I'm curious as to what everyone thinks about the E3 coverage?
IMO, everyone concentrated far too much on the games and the Wii. Sure, games are the cool part, and the Wii's controller was on display (finally), but it's the Electronics Entertainment Expo, not the Video Games and Video Game Systems PR Festival.
There's an entire hall of smaller companies that are developing new technologies, publications, and other electronic entertainment products that was essentially passed over. Where's that coverage? G4 gave it one small (2-4 min.) segment in its 12 hours of "live" coverage with Gilbert Godfried pretty much skipping over anything useful to be sarcastic and annoying. I didn't need to see every G4 staffer playing the Wii. See it once, don't really need to see it again and again and again and again and again.
I went through the 12 hours of G4 coverage with my TiVo and the new, useful content was slightly less than one hour. I'm sure it had a lot had to do with available beta rolls and agreements with certain game companies, but come on ... <1 hour? Silly banter and intro-to-intro-to-person talking should only go on for so long.
IMO, everyone concentrated far too much on the games and the Wii. Sure, games are the cool part, and the Wii's controller was on display (finally), but it's the Electronics Entertainment Expo, not the Video Games and Video Game Systems PR Festival.
There's an entire hall of smaller companies that are developing new technologies, publications, and other electronic entertainment products that was essentially passed over. Where's that coverage? G4 gave it one small (2-4 min.) segment in its 12 hours of "live" coverage with Gilbert Godfried pretty much skipping over anything useful to be sarcastic and annoying. I didn't need to see every G4 staffer playing the Wii. See it once, don't really need to see it again and again and again and again and again.
I went through the 12 hours of G4 coverage with my TiVo and the new, useful content was slightly less than one hour. I'm sure it had a lot had to do with available beta rolls and agreements with certain game companies, but come on ... <1 hour? Silly banter and intro-to-intro-to-person talking should only go on for so long.