http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/ Engadget Comments for The Engadget & Joystiq Interview: Microsoft's Shane Kim http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/even members of microsoft agreed that nintendo won E3 hands down.
you guys at E3 need to get with what the majority of people really think]]>May 16th 2006 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/May 16th 2006 8:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/May 16th 2006 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/May 16th 2006 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/
Most polls show Nintendo one followed by Sony. MS was left in the dust. There is no exitement in a system that is already out. And in Japan Sony won hands down:

http://1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3150896
Thats right 8/10 of the best things at E3 are PS3 related.

Is Engadget owned by Microsoft? They seem to be very biased. I know Joystiq hates sony, you just have to look at nothing but negative untrue things they say about the PS3. They even had an article that said the controller was garbage meanwhile Every other respectible news site reported that it is actually incredibly good.

So should I boycott Engadget as I have done Joystiq or are they more objective?]]>May 16th 2006 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/May 16th 2006 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/
In retrospect, it seems obvious that Nintendo had the best buzz at the end of the show, but their presser was underwhelming. The buzz coming out of that conference centered around the awful graphics, the embarassing Red Steel technical glitch, and so on.

It's tempting to interpret this interview in light of the entire week, but that would not be an accurate interpretation.

We should really have posted this transcript sooner. ]]>May 16th 2006 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/May 16th 2006 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/
"Oh come on, people. What did Nintendo really do at their keynote? Showed some game footage, demoed around two games, and played tennis. That's a winning keynote?

Microsoft showed Gears of War, dropped a bombshell with Grand Theft Auto IV, announced Live Anywhere, and showed a Halo 3 trailer. That, my friends, is one helluva keynote.

When it comes to E3 as a whole, Nintendo won. No contest. But to say they had the best keynote is just wrong."

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* lied about GTA4 (or mislead if you prefer).

* Showing a 1 min video of halo 3 which didn't display any gameplay and even looked like a cutscene otherwise known as a cheap attempt to display something about their only killer title.

* disaplying Gears of war which seemed to have horrible frame rates and blood just for the sake of blood. This is not a killer title. It doesn?t have a past to be one. If you say it is then Resistance, Assassin?s Creed and Heavenly sword are killer titles for PS3.

* give a 30 min speech about Live Anywhere which no gamer at the show was interested in by the guy who signs Engadget?s writers paycheck.

If you call that winning the show then MS did win. But I just don?t see it.

Nintendo:
* Showed Mario
* Showed Zelda
* Showed Metroid
* Ok I admit, horrible graphics on both the tennis and red steel. My god they were ugly.
* Miyamoto, a legend in gaming, orchestrating the theme to Zelda.
* Up-spirit execs playing Tennis
* ok so no one cared about their 24 hour alive speech feature but at least it wasn?t long.

Sony:
* Price Release: A shocker
* Hard Drive included: A shocker
* Motion Sensing: Shocker, had everyone talking and the reviews are in It?s great (see IGN and Gamespot. Don?t look at sites own by MS please)
* FFXIII: probably the game that will sell the more systems than any other game on any system. The reason PS3 won E3 in for the Japanese and RPG gamers worldwide.
* Playable games: Shocker, everyone doubt it them because of blogs like engadget.
* GT HD running at 1080P 60FPS: Shocker, everyone doubt it them because of blogs like engadget and MS rumors.
* I admit besides FFXIII and MGS4 there were no more killer games showed. No RE, No God of War, no GTA4, no true new Gran Turismo so I think this is what hurt them the most. But this is much better than what MS has to offer.

BTW, Endadget is long known to be a bias. However it does have great articles on gadgets!]]>May 16th 2006 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/
Microsofts intentions are clear though, more advertising and more subscriptions, reducing cost but not price. Sqeezing every last penny out of the consumer. Don't be suprised if they come round your house and have a feel down the back of your couch.]]>May 17th 2006 5:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/
This is so true!
It seems that bashing Sony is very much en vogue right now, well at least in this strange country called the US of A.]]>May 17th 2006 6:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/
Given that the author tried that hard to get Kim to admit what is apparently an embarassing fact-- that the introduction of the free Silver level of XBL membership has very likely reduced the number of paying XBL subscribers-- I find accusations of pro-Microsoft bias in this article a bit amusing.

Keep it up. Asking tough questions and not taking "no comment" for an answer the first time around helps everybody.]]>May 17th 2006 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/
However I would say that there is always the possibility that once Cell is fully understood then the devs will be able to make more out of it than the 360. It doesn't seem likely at the moment though.

Sony need an massive exclusive (which they were great at for the PS2) ie GTA type scale.]]>May 17th 2006 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/
-MGS4 was no gameplay footage as well only cutscene (like you said about Halo3)
-Gears of War isn't even finished yet so how can you talk about Frame Rate issues?!
-Im sure even i could get a PS2 game with a few updated textures to run at 60FPS in 1080p on a $500 console
-Assassins Creed was reportedly running on a 360 behind a curtain, okay so that might be false - but why hide the console in the first place if you've got nothing to hide?

Im not sayin the PS3 is a bad console, its just not that much different to the 360 like everyone keeps pretending, honestly i really cant wait till it comes out and my mates all breathe out a big "Oh......is that it?" when it turns out its not the graphical powerhouse its been touted as and its about 1.5x as expensive as the 360 in November.]]>May 17th 2006 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/16/the-engadget-and-joystiq-interview-microsofts-shane-kim/
To everyone who quoted 1up, ign, joystiq/engadget, you really need to listen to their respective wrap-up podcasts with ALL the editors. For each of them it was OBVIOUS (because they said so) that sony came in dead last and, on the whole, had a poor showing at E3.

The podcasts were over an hour each (1up was 1:45), so I understand if you didn't listen to them, but in their own words they described Sony's showing as "poor", "fell flat", "boring". When the bigest sony fansite out there, 1up, spends 30 minutes ripping sony apart for their poor showing, even a professed fanboy should take notice.

Every site I've been to has said E3 was won by nintendo, with microsoft a close second, and sony a "distant" last.

Listen to the podcasts, read, and please don't make-up false facts and statements in the name of fanboyism.]]>May 17th 2006 2:36PM