This was my first E3, so I didn’t quite know what to expect. In many ways, it was like Comic-Con with less cosplay and more suits. I’ll post more on my impressions soon, but here’s a start (since we began at the Sony booth).
Actually played with the Sony Move. The exhibitor had a lousy “you’re doing it all wrong!” attitude and actually snatched it out of my hand (twice) to show me how to play golf as Tiger Woods with it. Well, of course we (myself and two classmates I was with) were “doing it wrong”. It’s a new interface and we were exploring what it could do. If it was as truly intuitive as Sony was hoping, there wouldn’t be this sense of “right or wrong”. There was a very bad latency issue with the Move, something I’ve never gotten with the Wii (and let’s face it, the Move looks and acts just like a Wii-mote. I’ve yet to see any reason to expect anything else from it).
Another Exhibitor showcasing a Toy Story shooting gallery game told me that there was going to be Move-specific downloadable content (in the form of little gamelets that branch from a major release), but it seems that this was not fully thought through. There didn’t seem to a be a Move-Specific gamelet for DC Universe Online or Assassin’s Creed or even Little Big Planet 2. All in all, it seems that the Sony Move is not a fully thought out concept on Sony’s part and just an attempt to grab at the “cool interface” mojo of games.