What? Visually, everyone expected Horizon to be mind blowing. Guerilla Games have always delivered from a visual point of view. Gameplay wise, it was a question mark, but I don't recall seeing anyone saying the game would be bad in that regard because of GG being behind the game.

If I had to choose a line up and I got to play them in 2015-16, I would pick SONY but they are coming much later. Microsoft has games now and imo that shouldn't be downplayed.

Not that mind blowing, seriously, that's why it's the E3 game for a lot of journalist, it's far ahead of The Witcher 3 or any other open world so far technically, i never saw someone expected that kind of visuals, animation, modelisation physic and life in an open world from GG, most were shocked during the gameplay. Same for the gameplay, no one imagined it to be that good, a FPS developer making a RPG, msot had doubts.

Most people expected a decent open world with great visuals only.

Sony has games for now AND later on PS4, that makes it's futur much brighter and less blurry.

Why choose games only for now ?Not downplaying what Ms has now but it's not more than what PS4 has, at all. And it's more and more obvious that the library gap will be huge between both consoles, thanks to japanese and first party support on PS4, we know Microsoft has one more announcement to make at Gamescom, while Sony has many others this year, DQ XI, Level 5 game ( if its not DQ), Gravity Rush 2 PS4, Quantic Dream game, Sony Bend game and much more, there is really no comparison this generation, the gap between PS and Xbox library will be much bigger

But who downplayed it? I haven't seen anyone down playing it. I have seen Sony not get praise for having games for the entire year while MS hasn't. But I keep seeing MS get praised because of the games they have coming fo rthe Holidays but nothing being said about them having nothing before the Holidays. It is like a double edged sword with MS/Sony fans....it is just weird.

I personally thought the gameplay was quite exceptional. Sure, some of the gameplay was standard fare, but there was some cool mechanics in the game.

While on the surface Sony might appear to have had the more compelling show, the technology that Microsoft is showing off might actually be the better indicator of these company's future fortunes. The HoloLens incorporates image recognition technology that's not unlike what Google is using for its self-driving cars. In a separate demonstration earlier this year, MS showed how the technology can be used to help machines in the real world recognize and interact with their surroundings. This is game changing, and it suggests that the world may be changing very significantly in the next couple of decades. Microsoft is one of a few companies that's at the forefront of advancements in machine learning, and this technology applies to an endless number of fields, including gaming. The rules might be changing in the near future, and I think Microsoft, with its long history of investment in these technologies, is in a good position.

Nothing, both were just really good conferences.  Sony's conference last year was horrible, but they learned how to actually do a presentation this time around. 

I guess you didn't see the 2015 retail list? go back some pages. 

In what way making a list is downplaying X1 ? IT's just putting facts together to show the truth and stop the " no games " bullshit

Is making a list " Vita vs 3DS " downplay Vita because the library is a kinda smaller than 3DS one ?