There's however many people watched the show to define who won. I think when it came to pleasing Sony fans and wooing the FPS crowd Sony won. Nintendo can't compete with Sony on the former and simply doesn't have as much for the latter (MoH and MP3 basically). MS meanwhile failed to woo anyone except Halo fanatics. Although Nintendo did show a lot of hard core games, they only had 3 casual and over 10 hard core games at their show after all, they are competing for everyone now unlike Sony.
That brings up where I think, as evidenced WiiGirl76, Sony failed terribly, why should anyone who isn't only deciding whether to get a 360 or a PS3 buy their system? This was a trade event, Sony needed to show industry types that they have some idea about how to get back into the 100+ million casual market they used to dominate. Instead they gave little indication that they have any clue that market exists.
Overall I think Nintendo and Sony did about the same (school gradewise I gave Sony an 81, Nintendo an 87, and MS a 60). They both psyched up their respective fanboys, they both aggressively went after their target markets, and they both showed a bunch of stuff we knew about or expected. I give Nintendo an edge for 4 reasons, 1) they were more relevant to a trade show not a fanboy fest, 2) their speakers and presentation were better (no more Tretton please, listening to Chewie give the presenation would have been less painful), 3) their chosen business plan is working a lot better so unlike Sony they didn't need to change anything, and 4) the games they showed are going to blow Sony's games away in sales.
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