E3 Fails
9. Giant Enemy Crab
Sony, 2006
Over the years, the Electronic Entertainment Expo
(or E3 for short) has been the source of some of the
biggest stories in the videogame world. It’s where
Nintendo unveiled the Wii. It’s where Sony pulled
back the curtain on the PS4, and the PS4 Pro. It’s
where Microsoft set out its vision for the Xbox One.
But it’s been host to as many baffling, WTF
moments as it has genuine revelations. So here
are Elite Online Mag’s picks of the biggest E3 fails,
missteps, and bizarre events over the years.
10. Bam, there it is
Microsoft, 2009
Giant Enemy Crab!
There are many memorable highlights from Sony’s
remarkably awful 2006 Press Conference, but the
Genji: Days of the Blade section is amongst the
best. After declaring that the game is based on ‘real
historical battles from ancient Japan’, the nonchalant
producer calmly shows us one of the game’s bosses,
who just happens to be a very historically accurate
giant enemy crab…. Which you can flip over onto
its back for massive damage.
The presentation was also notable for the next-gen
features of the game, such as ‘real time weapon
change.’ Yup, apparently nobody had seen that
before 2006.
8. My Body is Ready
Nintendo 2007,
How not to demonstrate your new tech.
It’s 2009, and the gaming industry has gone motion
control crazy. Nintendo’s Wii is at it’s peak, Sony has
it’s Move accessory, and Microsoft is revealing what
would become Kinect to the world. One of Kinect’s
lead developers, Kudo Tsunoda, takes to the stage to
give a live demonstration of it’s capabilities.
And breaks it. In an attempt to answer a question
nobody asked - “wanna see what the bottom of an
avatars’s shoe looks like?” - Kudo raised his leg to
make his Kinect-animated onscreen Avatar do the
same. This evidently confuses the Kinect’s body
recognition software and causes the Avatar to...
well… flip out, basically. It was a hilariously inept
way of demonstrating Kinect’s functionality, and
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Reggie’s body is always ready.
Reggie Fills-Aime has been at the forefront of
Nintendo’s public events for years now, and is
generally a bit of a good egg. But that hasn’t
prevented him from having a few gaffes of his own
over the years, most notably at Nintendo’s 2007
Press Conference when, whilst demonstrating the
Wii Fit, he uttered the immortal words “My body
is ready.”
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