CORBIE'S GAME BLOG

Now that E3 is all said and done, we can take a moment to reflect back to what exactly we learned at this year's E3 extravaganza. Here we go. At the 2007 Electronics Entertainment Expo, we learned that...

1. Nintendo thinks all gamers are chubby fat-asses with the news of their Wii Board attachment. Obviously Nintendo sees the need to get gamers off their butts and exercising. First they basically call us a bunch of morons with the release of the "Brain Games" and now they're trying to get us to get up and take part in the Wii Fitness regime. What's next, Wii Cholesterol monitor. Will we have to connect electrodes to our body before we can even play a Wii game. Maybe out heart rate needs to be monitored or our reading habits? How about a background check before we can even purchase a Wii system?

2. Sony thinks we're a bunch of poor weaklings with the news of their 33% lighter PSP and $100 cheaper Playstation 3 system. Yep, we can't hold that heavy PSP up anymore. WE JUST CAN'T DO IT SONY! So now Sony has made the new PSP thinner and a full 33.356% lighter. Thank God because I just couldn't take it anymore personally. Hmm, maybe the Wii Fitness isn't such a bad idea after all. And what can we spend that extra $100 on. That's of course if we can get to a retailer in time to grab one of the remaining 60GB Playsatation 3 models before they're extinct. They just somehow forgot to mention that little detail with the announcement of the price drop. I guess we can take a brisk jog down to the retailers and that might at least get Nintendo off our backs a little bit regarding our lack of fitness level. Kill two birds with one stone so-to-speak.

3. Reggie Fils-Aime is...................happy. And thank God, we can all get some sleep now knowing that. Of course he's happy. His company's Wii and DS systems are still flying off of store shelves and Sony's pulled another, um Sony, with their "temporary" price cut, not to mention the fact that Microsoft isn't about to drop the price of their system anytime soon. What's not to be happy about. Maybe the guy can actually crack a smile for once. I guess now all he needs is Matt Cassamassina to stop groping all over Perrin long enough for him to have some fun. Yeah, that'll happen.

4. E3 just isn't as much fun without the general public. Even many of the big wigs admit that the show just didn't have the same excitement without all of the half-naked girls and nacho-eating gamers pushing and shoving at every outlet inside the show. Sure the guys with credentials got their egos stoked a bit, and got to feel a little important for a while, but at what cost. E3 without the general public is like the Department of Motor Vehicles without the long lines. It's just not right. Maybe with some of the vocal comments made by some of the high-up execs, E3 might make it back to the way it was before. But for now, it's Tokyo Game Show or bust for many gamers looking for some trade show goodness.

5. The year following all of the console launches is always a bit of a letdown. I mean there were some really great games shown off at the show, and gamers have a lot to be thankful for with the upcoming release list for all of the current game systems, but it's nothing like the excitement we saw last year at this time before the Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii systems launched. I think there should be a law implemented where only one console can launch per year. Then they can have something like a lottery drawing to see which company gets to launch a console during that calendar year. That way we'd at least have this excitement every year or so instead of the standard 4 or 5 year window. Okay I've griped and whined enough. Now it's time to turn the attention towards the holiday shopping season that's rapidly approaching, not to mention the solid list of game releases between now and then. Stay tuned on the blog as I'll try to cover as many of them as I can. At least once my E3 pity party is over and done with.