Why am I the only person drawing parallelisms?

Anyway, to the conference.

The Good: Greatest Hits games being released. That means I can finally get Sigma for cheap. Though most people who have a PS3 already have these games anyway. It’s really just there to get people to buy more consoles since those games are cheaper. Revealing PS2, PSN and PSP content. The PS2 is still alive? Apparently. Even so much that it’s getting The Force Unleashed. How? Search me.

PSN Video is finally out, and I can rent movies without going anywhere. It’s not as awesome as Netflix, but who wants to pay for Live and Netflix subscriptions anyway? I don’t watch enough movies to care all too much. The feature is cool.

God of War 3 finally announced. Apparently the CGI trailer revealed at E3 is supposed to resemble the actual graphics of the game. That’s kind of scary. Now I’ll need to get it or be killed.

LittleBigPlanet is looking more cute than ever. Apparently you can make PowerPoint Presentations with it. You know I’m never going to use Office again. Sony is also getting two MMOs on the console: DC Universe Online and The Agency. Wow.

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm and Fallout 3 (also out on 360) look great. Both are on my to-get list. I’m going to be poor.

Sony reveals MAG: Massive Action Game (or Mega Awesome Game in my book) which is finally what feels like an all-out war between two teams of 128 players, each divided into squads of 8, led by one particularly talented player. Lots of awesome.

The Bad: First off, I want to say that I in no way condone anyone talking like their console is cooler than sliced bread and sounding like you’re in an infomercial, even Sony. This goes for Nintendo and Microsoft, too. This E3 was filled with words like “successful” and “engaging” and “most” and smatterings of features everywhere (“Blu Ray Storage capacities” and “crisp high-definition” and “innovative gameplay”) and Sony was just irritating as they overflattered their system.

PS2 is dead. Leave it alone, Sony. They keep releasing bad softcore versions of next-gen games on the PS2 and Wii and it’s driving me crazy. Wii Rock Band and PS2 Rock Band were awful. Just get with the program.

Nobody likes Buzz. I don’t know anyone who thinks Buzz is a cool game. Why are we getting seven hundred different versions of it? And SingStar is fine, but do you have to make a new version every two months?

You talked way too much about stuff we don’t really care about. Also, releasing two MMO simultaneously is really bad business. Of course, Sony still hasn’t caught on to the MMO craze, since they’re responsible for the disasters that are Everquest 2, Star Wars Galaxies and The Matrix Online–all of which I have played recently and been frustratingly disappointed with.

What happened to Final Fantasy? Are you going to talk about it? Where’s FFXIII Versus? That’s still an exclusive, right?

And of course there’s the fact that the conference was mostly filled with fluff of developers talking about how awesome the PS3 is and not about how many other games and features we want to see. When’s Home coming out? What’s the new stuff Kojima’s working on? What about Zone of the Enders 3? Or Heavy Rain? The elusive Quantic Dream title was shown behind closed doors, but why?

Sony has plenty lined up for the future–they just refused to share it with us, and instead gave us a lot of lofty crap about how awesome they are. At least they didn’t throw too many numbers at us like Nintendo did, and end with words about how much they’re not a fad. But still, the lack of information was bothersome.

Also, the PS3 80 gig at $399 is not a price cut. It’s a 40gig with 40 gigs more space. Not that Sony ever said it was a price cut, but it was conveniently misleading. So while it’s better for the buyer–get a bit more bang for your buck–remember, it’s not the same as an old 80 gig, which has a few hardware advantages.

In the end, I liked the Sony conference. I had my qualms with it, but I hated the other companies’. I guess you could say that makes me a fanboy, but to be honest it’s just logic that goes into my appreciation for the PS3. The Wii is an overhyped gimmick. The Xbox 360 is a faulty tool that doesn’t push next-gen far enough. In the end I like the flashiest, most powerful and most accessible technology. I don’t pay monthly fees and I don’t have friend codes to bother with. The PS3 and I are a perfect match.

Sony is just evil.

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