Are people actually comparing this conference to Nintendo's? Nintendo's was pitch perfect, exactly calculated to make everyone love them without reservation, and possibly the greatest of all time when you take both content and presentation into account (or at least it made me feel that way).
Sony's was good, but not exactly solid -- there were a lot of holes, despite all the good stuff. And I'm not just saying that because not showing The Last Guardian caused me to declare Guerilla Games and their endless gameplay demo my new mortal enemy. Half the people on the net are shocked that they didn't talk about half of their supposed lineup -- Team Ico, FF, Agent, Motorstorm, Resistance? (has it been cancelled?)
I do think that the Sony conference was worlds better than MS, and possibly even better than their conference last year -- the difference was, expectations were higher thsi year, expectations they set for themselves and since have seemed to forget about.
I thought the Kevin Butler stuff went off surprisingly well, though. 
If Nintendo's conference had been as tame as in some past years, Sony's probably would have seemed like the most fun conference by far, thanks to all that playing around and the surprises. Unfortunately for them, Miyamoto teleported in off a TV screen and Iwata told us about the sapphire wonders of a device that will probably be the most successful game system of all time.
