# Ask the E3 guy

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-e3-guy/356883>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 15, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-e3-guy/356883 "2006-05-15T19:14:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-e3-guy/356883/21 "2006-05-16T05:29:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Pochacco]  
My wife had her picture taken with one of the nerfed booth babes to get one!  
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So how nerfed were the booth babes? I heard that they’d been asked by The Powers That Be to cover up, which they did, but not by much.

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**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-e3-guy/356883/22 "2006-05-16T05:59:54Z")

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Not very. Skin-tight clothing versus nude.

Our booth (Atlus) had our ladies in Nurse outfits to coincide with Trauma Center: Second Opinion.

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**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-e3-guy/356883/23 "2006-05-16T18:02:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Gozu]  
What about the delay though? Will the user be able to control that also?  
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Probably not. We’ll pick a degree of “swoopiness” that strikes a nice balance between looking good and feeling tight and tune to that. But that’s how all games are. Naughty Dog doesn’t give you sliders to tweak Jak’s turning speed.

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> By the way, since you were there last year, excepting Warhawk, how do you think the PS3 playable demos compared to the 360 demos from both last year and this year? What do you think it says about the technical potential of each console?

I’m not a good person to ask. One, I work for Sony so I have a vested interest in saying that the PS3 kicks the 360’s ass. But also I hardly saw anything at the show this year besides **Warhawk**. My walk around time was limited to an hour Friday morning. I didn’t even spend much time with any of the other PS3 titles even though they were only twenty feet from where I was stationed.

I did play **Loco Roco** one day before the show started. THAT’S the game I’m most excited about.

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**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-e3-guy/356883/24 "2006-05-16T21:55:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Pochacco]  
Probably not. We’ll pick a degree of “swoopiness” that strikes a nice balance between looking good and feeling tight and tune to that. But that’s how all games are. Naughty Dog doesn’t give you sliders to tweak Jak’s turning speed.

I’m not a good person to ask. One, I work for Sony so I have a vested interest in saying that the PS3 kicks the 360’s ass. But also I hardly saw anything at the show this year besides **Warhawk**. My walk around time was limited to an hour Friday morning. I didn’t even spend much time with any of the other PS3 titles even though they were only twenty feet from where I was stationed.

I did play **Loco Roco** one day before the show started. THAT’S the game I’m most excited about.  
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Fair enough. There is a slashdot article about this topic by the way. Here is the link in case you feel like chiming in:

> **[Controller Comparison - PlayStation 3 vs. Wii - Slashdot](https://games.slashdot.org/story/06/05/15/2132242/controller-comparison---playstation-3-vs-wii)**
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> ZiakII writes "Engadet has an article comparing the PS3 Controller to the Wii's Controller. From the article: 'The motion control, however, was another story entirely. Whereas the Wiimote seemed to produce different experiences in different games and...

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-e3-guy/356883/25 "2006-05-17T02:20:35Z")

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Did you get a chance to look at the **Sims 2: Pets** (surely a working title) demo? If so, did the dogs appear to be of different sizes? All the dogs and cats in Sims: Unleashed were the same size…at least the photos from E3 that I’ve seen so far indicate dogs are bigger than cats. It’s hard to make dog-to-dog comparisons from photos and 30 seconds worth of movie, though.

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**Author:** ![Gozu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gozu/32/6615_2.png) [@Gozu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-e3-guy/356883/26 "2006-05-17T06:19:30Z")

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[QUOTE=elfkin477]  
Did you get a chance to look at the **Sims 2: Pets** (surely a working title) demo? If so, did the dogs appear to be of different sizes? All the dogs and cats in Sims: Unleashed were the same size…at least the photos from E3 that I’ve seen so far indicate dogs are bigger than cats. It’s hard to make dog-to-dog comparisons from photos and 30 seconds worth of movie, though.  
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No. I don’t really like Sims games.

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