All sounds good. Glad to hear the the controls still feel right. The switch to first-person kinda reminds me of pointing the Wiimote at Super Paper Mario for additional looking-around. Looking forward to more!
While his speech is pretty out there, it's a logical extension of some things already happening. Foursquare, Facebook, achivements and trophies, Nike Plus, and the like are creating game-like reward systems like what he describes.
It's gotta be cheap if Microsoft is going to get a good amount of their userbase to come on. Supposedly they've also taken out some of its on-board processing to make it cheaper (can't remember who GamePro's John Davison was citing on that.) What they show at E3 needs to lay it on the line for the whole project: games and features, price, new name if any. I'd like to see it at $60 (or 50 for that matter) with some kind of minigame pack-in, but I could see it going up to $80.
Wherever graphics are going, I think they're still not quite there yet. There's still room for improvement and change, whether that's in photorealism or crazy, wild art styles. 3D graphics might turn into something interesting, too. I think we could soon reach the last console generation as we think of it, but this isn't it.
This would've been a good opportunity to bring the special-edition FF13 PS3 bundle to America. Those bundles hardly ever make it over here! The 30 bundle is pretty lame in comparison: just a white 360 with a copy of FF13 in the box. Even Modern Warfare 2 got a 360 with a special color job!
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