My ratings on the E3 press conferences

Microsoft: A+

Some people said it was boring. Honestly, it did a lot for me. Loved the choice of games, even if most of them were sequels, and the interface is quite good looking. That, and I want to see how they do 1 vs. 100 Live.

+: Nice interface, nice Avatars (obvious joke here), focuses on games, superb presentation.
-: Bad THX-ish sound when they unveiled the new Xbox interface.

Nintendo: D

I’ve already made my post on it, and I feel that it does my main comment very well. But I guess I should list them again. Granted, they had some good announcements outside of the conference, such as a US release of Rhythm Tengoku.

+: Voicechat peripheral, Wii Sports sequel looks kind of fun.
-: Focuses far, far too much on the casual crowd, nothing about WiiWare/Virtual Console, NO HARD DRIVE, lame “smile” thing they stole from, of all people, McDonald’s, no trailer for GTA DS (something tells me there’s a good reason), mainly just dragged on with us thinking they’re just holding off on a big announcement that just didn’t happen, and finally, the Mario theme being murdered on stage.

Sony: B

+: Focuses on games and games only, nice showing of financial data with LittleBigPlanet, nice presentation, didn’t remind me of Sony 2006.
-: Nothing really special to me other than LittleBigPlanet.

Capcom: F

E3. A gaming convention. Something about games. Capcom. Famous gaming studio. Makers of Megaman 9, Street Fighter IV, and other things. When you mash these together…we managed to get a half-hour long talk about a Lost Planet movie.

Yeah.

+: It’s short.
-: It started late, they talked about video game movies like they were anything above mediocre at best (especially the Street Fighter movie), and they didn’t even talk about video games.

Konami: F

“Hey, how you guys feeling tonight?”

Chirp chirp.

“Aw, you a bunch of LAMERS.”

Seriously, the press conference should have just stopped when they were finished with Silent Hill Homecoming. Honestly, it’s painful enough to see Castlevania as a fight…er, 3D Action game.

+: At least they talked about games. Three of them, but that’s three more than Capcom. Silent Hill Homecoming doesn’t look that bad, but I never played a Silent Hill game.
-: At least talks about a video game movie are not as terrible as going through not one, but two bad renditions of The Ramones’ “Blitzkreig Bop”.

After E3: To be honest, E3 wasn’t that good, but it wasn’t completely painful. I have heard EA had the best one, and seeing how they have shown off both Spore and Mirror’s Edge, I can see why.