Thanks for your impressions. To skip us all repeating them on each others blogs, I thought I would leave a little note saying I read your blog and to check out mine for my own impressions.

I still think the news that FFXIII going to the X360 was the biggest news of all 3.

I felt Microsoft had the best showing too. After seeing them in action, I am excited for Gears 2 and Fallout 3. Fable 2 looks pretty cool too and they released the Too Human demo last night which was awesome in my opinion. So that's 3 games I really want to get.
Nintendo's offering was underwhelming. I don't think they can do GTA on the DS well. And we all knew Animal Crossing was coming. It was a poorly kept secret.
I haven't watched the Sony conference yet but if it announced God of War 3 then it is instantly better than what Nintendo showed.
And the sad thing is I like Nintendo the most.

"now i get to see the greatest show on the universe on my 360, The Office"

Okay, I honestly don't get what the big deal is here. What's wrong with watching the show on your TV? Is it just the novelty of being able to watch TV shows on your gaming console? This is just my personal opinion, but I think that even though technology can allow for many new and amusing things, not all of them are particularly practical or effective, or advances forward in some way.

Nintendo's E3 conference wasnt THAT bad!
/sarcasm

I feel really glad to have a 360 and not a PS3 right now.

I gave microsofts conference a standing ovation...the one thing it was missing was the promised halo annoucment. I think ff13 made up for that. But still im not interested in that game...so halo annoucment would have been nice

All three confrences were trash. Im not planning on buying anymore Wii games so Nintendo was meh from the beginning of E3

Microsoft was bad....except for Gears 2 which made me drool....Fable 2 etc....just suck >_>

And PS3........uh...mostly uninteresting except for the neat God of War 3 video showcasing the awesome Kratos graphics.......and uh........idk...>Resistance 2?

This E3 wasnt very exciting. >_>

Oh and The Office is wack

oh yea....u said every wii360..etc... owner is getting call of duty.....
lies......
gave up on call of duty after cod4. gears 2 is getting my money

I didn't find any of the conferences all that interesting in their own rights, but I did find it kind of fascinating looking at the way each company presented themselves. Nintendo probably had the best one in this sense. They had the shortest conference that was the most focused and on point.

Of course the actual focus was on someone other than us, so it seems most of the hardcore has pretty much given up on Nintendo.

A lot of Nintendo fans have been saying things like, "What the frell is Nintendo thinking?!?" And I found a very interesting interview with Miyamoto over at MSNBC.com (exactly the sort of media outlet Nintendo was focusing on with that conference): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25710005/

In this interview he flat out states that Nintendo is no longer going to use E3 to make big hardcore title announcements, but that they will make such announcements later on down the line. In other words, assuming E3 continues at all, all of us hardcore Nintendo fans would be better off not getting our hopes up next year. I actually find this fact comforting, because in the quote Miyamoto confirms that there are hardcore titles coming.

All that said I'm personally looking forward to Animal Crossing (even if it is a bit too similar to the DS and Gamecube games), Motion Plus, and Wii Music. I think I may be the only actual gamer in the entire world who has not just dismissed this game out of hand. But I enjoyed Electroplankton on the DS, which shared a number of similarities to Wii Music (sadly among those similarities is not the fantastic art style seen in Electroplankton). I sometimes think gamers can be just a bit too elitist when it comes to stuff like Wii Music.

Goku2639 "Oh and The Office is wack"
GO TO HELL