SONY WON E3 HANDS DOWN

[cwbys21]

Was anyone else suprised that Nintendo had a "Yes we are!" mentality at their conference? The media has criticized them for not selling a lot of software and especially third party software and they have to go, "Yes we are!" and throw a hole bunch of numbers on screen. There were a couple other instances as well but I can't think of them at the moment. It seemed less like they were the market leader selling crap loads of hardware (and rolling in money as my sig suggests) and more like they were in Sony's place, trying to play catch up and they wanted attention.

Because of that I think they were the worst of the three press conferences. We knew about everything they were going to announce, Wii Sports 2, Animal Crossing etc. The only thing we didn't know about was gta for ds and that Activision was putting out a second Guitar Hero for ds in the same year.

Microsoft's press conference didn't show us anything new either except for the movies game and that just looked like another make a fool of yourself in front of other people at a party type of game. And their only big announcement was that they "convinced" SE it was worth it to postpone the release of FF13 to be released on 360 and Netflix which 2/3 users won't be able to take advantage of because Microsoft has been selling 2/3 of their sku's without a hard drive or a very small hard drive.

Sony, while not being great themselves, won because they showed a bunch of games, most of which will be released before E3 next year. They knew that their fan boys were unhappy with the amount of quality games along with other core gamers that bought their system and they delivered. They need to appease these people as they make games like LBP and other "casual" games as they work to reduce the price to get the mass market gamers interested in their system. BTW, I only slightly classify LBP as casual, I think it is classified that way because of the "cute" graphics but there is definitely a lot of game play there for core gamers to really enjoy.