Buzz. It's the noise a bee makes, and from that it has eventually come to also mean the amount of chatter and interest in something. Generating buzz is what E3 is all about for the gaming industry, and evidently, despite being something that isn't really measurable, someone has gone ahead and measured it for E3. A market research firm called BuzzStudy scanned the internet and found out which games/announcements generated the most buzz by looking at which stories had the most coverage.
The results are in the graph below and feature all the major hitters that you would expect. Of course Natal is resting pretty on top, but I'm suprised to see that Mario had so much more over Metroid. In fact I would have expected Metroid to be much higher on the list. Maybe I'm just out of touch. Activsion can't be too happy about D.J. Hero generating almost no buzz at all even though they displayed it on a really big stage, but if they want to look on the bright side, they did beat Scratch: The Ultimate D.J.
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1:00 PM on 06.06.2009
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Also I think 90% of Bayonetta's buzz emanated from Jim Sterling.
Maybe! I did try to go out of my way to play Bayonetta 3 times, it had a flashy, big booth, and I really enjoyed the closed door presentation. IMO it was the best at E3.
Positive or negative, it doesn't matter. People are talking about this stuff, it is in the minds of the consumer.
I wrote this off as BS right there.
WHat's going on?
It was one of the hottest booths in all the expo, maybe the hottest in EA.
I guess even my mum has heard of natal though and she doesn't know what a 360 is. She thinks it is some sort of weird sexual position cos she gets embarrassed and starts humming to herself really loudly when I start going on about it.
She knows Hannah Montana though. Everyone does. She's like a modern day Jesus. Except hot. I'm going to make sweet love to that lilac psp. Oh yes.
---PS3:
Most of Sony's games.
---360:
ex.) Alan Wake, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Forza 3, and Halo 3: ODST probably got the most exposure for 360 at E3 2009.
---Wii:
ex.) Super Mario Bros. Wii, Metroid Prime: Other M, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Resident Evil: Dark Side Chronicles, etc.
Multiplatform Games:
---Modern Warfare 2
---Bayonetta
---Brutal Legend
---Assassin's Creed 2
---Batman: Arkham Asylum
---Blaz Blue: Calamity Trigger
---King of Fighters XII
---Tekken 6
---Battle Field Bad Company 2
etc.
There's a lot to see, play, and do at E3 2009.
Wish I was there to play all of those games at every booth.