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E3 2009: Can't We All Just Get Along? Miyamoto Checks Out PSP Go and Natal
June 5, 2009 | 3:27 PM PST



One thing that's cool about E3 is the chance to be able to hobnob with some of the gaming industry's biggest names. What, you thought they'd hide in conference rooms and hotel suites all day? Hell no; as Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto himself proves, you can go out there and see what's happening, and not just in your own booth.

As you can see above, one of his stops on the showfloor involved the booth where the PlayStation Portable Go was on display. The pic comes from Kotaku, who has a larger version and another, blurrier pic featuring a rather amused Sony booth staffer.

"Sure," you might say. "But he's just checking out the competition!" Perhaps, but apparently, the competition is only too willing to let him see it as well.

On his Twitter, Peter Molyneux stated yesterday "Wow I am tired now been demoing all day showed milo to miyamoto only 12 more demos to go."

Now, I know there have been some Twitter posers causing trouble as of late, but if Geoff Keighley of GameTrailers TV believes that account is the real deal, that's good enough for me.

Dan Hsu at Bitmob (via GoNintendo) vouches for the account as well:

Guess who's in the next group following in after us to see Natal? Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto himself, along with NOA Senior Manager of Product Marketing (and frequent on-stage demo guy) Bill Trinen and the rest of his Nintendo entourage.

We couldn't see Miyamoto's reactions to Natal, or if he got a chance to play any of the demos (the human Breakout seen at the press conference and a Burnout Paradise tech demonstration -- more on these later) himself, but just his apperance in this private area of Microsoft's booth got everyone there buzzing.


He adds "Wonder if he broke out in a sweat from jumping around in front of the camera -- or from seeing what it's capable of."

All in all, I can't help but think that this type of association between industry figures makes so much of this fanboyishness we tend to see now and again seem really rather petty. There's nothing wrong with having a favorite, to be sure, but to waste so much energy on hating anything else or any one console seems like just that: A waste.

(Although, if someone's had a third of a dozen Xbox 360s burn out on them, I could understand the frustration then.)

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