You mean the WINNER.

I dont get how people think ms had the worst e3. I think they showed the most new games AND a new console, with good presentation (people coming out to explain the game/talk about it a little). Majority of Sonys games that they showed were all shown last year, one of which was dlc for an already released game. And their presentation of their games seemed really bland to me, literally just a reel of game trailers. I never saw much of the other conferences so I cant really comment on them, but c'mon youd have to be blind to think ms had the worst of the big 3.

Idk EA conference was pretty lack luster but Microsoft at least had entertaining 3rd party reveals so it made it kinda worthwhile to watch

Microsoft plAyers were dreaming for triple a games and Will keep dreaming.

The beast isnt Able to run all games at 4k ANd comes at november for 499.

Nintndo ANd sony gave gamers exclusive games. Its real easy to understand.

But Microsoft gamers will have the games they want, but just need to wait 2 or 3 years for those exclusives.

"MS is in no position to be boastful."

And yet that is exactly what they love even more than making games. The Xbox community fiercely critized checkerboarding technique on PS4 Pro as being "fake 4k" and now they are the joke once again as they are getting the same checkerboarding on Xox.

To each their own. I found Ubisoft to be the overall best press event with the main 3: Nintendo, MS & Sony in a more less virtual tie for second place. EA would be in third with Bethesda just edging them out for the worst press event.

Any company that shows tons of 3rd party games at a gaming conference instead of upcoming exclusives is a looser IMO. Anyone can shows off games that they didn't make, try making those games and impress us.

I'd give MS a W for their conference. They had a conference anyone can watch no matter if they game on PC or PS4 only because 98% of all the games they had you will be able to play on PC and PS4. I think that's great for all gamers. For example a PS4 only gamer could have watched their conference and been excited about the world premieres of games they will be able to play on their console, either on the same day as the Xbox release or at some point down the road.

Oh... oh, but if you're talking about if their conference succeeded in giving an incentive for people to buy an Xbox One or an Xbox One X, then no. In my opinion they crashed and burned on that front. I didn't see anyone reason on that stage to go out and buy an Xbox in particular especially if you already have a PS4 or PC.

That's harsh. I would say Xbox had the most to gain and the most to prove, and delivered the least. No need to bring the L work into it.

Haters gunna hate! I have no idea who won, lost or drew. I only watched the MS conference, because that is the one relevant to me....I have no inclination to look over my neighbours fence when my garden is just lovely.

NOPE!!! Nearly every social media site disagrees with you...and so does Amazon. If you only hung out here on N4G you might believe that, but not in the real world. MS had a FANTASTIC show and gave me PLENTY of reasons to play on their console....Nintendo gave me a few and Sony actually managed to kill hype that I previously had for games without adding any more hype (something I've NEVER EVER experienced from an E3). I can't help but notice how people saying "this was the worst E3 ever" also happen to be PS-Only fans...Xbox and Nintendo gamers are excited.

OBVIOUSLY all multi-plat games I'll play on X1X...MS managed to maintain all their already established advantages of PS (like controller, UI, Network) and added power advantage. Thus turning the idea of a trade-off in choosing where to play your multi-plats into an easy choice. Now I DO NOT think that X1X will sell millions of consoles out of the gate, but as 4k TVs become cheaper and maybe after the first X1X price drop, it will start selling like crazy. Bottom line, as a multi-console/PC gamer...there are TONS of games that I want to play on my X1X, EASILY over 25...where as the next game I'm even remotely interested in using PS for is either God of War/Days Gone (although not as excited as I used to be)...and who knows when those will come out specifically. In Fact, it seems as if 95% or so of the games that MS showcased will be out BEFORE the the FIRST Sony heavy-hitter will release at all. I'm still moderately excited about Days Gone and GoW...but now they are at the point where if I miss them I won't lose any sleep. It also has come to a point where most Sony exclusives are extremely Niche games...good games...but don't appeal to most gamers. If you have a console base of over 60 million and in most cases struggle to sell your games to 2% of them, you're investing in niche markets primarily. Horizon was pretty much the only exclusive this year that appealed more to general gamers than a niche crowd. By far, the most played games are the multiplat ones. I think we are seeing first hand why Sony-Only gamers tend to compare ALL KNOWN Sony exclusives against just Xbox games within the next year.....again it looks like 95% of what MS showed will be out before next E3, but it's uncertain if the next Sony heavy-hitter will be out by E3 or not.

TLDR; For me, Nintendo and MS managed to show things I am massively excited about...MS proved that it will be where I play all multiplats (which are by far the biggest chunk of games)...Sony actually managed to kill hype I had in games previously without replacing it with something else.

Most of their exclusives were indie titles... No thanks. As an owner of all 3 platforms, Microsoft is in a bad position. Their only major exclusive I care about it Crackdown 3. Everything else I did not care for or the game was multiplatform... Don't get me wrong, I love my Xbox, but if I were someone who owned only a PS4 or has not upgraded yet, the XB1 would be a tough sell

I don't agree. Even though they tried to use some word-play with the term "Launch Exclusive" for most of their games, I did approve of it's overall showing. Games, Games, Games. That and the unveiling of the XBO-X itself. In those respects, to me they succeeded to deliver. I rate MS and Sony almost at tie, due to afterwards Sony admitting it held back on it's game listings.

Couldn't help but feel it were like a dodgy salesman giving any answer to get the sale.

The gamers won E3 ;)

Lol, the crap keeps rolling through.

The presentation was a boring and embarrassing mess. My excitement for the new hardware was killed by a complete lack of quality software exclusives that make use of the capabilities. I'm still left with a gap in the gens consoles. I just can't validate spending that kind of money on better resolution alone and back compat. I've my 360 for the old games. This was their chance to blow minds and they failed bad. Such a shame. Our way better for the industry to have much closer competition. For now my PS4 will be competing with my Switch for my spare time and not an XboneX as well

All articles tolds me that there are many fanboys wesites, and their missions only to attack microsoft and drumming for sony

Sigh, these article writers can't seem to make their mind up, can they?

I disagree: nintendo was the worst;
in crescent order: nintendo, ubisoft, EA, bethesda, microsoft, sony ;) imho
PC gaming? oh i forgot about it...

Bullshit, they did pretty good.

Yep, they sure were.

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Our gaming entertainment while mainstream now. I can't help but scream nerds in my head when you guys fight over who won something that wasn't even a competition but essentially a commercial for a company. Then you go right into salez arguments and only make it worse. I've enjoyed gaming for over 30 years and if you get joy from something another company may be doing wrong and hurting gamers you're worse than the company doing it.

Depends on how you look at it. I look at it two different ways, first being what they need to do for me to get on board the xbox brand and secondly how good their presentation was more objectively than personally.
To get me onboard with xbox, F. but they really didn't have a chance since all their games are on PC and I have a PC that's a tad bit better than scorpio (mainly due to CPU it seems).
But being objective about it, I'd say they did a solid B to B-. It was a good conference. The price, again being objective, is good. Personally I think it needed to be at most $450, ideally $400 to stay competitive, but oh well). I absolutely loved the time spent on the indies and they seemed to be opening up the variety quite a bit. it wasn't just shooter after shooter with a racing game thrown in. All in all it was one of my favorite MS conferences. Actually taking into account the cancellations of scalebound and such from their "mic-drop" E3, I'd say this actually is my favorite MS conference in recent memory.

xbox gamers where talking about how there's going to be ten new exclusives and that's the reason why the last two years had next to nothing, I was thinking about 3 or 4 for sure, because I cant even remember the last time they announced a new game, well we where all wrong, they had nothing absolutely nothing and to make there show even worse they tried to confuse people with the word Exclusive

apparently phil had a reason for having no games, he was concentrating on hardware for the last four years, instead of letting the engineers do there job phil took it upon himself to do all the work

Indeed they were, no new AAA game, only timed exclusive indies, no justification for a 499 system. The abslute lack of exclusives all this year was for nothing.

Stupid

Too much flappin'n and not enough happen'n !!!!!

According to gamers and Data, they totally owned E3 this year.

Unlike Sony, Nintendo and Ubisoft, MS was a borefest. Nothing to me screamed buy an Xbox One X.
Edit: BTW, the crowd roared when they announced BC of OG Xbox titles more than the games they showed off! as they were happy about playing old games than new ones. Really did not understand that!

Troll article is an obvious troll...

Both Sony and MS were crap. Deal with it. Now go play more games.

I agreed

This article is more like personal opinion.All companies had ok showings at E3.I wouldn't call MS the biggest looser though.

Bwhahaha this guy in the article said xbox fanbums haha. Ima have to use this from time to time

Wait what? MS was my second fav presser your really gonna tell me Bethesdaland (*shudders*), EA Sports and dancing cheerleaders were somehow better?

Lol no!

Tbh honest its totally subjective. Every fanboy will say their teams show was best regardless.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau