Nintendo outshines Sony and Microsoft with its E3 extravaganza!

I felt that Microsoft and Sony missed the point at this year’s E3.

E3 is a place where people come to show off new ideas, characters, and stories, and the whole shebang is supposed to leave me in awe. This year, as I watched Sony and Microsoft compete over who can have the best looking grey or brown corridors, I realized that I didn’t care.

Great way to show of the next generation’s capabilities.

Destiny is looking less and less impressive with every new reveal, The Order looks like another cover-based shooter, and Microsoft’s biggest offering was the Master Chief Collection, which allows you to play games you bought ten years ago, today. That’s nice, but hardly a groundbreaking achievement, and certainly not worthy of the time it was given. Even the Suda 51 game, Destiny, seemed like nothing more than a blood-soaked multiplayer deathmatch. And when a Suda 51 game looks dull, we have a problem.

In fact the saviors of Microsoft and Sony came in the unlikely form of indie games, most notably Hello Game’s No Man’s Sky. It has space dinosaurs.

Sony and Microsoft’s biggest failures were forgetting why they were there. Sure, it’s nice to hear about connectivity, community, and future plans, but what gamers want are games. We want more games, better games, and fresher games. Playstation Now is cool, but it’s not E3-worthy.

The constant litany of “it’s better on our console,” “you get exclusive DLC with ours,” and “if you buy it for ours, you get a different colored hat,” seemed childish. By the end of Sony’s presentation I wanted to strangle everyone who said “it’s better on Playstation.” Don’t tell me it’s better, don’t scrabble, and claw over pointless knick-knacks which have almost no impact on the game. It’s boring.

Nobody cares about exclusive this and exclusive that. Grow up guys and stop arguing over whose is bigger.

So it was with little hope that I sat down to watch the Nintendo digital event. After all, what could this pre-recorded sham from a failing company offer that Sony and Microsoft could not? As it turns out, a lot.

(See: Nintendo’s foolishness has bitten back hard but what does the future hold for the fallen king of consoles?)

First of all Nintendo wowed audiences with claymation Reggie, then gave us the live action Iwata-versus-Reggie showdown of our nightmares. Seriously, how cool was that?