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ScrewAttack has always seemed like one of the gaming sites that have a lot of respect for Nintendo to me. I've never seen them as Sony fanboys.
It boggles the mind how bad pizza and fear of another riot was less worse then watching a conference. But whatever, let screw attack and the rest of the media be biased and cater to those with who don't know any better.
@Electrofreq
It doesn't take a Sony fanboy to hate Nintendo's boring press conference this year.
what was going on at 1:32?
looked like a matrix of profanity.
also: how did they choose the video's poster frame? trolling a bit i think.
I'm dispointed in screwattack. They usually know what they're talking about.
The general opinion about E3 this year is that it sucked no matter how you look at it. Nintendo's conference was considered underwhelming because it was a given and they didn't take the opportunity. Still most people think Nintendo and Sony are tie (with some thinking Nintendo was best, and others Sony) when it comes to the conferences with average performances and Microsoft once again being the worst conference in the show. For what? 4 years in a row?
I hated every conference this year. The pre-E3 Nintendo conference was good though, but it made the actual E3 conference even more underwhelming since they hyped it with a pre-conferance and everything.
All of the conferences disappointed, but Microsoft's was the worst because the middle section of the conference was just so freaking boring. I'm an Xbox 360 owner and I'll freely admit that Microsoft is really disappointing me at E3 a lot lately.
However, I do feel Nintendo's was better. Yes it didn't have the "oomph" I was expecting, and the lack of a big reveal for the end was a shame, but all things considered Nintendo had way more interesting stuff to show than Microsoft did. I heard Sony's conference was really no better or worse than Nintendo's.
At least Sony and Microsoft showed games i'm interested in Assassin's Creed 3, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Resident Evil 6, God of War: Ascension, The Last of Us, Playstation All-Stars, Black Ops 2, etc. Nintendo showed a whole bunch of casual crap. Only two games Nintendo showed that were interesting was NSMBU and Pikmin 3...
But I agree Ubisoft knocked it out of the park...shame they beat the big 3.
Considering their website is named after a power up in one of Nintendo's popular franchises?
Sure...
Screw attack normally shows a lot of nintendo love. but we all can admit that Nintendo wasn't on the ball that day...
ACIII counts for Sony and Microsoft, but not Nintendo? Even when it was at their conference? And you're kidding yourself if you think BlOps 2 isn't coming to Wii U.
Even in Black Ops 2 is coming to the Wii-U, it wasn't shown at Nintendo's conference so that doesn't really help Nintendo's case whether it is coming or not.
E3 was just poor all around this year. There were no real surprises or megatons. We knew about almost everything shown at the conference and Nintendo took a lot of the excitement of the Wii-U away by doing their Pre-E3 thing. And even that wasn't all that exciting. They didn't demonstrate much more of what the Wii-U could do compared to last year's E3. Nintendo didn't have the worst showing, Microsoft did, but it still wasn't very good. Sony's wasn't very good either. None of them were.
They barely mention Microsoft's conference, they don't bring up EA, "two" of the worst has nothing to do with video games, and they praised PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale twice (one with it's presentation and the other with Big Daddy being in it.)
As a fellow nerd, I now hate myself.
it kinda amazes me at how people still sulk about E3 despite two weeks having passed.
I thought E3 stank all together.
edit: Especially when a lot of games had Call of Duty syndrome.
Yeah, Nintendo was pretty dissapointing... Out of the console makers Sony did best, the book part was boring, but they were mostly about games.
Ubisoft did best of all though.
Nintendo's conference was disappointing, yes, but worst of show? Not even close. Microsoft's took that one again this year.
I didn't watch yet, but how many of you watched it and how many of you are just reacting to led-naruto's summary when Maxram0's makes it seem less severe?
@Electrofreq
It's like you don't know what you're saying.
Shut up.
Placing Smartglass in the BEST list and placing the E3's surprises in BEST No.1 when there were NONE, made this list horrible!
At least, I can agree with the "top5 of the Worst" list.
Nintendo's was worst. Stop making excuses for them. The others weren't introducing a new console. And it was worst than 2008 as well. 2008's conference matter a jot, they we're at the height of their success. This conference on the other hand, single-handedly killed off an whole year's worth of hype. People who were definitely buying the console, suddenly found themselves on the fence. What did 2008's do? Or Sony's and MS's conference?
A conference that could in all likelihood negatively impact the sales of the Wii U is a terrible conference.
So can one that talks about nothing but apps and Kinect, while showing demos of really generic games.
Again, Nintendo's was bad sure, but MS's was much worse.
And no, it's not even close to 2008 bad.
@cbbomb
Not making excuses. There is no need to. Try objective criteria, like out of the very few surprises of this E3, how many were on Nintendo platforms? Or Which conference had more actual announcements or very first look at games than just new trailers of already announced stuff?
Hell the fact that they were showing the hardware in more details single handedly makes this conference worth our attention.
When trying to see who did best, criteria such as "only stuff that I like count" are irrelevant. Or the other solution would be just to realise how stupid it is to designate a "winner" when it doesn't mean anything anyway and..... oh well forget it -_-'
You know I get why some of you would be content with Nintendo's e3 showing this year. Especially if you didn't go into it with crazy expectations like some of us. Mostly it's just about knowing what the Wii U is bringing to the table, right? And we do, it's lineup is pretty impressive and the controller has lots of potential, we know this because we're gamers who scour the internet for news on that sort of shovel.
but not everyone is like that. That's where Nintendo failed, man. Look at e3 06. Yeah, e3 was a whole different ballgame back then but Nintendo knew how the fark to present their new device. They knew how to create buzz and hype and excite both the gamer audience and the non-gamer audience... and investors too. Do any of you really feel like they even remotely accomplished that with their Wii U unveiling like they did with the Wii? They kind of just presented the bare minimum, you know, some OS features, scant 3rd party titles, a single anticipated 'core' offering for U, and a bunch of guaranteed 'make our investors and our pockets happy' games. Like Mario. And, uh, Mario. And Paper Mario. They even made sure to mention how this console was gonna be a new disruption to the industry just like the Wii, but if it weren't for Microsoft pimping Smart Glass this year I wouldn't have even been convinced.
Well, the good thing is that Nintendo is pretty self-aware these days so if it wasn't already their plan to do this (and I'm pretty sure it was), I expect they're just gonna host their own show or a Nintendo Direct conference before the console launches that showcases the non-launch window titles (like Retro's title that allegedly wasn't ready for a full unveiling and had to be pulled from the conference lineup, for example).
What the hell? How the hell did sony do best?
I watched all of e3 with some friends, the point being to have a laugh at all the incredibly embarrassing things it had to offer. While nobody liked the nintendo conference (save for that zombiu trailer) and while we didnt find it to be the best...it was the least horrible.
Sony wasnt as bad as microsoft, but when they werent looking like morons, they spent that time looking like assholes.
I guess if youre the kind of guy that gets excited that big daddy will be in a smash bros ripoff (that you could probably find for free on newgrounds RIGHT NOW) then its cool, but wtf.
Sony's press conference was what?
-Books
-Movies that are kinda interactive (dont even call david cage's crap games, HE doesnt even call them games)
-more Movies and TV (announcements for hulu and all that)
-God of this game never changes
-Please buy our ripoff of an internet service, well give you 3 games that cost us nothing to distribute
-phooooooooones
heres what was new/related:
-black ops on vita (wow, so surprising, no gameplay even shown)
-AC on vita (^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^)
And finally, heres what wasnt completely stupid:
-Uncharted 4
Its like youre all giving sony credit just because you want to look impartial on a nintendo site. Sony's showing was horrible, all the showings were horrible. I feel like there have been too many bad e3s for you to remember what a good showing is. By the standards of whats good and bad that I see every year, nintendo "won" the big 3, simply for being the only one who showed games
Doesnt matter though, Ubisoft dominated e3 with ease.
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