I've tallied up all the announcements, trailers and awkward silences to find out who was the 'scientific' winner of E3 this year. So here are the results...
For the rules see...
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There's a TL;DR section at the bottom for the lazy people.
(In chronological order)
MICROSOFT
Halo 4 Trailer with gameplay [3]
Sales bragging [-1]
Splinter Cell: Blacklist (live Gamplay) [5]
Fifa and Madden gamplay trailers [3]+[3]
Celeb parade (Joe Montana) [-1]
Fable: Journey trailer with gameplay [3]
Gears and Forza trailers (no gameplay) [1]+[1]
Nike+ announced [1]
Internet Explorer [1]
Tomb Raider live gameplay, timed DLC [5]+[1]
Ascend, lococycle, matter trailers [1]+[1]+[1]
Resident Evil 6 live gameplay and timed DLC [5]+[1]
Wrecketeer announced [1]
Celeb parade Trey Parker + Matt Stone [-1]
Another Dance Central [1]
Celeb parade (Usher) [-1]
Blops 2 live gameplay, timed DLC [5]+[1]
Total = 40
SONY
Beyond: Two Souls announced and trailer (no gameplay) [5]+[1]
Playstation Allstars live gameplay [5]
LittleBigPlanet gameplay trailer with x-play [3]
Blops: Declassified announced [5]
Assassins Creed: Liberation announced [5]
Assassins Creed 3 live gameplay [5]
Farcry 3 live gamplay and exclusive DLC [5]+[1]
Sports Champions 2 announce [1]
Wonderbook, Diggs Nightcrawler & Book of Spells announced [1]+[1]
God of War: Ascension live gameplay [5]
The Last of Us live gameplay [5]
Total = 48
NINTENDO
Pikmin 3 announce [5]
Wii U hardware demo [3]
Smash Bros. U announce [5]
Exclusive Batman:AC content [1]
Scribblenauts Unlimited announce [1]
Wii sing and Wii fit U announced [1]+[1]
Super Mario Bros 2 announced [5]
Paper Mario Stickers announced [5]
New Luigi Mansion [5]
Lego City [1]
Just Dance 4 [1]
Zombi U with trailer [5]+[3]
Nintendoland [1]
Total = 44
So there you have it another E3 put under the microscope for your personal scrutiny. Looks like Sony have just came out on top again this year, congratulations to them.
Remember, some of these points may be debatable and I may have missed or overlooked something. Please let me know in the comments section if you feel I have misjudged something as I'm very open to the idea that I'm wrong, as you should be in science. Thanks for reading.
[TL;DR]
MS = 40
Sony = 48
Ninty = 44
Review - Slave Zero X will put a smile on the face of those who played the original in the late '90s; it oozes a distinct biopunk style
Review - Bugs and control quirks make this a patchy experience. Cute as Bunhouse is, its faults might be enough that you default back to Stardew Valley.
Games Asylum: "Well, this is neat. As the name suggests, Wrath of the Mutants is the rarest of things – a genuine arcade conversion. With most modern arcade games being ticket redemption machines, this is something seldom seen. In fact, the last arcade conversion we can recall was Raw Thrill’s own Cruis’n’ Blast on Switch back in 2021. This is also based on an older iteration of TMNT, harking back to the series from 2012-2017. It’s essentially breaking franchise continuity (we’ve had two different iterations of the Turtles since) and could even be considered nostalgic for a select few – those who grew up with 2012’s Turtles are probably in their late teens."
The numbers say it's pretty close. Clearly no one ran away with it if you were just watching and not scoring.
Edit: Redacted - noticed that was for AAA titles only.
I don't know if you can really subtract 2 from Microsoft for Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
They are working on the game directly after all, which makes it essentially no different than the developers coming on.
How could they not bring them on?
Usher was only worth "one" negative point?
If you look at this, it seems pretty clear that Sony and Nintendo are letting the products speak for themselves, and MS needs paid endorsements. I suppose that's a cultural divide though.