Poll: who won at E3?

[Wicky_42]

Nintendo's so far ahead of the curve it's surreal. Motion controls being taken up whole heartedly by their previously scornful competitors, and being the first to release a 3D console with amazing array of supporting software.

Sure, their Wiimotes are imperfect and all, but they got the market share, they got the following - they have the consumer base and cash to develop the next generation of tech as they see fit. I would love for Nintendo to bring out a new console in, oh, a few years, seamlessly merging their casual and hardcore crowds and building on the motion-control lessons learned from their own past and Microsoft's ideas.

After all, Nintendo has the most experience with motion controls, and motion controls + large 3D TVs in most people's living rooms would be a pretty damn awesome time to game in

If some predictions (that i have to agree with) are correct, that's exactly what will happen not long from now. With the 3DS almost out, and a strong roster of titles for both platforms in the near future, it won't take them long to start developing a new console, if they haven't already. 3D technology is something they've already been working on, and rumored that they have even worked on with the gamecube, so they've got their work eased up, and by the time a new console hits the shelves, 3D TV's will probably be a lot more widespread than today. If they play their cards right, they can very will carry on their casual crowd upwards and throw a punch at MS and Sony for the core crowd. I don't want to pull a Nostradamus here, but it does make a lot of sense

Funny thing is I just read http://malstrom.50webs.com/birdman.html, which pretty much explains what I was feeling to be the case. It's nice when things like that work out, isn't it? As I posted just above, these next few years will be very telling and could be quite interesting to watch ^_^

Then again, as primarily a PC gamer, a lot of the console wars stuff is more of academic interest. Maybe if someone really gets my interest I'll actually invest, but not for a couple of years to see how it all pans out

 

[awsome117]

Nintendo Hands down won.

It looks like Nintendo's biggest thing is a new DS. Not to be an ass but... Who cares? And I don't see why people are excited about more Zelda it's like the Stephen King of video game franchises.

It's not a DS! It's a Sequal to the DS! You don't call the PS3 a PS2 or PS1, The 3DS is a new System itself!

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not lol. Okay, it's a NEW generation of DS, allow me to rephrase:

It looks like Nintendo's biggest thing is a new Handheld. Not to be an ass but... Who cares?

The only person above 11 years old I know that plays handhelds is my former college roommate and he's king weirdo.

I'm 17 and my friends and I play handhelds. So I find your comment insulting.

*goes to cry*

OH SWEET JESUS ON RUBBER CRUTCHES! Don't do that last time someone got offended by something I said which wasn't insulting in the least I got suspended for two weeks. I'm just stating the facts about people I know. Maybe in the next town over they have lingerie model handheld orgy parties.

I intended that as a joke, but I will remove the "crying" thing.

And why yes, I hold these orgies myself. It's very "hands-on" if you catch my meaning.

 

[SenorFuzzeh]

Dont be biast. You all know nintendo won, even if you do lvoe microsoft and sony. I love both more than nintendo. But Microsoft AND Sony let everything spill over the interent. And only had a few games to announce. Nintendo, had 20+ games announced, and no one had any idea they were gonna be announced. And the nintendo 3DS is a POWERHOUSE, rather than just another xbox with wireless and a big memory. woopty-do.

 

[Eisenfaust]

this might just be me but i think there should be a "nobody" option...

 

[kingcom]

Warhammer 40.000 Dark Millenium did.

Yes, yes it did. In the grim darkness of the far future there is only awesome.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

Well, I said that it was going to be Microsoft's to lose, and Nintendo was the dark horse candidate, and I see that my predictions were correct.

Nintendo won this one hands down, especially with the 3DS and the next Zelda game. Whenever Nintendo shows a top of the line Zelda game, it's almost automatically a win for them.

 

[Littlee300]

I'm sorry I didn't know e3 was a contest.

Please don't be a smart ass /: (unless it is funny)
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I would say sony for twisted metal and Kevin Butler

 

[aemroth]

Spoiler: snip

Nintendo's so far ahead of the curve it's surreal. Motion controls being taken up whole heartedly by their previously scornful competitors, and being the first to release a 3D console with amazing array of supporting software.

Sure, their Wiimotes are imperfect and all, but they got the market share, they got the following - they have the consumer base and cash to develop the next generation of tech as they see fit. I would love for Nintendo to bring out a new console in, oh, a few years, seamlessly merging their casual and hardcore crowds and building on the motion-control lessons learned from their own past and Microsoft's ideas.

After all, Nintendo has the most experience with motion controls, and motion controls + large 3D TVs in most people's living rooms would be a pretty damn awesome time to game in

If some predictions (that i have to agree with) are correct, that's exactly what will happen not long from now. With the 3DS almost out, and a strong roster of titles for both platforms in the near future, it won't take them long to start developing a new console, if they haven't already. 3D technology is something they've already been working on, and rumored that they have even worked on with the gamecube, so they've got their work eased up, and by the time a new console hits the shelves, 3D TV's will probably be a lot more widespread than today. If they play their cards right, they can very will carry on their casual crowd upwards and throw a punch at MS and Sony for the core crowd. I don't want to pull a Nostradamus here, but it does make a lot of sense

Funny thing is I just read http://malstrom.50webs.com/birdman.html, which pretty much explains what I was feeling to be the case. It's nice when things like that work out, isn't it? As I posted just above, these next few years will be very telling and could be quite interesting to watch ^_^

Then again, as primarily a PC gamer, a lot of the console wars stuff is more of academic interest. Maybe if someone really gets my interest I'll actually invest, but not for a couple of years to see how it all pans out

I'm on the same boat, PC gamer, academic interest. Sadly enough, i was already kinda forced to get a 360 from a friend, Fable II had me thinking about it for a while, and Alan Wake was the tipping point. Curiously enough though, it's XBLA titles that have really impressed me (can't beat Splosian Man co-op and a couple of beers on a Friday night with friends), and combined with a lot of indie stuff on the PC, i find myself appreciating more and more these smaller titles and drifting away from the increasingly "folly-ish" mainstream.

Anyway, on topic, yes, the industry is ever revolving and the twists and turns are fun to analyze and try to predict, and the next few years will quite interesting indeed. Who knows how we'll be gaming in 5 years time. I just hope the PC holds up, and that people don't forget it's not 3D, motion control, surround, big-ass screens and gazillions of flashiness and blockbuster cinematic values that make games immersive, but the basic pillars of gameplay and/or story. Otherwise, how would we have gotten so hooked up to games in the old days of blocky pixels and synthesized sounds? I dare ye say that Tetris wasn't immersive!

 

[Wolfe-KuPo]

Nintendo, they gave me everything I wanted but a F-Zero and Pikmin!

 

[crono738]

Sony won in my opinion, or at least tied with Nintendo...

 

[Hallow'sEve]

Last I checked E3 wasn't a fucking contest, and they sure didn't hand out medals.

 

[Marmooset]

Blizzcon.

Maybe EyeToy.

 

[BrokenIcon]

I was very impressed with Nintendo's conference. MUCH better than previous ones.

Sony's conference was not exactly what I was hopeing for (No "The Last Guardian" ), but it was damn adequate and had some good stuff in it.

Microsoft.........not even worth talking about.

So, in my mind;

Great Nintendo followed by a Good Sony followed by a TERRIBLE Microsoft.

Yeah, Microsoft tried by giving away new 360's (which would be awesome), but other than that I would say their presentation was shit. Nintendo had the best show by far, and I say that not owning a Wii or DS.

 

[StriderShinryu]

None of them really blew me away, but I'm going with Sony.

MS blew their load on Kinect.. and then didn't really show anything else we didn't already know about. The new 360 design is pretty sweet, but it's just a new look for something we already have.

Nintendo was.. well, Nintendo. You could have scripted their conference 5 years ago and would have got it pretty much right, right down to the unveiling of a new/upgraded handheld. The 3DS does look great, and I'm almost certainly getting one, but the rest of what they showed was just typical Nintendo and that hasn't appealed to me in years.

Sony had a full slate of interesting and solid looking games. They also did more to show that Move wasn't just about the casual audience, which MS failed to do with Kinect. To top it off, Sony had some nice tasty exclusive announcements and the reveal of a new priced online system, while not doing what a lot of people feared they might do which is gate online play behind a subscription fee. The only real problem I had with Sony's conference was how amazingly boring it was. Outside of Newell and Butler, their presenters seemed to be trying to put me to sleep any time they weren't actually showing games. Sony NEEDS to find someone with a personality for next year.. or just have Butler do the whole thing.

 

[xvbones]

Nobody won.

Pretty much every single game announced was either a sequel in a long line of sequels or a ridiculous step in the wrong direction with a control format nobody asked for.

The industry lost.

 

[Matu Flp Krwfe]

The winner of E3 is the same company who won the Chicago Auto Show, or any trade convention...

No one. These are industry events designed to unveil and demonstrate new products and services. It is not a competition, in so far as a winner and a looser are concerned, because the ultimate judge of these events comes not from the show itslf but from the free market ont which these products are released which itself is dependent on so many other factors than the trivial nonsense of press demonstrations (as if the word of the video game journalist was the first and final word on any subject in gaming.)

So it's all crap. The glitz and glamour is meant only for the marketing that ensues from our over-involvement with the event, and the companies behind it as they hawk their wears to a consumer base who has taken the "competition" of a market system to rediculous levels in order to compensate for their own short comings by taking the successes or failures of corporate monoliths as their own.

There are no winners at E3, only loosers, and we are they.

 

[AgnosticMessiah]

as of right now I own a wii, ps3, and x-box 360
ps3 is my favorite
wii is my least favorite

having seen all three events both Sony and Microsoft were very...ehh the later even moreso
Nintendo on the other hand...the new zelda, donkey kong, golden sun, kirby, kid icarus, and even a new 3d ds...there was a clear winner here

 

[Generator]

Nintendo won. Without a doubt. The new Zelda, even with a messed up showing, looks awesome; the new Kirby game has got to be one of the most adorable things I've seen in recent history; and, of course, a brand new Paper Mario for the 3DS has taken me from skeptical of the new handheld to day-one buyer.

Honestly, I'm usually more of a Sony fanboy than Nintendo, but the new InFamous game (the thing I was most excited for) looks terrible! Well, okay, the game looks fine, but what the hell did they do to Cole?!

Nintendo has officially revived my faith in their company this year.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

its abit late but "nobody" is now an option on the poll.

 

[Snotnarok]

Connecticut Leather Company won.

I mean did you see that Colecovision? Man that was arcade quality graphics!

I don't think any company won, it's not a fight just a bunch of developers showing off. And personally I like to play my games not watch the developer show it off.