Well, it's not only the 3D motion sensing that's interesting about Project Natal, it's the facial and voice recognition as well. And the interaction with Milo was very different than Nintendo's motion controllers. The thing is that this project was a big surprise, and surprises are always good at conferences like these :) Also the games Microsoft displayed appeals more to core.
Sony showed and announced several strong titles for the PSP and PS3: Gran Turismo (for both PSP and PS3), Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Little Big Planet PSP, Ratchet and Clank, Assassins Creed 2, etc. The Final Fantasy XIV was also a huge surprise. The motion control wasn't very impressive, I think it might be too little too late, and it looks very similiar to Wii. The Sony conference also was more serious in a way, not the annoying people and silly antics that seems to plague the Nintendo conferences.
Nintendo had a much better conference than last year. New Metroid was a big and positive surprise, and they also showed of some interesting games for the DS, and also some that looked like a load of crap. Very cool to see Super Mario Galaxy 2 and the multiplayer Mario as well. But they spent too much time with Wii Sports Resort, they spent a lot of time on it last year as well. And I think that's one of the problems with Nintendo's conference, we saw a lot of the wii motion plus stuff last year, and there wasn't really that much different showing this year. Red Steel 2 looked pretty cool, but I don't even remember if I saw that on the Nintendo conference, or somewhere else. Also the big focus on girls, tweens and casual gamers is a turn off for core gamers.
I agree that there's been a lot off hypocrisy concerning motion controllers lately though.
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