Monthly Archives: June 2009

SONY Keynote

I wasn’t too impressed with the SONY keynote.  Even the bits that were impressive were mainly tech demos that are years and years away from being implemented.  While interesting and kind of awesome, they’re just technical demos.  I didn’t see a game here, but I’m hopeful that in two years or so there will be something worth playing down the road.

Not too pleased with the PSP GO price point, I think I’ll stick with the PSP-2000 for now, clunky as it may seem in comparison.  Reading the reviews, it looks like PSP GO enthusiasts are in for a bit of retraining on the button layout.

Overall: Meh.

Finishing

I just really finished a jar of peanut butter.  I mean really finished it.

As in from start to finish, every serving in that jar was consumed by me.  All estimated 3200 calories, if the label is to be believed.  It’s a jar that I’ve kept at work over the last couple of months.  It sits next to the jar of nutella that’s remains unfinished.  I’ve taken a small teaspoon to the jar, scraping along the sides and the rims.

I’d need a tiny squeegee now if I wanted to get the rest of it out.  Which is bothering me, because now I’m wondering about tiny squeegees to get everything out of jars.

Nintendo Keynote

Health monitor?  No thank you.  Metroid game developed by Team Ninja?  Okay, maybe you’ve got something there.

Sure, I’m dismissing the health monitor without really thinking about the benefits that it grants.  If the Wii knows my heart rate then it’ll know that I’m extremely bored with most of the game lineup and I’m playing other consoles.

It really needs games, not gimmicks.

First Round: Microsoft

Read the highlights of the Microsoft keynote.  Facebook, last.fm and twitter in the 360 dashboard.

I hate to say this, but if the 360’s integration of Facebook is compelling, it may be my killer app and I finally lose the “Don’t Join Facebook” game I’ve been playing for the last year or so.

Love the ability to browse the instant queue in Netflix.  This is something that has been needed ever since the service was released.  I’m one of those users that has a standing movie night and the 360 is always the “go to” device if I don’t know what I’m showing.  The ability to browse the queue and add items now brings it up to the first tier.

SONY is going to have to have a really impressive keynote today to keep up with Microsoft.  Just announcing the PSP GO isn’t going to validate the purchase of my Folding@Home Blu-Ray player.  (Okay, well, it plays inFamous, too.)

Note to SONY:  I hear that this “social networking” thing is going to be big.  Better get on it.

From our editor

E3 starts tomorrow so there’s probably going to be a lot of post keynote announcement video game geekery.  I’ll try to throw a writing exercise in there every now and again, but please bear with me as I feed the addiction hobby.