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Reasonable on 28 March 2009

I think the idea of 'winning' at these shows is kinda weak... but I guess after all the 'MS pwed that show' threads after the FF news a backlash was due the first time Sony seemed to have a better showing (which I admit they did).



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naznatips on 28 March 2009

I don't see how... I'm as much a Playstation gamer as a Wii gamer (probably more these days), but there was nothing major from Sony at E3. They showed not one new thing. A very short bit of Uncharted (already announced), a very short bit of GoW3 (already announced), and an even shorter bit of Ratchet (already announced).

Nintendo pulled out a new Zelda (And yes, it's incredibly awesome looking and I'm ashamed of anyone who really considers it on DS to be a negative point), is localizing 6 professor Layton games, added arcade games to virtual console, announced Final Fantasy VC and WW games (including the FFIV sequel coming to the west on WW), added the SD card storage solution.

I don't see how Sony's presentation is even debatably close to this.



scottie on 28 March 2009

Well obviously won is pretty subjective, but I would say

New Zelda
Support for playing games off SD card, and up to 32gb capacity
VC arcade games
A lot of FF WW/VC announcements
A couple of 1st party WW/DSiW announcements

Beats Sony's
Announcement of 1 game
More info about 2 games that were announced previously



Alexandervgc on 28 March 2009

I think a new Zelda + SD support on Wii (that makes it the best retro console this gen and adds 31,5 GB of space) make Nintendo win this GDC.



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woopah on 28 March 2009
ClaudeLv250 said:
How do you "win" the Game Developers Conference? By kidnapping the most developers? Giving the longest lectures? Packing the most seats?

If we're going off of content then Nintendo "won." Zelda: Spirit Tracks + firmware update + virtual console arcade + final fantasy X 8 + Rhythm Heaven demo = win. That's more than just trailers.

 

nintendo wins this category

 

@ op

maybe youve only heard of sony stuff,  because youve only been looking at sony stuff.  as good as trailers are i think impressions from punchout and excite truck at least match them



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*~Onna76~* on 28 March 2009

Hmmm I like them both but I find Nintendo to be more of a winner. Sony showed trailers of long time ago announced games. New announcements is what its about. They announced R&C, which I'm very, very much happy about. Nintendo announced a new DS Zelda, update 4.0 and Final Fantasy games for on the Wii. Plus not to imagine the Layton games hitting the West announcement, but people that was announced by Level 5, not Nintendo Therefore "for me" Nintendo is most definitely the one that made the biggest impression on me.



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*~Onna76~* on 28 March 2009
naznatips said:
I don't see how... I'm as much a Playstation gamer as a Wii gamer (probably more these days), but there was nothing major from Sony at E3. They showed not one new thing. A very short bit of Uncharted (already announced), a very short bit of GoW3 (already announced), and an even shorter bit of Ratchet (already announced).

Nintendo pulled out a new Zelda (And yes, it's incredibly awesome looking and I'm ashamed of anyone who really considers it on DS to be a negative point), is localizing 6 professor Layton games, added arcade games to virtual console, announced Final Fantasy VC and WW games (including the FFIV sequel coming to the west on WW), added the SD card storage solution.

I don't see how Sony's presentation is even debatably close to this.

 

Lol you mean GDC?



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naznatips on 28 March 2009
*~Onna76~* said:
naznatips said:
I don't see how... I'm as much a Playstation gamer as a Wii gamer (probably more these days), but there was nothing major from Sony at E3. They showed not one new thing. A very short bit of Uncharted (already announced), a very short bit of GoW3 (already announced), and an even shorter bit of Ratchet (already announced).

Nintendo pulled out a new Zelda (And yes, it's incredibly awesome looking and I'm ashamed of anyone who really considers it on DS to be a negative point), is localizing 6 professor Layton games, added arcade games to virtual console, announced Final Fantasy VC and WW games (including the FFIV sequel coming to the west on WW), added the SD card storage solution.

I don't see how Sony's presentation is even debatably close to this.

 

Lol you mean GDC?

That too yeah.

 



griffinA on 28 March 2009

I think it's close, if it was a competition.

Sony had footage of GoW3 and Uncharted 2. They announced Rachet.

Nintendo announced new Zelda, new Final Fantasy stuff for Wiiware AND VC, made the jump to 4.0 (solving the storage problem), and talked about more wiiware and DSiware games.

Yeah, Nintendo won.



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naznatips on 28 March 2009
griffinA said:
I think it's close, if it was a competition.

Sony had footage of GoW3 and Uncharted 2. They announced Rachet.

Nintendo announced new Zelda, new Final Fantasy stuff for Wiiware AND VC, made the jump to 4.0 (solving the storage problem), and talked about more wiiware and DSiware games.

Yeah, Nintendo won.

 

Ratchet was announced at the end of Quest for Booty. Just didn't have a subtitle. Sony announced nothing.