Nintendo probably got boozed up before the show. They didn't even need to show up.

The Wii is giving people orgasms all over the world, you can't preach to the choir.

E3 lost this year.

That is all.

I'm most disappointed at Nintendo. They seemed to have forgotten who made them in the first place...

Without the hardcore fans, they'd have lost the early console wars to SEGA. Instead of awesome games like a new Metroid or Zelda or even F-Zero...we get more software pretending to be games like another Wii Sports and Wii Music.

Animal Crossing is gonna be awesome but ONE game doesn't make things right.

EA

Microsoft only for the live demos.

Nintendo showed me something, themselves, that I'm more excited about than anything Microsoft or Sony presented.

1:1 motion control.

There's no time limit for enjoying cool technology applied to games. I was excited when I thought the Wii could do it out of the box, and I'm more excited now that I've seen it working.

I'm leaning towards giving my vote to MS, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that their biggest announcement was a non-exclusive title. When the best thing you've got is "Hey, we have what the other guy has!" did you really win?

I'm not saying the other guys had anything huge that gives the vote to them... but at least they were announcing new, exclusive stuff like Carrot Top Snowboarding and MAG.

I think in the end I'll have to abstain from the vote. E3 just isn't what it used to be...

Harmonix wins. Activision is done for.

Seriously though, I voted MS, but Sony gave a better showing than I expected. FF13 isn't a huge deal to me like it seems to be for a lot of people and the Live avatars seem Mii-ish and aren't very intriguing. But a lot of the other stuff was big to me: added support for resolutions (I play on a 16:10 monitor, this has been a long time in coming!), a cohesive party mode and group chat that persists through games and the dashboard, and hard-drive storage (because disc-swapping is hella annoying, but how will this work for rentals). I will also put the Netflix support to good use, although I'm not really sure how many people other than myself actually subscribe to the service and will find this feature useful.

Personally I enjoyed the MS one a lot more. The sony one to me wasn't very intresting. GoW3 was a given, Loco Roco 2 was a given. Them adding movies to their online was a given. I don't really see the great shock I was ready for. MS wins only because it had PRESS. It saved a giant shocker for the last, hence why it IMO wins. Sony did a good job, Nintendo did bad. But overall I'm more excitied for what the 360 has shown me.

There is no doubt that MS won. There was, unfortunately, nothing from sony. Everything "announced" was already known well in advance apart from the LBP date. Microsoft, however, stole all the thunder this year with the FFXIII announcement.

All in all though I found what they have shown so far a complete let down. There were no real new and exciting IPs for us to salivate over. I am hoping the TGS or PAX or Leipzig will be able to shake things up a little bit.

Whether one was a fan of MS or not they took this E3 with the FFXIII announcement. It didn't matter that it wasn't exclusive to the 360 the fact that its even being released on the 360 surprised everyone.

Yes, Sony had exclusives but most were in-house titles instead of third-party exclusives. So, unless Sony is going on a buying spree buying small developers here and there then the FFXIII news could be a prediction of what the future holds for past Sony exclusives like MGS. Also, no release date for LBP and Home didn't help Sony any. Sometimes patience is a good thing for a fas-base to have but too much delays can sometimes create a backlash or raise people's expectations for those two products that they fail to reach it.

If MS hadn't announced Geometry Wars 2 and Galaga Legions, I'd put their announcements right above Nintendo's. I felt Sony had the most substance to their conference. Nintendo shouldn't have shown up. Having a soccer mom explain how women can't snowboard then have Miyamoto and some stoner drummer fuck screw up the Mario theme song is just horribly blasphemous.

Won is just a number man.

I went in as an owner of all three systems, having just recently gotten a 360 and I was pretty let down over all.

I was the most excited about Nintendo and the most let down by them. Wii Band Camp? What?

I thought the MS thing was pretty boring. Having used Netflix Instant View on the PC, I know how let down people are going to be when they actually see the selection and how crappy the "free" movies are. I cancelled my account with them a couple months back because they never got any new "Instant Watch" movies, it was just the same old crap. The whole thing about stealing Sony's Exclusive, well, I was gonna by it for PS3 anyway because that's the system it was made for. So no points for that either.

Sony was the most surprising as I thought they would have the worst presentation and in my opinion had the best. Grant it, they didn't steal any exclusives and then hoot and beat their chests, but they did have some pretty good games to show off. That awesome leviathon battle was badass and that game where you could have like 256 people, man that looked crazy good. Plus God of War looks SWEET. And I am just totally excited for little big planet and home.

So in the end I was looking forward to great stuff about all three systems and I was really only happy with what Sony had to say. So they win.

Are you all going to sit back and tell me that you all expected this year's E3 to have the same kind of game library that 2007 did? The second half of last year was historic as far as quality goes, and 2008's E3 was destined to disappoint.

With that out of the way, Microsoft had the big punch (FFXIII), Sony had the stable of games, and Nintendo had... a box... to plug into your Wiimote... joy.

Microsoft by a hair.

I think everyone is really underestimating the dashboard and live update. Avatars and the new party system are really functional and cool ideas, and they are trying to expand the online social interaction. That's something new - and it's not just a game, conveniently. FFXIII bores me, but whatever. Still, nintendo was shit and I'm kind of considering PS3 for God of War.

@maximus: agreed about comparing this year to last year's epicness.

I voted for Phantom. Now I am the winner.

"Avatars and the new party system are really functional and cool ideas, and they are trying to expand the online social interaction."

Get out. And take your fucking avatars with you.

I agree with a few people's opinion. Everyone really sucked. Sony had a better show by a tiny amount.

Nintendo didn't show sh*t because they know they're wasting enough money as it is on presenting at E3. It's not like casual gamers are watching.

Dream Theater won (Rock Band 2)

...But in all seriousness, Microsoft gave progress reports on the most games that I care about...but no new games to announce to get excited about.

Microsoft and Sony were about equal.

Nintendo was freakin' disappointing.

E3 this year was a bore, and is probably going to be more boring every year until it dissolves.

Next big video game expo will be?

"This year is not about who won, but about who lost the least. " - xerus

Indeed, amen.

hahah.

shit.

I agree with Aerox.

Lets hope we can take refuge in PAX.