"While Last year was, I think, the best ever, I have a feeling that this year will surpass it!”

This alone should tell us how little the word of this exec is worth unfortunately, I can't think of a single point in which last year was the best year ever.

Still think this year is going to be better (a lot better, actually) than last year.

I was hoping for Super Duper Amazingly Gnarly, but fair enough...

I thought their show last year was a little bit of a mess. It shouldn't be too hard to beat last year for Sony.

I noticed a trend. Whenever a company isn't doing that great, their E3's tend to be better. When a company is doing wonerfully good, their E3's tend to suck. Sony is a perfect example. Prior to the PS3's release, they used to have the most boring E3's one could possibly imagine. One reason is becasue they used spend a lot of time bragging about sales numbers and statistics. Then the PS3 came out. The sales and profits went away. And their E3 started getting better. Nintendo was the same way. Prior to the Wii's release, E3 for them was great. After the Wii came out, they were terrible. 2010 is the exception. That was one of Nintendo's best E3's ever.

Riiiiiiiiiidge Racer, Ridge Racer.

You have to also consider Sony split their announcements between E3, GC and TGS/Asian Show. They've favoured Gamescom/European event over E3 recently for the 'new game' announcements because ultimately E3 is a war on who's got the biggest partnership deals. In E3 2013, the only new IP announced by sony was The Order 1886, in Gamescom 2013 sony announced 10 new first/second party IP's.

And now to make it worse Sony have E3, Gamescom/Paris, TGS and probably PSX.

I think that's not really correct, I'd say that Sony is keeping the announcements of their medium/smaller sized games for Gamescom, things they want/expect to become big are still left for E3, though there's exceptions even to that, last year they had the throwaway Let it Die announcement at E3 for instance.

Last year was average, lol if they're comparing it against that.

Well of course hes going to say that. Hes not going to say "our conference is going to suck"

Its just pr speak

You're right. I think it's true though. Last year wasn't that great.