I've also heard that MS was planning to embrace and extinguish the console platforms, so every game would run on Windows. This doesn't jive with the failures though, but MS is known for shooting themselves in the foot.

So how exactly is this clever? How is it a cheap little gimmick and what is the purpose of said gimmick?

What really bothers me, though, is that I'm not disagreeing with your point, I'm just arguing semantics with you. But you won't even admit to poor word choice.

Zelda: Skyward Sword is cell shaded, probably adds nothing to the series, and will fall short of being great... Just like all the other cell shaded games.

Oh, Nintendo! No matter how many times you let me down, I just keep coming back for more disappointment.

(Another Ocarina release? They beat that title to hell.)

My gripe is I prefer not to use those stupid skins and the motion plus is so badly designed it's got lumps and bumps sticking out and it makes holding it so uncomfortable that you're almost forced to wear the skin. Not only does it feel wrong but it makes charging a pain in the arse.

Did you notice that almost all the games are remakes? Not that that's a bad thing. It seems that the companies are starting to make sequels that the gamers actually want; Mortal Kombat has the blood and gore and 2d gameplay.

3rd person 3D gameplay doesn't seem to be easy to pull off. Perhaps it only works well for certain types of games.

I hadn't seen the Portal parts 2 and 3.... wow... holy holy wow... that looks so badass. I can't. fucking. wait.

I'm a little bummed about the DK game. It has a lot of gameplay elements that I was putting into my platform game so now they won't seem as original.

I noticed that too. Perhaps the "casual gaming" craze that the industry has been going through has forced game designers to really clean up the playability. We have more graphics and processing speed than before, but that doesn't mean the games need to do more.

Another thing that was of my interest on this E3 was Fallout: New Vegas. It's a shame it's built on the same engine as Failout 3, but Obsidian(formed by some old Black Isle employees) seem to have improved the game a lot. Damage Treshold, Strength Requirements for weapons, Improved FPS gameplay with iron-sights... That doesn't take out the idiotic VATS though. And I expect to see much better writing from Obsidian, F3's retarded plot made me cringe. But still... no shadows on the engine!

Epic has become totally overused nowadays.

I happen to like Kinect.

And we've seen Move working, precisely, without the possibility for camera tricks?

It apparently tracks you, and does so without holding any silly looking goofball thingies. I'm not seeing the difference here, you take everything about Kinect with extreme skepticism (which is fine, I'm skeptical about it, but I'm also skeptical about Move), yet take everything Sony says about Move as cold hard truth.

Okay, so they had a problem. And they stood behind the product still, losing untold amounts of money. But yes, they have been fixed. Several recent chipsets have very low failure rates.

What do you consider good games then? I enjoyed Halo and Gears. I also think Forza 3 is far superior to Gran Turismo, at least from what I've seen in the demo.

What's the point in getting pissed off? Do you actually think Microsoft likes having to repair countless systems due to a design flaw? Believe me, it's in everybody's best interest to fix the problem. And from what I can tell, they have. They're down from a 16+% failure rate to below 4% (typical failure rate for any product is 3-5%).

About Kinetic, while the camera can recognize any number of persons, it can only track the movements of two (the processing power of the Xbox 360 can't handle any more). Also, it has serious problems when you are seated, so even to handle the menu system you must be standing up. NeoGAF is bashing it pretty heavily.

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Finally, who won E3? Apparently, Apple.

One word for all of them - gimmicks. While intriguing way of controlling a game, I'd rather have even the gamepad than this. That way I'd take a ride on my bike than waving my hands furiously in front of the TV. Not to mention I'm not getting a console any time soon.

It used to, but to lower costs they decided to use the Xbox 360 CPU instead.

ReyBrujo's link leads you to IGN. IGN seems concerned about the Kinect.

The PlayStation Move basically works by using a camera to track brightly colored spheres with known sizes, which can be used to determine angle and distance from the camera, which is enough to determine 3D coordinates. On top of that, I think it has internal sensors to detect movement to further enhance the accuracy. Nothing there is surprising though. Being able to identify and track a human's limbs is new, however.

They would have lost even more money doing that. That was even less of an option. Once you've invested that much money into something you have to try to cut your losses. Cutting and running would have made every expense a complete loss (probably many millions), not to mention the permanent stain on their name. That would have cut into Windows and Office sales. The repairs and shipping is probably expensive, but the profits they make from continuing sales (especially game sales, which is where consoles make most profit anyway) probably more than accounts for it.

Denying the faulty hardware wasn't to avoid warranty claims. Obviously the systems that had failed during the warranty period were covered. They were trying to prevent people from not buying them, insisting that there was nothing really wrong with them when there clearly was (and I still can't imagine how nobody caught it before the launch date). Funnily enough, different iterations continued to suffer from the same problems! Come on, how hard is it to build a reliable system?! When you're trying to get sales based on a really cheap price apparently it's very hard. Obviously if the 360 had costed the same as the PS3 they never would have sold any.

Many more people think that FarmVille is great. That makes people stupid. It doesn't make the game good.

I was watching a demo of an IGN representative playing Forza with the Kinect. He was passing people every 3 seconds. I don't know if the game is dumbed down because of the inferior control scheme, or if they had them driving Ferarris against Volkswagens to make them feel good about themselves and the product, but it was certainly not realistic. He wasn't doing a good job, but he was making up spot after spot. That's no simulation. It was an arcade game.

I already admitted that. It would be fun to play around with. Causing big wrecks, etc. However, creating a realistic simulation that captures just the normal racing is a lot of work in itself. The extra stuff adds that much more time onto development. Whether or not its worth it, I can't say. I doubt it would make the game truly enjoyable to the non-enthusiast and the enthusiast probably won't waste too much time with it. I'd certainly like it to be there, but I can't fault the series for that considering everything they do so well.

Oh, well, that's my bad. I didn't know that they've finally almost completely gotten rid of the problem.

I've heard of it taking a month+ to get your 360 back. Probably not a problem in New York State. If Microsoft really wanted to take a hit for it they would have spent the money to redesign the system from day 120 when they admitted the problem and then sent replacements to all consumers. Sure, it would have cost them a lot of money, but at least they'd be owning up to their cheapness. Instead, they forced consumers to run their machine until it fried, ship it to Microsoft, wait for them to repair it and ship it back, and then run it again until it fried again. Way to go, Microsoft. Somebody give them an award or something.

Again, the real money comes from game and peripheral sales. The losses on the console repairs were nothing compared to the profits. Again, had they just outright fixed the problem and recalled the poorly designed machines, that might have cost them a lot, but instead they forced consumers to live with the problem. I wonder how many people had to stop playing when temperature rose above freezing for fear of frying their machine and having to wait a week to play again and then doing it all over again the week after that.

And the rest just stop playing when it heats up just in case?

The graphics are only part of it. There's also a lot of interactions that need to be processed every frame. The 360 is already limited for what it can do. It's been noted that it struggles with GTA IV, for example, and IIRC that MGS4 wouldn't even be able to run on it. It has limited processing power. Nobody doubts that except for you.