Microsoft
During its conference on Monday the 14th, Microsoft pushed its new advanced camera now dubbed Kinect. Kinect is expected to launch November 4th with 15 titles including Kincect Sports, Kinect Adventures, and Dance Central. Footage of Call of Duty: Black Ops was shown with the announcement that for the next three years, all downloadable content pertaining this game will be coming to Xbox first.
New services will be introduced to the Xbox such as ESPN on Live for Gold members as a free service and Zune for Xbox. As the conclusion of their press conference, Microsoft revealed the new Xbox 360, now with built in Wi-Fi, and is available now for $299 USD.
Watch out! It knows your every movement.
Nintendo
During the Tuesday conference (June 15th) Nintendo announced a bundle of new first party titles for Wii, most of which are returning franchises. The most prominent being Kirby’s Epic Yarn, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Donkey Kong Country: Returns, Mario Sports Mix, and Wii Party.
The second, and arguably biggest, part of the show was the unveiling of their glasses-free 3D system Nintendo 3DS; the system is due for release before the end of Nintendo’s fiscal year (March 31st, 2011). Third party support for the new device will include successful franchises such as Saints Row, Kingdom Hearts, and more.
All the coolness of 3D, without the goofy glasses.
Sony
Sony also had its conference during Tuesday the 15th. The company is pushing their new Move controller which will be coming out in September at will be priced at $49 for one remote; bundles for Move will also be available during the coming months. In the third party support department, Portal 2 will be coming to Playstation3 with Steamworks functionality.
Another feature that was heavily advertised is the availability of 3D content (both games and movies) for the Playstation3 in conjunction with their new Bravia television line. Games that will support this new feature include Killzone 3, EyePet and Gran Turismo 5.
Part magical wand part politically incorrect toy, the Move controller.
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The 3DS has me hyped personally.
I’ve enjoyed the DS lite so far but not to the point of being crazy for an upgrade (thus no DSi.) I’m reserving judgement until the unit comes out and we can see both the catalogue of games as well as the performance of the hardware itself.
The analogue stick looks wizard though
The 3DS also has to be the one I am most looking forward to, not that I’ll ever have one but still