Monday, May 8, 2006
Today has been if not awesome, big.
Starting 1984 in Jane as the second week of APs runs its course. Chemistry Wednesday... I don't really want to show up at school at 6:50a.m. Wednesday morning, but to miss it would be federal crime.
E3 started today. Sony reveals price of PS3: $500. HOLY FLIPPIN' PRICE TAGS, BATMAN! But seriously, at the price it takes Sony to manufacture PS3 and with all the state-of-the-art - hell, too state-of-the-art technology that's going into the machine, $500 or $600 will be a steal.
The issue arises: Do we want this steal? Blu-Ray is largely an untapped medium, and the PS3's "threading", "Cell" processor... All of it is the most powerful stuff available - probably not available on the free market, even. But this haphazard arrangement of powerful tools, along with Kutaragi's assertion that the PS3 will not be a "gaming machine", is rather... discouraging. I don't want everything in a package, dammit, just give me the part that plays games, and make it work. Because I want my Guns of the Patriots. And I will do stuff to get ahold of it.
Square-Enix's display was largely unremarkable, at least from what little I heard. A few Final Fantasies - FFIII on DS, FFXIII on PS3, a Mana game, et cetera... what really caught my attention was the announcement of Wii. Oh yes. Dragon Quest is launching on Wii. Not the main series, mind you... but that is one hell of a commodity to be packing.
I'm wanting a DS more again. I haven't played games much lately at all, but as APs wind down, I really take a renewed interest in it. Thusfar, Mario Kart DS, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. Ah, the DS: King of the Subtitles. Combine those games with the Super Mario Bros. game coming out in a few weeks and the DS Lite - launch date in America, June 9th - and I take a sincere, invested interest in getting a DS. Soon. Summer, can you not come faster?
Ah, Nintendo, how long it has been since last we had a heart-to-heart. Together, Wii will be unstoppable. Wii will play Twilight Princess, and Wii will discover anew all that is magical.
Oh, and just so you don't think I forgot, 24 was on tonight.
10:58p.m.
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