Added by
Ross on June 2, 2009
Long time no blog. Just here to give my brief impressions of E3 2009. In my opinion I feel that Microsoft did have the strongest of the three press conferences. Between the unexpected announcement of Crackdown 2, gameplay from ODST, the announcement of Halo: Reach (super excited about it because I'm a nerd and read the book), and Project Natal I feel that they exponentially improved their presentation from last year. You know Microsoft is doing well when Halo: ODST was not one of the best parts of the conference.
Second up we have Nintendo. While the Conference was a helluva lot better than whatever the hell happened last year, it didn't seem to rise to the top. The four player New Super Mario Bros. Wii has me interested along with Golden Sun DS (way overdue) and Metroid: Other M (which looks kind of cool except that Samus talked). Nintendo still catered to the casual but much less than last year. They are definitely headed in the right direction.
Last but not least is Sony. They started off strong with an Uncharted: Among Thieves live demo which was awesome. Then there was the inevitable unveiling of the PSP Go! which seems like it will help usher in the future of straight digital downloads. Then there was the odd announcement of FFIV, the already seen trailer of Team ICO's The Last Guardian, ModNation Races (which seems to be an interesting racing game with LittleBigPlanet's community aspect), and Sony ended it with a lackluster live demo of God of War 3. After listing everything out I realize how much closer the Sony and Microsoft press conferences were than I thought. I'm still going to give a miniscule edge to Microsoft because I'm intrigued to about the possibilities of Natal but all three press conferences were very strong overall.