That DS looks shit. I’ll never buy one (or three).

Nice one eye.

Only megaton is me going to sleep right now at 2035

So we all watch these presentations "live" at the appropriate times in June and comment on them?
That could be good fun actually.

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I'm going to shout "wooooh" and "yeaaaahhh" at logos.

Yay!

I remember people on here literally not being sure whether or not Wii U was just a fancy assessory for Wii.

I kind of fee sorry for Xbox one launch. Their day one people were complaining about needing to the internet so often and now they are doing gang busters with gamepass.

Also their promise was so much more interesting to me than PS4 - quantum break while not the best was at least an interesting idea or use of a game.

mistercrayon wrote:

You have to put PS3 in there. They were so few sold on day 1 they were giving out TVs with each purchase.

I assume you mean the UK launch here, because it sold out in Japan and USA. In the UK it didn't sell out, but that was only because it was the biggest console release in history thanks to the several month delay allowing Sony to manufacture enough to exceed demand and keep the console in stock.

Just a quick reminder to keep this in your diaries. First one is Xbox on 9 June at 5pm.

Just to whet your appetite for tomorrow, I thought we'd look at the run-up to E3 2004 and look at the one platform that didn't have a full-on presentation.

The story so far...

E3 had something of a fallow year in 2003, with little in the way of hardware announcements (with only the surprise announcement of Sony's PSP and its EyeToy accessory for PS2) and with a software line-up that has also come to be poorly remembered. Nintendo notably disappointed, with Pac-Man Vs being the main announcement for the GameCube, birthing the following deadpan reaction meme:



Xbox also disappointed Eurogamer, with early showings of Halo 2 and PGR2 but apparently little else. Sony fared a little better with the aforementioned announcement of the PSP generating some excitement, but disappointed some by failing to bring Shadow of the Colossus to the show, at the time still codenamed Nico. Eurogamer were also decidedly unimpressed with the details that emerged relating to Nokia's upcoming N-Gage, describing its price point of £249 as 'suicidal' expressing bemusement with a cringey rap performance accompanying the presentation and the extraordinarily low framerate of its games.

With E3 2003 generally disappointing then, was the stage set for E3 2004 to rebound with exciting and impressive news? 

Nokia N-Gage

The fourth platform holder at E3 2004 was Nokia, with its new N-Gage hybrid phone and portable console. The N-Gage was announced in 2002 as a competitor for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance, containing smartphone and 3D capabilities that were beyond Nintendo's handheld.

The console immediately failed to gain an impact in the market. It was expensive and riddled with design flaws - the battery had to be removed to change a game, the screen was portrait orientation and thus not ideal for games but the form factor also made the device awkward to use as a phone as it had to be held horizontally for calls (earning the derogatory nickname 'sidetalking'). As a phone, it could also not be used to pass time on a plane flight.

Sales were devastatingly poor, particularly in the US and UK where combined sales appear to have been little more than 5000 units in the launch window, and with ELSPA dropping it from its UK sales charts in 2005 stating the device was "of little interest to anyone [and has] failed to make any impact on the market at all". The device was discontinued in 2005 and the last game released in 2006.

While there is no E3 2004 press conference to watch, here are some N-Gage videos from E3 2003-2005.



Skip to 3:35 for this one:

Less than one hour to go! Be ready to press play on the Xbox video in the OP at bang on 5. And just to clarify, we're watching the introductory trailers that play before the press conference as well, so don't worry about needing to skip etc. when the video kicks off with some trailers.

So is my body

Oh man I'm on childcare duties which means cooking dinner at that time