{"id":963,"date":"2013-06-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/so-e3\/"},"modified":"2013-06-25T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T18:00:00","slug":"so-e3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/so-e3\/","title":{"rendered":"So, E3…"},"content":{"rendered":"

E3 has gone by, and (of course) talk was dominated by the new consoles\u2026 As everybody knows, Sony won E3, and Microsoft fumbled along, screwing up massively\u2026 but more on this later\u2026<\/p>\n

First, the most interesting things I\u2019ve seen from this E3 (that I didn\u2019t see in previous events):<\/p>\n

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Quantic Dreams had a tech demo that ran on PS4 in realtime that was quite impressive\u2026 and this tech demo is actually quite funny\u2026 Although I don\u2019t appreciate David Cage and his self-appointed mission as the messiah of gaming, I got to hand it to the man, he knows how to write\u2026 \"Smile\"<\/p>\n

Anyway, pretty impressive stuff on next-gen (although I shiver thinking about the actual cost of doing something like this).<\/p>\n

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Project Spark is Microsoft\u2019s answer to Little Big Planet, but on steroids\u2026 and it looks very interesting\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019m in love with the concept of teaching \u201cprograming\u201d to the masses, specially young kids, and I\u2019m sure that if I had the resources\/money\/time, I\u2019d really invest on something like this\u2026 But this one is exceptionally well made, and although I\u2019m not a tinkerer by nature (which in my opinion is the target of this one), I couldn\u2019t help but get excited\u2026<\/p>\n

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The Division is some sort of MMORPG taking place inside a Tom Clancy universe\u2026 so, conspiracy theories, paramilitary secret organizations, the works\u2026 It seems like it\u2019s a new take on MMORPGs, which might be a breath of fresh hair the MMORPG market needs (I\u2019ve finally quit WoW, so I might need something to keep me occupied in that space)\u2026 I\u2019m not sure if this is exactly a MMORPG, but it definitely has MMORPG-elements in it\u2026<\/p>\n

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Finally, the XBox One debacle\u2026 Well, everybody knows what\u2019s up on that\u2026 First Microsoft imposes an always-on device that requires an internet connection every 24-hours and draconian DRM, stopping used-games and effectively curbing consumer rights without getting anything in return\u2026<\/p>\n

After, it goes 180 degrees and reverts those policies (pressured by Sony\u2019s absence of those measures), while sounding very sour-grapes about it\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll start by saying that I don\u2019t intend to buy a XBox-One, at least not at launch\u2026 I\u2019ll probably go for the PS4 (it looks more powerful and doesn\u2019t piss me off that much)\u2026 <\/p>\n

The the funny thing about this whole debacle is the way people created the battleground\u2026 Specially the defenders of Microsoft policies, which don\u2019t seem to grasp the problem, hiding behind the shield of innovation as it excused every bad decisions Microsoft made on this, and using pure conjecture of what the future might be to justify it, while ignoring the pure facts:<\/p>\n