Day 0 Update #237 – The New Landscape

by Filippo Dinolfo | 0 Comments | 14 Jun 2019

On this episode of the Day 0 Update: We put a bow on E3. We talk about the big platforms and third parties, and how they’re looking going forward. Plus, our top games of the show. All that and much more!

6/13/2019 Show Notes: The New Landscape

Intro
Let’s wrap up E3.
- Microsoft
  - A lot of games, but most for 2020.
  - Scarlett for Holiday 2020 with Halo Infinite
  - Phantasy Star Online 2
  - End of BC, but we got Too Human for free!
- Bethesda
  - A mostly safe showing.
  - Let’s contrast Todd Howard with Ikumi Nakamura.
- Ubisoft
  - Lots of Tom Clancy
  - Uplay+
  - Gods & Monsters
  - Watch Dogs: Legion
- Square-Enix
  - Final Fantasy VII Remake
  - Final Fantasy VIII Remaster
  - Collection of Mana/Trials of Mana Remake (but on Nintendo’s show)
  - Romancing SaGa 3 and SaGa Scarlet Grace
  - Too much time on Avengers
- Nintendo
  - Excellent showing this year.
  - More 2020 games they usually show.
  - Animal Crossing slips to March for anti-crunch reasons
  - Panzer Dragoon: Remake
  - Contra: Rogue Corps
  - Breath of the Wild 2
Post-E3 Storylines
- E3 is not dead, but the show floor wasn’t looking good.
  - Just about everything that got press came out of the conferences.
- Are we witnessing the culmination of Yosuke Matsuda’s vision of Square Enix?
  - Matsuda, in 2014, said he wanted to return Square Enix to its JRPG roots
  - Arguably the first-ever Square Enix E3 presser (as opposed to Eidos)
  - SaGa and Seiken Densetsu presented as important parts of the catalog.
  - A very Falcom-esque Oninaki
  - Tomoya Asano and Naoki Yoshida projects we have yet to learn about…
- Are we seeing the beginnings of a Good Guy Konami?
  - TurboGrafX 16: Classic Edition (Or is that Turbo Duo?)
    - Victor Ireland tried advising Konami on Hudson unsuccessfully.
  - A bombardment of classic collections with plenty of potential for more
  - Contra: Rogue Corps will be a critical release for Konami’s future.
- Is Switch a ten-year platform? Because it’ll probably have to be.
  - Switch (2017) is effectively both Nintendo’s eighth- and ninth-gen platform.
  - 2020 sees start of ninth-gen in earnest, lifecycles aren’t getting shorter.
  - Nintendo might get away with a 2026 launch for their next platform.
- Does Sony pay for skipping out on one of the better E3s in recent memory?
  - Spencer: E3 is better with Sony there.
  - Microsoft was good and Nintendo was amazing. Sony got nothing.
Our Picks of the Show
- F: Watch Dogs Legion, Gods & Monsters, Doom Eternal, Oninaki, Ghostwire: Tokyo.
- P: Watch Dogs Legion, Trials of Mana, SaGa: Scarlet Grace, Oninaki, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Shadowbringers, remakes and re-releases
- T: ANIMAL GD CROSSING, BOTW sequel, Shadowbringers, Spiritfarer
- C: Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Torchlight 2, Spiritfarer, Luigi’s Mansion 3, Minecraft Dungeons, FFVIII, Link’s Awakening
- L: DAwg: Dragon Quest XI, Cyberpunk, Ghost Recon, 12 Minutes, Watch Dogs Legion, Link’s Awakening remake 11
Who Won E3?
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