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what is going to be next year's "thing"?
cooljammer00
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this year, it was no doubt the Nintendo DS. people pictochatting, showing each other their virtual penises, etc.
by PAX time next year, what'll be the next big thing to hit the market? i mean, all the new systems should be out by then... but will the handhelds still reign supreme in the minds of gamers?
by PAX time next year, what'll be the next big thing to hit the market? i mean, all the new systems should be out by then... but will the handhelds still reign supreme in the minds of gamers?
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I'm pretty sure it's gonna be ME!
....or possibly fried twinkies
Why wouldn't they? The DS is nearly a year old as is, I doubt it'll be any less popular next year, especially with Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and more being available.
shit, you're right. imagine it, all those little townsmen converging in one place.
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Oh God...Furries...
Is it true PSP only has one game capable of sharing so far? That might be why.
(I think I now why I felt like I was missing something all PAX)
I thought this thread was going to be about what big game will be showing. For example PAX04 had Halo2, PAX05 had Zelda etc and I think F.E.A.R. was there too.
I think PAX05 was really missing a big game exposition to tie it all together the way Halo2 did the first year. What would be a good game to do that in 06? A PSP title? A DS title? 360, PS3?
What the hell? Did you not see Zelda?
I ddi see Zelda, however did you not see the massive line for Halo 2 when it showed at pax? I mean yeah, Zelda, amazing. Nintendo, Keepers of the Tradition of orgasmically good games...
However I am sure a fair amount of people showed up at PAX 05 for Zelda alone, but an absurd amount of people showed up for Halo 2 alone. I am just saying that anticipation is everything. And while you did really like seeing Zelda there wasn't something to really make me salivate all weekend until the unvieling of it. I think that an Expo needs to have one beg headliner and Halo 2 was it last year. This year there wasn't one MAJOR thing to tie it all together. IMO. However that is not what this thread is aboutat all.
This is the question I am asking: What will be the big headliner next year?
Boo hoo.
The hype last year for Halo 2 was largely contrived. For one, Halo 2 was only on display for a short amount of time, during the latter half of the day, and in order to actually play it one had to acquire a ticket and wait in a ridiculous line (actually, the line wasn't that long, but the wait sure as hell was).
And I also strongly doubt Halo 2 had an appreciable impact on attendance last year. If anything, one could argue Zelda had a larger impact this year because of attendance being nearly three times what it was during PAX 04. Sure, it wasn't officially announced that Zelda was going to be at the show, but it was virtually unofficially confirmed by Nintendo's strong sponsorship.
Well, if you're defining the "next big thing" as whatever makes you salivate, then of course you're going to clearly be oblivious to the impact Zelda made at the show. At any given time there were at least 20 people watching the large monitor, and even more during peak hours (and I suspect the crowd size would be even larger were it not for the limited booth size itself)
Beyond the enormous persistent audience, just reading various people's opinions on PAX, as compared to last year, has yielded far more impressions of Zelda than Halo 2. Again, this is likely due in part to the larger attendance, but I'm seeing very few facts to support your assertion that Zelda wasn't a big thing.
I mean, we didn't see the XB360, but that's because it's obviously going to be Microsoft's Saturn (i.e. "ha, we can out-market anybody who waits and makes a superior product!).
Also, I don't count Microsoft as actually being there. Were they seriously demoing Fuzion Frenzy and Kung Fu Chaos? That actually drove me away.
The revolution would be so perfect to expo at PAX next year. You coul;dn't tailor make a convention more suited to Nintendo's american expo needs. It would be so freaking awesome.
AS far as the PS3 that would be miraculous. A major PS3 showing at PAX 06 would suprise me though because Sony hasn't touched PAX at all.
And I'd bring a lot of liquor, so I could get really drunk and then tea bag Mario... while Luigi watches.
The thing with Microsoft was that was the Playtest group. They weren't there to show you stuff. They were recruiting just like the Army guys.
Yes, I was a poor showing, and it's one of the things I'll be asking if I get a chance at the Women in Gaming conference this weekend - there's going to be a big Microsoft presence there and I want to know why they weren't at PAX both as women in the game industry (of which there were none on the panels) and with a decent expo showing. I'd like to know if any of them were even there as gamers, for that matter.
Oh yes. It will be in my pants.
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Just a FYI.
sweet!
With the way Halo 2 was budgeted ($10M to development, $15M to marketing), I wouldn't be surprised if Halo 3 is just a really, really, really shiny poster.
They'd save millions.
But I think a dream PAX 06 demo would be closed out at like 9thou preregistered people and it's just a place where we come and game publishers give us hand job class demonstrations of their games. You know, intimate, personal, satisfying.
Uhh, did you forget E3?
Being banned from PAX