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Rainbow Yoshi on 05 June 2012

Failure: Wonderbook (Book of Spells)
Highlights: Pikmin 3, Last of Us and Watch Dogs.

In my opinion.



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Aldro on 05 June 2012
pezus said:
Aldro said:
Sony & Ubi wins.

Sony out of the Big 3 basically.

Nintendo fucked up, big time.
Microsoft aswell...

In general: It was a TERRIBLY weak year, FOR ALL.

:O Great year for Ubisoft. Probably their best in a looong time

Did you see Splintercell :( THATS NOT BACK TO THE ROOTS. But otherwise, fuck yeah. AC3 and Watch_Dogs :3



EdHieron on 05 June 2012

Sony. They showed off the most impressive God of War game ever imho and Naughty Dog's "The Last of Us" looks like it's going to be the most intense game ever.



darthdevidem01 on 05 June 2012

Overall I feel Ubisoft won this E3 by being the only developer to support WiiU & to know how to use its innovative features.

Most importantly though Ubisoft showed us Watch Dogs which looked fantastic...game of the year type material.

Lucasarts also impressed with Star Wars 1313

The big 3pretty much disappointed...my biggest disappointment lies with Square-Enix though as nothing new on FF was revealed.



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Rainbow Yoshi on 05 June 2012

Microsoft's E3: 



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The_Botman on 05 June 2012

Overall, the 2012-early 2013 lineup has a lot of good games, just wish there was more surprise announcements (one's that we look forward to).



Mr Khan on 05 June 2012
kain_kusanagi said:
Of the big three these are my scores.

MS 7/10
Sony 7/10
Nintendo 5/10

Keep in mind that I use the whole grading scale so a 5 would be an average not bad not great type of score.

I was expecting the most from Nintendo because with a new console should come the biggest surprises. We didn't get a new Metroid, Zelda, or a new main Mario. It was all spin off Mario and 3rd Party stuff. Most of the 3rd party games are ports, which while good to know are coming aren't exactly going to set the stage on fire. Maybe if I was a Pikmen fan I'd be more excited, but since I'm not Nintendo gets a 5/10.

MS and Sony had the same pluses and minuses. They both showed some killer games, they both showed stuff hardcore gamers don't care about, and they both showed too much 3rd party stuff. Neither announced any truly surprising, but what they showed for games does look very good.

So of the top two of the big three it comes down to personal taste. If you like Sony games you are going to think Sony "won" E3. If you like Xbox games then you are going to argue MS "won" E3. Since I'm a huge Halo fan and Halo 4 looks to be the best in the spectacular Halo series, I'm going to say that Halo won E3.

You're going to catch hell for calling 2d mario non-main. Not from me, necessarily



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amp316 on 05 June 2012

I starting to hope that Ubisoft releases a console.

I wonder how many people will boycott it?



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kain_kusanagi on 06 June 2012
Mr Khan said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Of the big three these are my scores.

MS 7/10
Sony 7/10
Nintendo 5/10

Keep in mind that I use the whole grading scale so a 5 would be an average not bad not great type of score.

I was expecting the most from Nintendo because with a new console should come the biggest surprises. We didn't get a new Metroid, Zelda, or a new main Mario. It was all spin off Mario and 3rd Party stuff. Most of the 3rd party games are ports, which while good to know are coming aren't exactly going to set the stage on fire. Maybe if I was a Pikmen fan I'd be more excited, but since I'm not Nintendo gets a 5/10.

MS and Sony had the same pluses and minuses. They both showed some killer games, they both showed stuff hardcore gamers don't care about, and they both showed too much 3rd party stuff. Neither announced any truly surprising, but what they showed for games does look very good.

So of the top two of the big three it comes down to personal taste. If you like Sony games you are going to think Sony "won" E3. If you like Xbox games then you are going to argue MS "won" E3. Since I'm a huge Halo fan and Halo 4 looks to be the best in the spectacular Halo series, I'm going to say that Halo won E3.

You're going to catch hell for calling 2d mario non-main. Not from me, necessarily


Well, by "main Mario" I mean the big AAA Mario games that take as much resources to produce as other AAA games like Halo or Uncharted. I actualy love 2D Mario games. I just would have liked to see a successor to Mario Galaxy rather than what amounts to more NSMB levels with a few added power ups.



the_dengle on 06 June 2012

Not quite sure what you're asking here.

Who had the best conference? Ubisoft, even though I really didn't care for the hosts. They showed off great games, had a few big announcements, and generally stole the show.

Who is currently winning E3? That's a different matter. I generally like to think that it's the gamers who truly win E3, but so far that isn't the case this year. It certainly isn't the case for Wii and Vita gamers. The current winner of E3 is disappointing, because they didn't show off a single game. They didn't even have to show up to win. They're getting software support from Microsoft, Sony, AND Nintendo. The true winners are the mobile platform providers. Apple. Google. Technically Microsoft could be included, but let's face it: they're not exactly sweeping the competition in the mobile department, which is why their service will run on all mobile devices, not just their own.

Since that answer feels like cheating, I believe that of the big three, Sony is currently having the best E3. I believe that Nintendo has presented better material, but that expectations were (rightly) higher for Nintendo than for Sony, and Nintendo has failed to meet those expectations.

However, E3 is far from over. If Nintendo has a couple of nice announcements planned for their software conference tomorrow, they could quickly steal the show back. Sony has made it easy for them by effectively ignoring the Vita.

However, if any individual console is currently "winning" E3, it's the PS3, and that's unlikely to change no matter what Nintendo announces for 3DS tomorrow. Only an unfathomably unlikely surprise last-minute megaton announcement could upset the PS3's position.