Which "casual era" was worse, Nintendo's E3 08, or Microsoft's Kinect years (2009-2013)?

[Leynos]

A single E3 is not an era.

Wii is better than Kinect. Wii had a ton of shovelware sure. But it will had Mario Galaxy. Xenoblade. The Last Story. Pandora's Tower. Earth Seeker. Captain Rainbow. No More Heroes. Madworld. Zak & Wiki. Tatsunoko vs Capcom. de blob. Metroid prime 3. Fragile Dream.s  A boy and his blob. Endless ocean. Kirby Epic Yarn. DKC Returns. Etc etc etc. While Wii did lead into Wii U. Wii U still had some great exclusives and Nintendo bounced back with Switch.

The fuck did Kinect have? Just crap. It also marked the beginning of a brand's downfall. From Kinect to bad leadership Xbox has never recovered.

As for conferences. Nintendo 2008 is bad. 360 2009 was ok but a lot of the cliche dumb shit of the era. 2010 on was a disaster. Wii had an amazing E3 in 2010.  An average one for their time in 2009. 2011/12 sucked. But again by 2014, they had a good one with Wii U. Xbox continued to have no memorable conferences in the XBO era until maybe 2018. By that point, Nintendo was in full Direct mode and knocking out good ones all the time in general.