The idea of there being "winners" at E3 always makes us giggle – like these corporate conferences are full on sporting competitions. Nevertheless, there's always a slew of data analysis that comes out after the show attempting to determine which company came out on top – it's just a shame that all of the data points to different conclusions.
Facebook shows that Sony did the best job of advertising its products at you, capturing over 30 per cent of the "conversation" between 7th June and 14th June. God of War was one of the most talked about titles of the week, with Titanfall 2 and The Elder Scrolls: Legends joining it. We've absolutely no idea what the latter is, but we assume it's some kind of crap card game, right?
Brand Watch, which takes a more holistic view, put Microsoft on top – but its data only accounts for a 10 per cent sample of the overall social media chatter. In terms of games, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild topped the charts. It's perhaps worth mentioning that there are tons of other factors at play here, though; Bethesda's presser fared poorly but was at 3AM UK time, while most games only got ten or so minutes of stage time compared to Zelda's five or more hours.
And all of this data doesn't really tell us much in context. Sony's press conference may well have captured 30 per cent of the Facebook conversation, but what if everyone was talking about how bad it was? In summary, readers, this is all just a big pile of nonsense. We're slowly running out of news, though, so we figured that we'd post it anyway.
[source venturebeat.com, via brandwatch.com]
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Zelda does look quite impressive but it's not something I would personally be particularly interested in. Always good to have variety of course. I think Days Gone might have had more interest if it had a more interesting name and if it wasn't zombies for the 97th time. If you can get past that though, strong contender in my eyes along with Horizon.
@Swiket Touche.
But I did say in the comments that I wanted the headline to be "10 PS4 Games We're Hyped About at E3 2016" but we already used that headline before the show.
The whole winners/losers debate is ridiculous. I am sure that everyone here will have their own idea on what game/announcement 'won' E3 but what does that mean - nothing. My favourite game was Horizon and if I said that 'won' E3, someone else could counter that and say something else did but its meaningless.
Take the 'battle' of the FPS's due in Oct/Nov time, what will count as a Win? Most sales?, Most online gamers a month or 2 later? highest rating? personal favourite? What will the winner get? 3pts? I doubt any will end up as Game of the Year - like the best box-office films don't usually win Oscars but the profits they make, they certainly aren't 'losers' either...
Competition is great because it makes developers try harder to deliver the best they can. If someone comes out with a better product, next rime tey will try harder to beat that. Its the same with consoles - they all borrow ideas off of each other if successful. They only 'winners' are us - the gamers!
If people don't or haven't responded well to E3 and the presentations, I hope that these corporations take that on-board and try harder to impress.
@get2sammyb I fully support the original headline
@get2sammyb "Perhaps because the whole idea's dumb?" "We've absolutely no idea what the latter is, but we assume it's some kind of crap card game, right?"
Feel better now? Venting is good. I hope Ramsey doesn't show up or you're gonna be in trouble for talking about "the game that shall not be named". 48 comments in that other thread and none of them are mine.
The gamers that's who won and that's all that should matter.
Put it this way if it wasn't for Sony's conference E3 Wouldn't of been that good.
According to IGN, their game of E3 was Zelda. Not for me though. There were too many strong showings from PlayStation. I struggled voting in the poll as it's such a difficult choice. God of war was my final choice, but it could easily have been three or four others
@blakey78
It wasn't my Game of E3 either, but it was in my top 5 and I can understand the choice. It's Zelda, I'm sure IGN won't be the only website putting it at the top.
As pertains to who 'won', there's nothing wrong with trying to decide and for me Microsoft takes top honors but Sony was a very, very close second. MS had games and hardware, Sony had games. Since each company had the same number of exclusives I'm interested in, as somebody who's very interested in hardware and the advances in technology I have to give the edge to the company than announced it's working on a beast of a console. At the end of the day though the main concern is if there's stuff to look forward to. There's at least 15 games, probably more, combined on PS4 and Xbox One I'm looking forward to through the end of 2017 and Zelda will force me to purchase an NX. Plenty of stuff, imo, to get hyped for so @Tasuki is right. Gamers won.
Sounds a bit like you're comparing the whole f Sony to the Legend of Zelda.
In my opinion that is fair
For me Horizon ZD won E3; looked the best game by a mile. Don't care about console wars; as you say, it's stupid.
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@Tasuki
"The gamers that's who won"
Hear hear. Gamers are the winners here. Only fanboys make a stink about who won.
I think Sony, overall, contributed the most, absolutely, but everyone brought something to the table. And everything on the table is on the table for us gamers l.
For the amount of games shown and games i want to play.Sony had the best conference.I even liked the VR games.I have even decided i would like to get PSVR.At the end of the day all the conferences showed us that as gamers we have alot to look forward to this year and in the future.
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