I think E3 is a really weird concept in general, because the world has sorta moved on, but E3 has stayed the same. So many companies that once saved their biggest announcements for E3 are doing their own things and save their own biggest announcements for their own shows and there is so much gaming coverage everywhere now, in general, it is almost an absurdly oversaturated market for content production, that E3 is kinda meaningless.
1. Most of the game companies trying to do shows outside of E3 have felt even more meaningless. At best, they're like a single E3 conference with no other ones following it, and worst, they're a bad attempt at doing a Nintendo mini Direct.
2. People have complained that E3 doesn't matter anymore for nearly 15 years. For that matter, the Game Awards have never really mattered, and yet that does well. There's plenty of examples that familiarity alone can keep something successful long after its relevance should logically be gone, so E3's continued success does not surprise me. And it does still succeed, somehow.
How is a direct with unique announcements to those companies more meaningless than an E3 without those announcements?
But I will agree in a general sense that there is simply oversaturation in general, which is part of why a lot of the more general shows like the game awards feel less meaningful than say a company specific direct.
And you might be right that it's sustaining itself on brand alone. But id argue that the brand has less meaning year 9n year, so when those who see the brand as meaningful are no longer in the industry, what does E3 have then?
I think E3 is sustaining itself on just how awful the approach to gaming news was in 2020 (the only year without E3), people were begging for E3 to return in 2021. Sony's the only one that did well without E3 as shown by the very strong PS5 Future of Gaming stream though Sony quit E3 after the infamous 2018 press conference.
Nintendo and Xbox E3 2021 pretty much cemented E3's future for a while because they were a lot better than the scattered 2020 counterparts in the absence of E3.
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I think E3 is sustaining itself on just how awful the approach to gaming news was in 2020 (the only year without E3), people were begging for E3 to return in 2021.
This is the big thing. Outside of Sony's two good events and Nintendo's kinda ok mini directs, I hated every single attempt in 2020. Every other single event was a miserable waste of time, that made me miss the glory years of Nintendo's 2008 E3 conference.
Imagine how bad it was that E3 2021 was somehow an improvement.
Persona 5 strikers is on sale for 16€ on the Mexican eshop, which is quite a bargain. The problem is I have never played a Persona game before, and I know that the series has quite a unique and distinctive style. I am well versed in RPGs in general, so I was wondering if maybe this is my entry point to the series.
Unfortunately I don't own PS4 or 5 to play Persona 5, so it's either Persona 5 strikers or bust.
@alexwolf Unfortunately i have never played a persona game before but just to make sure since it is also a warriors game. Do you enjoy those kind of games?
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@Solaine Yeah I am ok with Mushou games, it's just that Persona strikers is very story heavy, from what I read, and I don't know if the story will be explained well enough to keep me invested.
@alexwolf ah, i see. As far as i know, it is suggested to play Persona 5 before since there are references, not to royal though. Aaand that is all i know, i will leave this to the ones who actually have played both games, sorry for being no help but i am pretty sure you are gonna enjoy it nevertheless, probably more after playing P5
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@alexwolf
You'll be fine. If you've played other games in the series, great, if not, you'll still really enjoy it. It's actually a really high quality Persona game more than it is Warriors.
There's a lot of ppl who will tell you no no, you gotta play other games first. I am not one of those ppl. Is it advantageous? Sure. Required? Absolutely not. You'll basically just start with a crew of friends, and you'll get to know them throughout the dialog. You'll get the gist of everything through context. It's a wonderful gateway game for fans new to the series on Switch.
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@alexwolf It's not as good as the mainline JRPGs, IMO, and it has some story connections to the original game, but if it's this or nothing, better to start with this one, since the story itself is mostly its own thing.
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Another little bonus of the OLED that I forgot about: double the on-board storage! Not much, but still a nice little surprise that helps with all those small eShop indies.
Something came to mind regarding Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. You know how games with real cars get delisted after a certain time due to car licensing like for example how Xbox doesn't have a Forza Motorsport game anymore due to all of them being delisted and the new one not being released yet, well Mario Kart 8 also has real cars (the 3 Mercedes ones).
For Mario Kart 8 (Wii U), the Mercedes cars are free DLC so Nintendo could just delist the free DLC and the Wii U version stays on the Wii U eshop though the cars were on the day 1 cart for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe so it may be that within the next few years Mario Kart 8 Deluxe will be delisted from the Switch eshop.
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You have a point there, I'm sure that Nintendo has secured a few years though. I reckon Mercedes must be jealous at how many copies of the game have sold, imagine a 7 year old car topping the charts with no extra development!
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