I watched all 3 conferences. The way I see it Nintendo's was like Ms's ''you're in the movies'' demonstration portion. Except it was more embarassing and lasted their entire conference. Sony's was on par with Ms except they had nothing to match the FFxiii bomb. Minus that sony and ms were about the same. The funny thing is who ''wins'' conferences doesn't matter anyway. They all know which audience they're targeting. It's who are more successful at pleasing them that will transferr into sales. Thats why Nintendo can ''loose'' here and end up winning where it matters most for them.
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Edge Online rates the big 3's E3 events
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Metalmurphy
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Yes, there was tons of new stuff. Several new PSN games, 1 new service, several new PS3 games.TheHeretic said:
steverulez said:
Sorry, multiplatform games don't win you E3. Never have, never will. Demoing games that you can also get on the competing console shouldn't earn you any brownie points. And while getting FF13 was big for them, they're only sharing it, they didn't really steal it like some people are trying to make it out like. And they're not even getting it in Japan.
Steverulez
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bigfurb said:
Well, the way I see it, is the Microsoft conference (again bar the demo of the Movies games) was enjoyable to watch as a gamer, I want to see Resident Evil 5 demos, I don't care where I see it, but for it to look great and be entertaining in the Microsoft conference to me is a "brownie point".
Its all subjective and im not trying to say what you think is wrong just putting across my point.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
john tv said:
one hand pushup guy ...
revolverjgw
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chandoog said:one hand pushup guy ...
THAT WAS JIM MOTHERFUCKING LEE. Whom I used to think was God back when he did X-Men. Oh, to be young again.
supermackem
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A sony win never in edge get away. They couldve shown nothing and edge wouldve given them a better score. The bum licking by edge towards ps3 has me on the verge of canceling my yearly sub.
Starchasing
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Steroyd said:
oh well wii gets the heat because lack of third parties so there you go
also nintendo deserves a -2/10
Metalmurphy
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They gave MGS4 an 8/10...kottila said:
And Halo 3 a 10/10
Tormentoso
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mr_bishiuk said:
No he didn't that is why he knows that FF13 is not 360 exclusive and that is multiplatform,after been on the sony conference he most have see that Sony biggest announcement where about games that were PS3 exclusive,not about multiplatform ones.
Remember that the xbox 360 has been on top thanks to his exclusive games,now some how Sony has more of them so the tune has quite change.
Sony certainly had the most entertaining conference, but I really wouldn't say that makes it the best. MS did harp on 'mainstream' games a bit much for my liking, but it's understandable as there's obviously a market out there for 'em and MS needs to gain a foothold in it. It's not like they did so at the total expense of core games like Nintendo did; RE5, Gears 2, FFXIII, more Portal, Fallout 3 (w/ exclusive content), Galaga Legions, Rock Band 2 time exclusive, the Square Enix stuff, Banjo... sure, aside from FFXIII there weren't any real surprises, but it's still a very strong lineup. As far as media announcements went, MS announced a content partnership with the biggest video rental outlet in the world and added another major studio to their XBLM portfolio, while Sony rolled out the same sort of video marketplace MS has had for years, with a pretty pithy amount of studios on board, comparatively.
AndoCalrissian
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I would put it like this:
Microsoft - 8
Sony - 6
Nintendo - 3
Microsoft - 8
Sony - 6
Nintendo - 3
BobTheFork
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lolSlamo said:
Some people's heads exploded.
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RSTEIN said:
Well put. On the presentation alone, Sony won, but the FF13 announcement at the Microsoft conference was definitely the moment of the show, and is maybe the only thing that'll get talked about a few years from now in retrospect. I thought the avatars were stupid and made the presentation seem corny, I thought the movie thing they did was embarrassing, and then they slammed everyone in the face with the giant FF13 bomb and made up for the rest of the show being pretty lame.
Sony's show was dull, and they didn't really show me much that I hadn't heard of before, but the presentation was good, and they showed a lot of good games coming, just nothing new. I don't understand why they didn't do a Killzone 2 demonstration, I think that would have given them a slight edge, after seeing the new footage and game play.
Nintendo managed to turn me off completely as a gamer this year, and the announcement of the new motion control addon made me quite pissed off. The WiiMote was billed to have very accurate motion controls from the start. I bought a Wii, the controls were far from accurate, I sold the Wii. Now they're going to put this $30 peripheral that makes the WiiMote work like it should have in the first place. Now a Wii remote costs $90 with all of the peripherals included. That's a total ripoff. So saying that I'd actually give their performance this year a -2 out of 10.
oh we are doing that "post your opinions" thang?
MS: 4/10
- +2 for FF13, everything else was terrible. Funny that the majority of the conference was dedicated to casual gaming and nobody cared. What a difference one good announcement makes. Kudos Microsoft.
Sony: 3/10
- Shooter, shooter, dark shooter, online shooter, mmo shooter, action shooter, TEH CELL POWAH UNLIMITED POTENTIAL
- The conference completely turned me off PS3. Absolutely awful. Shooterboxes for teen male technophiles FTL. At least Microsoft is trying to be diverse.
Nintendo: 2/10
- +2 for MotionPlus. Awful, Awful conference. Nintendo keeps sitting on their asses. Hay dudes how about trying to grab a demographic you don't have on lock. A lot of profits to be made. I know how much you guys like money...
MS: 4/10
- +2 for FF13, everything else was terrible. Funny that the majority of the conference was dedicated to casual gaming and nobody cared. What a difference one good announcement makes. Kudos Microsoft.
Sony: 3/10
- Shooter, shooter, dark shooter, online shooter, mmo shooter, action shooter, TEH CELL POWAH UNLIMITED POTENTIAL
- The conference completely turned me off PS3. Absolutely awful. Shooterboxes for teen male technophiles FTL. At least Microsoft is trying to be diverse.
Nintendo: 2/10
- +2 for MotionPlus. Awful, Awful conference. Nintendo keeps sitting on their asses. Hay dudes how about trying to grab a demographic you don't have on lock. A lot of profits to be made. I know how much you guys like money...
Vagabundo said:
He looks a lot like my boss.
Let's see, for the record:
MS - 7/10
Gears looked more impressive than I was expecting but still feels too 'been there, done that'. Fallout looked very dull and generic, RE5 looked great, most of the conference was forgettable, especially the big part in the middle where they showed off their Eyetoy and Mii ripoffs. 360 is clearly the best system this gen in terms of a raw gaming perspective, showing off ripoffs of the competition just cheapens what MS have accomplished. New interface is cool. Was disappointed to not see a new Mistwalker announcement. The FFXIII news was fantastic though, stole the show for MS.
Sony - 6/10
Nice to see the PSP and PSN get support, Resistance 2 looks great and epic even if I didn't like the first one. Too much focus on FPSes though. Where are all the Japanese games? LittleBigPlanet release date confirmation was good.
Nintendo - 2/10
Biggest disappointment ever for me. No storage solution, no Kid Icarus, no Punch Out, no news on VC/WiiWare, no Mother, no RPGs, no good 3rd party announcements. Wii Sports Resort doesn't look that bad, but Wii Music was a total disappointment. I don't mind the casual games initiative, since usually there are some solid mechanics thrown in there... hell, even some parts of WiiFit are kinda challenging and actually fun to play and beat your 'high score' in. But, Wii Music doesn't even have that challenge, the game doesn't even look like it gives you real feedback or anything.
PistolGrip
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Then they would love most of MS press conferences.Kafel said:
chandoog said:
I don't get how Sony's conference could be rated higher than Microsoft's. Sony's was decent and all but they spent half the time showing off CG trailers and talking about their nostalgic past. The conference was just a "hey guys, Playstation brand was awesome, is awesome, and will be even awesomer in the future!" Did I mention the stark lack of RPGs?
MS showed some pretty ground breaking stuff for their console and actually demoed their games. And FFXIII.
TheRagnCajun
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BobTheFork said:
:lol I was thinking that too. Gaf does not compute.
PistolGrip
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I expect this coming from you but I am still going to replyThrei said:
FAT PRINCESSS!!!! PSN games were awesome. PSP games Patapon 2 gameplay shown bitches!
Little big Planet... Sure R2 and MAG were big focuses but what about DC universe game or the incredible infamous footage.
Threi said:
Well, it was a big part of their 'charts' bit..
And it looks like it will, outside of 90 minute conferences, get as big a push as anything shooter-y Sony has coming. At worst, then, you can say the conference didn't give proper weight were it was due, in that it mostly sped through everything. The games don't disappear after the conference though, the flow of stuff out of them afterwards gives a better airing to them.
I'm not going to call 360 a soccer-mom-box because they spent a lot of their conference on casual stuff..I know better, and you should too. The conferences don't necessarily fully and proportionately reflect a system's mix of content. They have 60-90 minutes and they have to pick and choose, or gloss over (the latter is what Sony did).
PistolGrip
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This I dont get. Why do you care about demoing games on the conferece? E3 conference should be all trailers. Game footage will be taking by journalist when the get to play the game and videos pop up. Shit look at the amazing Killzone 2 footage just released. I dont want to see a person play a multiplatform game on stage I want to hear about new stuff coming not hey we did a hack job to blatantly copy Nintendo and Sony ohh and here is some multiplatform games!soldat7 said:
Ninja Kn1ght
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Sony's show focused on a whole load of great looking exclusive titles and revealed a bunch of new games on PSN, PSP and PS3. MS' show had great games but a lot of them were multiplatform and the stuff in the middle was pretty bad. Sure MS had the biggest surprise but overall, Sony showed the most reasons to buy a PS3. So, overall, I think Sony had the better conference.
gofreak said:Well, it was a big part of their 'charts' bit..
And it looks like it will, outside of 90 minute conferences, get as big a push as anything shooter-y Sony has coming. At worst, then, you can say the conference didn't give proper weight were it was due, in that it mostly sped through everything. The games don't disappear after the conference though, the flow of stuff out of them afterwards gives a better airing to them.
Actually i apologize for not adding that unlike the other two, Sony at least tried to maintain a game focus. That is pretty much why i rate it higher than Nintendo.
I personally thing EA and Ubisoft had the best conferences.