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Who Won E3 2018? Every Conference Ranked

Twinfinite writes "This year was a close showdown as Microsoft delivered one of the biggest E3 conferences in years for the Xbox brand and Sony took a deep dive into some tantalizing exclusives. We're ranking every conference from worst to best to find out who won."

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Tom_Hopkins2893d ago

For me, Microsoft's showing was very impressive. Sony's exclusive games appeal to me more, though.

-Foxtrot2893d ago

I think it's hard when on one hand Sony's presentation was awful compared to Microsoft but Microsoft showed mostly third party games we can get on the PS4. So if you look at Ghosts of Tsushima, Last of Us Part II or Spiderman then add Cyberpunk 2077, Metro, Fallout 76, DMC V, Battlefield V etc then it's not as bad.

Crackdown 3 comes out in Feb along with Days Gone so after that, for 2019 we don't know what else we have with lack of release dates from both parties. Maybe this is the start of both companies starting to wind down on announcing things too early, like why Sony said it was going to be a small show this year or maybe it's them both slowing down to start their transition to next gen.

I just don't understand why at Sony's show they didn't just show the trailers of the third party games showed at Microsofts conference during that intermission, Microsoft showed off Kingdom Hearts and Sony showed something new at their show again so it's not like "duplicate showings of games" were not a thing they could do.

I don't think you can say either of them won to be honest as they both give people different things. However structure and presentation wise I think Microsoft took it while first party game wise Sony does.

Elwenil2893d ago

For me personally, I liked Bethesda's conference best, as it was the most relevant to me and I found it to be more entertaining. But from a more encompassing perspective, Microsoft's conference showed a lot more and was probably the best overall. Sony showed some interesting stuff, but most of it we knew about and I didn't really learn anything "new" that enticed me other than intermissions in an E3 conference is a really, really stupid idea.

blitz06232893d ago

The thing with MS is that it's like an extension of Sony's. Sure they had Halo, Gears, etc. But both are still ways off, and it wouldn't be surprising if they are pushed to next gen. The signing of their new studios is also a good part of their conference as it shows (at least for now) they are still committed to delivering exclusives. But again - like Halo & Gears, they will probably debut next gen.

In short, MS has made it clear they are already investing on next gen and is just relying now on the X1X to steal some multiplatform sales from Sony. On the other hand, Sony already had a hold of 2018, with Spiderman and Dragon Quest (and more), so all they really need to do is show they still have 2019 content and that's exactly what they did, all the while also sending PS5 devkits so they have also started plans for next gen

Eonjay2893d ago (Edited 2893d ago )

If the conference is about who had the best games, then it is Sony. If the conference is about who has the most content regardless of quality or platform, then its Microsoft. The thing that made Microsoft's conference appealing to a PlayStation gamer like myself is that basically most of their show was platform agnostic meaning it was showing what was coming to both platforms mainly. By Microsoft own admission they had 50 games with 18 games having some form of exclusivity (like timed) meaning that they showed 32 games coming to PlayStation. Also, as a random point where the hell is FF7 Remake, Square?

AngelicIceDiamond2893d ago

@Fox I'm curious about your numerous comments about Phil spencer like here http://n4g.com/news/2161959...

"You hate Phil Spencer" He's never changing " Rinse and repeat PR" the thing is you swore he was never changing, like ever. What do you think now?

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GottaBjimmyb2893d ago (Edited 2893d ago )

Think that is 99% of what most people feel (whether they admit it or not)

Personally, the fact that all of sony's games come soon and had gameplay and not CGI trailers, made them my preference, but MS did have an amazing confeeence, just all of the things that impressed most are far out.

starchild2893d ago

Well, to be fair most of what I'm excited about at E3 feels like it's far out. Even with Sony the only exclusive I'm looking forward to that I know when I'll be able to play is Spider-Man. In the near future most of what I'm looking forward to playing are multiplatform games.

joab7772893d ago

It’s good to see that MS is righting the ship without abandoning their vision. The idea of abandoning single player games for games of service was nuts! Hopefully next gen we start to see the fruits of their labor pay off. I feel like we lost an entire generation of great games from them.

Which brings me to Sony, who seems to have made up for that by giving us so damn many great AAA quality sp’s it will make your head spin. (Glad X1 fans finally get to play a few). When you think back to this gen and Horizon, GoW, Nioh, U4, Spider-Man, TLoU2, Death Stranding, and so so many more, it will be one of the best lineups any console has ever had in one generation. And I truly believe it was the 360 and it’s success that helped nudge them back in the right direction.

Nintendo is also back now. And it seems that they have finally come to understand how important their flagship sp games are!

For me it is Sony, Nintendo and MS. Ubi is a great 4th. They are kicking ass right now.
I put MS 3rd despite how good it was b/c I see it as a foundation setting for the future.

But I must say that MS is leading the way in terms of forward thinking and services. And both Sony and MS are leagues ahead of Nintendo as far as industry standards. Nintendo NEEDS to catch up. We would never accept some of the garbage they throw at us concerning apps, accessories, lack of functions, from either of the other two.

zerocarnage2893d ago

out of all the comments I enjoyed yours most, it felt honest and very none biased and I'm an Xbox owner and would agree with you 100%

neutralgamer19922893d ago

if you like games sony, if you like presentation ms and if you like smash bros nintendo

now only if all 3 can put it together LOL

MS presented well but their constant 50 games and exclusive/world premier got old(you can't have launch exclusive on screen and just exclusive on speaker)

sony how come you are so up and down with presentations. How can you provide the excellent god of war E3 than this years was all over the place. get your self together man this was a complete and utter joke(saving grace being your games which BTW matter more than the presentation but why couldn't we get both)

Nintendo is just weird

3-4-52893d ago

Microsoft's Presentation was the most solid front to back, but there are only a few of those games I want to play.

Sony's conference was the worst, but had some of the best games....for me though, I'm not really interested in a lot of those even though I can tell they are of high quality. I own a PS4, I just don't play it much compared to my 3DS,Switch & XB1. Still though, Sony's games were good...there presentation was possible one of the worst ever though.

Nintendo's is a bit different. They do multiple Nintendo Directs in a year so this one not having everything in it doesn't bother me much because we will get another Nintendo Direct between October & December of 2018 and still another one around March 2019.

The quick fire pace of the 3rd party & Indie games was ok, but obviously we can learn more via treehouse today and tomorrow for those games.

Smash looks amazing and is a complete system seller. They went all out and are including every character and stage all in a redone brand new Art style that looks absolutely beautiful.

Microsoft & Sony don't have anything that even comes close to competing with some of Nintendo's IP's including Smash Bros. so all 3 kind of balance each other out.

Nintendo gets really fun awesome 1st party titles + cool indies and Sony gets good looking action-adventure story driven AAA games + major 3rd party support. Microsoft had a solid showing and gave us hope for the future which was needed from them.

I liked all 3 and the 3rd party ones for the most part as well...well most of them that is.

Nobody won because all had faults. As much as some want to praise PS4's games at E3, I just can't get into them for some reason unless I'm in the mood for them and they don't appeal to me as much as some of Nintend's IPs do.

We the gamers win. We all win. Especially those of us with multiple consoles.

ABizzel12893d ago

For the first time it's not really unanamious IMO.

It really boils down to what "winning E3" means to you.

Is it best conference / presentation? Microsoft IMO
It is best games / content? Sony IMO

While we watch the shows / presentation in anticipation, the main draw is to see the new games and announcements and IMO Sony just barely edged MS out this year because of it. The gameplay trailers for their games were hands down the best showings at E3 IMO.

AngelicIceDiamond2893d ago

Wrong EA won.....

Lol couldn't say that with a straight face.

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Yukes2893d ago

Microsoft took it this year for me by a whisker. We know Sony are smashing it but their conference wasn't good. Nintendo's Direct was awful though. Definitely not 3rd for me.

Greymon932893d ago

For someone who doesn't care much for Xbox exclusives, I thought the company presented themselves quite well at their conference.

skcej2893d ago

Microsoft looked great IMO and came out and did exactly what was required of them. I actually thought Sony's was a little underwhelming in terms of an E3 conference. The games did look great, though!

wesleyleblanc2893d ago

Personally, it comes down to games I'm interested in. Sony's lineup this year topped Nintendo and Microsoft for me, hence why Sony's conference won the show imo (despite that flow-killing intermission).

yellowgerbil2893d ago

I've been super excited for Death Stranding since it was first teased almost 2 years ago. To find out that it is nothing more than a walking sim like Firewatch or the plethora of others that came out early this gen is a huge disappointment, that combined with still no word on when Dreams is coming really soured me on Sony's show. You toss in the terrible format and the twitch channel going offline during Ghosts of Tsushima it took it to a level of awful I never thought Sony could deliver.

Rippcity2893d ago

I think it's still way too early to actually judge what Death Stranding is. Don't get me wrong, I was extremely underwhelmed at what they showed. They are trying to ride out the mystery behind what the game is to keep people hype but at this point my hype is dying and I'm becoming uninterested.
Back to the article though I think Sony came out way too pretentious with the musical acts. They showed a ton of gameplay which is great and what I wanted to see but man they were sucking their own dicks off real hard. Even though what MS showed was mostly multiplat, the games they presented were what I was hype for the most (DMC5 and Cyberpunk). And the studio acquisition announcements were exactly what MS needed to do to prove to people they are invested in getting more games to their platform. I have to admit though I never cared about or played tlou and the tlou2 announcement made me wanna go back and play the first.
If I had to rate them all: MS > Sony > Bethesda > Nintendo > PC > Ubisoft > Square Enix > EA. EA could have blown people away with Skate 4 and Square massively screwed up by not showing anything about the FF7 Remake.

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai16d ago (Edited 16d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio16d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing16d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9216d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit16d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing16d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9216d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Koei Tecmo Announces Record Financial Results After Releasing Many Big Games

Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.

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(For Southeast Asia) New Price Changes for PS5, PS5 Pro, and PlayStation Portal remote player

For Southeast Asia, new price changes.

Prices effective starting May 1st, 2026.

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BeHunted18d ago

Looks like PlayStation took a hit with Marathon and is now quietly adjusting prices worldwide to recover the losses

andy8518d ago

Lets be honest raising prices doesn't do that when no one's buying it. I imagine the profit it greater selling 10 times more at a lower price

Pergele18d ago

Whatever you say buddy, let's all wear the tinfoil hats.

IceKoldKilla18d ago (Edited 18d ago )

LMFAO Your comment alone says a lot more about you than anything else. When has one game not selling 10 million copies made a company raise the prices of their console? Then Xbox would be costing $5000 by now lol. You remind of the crazy drug addicts on the street rambling on about conspiracies. xD You sure you don't need a hug, buddy?

ChunkyMonk18d ago

One game that Sony payed $200 million for. lol
Also, you sure were quick to get triggered. Maybe your the one who needs a hug?

Eonjay18d ago

If nothing else, we should be united against the real issue here. AI and unnecessary tariffs that are effecting all gamers.

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Athlon10118d ago (Edited 18d ago )

The price increases are due to the RAM demand associated with AI and the US-Iran war. You can look to any business news website and local news to see that. Heck, even the 2026 Asus Zenbook Duo I've been eyeing has faced delays and has had a price increase of $400; that laptop has two specs. Asus is doing a staggered release with per-orders for the lower spec now and shipping in May and pre-orders for the higher spec that I'm eyeing starting in June. Basically, all computer manufactures are affected. It'll most likely start affecting smart phones too if it hasn't already. I can't remember the last time any major console maker (Nintendo, Sony, Sega, etc) increased the price of their console mid cycle outside of Microsoft just to make more profit.

S2Killinit18d ago

Its not the war. Its the RAM issue.

jznrpg17d ago

War is causing gas prices to rise. Transport of everything requires gas so the prices of those items go up as well. So it does have an impact

Athlon10117d ago (Edited 17d ago )

The blockage of the Straight of Hormuz due to the US-Iran war has affected raw components used in semi-conductor manufacturing such as bromine, aluminum, and helium. Iran had attacked the liquified natural gas (LNG) plant in Qatar which is a large producer (1/3 globally) of helium which is used in semiconductor etching. So it's the both the war and the RAM crises.

badz14918d ago

Oh no...should I get the Pro now before the price increase?