If Nintendo hadn't been upfront about E3 basically being a Zelda-fest with a few other pieces thrown in here or there I think they would've received a lot more backlash. Fact is though that Sony and MS are both in different situations than Nintendo, they aren't trying to salvage what time they can with a dying console while prepping to launch a new one.

Sony showed zero games for the Vita, no burn there.

So Sony only basically showed off Uncharted 4 two years ago at E3? Right...

Vita been dead for quite some time.

No they wouldn't. Because that one game they showed would be so AMAZING that it is better than all other showings combined.

Nintendo got panned after releasing their E3 plans but they showed more than 1 game. Zelda was just the biggest one that always generates that much excitement. It happens with every new Zelda as they're extremely scarce. I was fine with Nintendo's E3 because I'm excited for a lot of the games shown. And I don't have time to play or even get interested in all of the games show at E3. I do much more than play games and the games that I'm interested in: Zelda, Horizon, Last Guardian, Detroit: Become Human, Dragon Quest VII, will easily hold me over.

Yeah, good thing Nintendo showed more than one game. /basicresearch

The sad thing is if games like UC4's game play was as unique as Zelda BoTW Sony could get away with showing 1 game. But you get the feeling that most Sony 1st party titles resemble the next one. Everyone quotes Tflops this and that but can we get decent Ai and physics in these "next-gen" games? How is it that a cartoony Zelda game has more realistic physics than 90% of the games on the other consoles striving for realism?

Take a game like Horizon for instance, Alloy takes a direct hit from a monstrous Transformer dinobot and gets up completely unfazed. These games are dumbed down because visually gamers like to think they are playing hardcore games, but they really want their hands to be held. Just look at all of the games that sell truckloads every year! Completely unrealistic games hiding under the impression of gritty game play, to only realize that there are no consequences for you taking a clip of bullets to the chest.

Pussyfoot?

Hence why I had "essentially" in the OP which means "pretty much". Learn.