by Filippo DinolfoOn 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
- Microsoft
- 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.
- TurboGrafX 16: Classic Edition (Or is that Turbo Duo?)
- 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.
- E3 is not dead, but the show floor wasn’t looking good.
- 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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