The pizazz and partying is indeed what's fun, but the problem is that the press conferences at E3 are mostly just time filler. No one who talks at them is an especially good speaker, and the pre-rendered trailers tell us little to nothing about the actual game. Conferences are gilded cages around the consumers, showing them that all is well and good, when, in reality, they're just deceiving those who love games and the games industry. That being said, Tom, could you PLEASE try not to say something incredibly controversial for once? I agree with you wholeheartedly, but you're going to get yourself fired if these online haters start boycotting Gamespot.
@spike6958 One, they are talking about major IP's here, not some digital eShop Angry Birds (and Code of Princess is just too generic to have any long-lasting North American audience). And two, many of those IP's that you mentioned from Microsoft have all come out last generation. Fable and Halo had original Xbox releases, and I believe Forza did as well (though I may be mistaken), but those are all games that have at least come out within this millennium. Nintendo has Pikmin and Animal Crossing to show for this millennium. I'm not saying that these games are bad, but, you know, they're no Halo or Zelda. And that's where the main problem is. Microsoft's main franchises came out last gen. Nintendo's basically came out first gen (Atari excluded), almost a quarter of a century ago. They need something new and big. Key word BIG. They need their own modern Halo in terms of popularity. They need some great new huge characters, things you can see being endorsed in McDonald's Kids Meals. If Nintendo can pull off something like that, which I know they can (despite the fanboys mentioned in your last few sentences), then they will win back the gamers like Tom who've just lost intrest in the same franchises over and over. For god's sake, we have 16 Zeldas, 41 (if I counted right. It might even be more), soon to be 43 with X and Y, Pokemons, and an unbelievable I-stopped-counting-when-I-reached-115 Mario games!
@FullMonty1394 @noah364 Alright. An adequate refute. Now name five of them that have actually turned into something Nintendo can use. I'm not talking Zack and Wicki here, I'm talking real IP's that have money-making potential.
I think their point was not necessarily that the current games are not creative, but that the creativity that goes into modifying Zelda or Mario enough to keep it interesting would be better utilized on entirely new IP. And in that case, I agree 100%
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