Grades:

Ubisoft - WINNER - Had several reveals and some good footage.

Bethesda - WINNER - Evil Within 2, new Wolfenstein, new Dishonored DLC

EA - Did not watch

Sony - NEUTRAL- Showed an absolute ton of footage but didn't really improve their position.

Microsoft - NEUTRAL - Has new hardware but very little in the way of games to be excited about.

Nintendo - NEUTRAL - "Please be excited". Had two announcements that could have been big but weren't.


Not many companies improved their position substantially this E3. Ubisoft did the most. I'll be willing to revise that if Microsoft sells a ton of XOX but I don't expect it.

I think the biggest thing for Nintendo that many are overlooking given there was no presentation was that guy from Gamefreak saying that "a mainline Pokemon RPG is in development for the Switch". It's likely to come out in a couple years or so, which seems perfectly timed to boost a potential slump in sales after hype dies down.

Otherwise, I'm not a fan of CGI trailers. The fact that they're planning a 2018 release for Metroid 4 (even if that proves to be overly ambitious) suggests to me that they're probably pretty far along in the process and plan for this to be their big 2018 seller.

Nintendo won, it was so easy anyway.

Nintendo. They announced a bunch of new exclusive games, and have me more compelled to buy a switch in the next few years.

When the announcement is Metroid Prime 4 in development for Switch, then for many people... yes.

I don't like to view this a a competition. Sony showed spiderman gameplay and it was everything I could hope for, nintendo shocked me with MP4 so I'm pretty happy with both of them.

That was a legitimately good show though lol

We're being too hard on these guys... Much of the reason we thought past E3's were great is that they announced games that still aren't close to release. This time around they focused on the immediate future.

When you really look at it, Nintendo and Sony clearly had strong showings, Microsoft had a strong showing in my opinion (I think most can admit it was definitely an improvement), Ubisoft was delightful... Really only Bethesda disappointed, as by now everyone knows EA's will suck lol

I almost forgot about Spiderman. If they manage to implement good controls for those awkward movements I'd definitely consider upgrading my PS4 to a Pro for the visuals, they looked beautiful.

Oh well, Nintendo just announced Metroid: Samus Returns for 3DS at the Treehouse Event.
That'll change some lists. ;)

Metroid 2D announced. Nintendo wiped the floor with the competition like last year.