"E3 conferences 'a bit shit' shocker!"

This is copied directly from an email I sent to Gary (him down there):

"If I were to rank the conferences on quality of presentation, they'd look a bit like this:

1) Sony
2) Nintendo
3) Microsoft

Sony's conference was no nonsense. These are the specs, this is what it can do, these are some game trailers, this is the console. The specs stuff was dull however, and most of the game trailers were almost definately not ingame (the amazing Killzone 2 demo being highest on that list)

Nintendo had the advantage of Reggie but an awful DJ set using the DS (padding?) and baby-talking woman Tina (whining into Nintendogs) spolit it.

Microsoft's presentation was awful. "Yo yo yo, dis is da future of da gaming zen. 1 billion users on Live by tomorrow! Yeah!" It actually sounded like they hired people to whoop whenever J Allard spoke. Some excruciating "comedy" (including a be-wigged 360 faceplate for the bald Peter Moore before his presentation, hilarious) topped it off. Awful.

For content however:

1)Sony
2)Microsoft
3)Nintendo

Same reasons as above, but Sony and MS at least showed some next gen games, even if they were prerendered. Nintendo spent almost the entire conference on DS games everyone has seen before and talking about online functions (which, fair enough, is what they said they'd do). The Revolution showing was a joke, obviously only meant to appease the fans. Plus it looked like an Alba DVD player.

I know Nintendo had no intentions of showing the Revolution and they let us know this well before the conference but still, the conference was mainly talk with no substance, the worse of the three overall in my opinion. MS's one was a joke presentation wise but the online stuff was quite interesting. Sony's was rather blandly presented, but the hard stuff was there, the stuff the fans wanted to see."

How exciting.