What are YOUR E3 predictions?

I think Nintendo is working it like a dam.
You know, if you let out a constant flow and then the dam bursts it wont be as bad because there wont be as much water on the other side.
But if you put a small hole in it so that just some water drops out, whent he dam does explode it will take everyone by surprise and there will be lots of it.
My analogy of the day.

LOL. It seems no one has commented on the joint RPG that Nintendo and Sega are working on. Hell, Charles Bellfield just confirmed it, guys. Here\'s the link: http://www.gameweek.com/features/Charles_Bellfield/index3.shtml
And for those of u who r lazy, i\'ll paste the specific part:

GW: Theoretically, Sega could be a difference maker in the upcoming console wars, depending on what franchises are delivered to each particular platform. Any thoughts?

CB: Let me turn the tables a bit. What do you know about GameCube?

GW: You probably know a lot more than we do; Nintendo is the most quiet company we\'ve ever dealt with. It\'s scary.

CB: Four words: don\'t write off Nintendo. A lot of companies have, but Nintendo\'s got a five billion dollar war chest and a lot of great, original franchises.

GW: Yes, they have the one key ingredient that Sega has: content. They really are self-sufficient.

CB: Agreed.

GW: Charles, can you confirm or deny the existence of this so-called "top-secret RPG" being worked on by Sega and Nintendo?

CB: (long pause) I\'m trying to recall… Tetsu Kayama talked about a number of things last week and I would normally refer back to what he said, but... Let\'s put it this way: whatever he said, the answer is "yes."

GW: You know, Peter Main had the same suspicious grin when I asked him this question two and a half months ago…

CB: Did he really? Yes. (another long pause) We\'ve got a great content line ahead. (smiles)





Heh, looks like Sega sure loves the Gamecube. And you can be sure that this RPG will be huge news at E3!

Heh, looks like Sega sure loves the Gamecube. And you can be sure that this RPG will be huge news at E3!

Yeah. Notice that he brought GameCube up from out of nowhere. He wasn\'t even asked to comment on it. I always believed that Sega would support Nintendo the most and I  this article just proves it.

Heh. He\'s not very fond of the Xbox...

I bet it\'s Farnation.  !!!!!

OR WAIT!!!! What if they are making Skies of Arcadia 2 for GC also.   OMG!!!!  

Sega is getting some from everybody.  What a whore;)

Namco, Square, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony.  Who\'s next on their list?  Capcom?

I bet you already know who I am going to say who will own the show.  Thats right... Nintendo! hehe...  Sony will show games and their HD/Eth peripheral, Microsoft will show games and the Xbox, Nintendo will be showing the NGC and... games running on it for the very first time.  Remember, MS is showing their first-party software at gamestock and the PS2 will have been out for quite some time.  All eyes will be on Nintendo as they will be the big "?" of the show.

Maybe the GCN games will be last-luster or PS2/Xbox will reveal games so astounding that nothing can compete but Nintendo seems like the likely E3 "winner" for now.

My predictions for Microsoft:

1.  The consoles price is revealed, to no surprise, it\'s very high.  Reporters, as well as the gamers on the net, are pretty pissed off.  Most talk is of "wow, the games look great, but for *insert cost here*?!  That\'s crazy."

2.  The games look good, but nothing past PS2.  Some titles show that the console can hold it\'s own as far as ports go, but again, the price detracts from all.

3.  Sega announces LIMITED support to the console, but it\'s plenty enough for X-box fanboys to gloat about.  The games in development are mostly those going to other consoles.

4.  MGSX is revealed to be a port (as loosely a definition as that can be considering their architecture) but is not shown at E3 and wont be shown for quite sometime.  Kinda like the PC port of MGS (which took 2 years to make, but I think it wont be as long as that, I am predicting late 2002).

That\'s about it for my X-box predicitions.  Not much is known about it to garner enough attention to it.  Most of the hype revolves around tech specs so making predictions beyond what I have already done is kinda though.

LOL!! Second to Sony?!

There is no question Nintendo will destroy this year\'s E3.

You mean Nintendo will walk in and wind up a giant robot of yamauchi thats utters the phrase over and over "Krush-Kill-Destroy" until it stopms on the competition?  If not, then please, shut up.

Replace Sonic with RPG. You should find this news interesting.
http://nintendonation.efront.com/news/february2001/0482.shtml

I still don\'t think that\'s the end of it.  I know Sonic\'s perfect platform is the Gamecube and he would fit in PERFECT with the cast of a new Smash Brothers title along with Knucles and Miles (Tails for those who are lame).  

crowd(comprised mostly of kids under the age of 8) cheers madly.

No one under 18 is allowed in E3 (that goes for everyone, not just you)

Well,I really don\'t see how Sony can win this year\'s E3. In 1999,DC stole the show.In 2000,it was PS2\'s turn.

But the PS2 was in its infancy in Japan.  By the time the DC showed last year at E3, it was a year old in japan, and over 8 montsh old in the US.  Now we got a system that has been studied and restudied to get some great games.  Their show should be nothing less of stunning.

I dont know.
As Jumpman said, Unknowns always draw a crowd.
I can see Nintendo beating out Microsoft easily, because MS does nothing but hype the XBOX, so when it comes to E3 either MS is going to live up to the hype or fall short.
Even if they live up to the hype, its just what people were expectin, so its no big deal.
Whereas Nintendo hasnt really been hyping so as long as they dont bomb, they will have a real good showing.
The only way sony can win is by massive amounts of Great games with a showing of the HDD drive at a low price.
Thats my prediction.

Prediction:

  Nintendo will show their stunning first party games and a few third party games that are in development.  They will look good at the show...  The graphics and playability will be astounding.

  Sony will be the disapointment at the show as they were last year.  There will be a many new titles to look at but not a lot of quality titles.  MGS2 will of course be playable and will be the biggest thing Sony has at the show besides the SEGA games.  The Hard drive / ethernet will be anounced at E3.

  Microsoft will anounce the price of the xbox and many people will be blown away.  Expecting a 400 dollar price tag they end up with a price tag of the dreamcast at launch. Microsoft will fight it out with Nintendo as the best of the show.  Microsoft\'s titles will be very polished and graphics and playability will be astounding.  There will not be much of a difference between the graphics of the xbox and Nintendo\'s cube at this point.

"Microsoft will anounce the price of the xbox and many people will be blown away. Expecting a 400 dollar price tag they end up with a price tag of the dreamcast at launch. Microsoft will fight it out with Nintendo as the best of the show. Microsoft\'s titles will be very polished and graphics and playability will be astounding. There will not be much of a difference between the graphics of the xbox and Nintendo\'s cube at this point."


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HAHAHAHAHA
Boy will you be in for a reality check... HAHAHA
I\'ll be laughing in your face soo hard

I still can\'t belive people think the x-box will be cheap cause bill gates has money... thats funny, it don\'t work that way if you know buisness, you are all in for a big surprise.

Originally posted by Chrono



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HAHAHAHAHA
Boy will you be in for a reality check... HAHAHA
I\'ll be laughing in your face soo hard

I still can\'t belive people think the x-box will be cheap cause bill gates has money... thats funny, it don\'t work that way if you know buisness, you are all in for a big surprise.

Do you have to be such a jerk about everything?  So what, it\'s wishful thinking and it\'s his prediction.  Leave it alone.

You could have just simply stated the facts like this:

I don\'t think it will be anywhere near 200$.  A while back Bill Gates was asked about the price of the X-box compared to PS2.  He just ended up saying that, "well, your going to get more in the xbox."  I\'m pretty sure that means it\'s going to be a little more expensive than the PS2 price tag.

The price I\'m wondering about is Gamecube?!  I bet it launches at 200$, but it would blow people away if it launched any lower.

Bill Gates will do a SHAMEFUL PR stunt with a WWF star ..... oh to late he already done that :nut:.

Nintendo and Microsoft will garner more attention at E3 simply because they are going to show what they can do.  We already know what PS2 can do.  

Who has a better showing overall?? I don\'t think you can make that kind of distinction yet.....I mean you have the PS2 which has really only been out a year, Nintendo, and Microsoft which are totally new! That new factor kinda throws everything off....for someone to win they are going to have to set people on fire.

Next year the playing field is level and it will all be about the games and what the developers can squeeze out of the hardware.  

Who will own this year\'s E3?

I\'ll explain this in lengthy terms. Everybody seems to think that because there are not enough GC news to go around, that because developers do not speak about GC development, that because there aren\'t more than 10 screenshots of GC games on the internet, in short- that because we don\'t hear about GC, it\'s already delegated to #3 position in these next-generation wars. If you had practical knowledge you\'d know EXACTLY what they\'re doing. It\'s like the analogy of the dam somebody used earlier in this topic.

It\'s VERY likely(98% I\'d say) that EVERY developer is already neck deep in GC development, but NOBODY knows about it because the developers are under threat of death to keep their mouths shut. They can\'t release ANYTHING- it\'s ALL being stored up for..........E3.

E3 2001: Nintendo receives power from the gods and calls down fire, hail, and dead fish onto the competition, literally devastating them. Face it people, the GC is radically different than any machine in existence- you can\'t and don\'t and won\'t understand it (all that blah blah about how, from the creating a game standpoint) without seeing it in motion. I, and I won\'t give you reasons, have known for a while the damn thing is capable of generating better than CG graphics in REAL-TIME. Hell, over a year ago, there were already news that Acclaim\'s Teeside Studios had done a Turok demo and had gotten CG graphics playable in real-time.

6-12 million in real-time? HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA. More like 40+, WITH effects (don\'t bite my head off- it\'s what developers are saying. I\'m not going to get into this argument- we Nintendoers will let E3 do the talikin\'!!!!
But I\'ll say this- HOW CAN YOU SAY GC (EVEN XBOX) WILL NOT HAVE BETTER GRAPHICS THAN PS2? It\'s a-b-s-u-r-d:

 We all know that the PS2 can not reach it\'s graphical limitations (20 million.....rrriiiiggghhhtt) without it having 4X as much VRAM as it does.

24MB of 1T-SRAM (dream on Xbox), S3 texture compression (you have it too, Xbox?), HW lighting X8 (X4 for you, Mr. Xbox/PC), multi-texture mapping (8 simultaneous textures at once= 6 for Mr. PC....err, Xbox).....I want E3 NOW!!!

Sony will dissappoint at the show. It\'ll have games that look as good as GT3, MGS2, but NOTHING a step up from those. Naughty Dog will show their secret title, only to have Nintendo crap all over it with the showing of CG real-time Metroid, Wave Race, Too Human, Luigi\'s Mansion, Mario, Donkey Kong, etc.

I\'ll get back to you after E3. That\'s a promise.

Except for that whole Sony rant at the end there, I fully agree with you.  Nintendo will rock this year.

I wouldn\'t underestimate Sony though.  They may get their **** together this year and impress.  I mean, it\'s not like MGS2, Silent Hill 2, Tekken 4, Virtua Fighter 4, etc will be ignored.