E3’s major announcements have been made, and observers are busily trying to work out just who “won” the event – most indications seem to suggest Nintendo dominating or at worst tying with Sony.
From some western gaming forum sources, as picked up on by 2ch:
From Nico:
1. Microsoft – 4.8%
2. Nintendo – 81.3%
3. Sony – 1.7%
4. They all sucked – 12.2%
The reasons for Microsoft’s literal release circus being ill-received are obvious, although just why Sony’s pathetically anemic announcements of the PS3mote and the marvelous news that PSN users can finally pay for access proved so impressive to western ears is not clear – manly Killzone action was perhaps the clincher.
Nintendo on the other hand presented an undeniably impressive lineup to go with its 3DS announcement, enthusing Japanese in particular.
Sony Bravia 3D TV… 5000$
Sony Playstation 3 Move bundle… 400$
Sony 3D glasses… 160$
Sony stealing their fan’s money… Priceless
I concur that Microsoft’s E3 PC was by far their worse, not just out of the “big three” but of all time.
Can’t quite tell which one was the best because I didn’t sit through the entirety of either Nintendo’s or Sony’s, just watched the former’s first part and the latter’s last couple minutes, so I missed the 3DS debut and the paid PSN’s announcement, although I catched the exclusives to Portal 2, the new Assassin’s Creed and Mafia II, and the new Twisted Metal looked mighty good.
Sony ’06 and Nintendo ’08 say hi!
the suckest was M$ nuff said i don’t know that kinect could fail so big…
Nintendo clearly won by a long shot, while neither Sony nor Microsoft showcased jack squat. Actually, Microsoft did show off their new ugly trimmed down system, but as with all XBOX360 news, the only thing anyone cares about is that system isn’t suicidal anymore.
I’m interested in Gears 3. Truth be told, I liked the campaign of the first 2. Kept me interested the entire way. It was much better than Halo. I wasn’t happy at all with Halo 3 or ODST so why would I care about Halo Reach?
The rest of the show was stuff for Natal. I’m not interested in Natal and that fucking little girl demonstrating Kinectimals grinds my gears TO THE MAX. And it’s not because she named a tiger Skittles, though it doesn’t help.
There was also a lot of fake acting. Who were they trying to fool exactly? It’s a presentation! Don’t act like it’s not!