Highlights from Sony's E3 2008 press conference

To me this seemed very focused on the PSN side and basically said "Hey look at us we are more like Xbox Live Now!" I don't get what the hype is all about with the video store. I have been able to do that on the 360 for a while now. I Didn't see Nintendo's but Sony didn't do anything to get me excited (and when they showed the video montage of games at the end I only counted like 2-3 exclusives not 10 (or whatever the number he said was))

Wow, no KZ2 stuff? Why are they not pushing it more? I could have swron they woulve shown at least somne MP footage that weve never seen b4. I stopped watching after the R2 stuff so I guess I didnt miss too much. MAG sounds badass, GOWIII was just a teaser. Cool, I feel better now.

Can't wait till the eventual joystiq poll of which E3 conference was best. Will let us all see how many casual gamers/grandmas/nintendo's desired new audience visit joystiq

Im Fine With Sony And Microsoft Confrences To Me Microsoft had the better E3 Sony showed 2 many fucking trailers its like seriously SOME GAME-PLAY please but hey They both owned Nintendo's shitty showing Nintendo was dead to me anyway after Super Smas Bros. Brawl which was the last good game in my opionion Nintendo sucks........Sorry but its the truth fine for casual gamers but no with me but this is just how i feel and I do own all systems just stating that Might sale my Wii though>>>>

I love how all the MS fanboys are claiming the MS presser to be the best, aside from FFXIII (which has always been coming to PS3 and still is along with Versus) and Gears 2, there is very little to be excited about on the 360 front.

Sony has a hell of a lot more to look forward to. But I suppose the game 360 fanboys hated before (FFXIII) is now the "megaton" announcement that rocked the world because it's getting ported?

sony showed trailers and boasted of having more exclusives, havent listed many of said exclusives, yea M$ has this one...

MS still has a chance to make an even bigger splash if Bungie announces something manana.

:D

I'm happy that I can now get rid of my Netflix account!

Nothing really exciting or new, exccept Zipper and maybe GoW3, but I suppose we already anticipated that. Would have been good to hear about Team Ico and White Knight. Nintendo easily the lousiest , and probably MS second best. They had basically two games on display - GoW2 and fable 2. Bit of a joke, their biggest and only announcement is that one of the SE games (albeit the bigger one) is going multi-plat, and that too only outside Japan. Is it a bigger loss than Bioshock and potentially Mass effect going non-exclusive is for the 360? I would think not.

I think the bungie announcement is an insurance plan. If square did a FF7 remake, a new halo from bungie would negate it

Not a bad showing by any means, but there wasn't much that could be done to counter the 360 version of FF13 announcement.

While in effect the biggest showing of the MS conference was simply a port of a PS3 game, the splash it made really stole the thunder from Sony. Which I imagine was the real point of it. Sony had the most to show that gamers should be interested in, but everyone was thinking about the FF13 port and much of the impact was lost. Pretty amazing if you think about it. Oh well.

I stand by what I said before, however. This gen is really proving to be a letdown.

Highlights from Sony's E3 2008 press conference:

Not A Thing.
Period.

I'm not sure why so many people are expecting Bungie to announce something for the PS3. They still essentially work for Microsoft, despite being independant. No matter what they announce, it's going to be exclusively on the 360, and if it's anything to do with Halo, it definitely is. (As MS still own that series)

But yeah, I don't think Sony's show was bad, certainly not Nintendo bad, but it was too long and there wasn't enough excitement. Microsoft at least had a showing of awesome arcade titles coming, and a really shocking announcement. I'm still enjoying watching the fanboys bickering about that one..

Frankly, I'm surprised to see Sony pushing for downloadable movies so much, I would have thought they'd be focusing more on blu-ray. MS' partnership with Netflix instantly makes anything Sony said about their system completely irrelevant.

What the hell are you talking about? Please explain me how Sony's conference tops MS one?

Showcase CGI/FMV of upcoming 2009 and 2010 games isn't exactly as great as seeing on stage real GAMEPLAY DEMO of big games coming out THIS holiday season (which Microsoft has).

80gb Core PS3... without PS2 compatibility... who would care for that?

PS2 bundle: Am I missing something?

PSP bundle: Just another flavor of the same

Home delay: Wow, the usual

Movie services: Welcome to last year Xbox live Marketplace

Am I missing something here ?

BUT, Sony show was still better than Nintendo. While I was looking at the highlights (could not attend the live blog, got busy at work) I just couldn't believe their conference was done...

Continuing the theme of Conference Suckage.

Maybe the least sucky, but sucky nonetheless.

well the only real thing Microsoft had for their conference was FFXIII, which was beneficial to them, 360-only owners, and 360 fanboys who need a few extra centimeters to add to their willies. as a PS360 owner, nothing about the announcement made a difference to me (other than making me pissed that Sony didn't do anything to secure it as an exclusive). considering all this, i'd have to say Sony's conference was the less smelly turd. i didn't care about Lips, Avatars, new Dashboards, or Netflix. i was covered with FFXIII either way. on the flip side from Sony, i didn't care about Video stores, PSP stuff (don't have one) or PS2 stuff really (last gen). PS3 Greatest Hits was cool, and the new 40gig/80gig hybrid for $400 was okay for prospect PS3 purchasers...i guess. but, Sony at least announced more new content. Microsoft showed no new games, and the only interesting exclusives they had were Gears of War 2 and Fable 2. Sony at least tested new waters with MAG and DC Online. inFamous was pleasant, though a more firm release would've been good. still would've been cool to see Sony ditch their "trailers" style and show some friggin gameplay for a change. would've also been cool to see Sony pushing franchises with little info available, like Heavy Rain and WKC. otherwise nothing overwhelmingly exciting. and whats with the almost-absence of Killzone 2?

huh? anything good in that list?

The Annoucement of MAG pushed Sony's over Microsoft.

1) Sony
2) Micro$oft
3) Ninefaildo

Pretty boring show. They showed us stuff we know about. They showed us a new game that is way out and did very little to show what it is about.

Best of E3 for me has to be Fallout 3 and Gears 2. Not even close imo. FFXIII was a big story obviously but doesn't do much for me other than give a decision on which system to buy it for. RE5 is also coming along nicely.

wtf to Nintendo's show. Man have they ever stopped giving a damn about actual gamers.

I smell a fanboy. MS clearly had the better show. Sony announced a new PSP Resistance game and Mag. MS announced an exclusive Portal sequel, Gears 2 blowout (not just some lil' teasers), and FFf'ingXIII.

It's just not even close. We can debate all day about price drops, classics, Netflix, Geo Wars 2, and whatever else. But for the really exciting things, i.e. games, MS took the show. Let's not even mention that RE5 and Fallout 3 (with 360 console-exclusive DLC) were covered at the 360 event and not Sony's.

It would have been different had they demoed God of War 3 and Resistance 2 while unveiling some sick-ass new features for them, but they didn't. It was a total snooze-fest. Even though MS showed a lot of multiplatform stuff, it still had to be more exciting than Sony's, by far.

ign is dominant in the news video game editorial..money is gonna all the japanese company line up behind sony and buy back excvlusive games and put it on there ps3 or all japanese company will take back there companies and instead of 3 there will be 23 companies with all different system and on every system you will have 2 developers working out

A freaking disappointment. No LBP date, nothing exciting, no Home *not that I wanted it, just thought they would release it to counter Live Party*, and more promises that they can break. Atleast give us a small LBP demo where you can test the level creator, please! Also, stop it with the CGI. No one wants freaking "render with system specs in-mind" CGI. Stop it... now...

Can someone tell me if they used the "This is the year of the PS3!" line or not. Just wondering if they are still using the same old, stale tactics.

Sony's two announcements to come to pass before next E3: 'Resistance: Retribution' and 80GB PS3 will be $399 in Sept. If the dashboard update is out before Home that would be a huge blow. Well, at least unlike Nintendo Sony did announce a franchise sequel (God of War 3).