So guess who got to test out games like Wii sports, Zelda, and Resistance: Fall of Man this past weekend in Dallas, TX? That's right, me.
Working for Gamestop Corp, they sent all store managers to TX for a company wide training...which had 4500 managers, and 600 DMs and all the Corporate people there. This was a HUGE event, as vendors included EA, Vivendi, Activision, NC Soft, Ubisoft, Sega, THQ, Lucas Arts...and Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.
Here's what we learned.
- There's a new Star Wars game that allows you to play as a CORRUPT side, and this means you can do crazy things like strap bombs to Ewoks and send them in and explode...
- Rayman: Ravin' Rabbids will be HUGE and you will ALLLLLL love the advertising for them. I actually suggested placing the ads ON THE DISC as unlockable content, so that'd be awesome.
- NINTENDO is READY with the Wii. Reggie (the Head of Nintendo of America) told us that Gamestop will be THE ONLY RETAILER with demo units for people to walk in and play. This is HUGE...
- Microsoft will have us selling the ZUNE, so expect Gamestop to go all out with this product, and I'd expect it to sell throughout Christmas with us, especially since they have noted that our top 1000 selling stores WILL RECEIVE A ZUNE AND A 360...wow! Peter Moore himself was there to let us in on all this info... and flew from Tokyo to Spain to Texas to get there for us...awesome.
- PS3 looks great, but Microsoft is ready with 60 new titles coming out towards the end of the year.
- There is SOOOO much going on to help poise Gamestop into the next couple years, and blowing away expectations once again.
Mainly for everyone wondering, the new TUROK game looks INCREDIBLE. Seriously.
Nintendo's Wii with Metroid, Zelda and Trauma Center will REDEFINE the gaming Genres... they are really good games and are VERY intuitive. These are really pushing Nintendo BACK into the limelight...this is huge news for the industry... and the Wii sports that will come in the package...Tennis is great, and Warioware is going to rock, as well.
GEARS OF WAR is JUST AS GOOD as you've heard. THIS IS THHHHEEEEE Shooter of the year, hands down. It's incredible.
DEF JAM rom EA is going to be a top notch fighter with environments that fight back, great shit.
Indiana Jones and all NEXT Gen Star Wars games are going to be great with the Immersion technology. It is software that is intuitive instead of pre-rendered... its really impressive to watch the characters and environments break more realisticly. This was a great piece of info that you should try to find online.
Best of Show:
- Wii...nuff said
- 360's upcoming plans
- Rayman (the Commercials MADE the weekend)
- Gears of War (Just gorgeous)
- Jamie Kennedy and Tom Green showing up.
- Our Scarface contest that will allow a manager to show up in an upcoming game.
- Lucas Arts presentation
- Resistance
- God of War II
- Def Jam
- ZUNE...you heard it hear first...let me know if you want to reserve one.
SO MUCH great stuff...and the fact that nintendo gave us $250 worth of stuff, Microsoft gave us another $350, Sony even jumped in this year giving us three games (they are afraid of losing market share)...
Lots of GREAT stuff coming...and I for one, am giggling like a school girl...
It was a great show, but the 18 hour workdays followed by getting sick were NOT on the menu...
Hope this lets everyone know why I hadn't logged any time in a while...have a great one.
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