Endsights' Art Green writes:
"After every E3, it seems like gamers are always wondering who "won" E3 between Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. The question strikes me as odd, because "winning" is a loaded term–it would mean that the others lost. With this E3, there wasn't a definite "loser", but varying degrees of winning. Maybe none of them appealed to you, but all of them had something to offer as long as you weren't looking at it from a purely personal basis.
So, who won E3? I'll let the grades speak for themselves but, in the end they all won in different ways."
Grades:
Microsoft: A-
Nintendo: C+
Sony: B+
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Gamers: A+
sony no doubt about it,with their awesome over the top first party games(can't you see that critics,are you blind)
ms shows excellent multi plat games and steal a game thats it(all of them are on ps3,better versions,relaible system,disk,free online)
nintendo shouldn't attend at e3
no show better than this
sony yet again give us an excellent e3
thank you sony(little disappointed with no ICO 2)
the main point that I buy mostly ps3 versions is because of the blu-ray doesn't get scratched
that is the best feature aside from disk space
They do get scratch but its very very hard to you almost have to drop the disk on the floor and slide it around with your foot.
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all don't deserve the 'winner' tag, instead the hardcore gamers have lost.
So many great games gone unmentioned at this years E3, so many surprise no-shows and so many nasty surprises, almost always involving games only your grandma and grandpa would dare play.
Casual gamers won E3 2008.