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Nintendo vs. Sony vs. Microsoft: Who wins E3?

Videogameszone made a summary of all three press conferences of E3 2010. The winner is ...

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-Alpha5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

Well aside from the fact we have like 30 of these articles on the main page already...

Gamers win, obviously, that has to be said first and foremost.

And as a gamer, for me personally, I was most impressed with Nintendo. Why? Because I expected the least from them. I was most disappointed with MS, because I expected MORE from them. And I knew what to expect from Sony and because of that I got what I want (Twisted Metal, LBP2, iNFamous 2, K3, Move), and some things I didn't (which hopefully will be revealed at TGS or GDC, Versus, TLG, and Agent mainly).

I can't speak for everybody, but I think most people are in agreement. With that said, I do know some people enjoyed Nintendo by a country mile, Sony by a country mile, and I know of some people who even genuinely was impressed with MS. Everyone is entitled to their opinion because E3 is about impressing the gamer. But for me, that's how I saw it.

I'm now looking forward to both the PS3 (always have) and Wii (surprisingly). Man do I wish I had a Wii right now.

GWAVE5114d ago

Both Sony an Ninty were awesome. 3DS looks sweet. infamous 2 looks sweet. There is plenty to list.

Everyone can agree that Microsoft lost big time.

MexicanAppleThief5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

You know, I though 343 Industries would unveil their first Halo project, but I guess that's for E3'11.

All in all, it was a good E3 for me, unfortunatley imo MS underdelivered.

Godmars2905114d ago

Microsoft showed no hardcore growth, which is why they failed.

deadreckoning6665114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

@GWAVE- Agreed. Both Nintendo and Sony did great and the gamers win, because E3 is an exhibition..not a competition. If I HAD to choose..I'd be Nintendo. Being a hardcore gamer, Nintendo catered to the hardcore crowd much better than Sony IMO. I almost crapped my pants when I saw Goldeneye!

But with all the good comes the bad. I'm very concerned about Microsoft's future, its a shame to see them go under this way. At one point, they were great competition for Sony..but now, not so much.

@Stan Lee- Infamous 2 looks AWESOME IMO and I didn't even play through Infamous 1. Day 1 buy for me!

StanLee5114d ago

Don't really like the new art direction in Infamous 2. I have this month's GameInformer and I really don't like the change. In Infamous Cole was a badass. In Infamous 2 he's a yuppy.

secksi-killer5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

what did they win? a bazillion dollars? the race to the moon? ffs only fanboys sit there saying one or another company won e3.

for me i want

for my ps3
kz3
infamous2
gt5
twisted metal
socom

for my wii
zelda
donkey kong

for my 360
gears3
halo
fable3
crackdown2

and this is without all the multiplats that i will be buying. expensive!

but for me e3 was a little over-shadowed by the focus on motion controls. sony and microsoft are desperate to get a slice of nintendos action, and im not impressed! disagree all you want, both will not be getting bought!

@mexican apple thief

if microsoft have any sense, they will be creating that as a launch title for the next xbox in 2012. running on a "brand new" (instead of just modified engine from the first xbox) game engine that is made especially for a powerful new console

@ gwave, everyone can agree that you're an ultra fanboy, back under your rock please

King_of _the_Casuals5114d ago

Nintendo easily won. Sony a distant 2nd and MS right behind them at 3rd.

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Elvfam5115114d ago

Dk Donkey Kong.......I can't wait for that looks awesome.

jagstatboy5114d ago

I would rather have a true sequel to DK64...not another 2D platformer.

SillySundae5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

Kudo Tsunoda

Everybody loves this guy.

There it is.

Kurt Russell5114d ago

I found it a little disappointing all round - a few games peaked my interests, but most of them were kind of expected anyway... I'll be on for Twisted Metal, and I know I'll be suckered into Gears 3. I wanted less sequels really... And I am not going for any of the motion controls just yet :/

FreeMonk5114d ago

Nintendo just tipped it over Sony. If Sony put a little less time into showing off Move, and more into showing a few more hardcore games (Where the FCUK was The Last Guardian and Agent?), then they would of took it.

MS are definatly without a doubt last place. It sucked, and that's coming from a guy that buys a majority of his games on the Xbox 360. MS screwed up by forgetting the hardcore gamers, and instead tried to imitate Nintendo with Kinect.

Ult iMate5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

It's just 2 hours wasn't enough for Sony to show all (and you forgot Resistance 3 and FF versus 13). ))) .

edgeofblade5114d ago

Another long time 360 fan who's calling it against MS. They bombed hardcore.

nycredude5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

I think for me at least Sony catered to what I like the most, Nintendo made me wish I had kept my Wii, and although I wasn't sure about trading my 360 in for a gaming PC recently, MS's conference kind of made it easier to swallow.

colonel1795114d ago

"And as a gamer, for me personally, I was most impressed with Nintendo. Why? Because I expected the least from them."

That's the problem Sony has every E3, everyone expects too much from them that people get disappointed. If people had the same attitude towards Sony as with Nintendo, people probably would have been blown away by Sony's conference too.

Nintendo did an awesome job, but really what Nintendo is doing is just capitalizing on the trend of having all franchises remastered. If you look closely, very closely, Nintendo only announces their same franchises (which we all love though), and this conference in particular, was all about remakes, especially for the Nintendo 3DS. People is saying "Nintendo announced to new Zeldas", or "Nintendo announced a new Donkey Kong". No they didn't, they announced 1 new Zelda, and 2 remakes, but because people love them, and the trend today is being Nostalgic for games, they have the most advantage, because they have the most beloved characters, and older franchises.

Sony on the other hand, announces at least one new IP every E3. This year, was Sorcery (apart from the normal, predictable Move stuff). Even though they have a lot of sequels this year, they regularly give us something new to look forward to.

For me, Nintendo gave the most surprises, but sadly, they are surprises from the same franchises every time. And even though I am looking forward to most of them, the edge goes to Sony, because they showed 1 new hardcore game, that has potential to become a AAA game (Sorcery), so Sony took at least 1+ more risk that Nintendo

n4gno5114d ago

You are right colonel, stupid nostalgy and "surprises lovers".

everyone knows you can't compare casuals games + 1 or 2 "old games", on a gamecube+, vs the variety and quality of the ps3 offer.

by the way, don't forget that xbots will always prefer to say "nintendo win" than sony, even if sony win each years with real things for gamers :)

m235114d ago

I also thought Nintendo did the best, although a lot of them were old IPs. Sony did great as well, the showed a lot of different games which looked great. Microsoft did okay, the games they showed look awesome. Kinect looks cool as well, I just wish they showed something for the hardcore a bit more. But then again they aired it on TV for a reason.

BkaY5114d ago

did you skip the part of zelda presentation.. tht was a disaster...

"ohh everything was going fine in rehearsal.. we are getting an interference .. plz turn off you wireless devices.."

tht didnt happen with move or kinect.

peace

m235113d ago

haha, ya that part was horrible. I don't even have a wii, but I just enjoyed their conference the most. I am looking forward to Kinect, just hoping something for the hardcore gets shown.

pixelsword5114d ago

Microsoft had a very good showing, but for me, it was more like George Dubya Bush during the second Bush-Kerry debate: although the most recent showing was a lot better than the last, it still doesn't mean it was very good; although I loved that the new goldeneye is coming out. I don't know why they had Francisco Scaramanga without his trademark gun, Jaws looking so short, and Oddjob fling the hat off of his head when he didn't have one on to begin with; oh well; alpha stage and all that, I guess.

Sony kinda blew their wad early for me, so it wasn't a "wow" like it should have been, yet I loved that Twisted Metal is returning. I also liked that wizard game; it looked very creative. If it comes with surprises, then Sony Won for having Gabe onstage saying that the PS3 version of his game will be the best version.

I liked what I heard about Halo: Reach, Gears 3 and one kinect game from Microsoft, but for the most part, I wanted to see kinect games because I knew they had a thin lineup for regular games, and I didn't really get much on that.

No one really won to me, but I think that Sony and Nintendo lost the least, and Gabe's presence made it a lock for the least lost in my opinion.

poopface15114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

now I need to get a 3ds. Its got starfox and zelda but also MGS and Ninja gaiden. I hope capcom makes a 2d megaman X game for it..

Microsoft and sony did a good job at reminding me how happy I will be to continue playing games with the regular controllers.

NYPunk885114d ago

I could care less. The trash talking part of this event has ended and now it's time to focus on the games and just enjoy. I'm totally satisfied with Sony lineup and that's all that matters. Congrats to Nintendo and good luck to MS.

BkaY5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

all three won.. why? all of em have games or gadgets i like, MS got gears (which looks great BTW) n kinect (tht dance game is cool), nintendo 3ds.. zelda look ok but they messed up the presentation lol.. finally Sony KZ3, Infamous2, move n holly mother of twisted metal..

now about the presentation to me sony has slight edge coz of KB lol... nintendo was right on the spot no gibberish just games... and sadly ms last coz of tht dancing nerd and guy in the sunnies (hate tht guy)...

in the end its a win for gamers..

peace

edit: how in the freaking hell i forgot the release date for GT5...damn i am a noob

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bobrea5114d ago

Nobody "wins." It isn't a contest, it's different companies showing their products. You may LIKE one conference more than another but you can't "win" E3. I hate gaming journalism.

BubblesDAVERAGE5114d ago

If it wasnt a contest...then why have three different consoles and exclusives...

bobrea5114d ago

E3 is an EXPO. It's where companies show what they have to offer. It's not the video game publishers Championship. All it is is an expo. I'm not saying that Sony, Nintendo and MS aren't competing companies.

asdf125114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

Nintendo A

Sony A-

MS
D+

dinkeldinkse5114d ago

Nintendo C+ Support for the 3DS is impressive even though I am not that impressed with the 3DS itself.

Sony D Like Microsoft, spent too much time on motion controls and crap to take up time instead of showing more of their games.

MS D- Same as Sony

Gave Sony a D instead of D- because of the KZ3 demo

ThaOutKast5114d ago

Since when were "D-" and "D" the same?

dinkeldinkse5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

D and D- aren't the same. Sony had the same problems as Microsoft, but I bumped up their grade because of the KZ3 demo(I couldn't help it,I love the killzone franchise so much that I had to give Sony a little higher grade for showing the demo). Without the KZ3 demo, Sony would have gotten a D- like I gave microsoft.

Anyways, I thought Nintendo's was the best because it was ok and Microsoft's and Sony's just sucked.

ThaOutKast5114d ago (Edited 5114d ago )

Ok but you said "MS D- Same as Sony" after you gave Sony a "D" rating. I also don't see why you felt Sony deserved a D. They showed KZ3, GOW:GoS, LBP2, IF2, announced Portal 2 with Steam features with gabe Newell on stage, Kevn Butler, and more that weren't motion controlled plus games like Sorcery, Heroes on the Move, and Socom 4 all looked great even though the used the Move.

Philaroni5114d ago

Hard to say who won just due to the fact many can say Nent. won due to games but Sony still has a crap load more anyway just chose to show new stuff and make new announcement. After TGS and Games Con when they all have a chance to get everything in the open then I can decide.

If Sony would have did the price drop at E3 last year they would have hands down won but that was shown off later in the year and was the biggest single announcement of 2009 so anything like that could happen for the big 3 this year yet.

But for E3 if I had to pick? Nintendo. Sony I'd say yes to if PSN+ is what I think it is going to be. And I want to see how this Steam support pans out. Also if that coke deal pushes move then it will be a major deal.

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Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration

The latest Switch firmware update kills off support for the Elon Musk-owned social media company.

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Jin_Sakai5d ago

Could care less. I use consoles to play games not for social media.

Cacabunga4d ago

Social garbage should be abandoned altogether.. the world is stupid since these things got introduced

senorfartcushion4d ago

I would say YouTube was more to blame for this weird unrest we are seeing at the minute. That platform has given license to some of the stupidest people to build advice channels for kids growing through their formative learning years. It's no wonder there are so many incels around.

z2g4d ago

The world was stupid before that. Social media just let you see it.

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z2g4d ago

It’s for posting content like game captures, not responding to your boo’s pool pictures.

But F twitter anyway

CrashMania5d ago

And nothing of value was lost, that site is a cesspit.

purple1015d ago (Edited 5d ago )

correction, was a cesspit,

now more of just a swamp / everglades / marshland

gold_drake4d ago

not sure who actually used it in the first placd

Vithar4d ago

Good, Twitter is getting worst than 4chan

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The Xbox showcase brought the E3 magic

After having to prove itself for years, Xbox doubled down and pulled it off..

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GaboonViper6d ago

Yep Xbox absolutely knocked it out of the park with that stunning show, it was everything a gaming showcase should be, games games and games, well done team Xbox.

CrimsonWing695d ago

It really did. Like I came out of that with the hype for new games I haven’t felt since… well the better years of E3.

monkey6025d ago

It was without a doubt one of the better showcases in years. There was plenty there that excited me. Something has been lacking in years on all platforms

EasilyTheBest5d ago

It was an amazing showcase I loved everything about it. Can't wait to play some of those games.
What's going on. 4 comments & no negatives yet. Wow, what's going on with N4G.

ThinkThink5d ago (Edited 5d ago )

Show was so good, it made me forget about that blue dragon rumor until the next day. Too many games to process.

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Is Xbox Going Multi-Platform The Right Decision For The Console Market?

Shahmeer from eXputer: "The new Xbox strategy to go multi-platform could eventually change console gaming as we know it, and I am concerned."

Bathyj6d ago

Can we stop pretending that Xbox has any great influence over the console market?

All they can do is try and steer their own Destiny. They have very little to do with what the other players in the console market are doing.

And yes, going 3rd party is pretty much their only option and is good for them.

RaidenBlack6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

Still whatever little direct competition they're offering against Sony ... that'd be gone, which is never good for consumers.
I know Sony will continue to apease the gamers but without any proper competition in same space, they might not work at the fullest efficiency.
(Taking into account, thats generally been agreed here, that Nintendo has long been not the direct competitor to either MS or Sony)

xHeavYx6d ago

The " without any proper competition in same space, they (Sony) might not work at the fullest efficiency" narrative has been proven false for years. Let's stop pretending that, in terms of games, Xbox has been any competition to Playstation.

fsfsxii6d ago

Sony had 0 competition for most of its playstation business, and they still succeeded, the only thing xbox introduced was paid online and dlc

maniacmayhem6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

Sony had little to no competition during the PS2 era and they have an iconic catalog.

I don't think Sony needs competition in the console space to still release great games. It would be the games that would be competing against each other.

Einhander19726d ago

Xbox does not need to exist for PlayStation to have competition.

They compete with Nintendo, PC, streaming and countless other devices.

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neutralgamer19926d ago

Yes release games on other platforms

Your own gamers still get the games day one on GP. So GP will grow and stay stabilize

By releasing the games on PC,PlayStation and next switch they can get $70 for their games.

MS didn't invest 100 billion for nothing. This way Xbox generates way more revenue

GhostScholar6d ago

And Sony is doing the same thing whether you want to admit it or not.

anast6d ago

The show was like a sub-show for Sony. All these games are coming to PS5.

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outsider16246d ago

You gotta admit though..xbox showcase was actually really great.

RpgSama6d ago

I mean, yes, it was an Activision, Blizzard, Bethesda presentation, they just so happened to buy all of those publishers, nothing we would not have seen on any other award show if they had not bought developers that were and STILL are developing multiplatform games.

If you remove them you are left with Microsoft game studios, another Fable, Another Gears, Perfect Dark which for me didn't look all that great, Avowed, Age of mythology and south of midnight (might be missing something I guess)

anast6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

No better than any other show. There weren't any major new announcements, which is what everyone has been complaining about. The bar shouldn't get lowered for a trillion dollar company.

crazyCoconuts6d ago

"another Fable, another Gears, Perfect Dark"?
That's a lot of pretty great "anothers".
I could use a few of those "anothers" from Sony right now.

helicoptergirl6d ago

Yes it was a really great showcase that Xbox had. Multiplats and all. Overall it was really cool

Terry_B6d ago

for pc and playstation..yes it was. Not a single reason was given to buy an xbox.

MrBaskerville4d ago

Perfect Dark looked amazing! Wouldn't mind seeing something like that from Sony tbh.

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thesoftware7306d ago

anast,

"All these games are coming to PS5."

Very disingenuous statement... Some, but not all.

Oh, so that is the new narrative, "sub-show for Sony." lol, wow.

The sad part is that you are clearly and fully aware that it is very unlikely for any 1hr and 30min gaming presentation show to showcase ALL Exclusives, it just doesn't happen.

And don't you think it sad that MS had a better Sony showing than Sony? If I were you, I wouldn't consider that a flex, lol.?

anast6d ago

They are coming to PS5, the ones that matter of course.

There is nothing sad here. You might need to start your argument without an emotive.

I don't think they had a better showing. Unless we lower the bar for only Xbox.

crazyCoconuts6d ago

None of us really know how much they're going third party. They're still ACTING like they want to protect the platform - no mention of PS5 in their show, still marketing the console, still using the Xbox logo.
Yeah Phil acknowledged more is coming to PS5. But is that Indiana Jones? Perfect Dark? Gears?
If they keep those key properties in their stable it's not accurate to label them as simply 3rd party.
They may very well still be in the game after all...

anast6d ago

@Coconut

Sony did the same in their last. They showed games that were already announced.

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Giga_Gaia6d ago

We need to stop pretending like Xbox matters and has any influence in the industry.

By entering the industry, Microsoft made it worst, everything bad in the industry can be tied to them (like paid online and DLCs). The industry would be better off if they had never been in it.

Before you say Sony would have no competition, they would still have PC and Nintendo. As they are right now, Microsoft are not competition, they don't actually matter.

crazyCoconuts6d ago

I think you're mostly right. They've been failing on console and will most likely drop out.
But the concern a lot of us had was that they would use their $ to win monopolistically. They've already bought a huge number of big studios. Going multi-platform would alleviate that concern.
But they could still turn the screws, this game isn't over quite yet... They're sending mixed signals.

CrimsonWing696d ago

I think in Xbox’s direness it is, but let’s not pretend like they don’t understand the value of exclusiveness to their platform. Not every damn Xbox game is coming to PS5 and the stuff that has hit have either been GaaS games or games that didn’t exactly sell gamgbusters and are extremely niche.

When Halo, Gears, Forza, Perfect Dark, Fable, etc. start coming to PS5 then that’s pretty massive and also diminishes any reason to own an Xbox.

LucasRuinedChildhood6d ago

Doom isn't niche. It was heavily implied that all Bethesda games, outside of games with contractual agreements and the existing multiplayer games, would all be exclusive to Xbox.

CrimsonWing696d ago (Edited 6d ago )

Ok, sorry, Doom is the exception.

My point is Xbox is still keeping exclusives for their bigger games. What’s been released are GaaS: Sea of Thieves, Grounded aka Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and then niche stuff like Pentiment and Hi-Fi Rush. Then you got Doom coming out, which is an outlier, I suppose.

crazyCoconuts6d ago

It's not niche but it's not everything.
MS has got a HUGE cache of IP and studios now

Scissorman6d ago

It's the only decision. Hardware sales are on a sharp decline and Game Pass growth has stagnated.

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