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VentureBeat: Facebook says that Sony won the E3 conference war
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The Elite
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SONY won indeed, here is the precise same moment captured on camera where it all happened.
That's a glorious gif.
j0hnnix
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I must agree. While i loved the games showed nothing secured me in a purchase for a PS4 right now. I was ready to go out and buy one next day if i saw new games that made me want it more.. but no release dates/years killed the enthusiasms i had. While the MS Show was great it kind of left me re-thinking my console/pc decision and if i should ignore the new console revisions and just finish up my gaming pc. I might put MS on top and Sony #2.
Yet here you are.
So what's the takeaway here? No conference was better than the MS conference?Surprisingly Microsoft still lost out to Nintendo. Sony won, that was obvious and no surprises there.
Primethius
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SONY won indeed, here is the precise same moment captured on camera where it all happened.
Yo, this is good! Damn good!
Salz01
Member
I totally agree. I think Sony killed it this year. They did less talking, and did more showing. And what they showed looks great. And their overall presentation was top notch and very cinematic. I felt like they pushed the industry and medium forward.
EA doesn't get it. It's like they are trapped in the 80's with their presentation. I was so hyped for their show and left totally disappointed.
EA doesn't get it. It's like they are trapped in the 80's with their presentation. I was so hyped for their show and left totally disappointed.
So what's the takeaway here? No conference was better than the MS conference?
Zelda resonated with people by itself far more than Gears of War 4, Forza Horizon 3, etc. etc.
AmuroChan
Member
No release dates? TLG, Resident Evil, Horizon, Batman VR, COD all had release dates.
Salz01
Member
SONY won indeed, here is the precise same moment captured on camera where it all happened.
Lol so great and so true.
i cant read the article right now, but seeing that chart, they only took into consideration june 13 and a little bit of june 14, considering how the line is moving towards the end, ill like to know how is the chart for june 15 and posibly june 16
i mean, is obviously that nintendo wont get too much fuzz a day before their "presentation"
i mean, is obviously that nintendo wont get too much fuzz a day before their "presentation"
tattooed_dwarf
Member
Lol, E3 war, hahahaa!
It's only better if it actually represents more of the engaged public on the specific issue. Even if Facebook is bigger it doesn't matter if more people on twitter were actually talking about E3. And that may have been the case given demographics though it's hard to know without solid numbers over a comparable window.
Technically no, just the idea of Zelda by itself resonated more than GOW4, Forza Horizon 3, etc, etc. The facebook chart cuts off before Zelda was actually shown.
sixteen-bit
Member
I remember the live crowd chanting "Sony won" after the conference ended on stream, lol.
I'm fairly sure that line for Nintendo on the chart will keep going higher if we add on the next few days. You can even see far more chatter on GAF, there are tons of threads about Zelda and I've seen like a thread or two a piece for Forza Horizon 3 or Gears of War 4.
Check out the "Crash Bandicoot Remastered" thread if once you've finished flamebaiting in this one.
The takeaway here is you cant read a basic chart.So what's the takeaway here? No conference was better than the MS conference?
j0hnnix
Member
And two of those are multi-plat. TLG is a niche group. Batman VR - remake with a headset(cool but not a whole new game).
I'm not entirely convinced that is the best way to measure who won, the way I see it, there are nearly three times as many PS4 owners than XB1, so I'd expect to see more chatter about PS4 conference.
Personally, my only complaints about the MS conference were the Minecraft bit which lasted way too long for me and replaying the Battlefield 1 trailer which everyone had already seen, that made no sense.
Also, we need to remember the MS conference had the show line-up leaked (with 100% accuracy) and no one knew what to expect for Sony apart from a few rumours. Whether this is down to the Zheng Twitter guy having an agenda for Sony or he honestly did not receive any leaks for Sony, we'll never know I guess.
Sony conference was great, GoW is different, Horizon looks good and I liked the Detroit game. Spiderman exclusive is awesome and I still think Days Gone looks boring and was a weird way for Sony to end.
I personally think Sony edged it but it was closer than people think if you take a step back.
Personally, my only complaints about the MS conference were the Minecraft bit which lasted way too long for me and replaying the Battlefield 1 trailer which everyone had already seen, that made no sense.
Also, we need to remember the MS conference had the show line-up leaked (with 100% accuracy) and no one knew what to expect for Sony apart from a few rumours. Whether this is down to the Zheng Twitter guy having an agenda for Sony or he honestly did not receive any leaks for Sony, we'll never know I guess.
Sony conference was great, GoW is different, Horizon looks good and I liked the Detroit game. Spiderman exclusive is awesome and I still think Days Gone looks boring and was a weird way for Sony to end.
I personally think Sony edged it but it was closer than people think if you take a step back.
lukeskymac
Member
Try to be less transparent.
Not going to lie, Bethesda disappointed me. Even if they've got a small number of studios, it's a damn solid lineup (MachineGames and Tango Gameworks had very strong first game releases, Arkane is back from the dead with two full offices/teams, and Id is back to its former glory). That was my most anticipated show, and it was junk.
-BGS showed 2 item DLCs and virtually nothing of Nuka World. Todd Howard not even there.
-Prey was just CGI
-No Tango Gameworks
-No MachineGames
-No new side projects like TES Legends or Fallout Shelter, just updates on those two
-No DOOM single player expansion
-Quake is MP only, and sub'd out to an external group
-Talking about Blink 182 and free T-Shirts? Common, Pete.
+Dishonored 2 looks awesome, even if presented slowly
+Prey looks like an interesting idea (and we later found out MCA is somewhat involved, even if only peripherally!)
+Battlecry is no longer a game (it just wasn't coming together)
-BGS showed 2 item DLCs and virtually nothing of Nuka World. Todd Howard not even there.
-Prey was just CGI
-No Tango Gameworks
-No MachineGames
-No new side projects like TES Legends or Fallout Shelter, just updates on those two
-No DOOM single player expansion
-Quake is MP only, and sub'd out to an external group
-Talking about Blink 182 and free T-Shirts? Common, Pete.
+Dishonored 2 looks awesome, even if presented slowly
+Prey looks like an interesting idea (and we later found out MCA is somewhat involved, even if only peripherally!)
+Battlecry is no longer a game (it just wasn't coming together)
Zelda resonated with people more than any other game at the show, period.
Toni
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Twitter may beg to disagree
Facebook>>>>>>>>>>then>>>>>>>>>Twitter.
Omnistalgic
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Yea..staying on GAF all the time, you really can lose sight of this. People wanting to see new hardware and spec sheets versus amazing games, so backwards. New hardware, specs, VR, all of that is just tools to bring new software experiences to you.
I felt Sony, and Nintnedo really treated games as an art form, they both did something very unique and celebrated the medium in a way that brought fresh eyes to the scene. MS keynote style presentation didn't do anything for me.
Galactic Barret
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Is it weird to anyone else to see sound reasoning why Sony held a better conference (Better pacing, more games, less filler, new IP, exclusives, Spider-Man(!!!)) but nothing of the sort for why either of the other two may have held one (More release dates)?
Do you really believe these games are not coming out? I would love some more information from the detractors. Zelda looked good as hell, but what did the MS conference show that was amazing/fresh/exciting? Sea of Thieves was good, but not that good.
Are we not doing a poll this year?
What did you like?
Do you really believe these games are not coming out? I would love some more information from the detractors. Zelda looked good as hell, but what did the MS conference show that was amazing/fresh/exciting? Sea of Thieves was good, but not that good.
Are we not doing a poll this year?
Case in point. You state your complaints about MS' show, but nothing about what excited you. Not even what you liked.
What did you like?
Bish always has the most interesting tags.
Omnistalgic
Member
Take 10 steps back, it was still a much stronger conference. Sony put on a show, MS replicated what they did last year and fumbled throughout. And some games were not even displayed well. It was messy.
- GOW was leaked
- Spider-Man was leaked
- Sony bend was leaked
- Neo was announced not to be there
- Somehting from Capcom was leaked
None of it mattered because Sony just had a superior presentation, and frankly what seems like more interesting games. Without leaks, you could have predicted over 50% of MS conference.
Read the thread. Read GAF for the last 2 days. I mean, sure if they hold a poll it'll certainly be Sony's win. They have my vote. But I'm not going to act like it wouldn't be redundant. Sony had a killer conference and there are more Sony supporters (supporters, not fanboys, though fanboys are here too) than any other console brand. I just don't see the point unless a person absolutely needs to see it written down. Which would be....yeah.
AngelOFDeath
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THIS IS WAR!
I do think Sony hit it out of the park and loved their new approach of just showing games/trailers, not much talking. No need to introduce such & such person and just show off the games.
There is a problem people have that state well the games Sony showed off who knows when they are coming out, for most of them while Microsoft shows off games that are available much sooner. They each have different takes on what E3 is for them and there is nothing wrong with either approach. Microsoft shows off the goods that you will see soon, year after year they do so while Sony shows off goods that you will see eventually. Again both have different formulas that work and their is nothing wrong with each.
I do think Sony hit it out of the park and loved their new approach of just showing games/trailers, not much talking. No need to introduce such & such person and just show off the games.
There is a problem people have that state well the games Sony showed off who knows when they are coming out, for most of them while Microsoft shows off games that are available much sooner. They each have different takes on what E3 is for them and there is nothing wrong with either approach. Microsoft shows off the goods that you will see soon, year after year they do so while Sony shows off goods that you will see eventually. Again both have different formulas that work and their is nothing wrong with each.
Omnistalgic
Member
Wtf type of reasoning is that? TLG is niche group? What does that even mean in relation to this discussion? Lol...never change GAF.
RE7 will be heavily tied to PS as well as it being the only place to play it on VR, which was kinda the whole point of it being at Sony's conference.
Adding to this, it was just a really entertaining show. It moved at a breakneck pace showing game after game with very little downtime and almost no "talking heads" moments. I wouldn't even quality it as a conference. It was a show designed to entertain the viewer from start to end.
Eh the MS conference was a slog to get through and even if it was leaked, none of the announcements were anything on the par of a Spiderman exclusive or a huge different and interesting looking God of War. Also how they revealed their new consoles was a bit of a misfire in my opinion and I think its as fair to criticize them as Sony for announcing a console a year and a half out.
Galactic Barret
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Sure, but at least REAL opinions could be stated, what games were exciting, getting down to the nitty-gritty. An open poll would be good to get the opinion of GAF, instead of downplaying the importance or relevance of Facebook's demographic.
Maybe I'm expecting too much. Its not up to me, though.
Speaking of such, will there be a PC version of RE7? If so I wonder why it wouldn't have VR support? Unless Sony paid for them to not include it, which would be a super bummer.
I thought E3 polls were binary on GAF. As in you just check the box for the company you're voting for at the top of the page. I didn't remember it being a situation where you vote in your post and explain why like Game Of The Year GAF.
I saw a load of threads about hardware and the like, loads of Scorpio, a bit of PS4.5 stuff. Maybe I'm reading a different GAF, but very little stood out as interesting in terms of games for any of the conferences. At least from thread titles. Spiderman is a thing then?
But I don't see any relevant data on Twitter about what was the most talked about conference or if more people talked about the conference there, so why even bring that up?
That's odd. I've seen more thorough analysis that say Microsoft won conference-wise with Zelda being the most talked about game. https://www.brandwatch.com/2016/06/react-e3-2016-social-data-live-blog/
Though this is supposed to be more comprehensive of social media than just Facebook.
Though this is supposed to be more comprehensive of social media than just Facebook.
I like your gimmick.
AngelOFDeath
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Sega
StrongBlackVine
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Not surprising. It wasn't even close.
