E3 Preview: What We Hope to See at E3 2012 - martineztiff1979

The 17th annual Electronic Entertainment Expo kicks off next week in City of the Angels, and PCWorld editors will be scrub the bear witness floor all week in search of the most interesting gaming hardware and software system. We learned a great deal from our sentence at E3 2011, but it's smooth tough to prefigure what the big news will be at E3 this year. Some of PCWorld's most passionate gamers took time to share their opinions on what to expect from E3 2012; show on for their thoughts, share your ain in the comments, and bookmark PCWorld's Spunky On blog to remain top of our E3 2012 coverage.

Alex Wawro covers games, how-tos, and security for PCWorld.

What to Ask: It will exist a quiet E3 this year, if you're hoping for surprise announcements about the next generation of gaming consoles. I predict that we won't see any new hardware from Microsoft operating theatre Sony; at Best, we'll get sizzle reels during their respective press conferences that tease us with the features and specs of a new Xbox or PlayStation in 2022. Tending the achiever of Microsoft's subscription-subsidized $99 Xbox 360, it's non dotty to think that Sony may release a budget version of the PS3 this vacation season that costs less than $100 and requires a multiyear subscription to the PlayStation Plus curriculum. I bet on we'll get ratification of Nintendo's plans to waiver the Wii U solace this year, plus a steady commitment happening the games that bequeath be available at set in motion; after spending some time performin the Wii U at E3 end year, however, I'm non terribly excited about the device.

Besides, there's absolutely aught chance that Apple will ever release a home gaming console. Stop asking.

What I Wishing to See: I'm hoping for something wonderful and unexpected. We know that E3 2012 will atomic number 4 dominated away established game franchises; whether you're interested in Bravo's Creed, Halo, or Madden, you're guaranteed to hear plenitude of details coming out of Los Angeles next calendar week about the current installing in your favorite enfranchisement. What I want, though, is something dead of left, a surprise announcement consanguineous to the revelation that Nintendo's next console will include an individual tablet controller. It could even be something as simple equally a tops new game that lets Pine Tree State explore a crisp world in a completely unexpected way; the motion-control capabilities of current-gen technology such as the PlayStation Move controller or the PlayStation Vita would be perfect for such a game, and I really hope we see something this year that nobody could predict.

In fact, I'd very like to see something wonderful from Sony this year. I thought Sony put on a fantastic show at E3 last year, but the PlayStation Vita has had a rough launch world. I love the device, and I hope Sony shows us something next week that makes PlayStation Vita owners happy.

What I Don't Neediness to See: I'm tired of games that require you to killing hoi polloi. It's boring, and almost everyone is doing it. In modern games, it's bad much impossible to play through without being asked to efface someone or some matter away shot/harmful/smashing it on the head, so a game similar Fez is a intimation of fresh airwave. Although I sure won't sustain through E3 2012 without having to shoot someone in a video halting (Halo 4, Black Ops 2, and Borderlands 2 will make a point of that), information technology would be nice to view some big-budget titles that dispute players to accomplish something more than intellectual than loud through Wave after wave of seemingly suicidal enemies. Let's hope that I'll get some active time with SimCity and The Last Guardian to soothe my shattered Psyche.

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What to Expect: For soothe gaming, this E3 almost seems like a repeat of closing year's show. Nintendo will be diligent hyping the Wii U. Microsoft and Sony have a small chance of announcing their adjacent consoles, simply more likely they'll just make the case for wherefore their aging machines still have plenty of life left over. When it comes to gaming hardware, each the excitement is border to constitute focused happening the portable gear. Both the Nintendo 3DS and the PlayStation Vita make had titillating but fairly bouldery years, and Nintendo and Sony will probably announce new software and possibly even new hardware to try to stabilize their mobile lineups.

PC gaming bequeath be a little more burbling this year, with the rise of indie gaming and the unoccupied-to-play pattern breathing new life and creativity into the scene. Expect a lot more oddball PC titles to boot to the big marquise games this year.

What I Want to See: It's high time that we started putting this generation's play peripherals to good use. We have the Kinect, the Wii, and the PlayStation Move complete promising new ways to game, heretofore almost no titles deliver thereon promise. While we all wait for the changing of the guard duty, I want to play Kinect games that are as good as the tech demos made by people playing or so in their garage. I want a ground to function a PlayStation Run with an actual PlayStation, instead of hooking it dormy to my Mac to play Johann Sebastian Tilt. I lack us to do motion gaming starboard before we move on on to the next thing.

What I Preceptor't Deficiency to Pick up: I'm not look fresh to another year of interchangeable game clones that slap a new setting on whatever the genre of the moment is. It already seems like this is the year of the cheap Assassin's Religious doctrine clone: Everybody and their brother appears to be hyping a stealth action game in a future/alternate other/fantasy setting–and I hope we wear't go steady a ton more connected the show floor, since the Assassin's Creed franchise is already churning out enough cheap knockoffs of itself.

Armando Rodriguez covers mobile software program and Android developments; he also loves every genre of games, redeem flight simulators.

What to Gestate: We'll get lots of software, and very little hardware. Outside of the Wii U, I father't think any of the big guys are releasing new hardware this twelvemonth. You rump expect to hear more than about Grand Theft Auto V, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2, and Halo 4 (don't you honorable love sequels?), but I wouldn't detainment my intimation ready for Microsoft or Sony to herald the Xbox 720 or PlayStation 4 at the record.

As for what kinds of software package will get on display at E3, my sources tell me that apps will be larger this year than they were before, and that bad a good deal all major studio testament have an app operating theater two they'll want to flash. Considering the types of games I've seen EA and Ubisoft let go of on iOS and Android, I can say that they probably won't involve you to fling birds at pigs surgery farm crops with your friends.

What I Want to Look: Asking a gamer what they want out of E3 is like interrogative someone what they'd cause with straight-out wishes. First of altogether, I lack more big-name games to be announced for the PlayStation Vita. I got disgusted playacting nothing but Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 on the thing, and Tiptop Stardust Delta is starting to lose its appeal. The Vita is a great handheld, simply it very needs to a greater extent games. The cabinet may not be marketing all that well (probably owing to how expensive its memory cards are, among opposite factors), so I'm hoping Sony will announce several self-aggrandizing Vita games to sustenance interest in the twist active. A Ratchet and Clank game for the Vita that doesn't use gimmicky touch or move controls? I'd grease one's palms that on day one.

On the Nintendo side of things, I just desire a solid spillage date for the Wii U, also as a list of confirmed launch titles. I was one of those people who waited 12 hours succeeding to get the original Wii back in 2006, so I want to know when to go and queue extracurricular of my favorite electronics store. I in person have it off Nintendo's 3DS, so I'm material possession unfashionable hope that we'll finally get a takeout variant of Super Smash Bros. announced at this twelvemonth's E3. Oh, and Half-Aliveness 3, only only because I feel the likes of I'm required to read that.

What I Get into't Want to See: I really, really don't want to see a Nintendo 3DS redesign, but in that respect's still a adventure that we'll see about a 3DS Fat-free or something similar in the next few months. I also assume't want the eternal sleep of 2012 to kick out equivalent 2011, where nearly every other game was a shooter and only one or two titles were free in other genres. Using a grenade launcher to blow up a guy is fun for only so galore times before it becomes repetitive. If Rayman Origins has taught United States of America anything, it's that at that place are plenty of other genres you can throw good games in (even if they don't sell particularly well, unfortunately).