No. From Nintendo's press releases all through the year it's been announced that e3 this year will bear a heavy focus on games. For Microsoft, it's not clear it could go either way. Their showcase told us "we're not focused on games but on entertainment, games included", but then e3 is a gaming convention so it also makes sense that they reserved the showcase for general entertainment reveals and e3 for game reveals. It's up in the air.

Microsoft have said E3 is going to be about games! Several times. They said that the Xone will have 15 exclusives in the first year alone. The article is on the front page... Not understanding your reasoning.

I didn't read the article on the front page, that's my reasoning.

Good, so it's all about the games.

This is E3 2013, summed up in a nice gif

Sure, it could be good. Last year could have been good, too, but it wasn't.

It depends on your tastes. It will be good for some people, it will not be good for some people.

Take Nintendo. It sounds like if you like Mario and Pokémon, it will be good. If you only care about Metroid and gritty Zelda (ergo not Wind Waker or LTTP2), it might suck.

I just noticed Pachter in the back of that gif... hilarious stuff.

"Directry....... to youuu......."

@OP nope, E3 is a commercial media joke and just a gaming journalism gimmick plus the whole "Booth Babe!" thing , E3 have become the same as WWE but for gaming, just PR crap and celebrities.

it have been this way about 4 years ago, most of the better announcements get announced before or after E3 

Indeed.

Third time I've seen this gif today, and I have a feeling that we'll see it far more often in the near future.

If not, I will make it my task to spread it around as much as possible.

this will be the best e3 in history

People keep throwing this number around like it means something. Whether 15 exclusives or 5 or 50, it means nothing until we see those games.

Case in point: the Wii U, some six months after launch, already has at least 8 exclusive games (NSMBU, Nintendo Land, ZombiU, Lego City Undercover, Sing Party, Rabbids Land, Game Party Champions, Family Party: 30 Great Games) and at least 2 home console exclusives (Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, Tank Tank Tank). Several of these are "original IP" as well. Now consider how many of them are just bad games. Hint: it's half of them. Not only is there no guarantee that some of Microsoft's 15 exclusive games won't be bad, it's pretty much a no-brainer that they're going to count every possible game in their number of "exclusives" no matter how bad it is. You can bet the executives aren't saying, "Those five games will be very bad, only tell people there will be 15 exclusives so they don't get their hopes up."

Now consider that the Wii U's 8-10 exclusives is not including "special edition" re-releases of older games or downloadable exclusives, and there is again no guarantee that Microsoft is not including such titles in their "exclusives" count.

I'm just trying to make the case that saying your console will have 15 exclusive games in its first year means nothing, and the Wii U is proof, because for all its technical exclusives, it has had the most embarassingly dry release schedule I've ever seen for the past 5 months.

Unless by their first year, Microsoft means the ~6 weeks between the XB1 release and the end of 2013. That might be impressive. But that's not how I interpret the statement.