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Sony wins E3 2014: Microsoft gambled on games, and lost; Nintendo did better than expected (updated) Sebaan honnn 11 2014 t 8:16am 807 Comments Updated σ 8:15am June 11: This story has been expanded to include feedback from Nintendo's E3 Dighal Event. The original story about whether Sony or Mcrosott won E3, has been left mostly untouched. Share This Article 101 10 At its press conference last night, Sony casually sauntered on stage,sipped its hands nonchalantly into Its pockets, offered up an expressve French shrug, and won E3 204 Microsoft and Its leglon of fans could do nothing but look on with envy as Somy unveled hit after hit for the PSA. For all of Microsoft's tak about games, the only platform exclusive that might be a critical success - HoNo 5-was reduced to a 60 second-long pre rendered clip The Division looked fantastic, but n's d OOSS-platform gerne There were sorne smaller, art game-like titles that looked good-but nothing that Microsoft felt warranted more then a scant few seconds of gameplay footage. Sony, an the other hand, essentialy showed off everything garner could want ' E3 A new white PS4 00 celebrate the release of Destiny; a release date for PS Now and the PlayStation TV streaming box more cetails about the Morpheus VR headset the beautiful art game No Man's Sky and actual in-gamein-engine footage from two massive excuses ILmeHigPlaner3 uncharted and many more smaller titles 4M) Man's Sky, a remake of anon FaMan . Nintendo, with what appeared to be in-engine footsge of the upcoming WIl U Zelda the and some fun new IP called Spktoon, actually did surprisingly well. If Nintendo can dellver on its promise of an open-world Skyrirn-like Zelda title, then we could be ng at massive hit. Lkewise, Splatoon looks Ike it will be the funnest new game to be revealed at E3 this yeat But thers a lot of ifs and buts: I am a lot more confident that Uncharted 4 and LittleBigPlanet 3 will actualy be awesome, as opposed to poss bly awesome. With all that said, t's not unusual for one of the console companies to come out ahead a E3-bur this isnt just Sony wiening by a nose, it's a land such huge disparities are rare at E3. How did Microsott get h so wrong? And what can Nimendo do to stay in the game? UNCH TED jhief's Erd、 4 Games, games, games! Today we are dedicating our entre briefing to games, began the head of Xlbox, Ph Spencer, to huge cheers from the E3 2014 audlence. But, If you put all of your eggs in one basket you better be damn sure thet you have违very strong basket-and Forza at 1080p and a prerendered cip of Halo 5 do not strong basket make. The question is why did Microsot decidle to make games the focus of its E3 presemadion even when it knew it had nothing big to show off? Bear in mind thet Microsoft almos certainly knew about all of the games that Sony intended to display and so it knew ful well thar it was going to be evscerated by core gamers for a weak showing But.. what else could Microsoft do? Following Rs backtracking of every single poilcy and feabure that made the Xbox One unique, al that's left is games Afher de-bunding Kinect Microsoft couldn't then take to the stage at E3 and show off some amazing Kinect based game. Likewise, in the words of our assoclate edtor James Plafke, Microsoft couldin't really show off another peripheral such as IlumiRoom ater the Kinect debadle. Microsot could've showed off a new console, though-If R rushed a cheap, slim version of the Xbox One, th禎woukrve given gamers something to talk about. Or it coire announced some exciting updenes to the Xbox One deshboard Or it coukive re-introduced digital game sharing or something else equally crazy Presumably, Microsotht figured it focused on just one thing-games-it acqually stood a chance at beating Sony at something Now that Sony has shown its gaming hand, we know that isn't the case In short, games were the crux of Microsoft'sE3 presentation, and thus games were the crux of its fallure. Nintendo: Qirky as always Like last yea, Nineendo instead opted for a pre-recorded presentation instead of a flashy main-stage E3 event. As it turned out, this was a savvy move that kept expectations low and increased the impact of some fairly big games. The Wil U Zelda title, Super Smash Bi0S, fy rule Warrior%, Bayonetta 2. and the new IP of Splatoon were a quite impressive. That Nintendo chose to unwell them in a serles of qulrky Interviews and dlaymations was an interesting choice, but the overall impression is that Nintendo had a strong E3 Nintendo has always reled on killer gemes to sell consoles- and right now the W U only realy has two games that make the console worthwhle (Manlo Kart&and Super Mowio 30 Wonld Indvidualy, almost all of the games shown ofT by Ninterndo aE3 2014, if they're as good嶨Nintendo promises, would be reason enough to buy a Wi U Personally bought the wi for Mario Galaxy and Twilght Prices and i would buy the wi U for Zelda-if i dellvers, Judiging by the W U,I doubt I'm alone in th thinking- and Ikewise, I suspect Nintendo is counting on t Unfortunately, though, the Wi U Zekda game soll isn't due until 2015 at the earliest-and Smash Bros and Hyrule Warrlors aren't due untl the hollday season, elther. Nintendo definitely put in a good showing at E3 this year, but I suspect it's a maner of too little too late. Life long Nintendo fans will pick up the console to play their favorite franchises, and Splatoon might bring in a litle new blood, but we're not going to see a crazy resurgence In console sales Swaggering Sony While Microsoft's E3 presentation was ful of obsequlousness- "you are shaping the future of Xbox and we are better for it, sald Xax's Phil Spencer-Sony oored confidence: the kind of confidence that comes from knowing that you almost have the elghth generation of the console war sewn up Sony already had the lead in sales and consumer confidence but it needed this 63 to show gamers that it can capitalize the advantage-by goly, thats exactly what Sony did Not only did Sony beat Microsoft in the primary arena of games, but it also won the secondary conflicts by default because it didn't focus solely on games. PlayStation TV previously Vita TV PS Now, and the whhe PS4 are al wery cool additions thart will only increase Sony's sales lead Perhaps this is Microsos biggest problem coming out of E3 204: The only real thing that will drive more Xbox sales is Halo 5, while Sony announced at least three or four games that are have the potential to become Game Of The Yeat There's apossibility that Sunset Overdrive-the only original IP announced by Microsoft-wi become a runaway hit, but I stil think Sony Is in the lead by some margin. Next page: So, what can Microsoft do 1of2 Next w

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