Totally Cool!

I just had my first experience in watching a webcast from US... shiok!

Basically, it's the presentation by Nintendo just before E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo in the US. And gamespot.com has a live webcast. I always thought webcasts were laggy, had poor resolution and were basically unwatchable. Wow, this one changed my mind. There was zero lag. The whole webcast was smooth without and skips or waiting times. The image, though not very big was clear and watchable.

I've always wanted to go E3. I think watching a live webcast from E3 is certainly a decent substitute.

As for the webcast itself, it was interesting. We had Nintendo showing the new Wii console and they were demonstrating how the new controller works. Plenty of demos and trailers. The new Zelda game looks awesome. So does the new Mario game for the Wii and Nintendo DS. And it's all gonna be released around Oct/Nov... very close to PS3 launch date too!

Talking about PS3, the launch price is fixed... alittle on the expensive side, US499 for the 20Gb system and US599 for the 60Gb version. But hey, it does come with a Blu-ray drive and the system is looking good. I was a little disappointed at the BIG revelation fo the new controller, which is basically the same design as the old controller, except that it had motion sensing built in and vibration taken out.

The coming months is gonna be interesting for console games and painful on the wallet! heh.

Hmm.. gamespot is having a life webcast of Microsoft's pre-E3 press conference in about an hour. It's already 2am... shall I stay up and watch? Dunno whether can tahan!