press conference breakdown:
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/06/live-blog-nintendo-3ds-debuts-at-e3-conference/Live Blog: Nintendo 3DS Debuts at E3 Conference
LOS ANGELES —
for 9am - 9:51, see the
link. It's a bunch of Wii stuff.
9:52 — Talking down living-room 3-D and why wearing glasses is bad. Really pushing how expensive Sony’s 3-D is going to be, doing a little tearing down of the competition. The Nintendo 3DS logo is the Nintendo DS logo with a red 3 in it.
9:53 — Company president Satoru Iwata takes the stage to show off the 3DS. The unit he’s holding is a remarkably ugly two-tone color, black and metallic blue. But let’s concentrate on the real features — it’s got a widescreen top screen and what looks to be an analog stick.
9:56 — A slider on the side of the unit lets you adjust the depth of the 3-D effect. The bottom screen is a touch panel. Fingerprints and smudges reduce the 3-D effect, so a touch screen and 3-D screen “do not get along very well.” So the bottom is a touch screen, but not the top. The top is the 3-D screen.
9:58 — 3DS also has better graphics. No kidding. They’re not showing any game demos yet. There’s a “slide pad” for analog control. There’s also a motion sensor AND a gyroscope in there.
9:59 — Two camera lenses on the outside of the unit means you can take and view 3-D photos.
10:00 — 3DS will also be able to display 3-D movies from Hollywood. Disney, Warner Bros. and Dreamworks already on board with How to Train Your Dragon, etc. Showing at Nintendo’s booth.
10:01 — Remember when Nintendo and Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai formed a developer called Project Sora? Apparently that was actually started so that Sakurai could make a Kid Icarus game for Nintendo 3DS. Kid Icarus Uprising. The graphics looks really cool — like WIi quality graphics, maybe a little less that that. It’s like a third person shooter/flying game.
10:03 — Let me say this again: the graphics look really good. Coming “soon.” Iwata says we should go see it for ourselves. 3-D game trailer on the show floor (but not playable).
10:05 — A new communication function — the hardware will do that sort of Dragon Quest style automatic communication with other users regardless of what game you’re currently playing. So if you want to trade Nintendogs with someone, for example, it can automatically download them even if you’re not currently playing Nintendogs. You might leave the house, come back and find that all kinds of new data have been downloaded to your 3DS for your games, from other people’s hardware.
10:07 — Miyamoto working on Nintendogs and Cats for Nintendo 3DS. Many publishers are working on games, including Harmonix. Activision is making DJ Hero 3D. Level 5 is doing Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle. Square Enix is doing Kingdom Hearts 3D and a Final Fantasy game. Konami is doing Metal Gear Solid. Capcom is making Resident Evil. Lots of big franchises just dropped in rapid succession.
10:10 — A reel of developers like Hideo Kojima talking about how much they like the 3DS. Getting the feeling they’re going to hold back on game footage at this press conference because there’s no way of really showing it to us.
10:15 — A silly video of Miyamoto, Reggie, and Iwata playing the Nintendo 3DS. They’re talking about how hard it is to actually convey the impact of Nintendo 3DS. How are they going to do it? A whole mess of women.Like, a hundred, two hundred booth babes walk out on stage. They are going to come to us and let us try the 3DS. There is just a whole massive massive pile of women with Nintendo 3DS units. We’re all going to get a brief taste of how it works on site.
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