nothing that screamed, I got to get me a PS3, if you werent already interested.

MS – Natal was the only thing that might make a PS3 owner want a 360, so they get an extra point.

Goliath, you’re right common sense is another.

I don’t listen to blogs (unless they have hard evidence), and you’d be an idiot for believing that ALL titles go into production.

Agent could have been in conceptual stages alongside GTA4 and R* Table Tennis. Only just recently going into production. Int he same vein, THAT is why the IP could have been intended as a multiplatform title initially.

If the Take Two and Rockstar guys are saying it’s exclusive, it’s at least timed.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bert-huntsinger/10/b4/9a2

Ex-Rockstar working on environments for Agent in 2004 (at the latest).

Titles aren’t set in stone from the start.

Get your stories straight Patrick Garratt… What Jack said was that PS3 was the only “CONSOLE” where you’d play it “when it comes out in 2010″. Nothing false about that. No one said PS3 only.

And are you really complaining about dates when you didn’t get any proper dates on the MS conference either? Talk about double standards…

Oh, and ineffective? Did we watch the same conference?

He’s just catering for the predominantly 360 enthusitatic readers Hitomics, don’t bother yourself trying to correct.

Everyones excuse this year, is if the leaks weren’t there, then Sony would have won. But there’s always going to be a reason.

(lol)

You know who won E3?

Gamers.

Too many games coming out between this year and next year. I love how you guys are completely ignoring some of the bigger announcements during E3 and are literally bowing down to Microsoft just because they showed a complete ripoff of the Eye Toy.

Good going guys.

Ya stupid fanboys.

“Who “won” the press conferences?”

Gamers won.

As an owner of all 3 consoles I’m excited for all 3 pretty much equally. Not as much on the Wii side, but it’s really close.

If I’m honest, I’m suprised to see VG247 writing a fanboy baiting article like this. Surely this site is better than that. Who ‘won’ a conference? Are you serious?

The announcement of Mario Galaxy 2 was the biggest news of the conferences. No question about that in my mind. Natal looked great if a little laggy and perhaps a little bit ‘made up’. Sony’s wands looked very good and extremely accurate with no lag. Interesting to see which one sells (if either of them do).

Sony’s play create share racer (can’t remember the name) also looks interesting. If it’s half as popular as Mario Kart, which let’s face it, is a almost a straight copy of, it’ll sell by the bucket load. I’m looking forward to making tracks with ease. Very good potential.

@g00nerz, I suspect that VG247 are trying to attract a new crowd.

How about that HUGE HD backdrop/screen Sony had!! THAT IN ITSELF is impressive!

sure are a lot of bets going around here, let me clear this up if you guys don’t know each other personally then how are you going to receive your award for winning…unless you guys aren’t telling everyone here at VG247 something