E3 2011 Predictions

[hudson]

All I want is:

Rainbow Six

pretty please Ubisoft!!

Seconded.

[hudson]

All I want is:

Rainbow Six

pretty please Ubisoft!!

Seconded. Oops... literally, it would seem. Please delete....

[JSR]

I know what Microsoft and Sony will do. They will both show a bucketload of content for Kinect and NGP, talk some numbers and reveal some sequels. Nintendo I'm more curious about. No doubt 3DS will be their main event, but I wonder what they are gonna do with the Wii. Currently there is only one big title in the pipeline for it. Are they gonna let the Wii stay the entire year with just Zelda to carry it? And Zelda isn't even that big of a crowd pleaser. It doesn't sell nearly as good as Wii Sports, New Mario or Mario Kart. If they want the Wii to stay healthy, they need a big casual title or two releasing before christmas. Either that, or they need to announce the sequel to the Wii. I highly doubt that though, as it would hurt sales of the Wii when the latest Zelda still hasn't gotten a release date.

[Kit]

- Gearbox talk Aliens: Colonial Marines and hint at another Brothers in Arms.

- Sega announce Aliens vs. Predator 2 is in the works.

- Rockstar show a brief Max Payne 3 trailer.

- some surprisingly impressive Prey 2 footage.

[Neon Ignition]

In a big turnaround over the last few years I'm quite looking forward to seeing what Assassins Creed 3 is like and I'm wondering if Ubisoft will tease a new Splinter Cell. I'm expecting a big showcase at the MS and Sony conferences for MGS Rising with a big hint at a release date that's nowhere near now. Also looking forward to Bioshock Infinite and XCom

[JSR]

I expect Assassins Creed 3 to be out by christmas (hasn't that actually been confirmed?), and I'm starting to get excited about it. Whatever the new location and time period will be, can drastically change how the game works. While many people have wished for a future or present time period, I really hope it stays in the past. Have played way too many games in modern day cities.

[Neon Ignition]

Paris could be quite a nice setting though I'm not sure it would give them enough for a 'Brotherhood 2' next year

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/297880/news/sony-confirms-e3-press-briefing-for-june-6/

Sony's E3 conference has been confirmed as June 7th at 1am. I'm not staying up for that, I'll just gather the summary in the morning.

[Family Fry]

1am, aint a bad time at all.
Always like some live E3 conferences, apart from when it stars James Cameron, oh boy.
8 weeks to go and no leaks from Sony?!

[abigsmurf]

Think I'll book a few days off for it. I've an insane amount of holiday I still need to take (30 odd days). I always look forward to keynotes.

[JSR]

I usually take a week of around E3. No problem with staying up, but that makes it harder to watch it with friends. Regardless, it will be awesome.

[Bond James Bond]

Would love to see the new Syndicate game Starbreeze are supposedly working on. If they are, then I just hope they don't f**k it up by giving us some silly fps (remember Shadowrun on the 360/PC).

Personally, I don't think Starbreeze are the right developer to produce such a game. EA should have outsourced the game to a developer like Relic (Company of Heroes, Dawn of War 2, etc), I think such a studio would've done a fine job recreating the franchise.

[Flabio]

Relic are pretty heavily tied to THQ though. And they're all about Games Workshop stuff at the moment anyway.

I reckon we'd do a decent job, but as we're first party for MS that's never going to happen

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/298113/news/wii-2-announcement-at-e3/

Some analysts say a Wii price cut may lead to a bigger E3 announcement. CVG says maybe it's Wii 2. Pachter says there's no evidence there's even going to be a price cut. Common sense says NO WII 2!!!

[Neon Ignition]

Another thing I'm hoping we'll see is a full blow out on Metal Gear Solid: Rising. I love this series but I have the distinct feeling that the team set in place to make this completely hashed this up during development leading to Kojima's continued involvement in the series. I'd like to see the finished game with a big push looking good. If it still looks a bit ropey and far off I'd rather Konami axed it and got on with making ZOE3 and MGS5. As an action game spin-off it really should have been done by now.