E3 BULLETCAST - Wii U video reaction, ultra news-roundup
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So. Much. News. Here's the important stuff, including links to all press conference content. Also, there's a video here of my thoughts on why Wii U is anything but a core videogames console.
Here's some instant reactions in the Wii U reveal and a bit of a status update generally:
The press conferences:
Nintendo
- WiiU – Hands-on impressions and hardware photos
- Café closed: Nintendo debuts WiiU at E3 presser
- Complete Nintendo press conference report
- Complete video of Nintendo press conference
- The Wii U "bird" tech demo
- Video of core games heading to Wii U
- Video interview with Bobby Kotick before the Nintendo press conference
Sony
Microsoft
EA
Ubisoft
Here are the major headlines outside of the press conferences since yesterday:
- Yoshida: $249 Vita pricepoint aimed at from day one
- Nintendo Roundtable E3 2011: Miyamoto exiting the Wii, Retro working on Mario Kart, more
- Miyamoto: Newly revealed Pikmin the “perfect game” Wii U
- Wii U third-party footage actually from PS3 and X360 versions
- Iwata: Lack of HD kept the Wii in the casual camp
- Tretton casts doubt over PS Vita worldwide release this calendar year
- Reggie explains why only the WiiU controller was shown in the Nintendo press conference
- Tretton plays coy over Agent exclusivity
- Ico and Shadow of the Colossus hitting US and Europe in September
- Final Fantasy hits 100 million shipped worldwide
- PS Vita pricing hints – UK £280, AU $299
- Report – PlayStation Vita UK price “close to £235″
- Bleszinski hits out at Kinect criticism: “If you don’t like it, don’t play it”
- Microsoft executive: Kinect is courting the core
- PlayStation Move hits 8.8 million sales
- PSP sales reach 70 million units worldwide
- BioShock Infinite to support PS Move, Levine confirms NGP project
- Cloud Storage feature revealed for Xbox Live
Here's an E3 video round-up:
- Battlefield 3
- Street Fighter X Tekken on Vita
- God of War Origins
- Tomb Raider
- Warhammer 40K: Space Marine
- Vita LittleBigPlanet
- Vita WipEout 2048
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
- Far Cry 3
- Vita demo reel
- Gotham City Impostors
- Uncharted: Golden Abyss
- Uncharted 3
- Dust 514
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations (and the Desmond teaser)
- Brothers in Arms: Furious 4
- Luigi's Mansion 2
- Dark Millennium Online
- The Old Republic
- Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
- Kirby Wii
- Dragon's Dogma
- Resident Evil: Raccoon City
- Asura's Wrath
- Street Fighter X Tekken
- DMC
- Inversion
- Minecraft
- Resistance 3
And here's a selection of screens: