Microsoft had two notable strikes against it.
- They started off the presentation showing off Call of Duty as a new IP ... again. Honestly, the only people that even care to see anything about CoD now are retailers and the 12-year-olds that make up their entire audience now. The franchise had something good with the first Modern Warfare, and quickly became the epitome of stupid since.
- So instead of addressing BC at all, Xbox One people will instead get the Master Chief Collection... of which the only game even somewhat playable out of the lot is the first one. Oh, and 4000 gamerscore... for what?
The preview for
Sunset Overdrive was a lot of fun,l and had me interested. Other than that, nothing else really jumped out as worth getting an Xbone for, and certainly not one with Kinect.
Sony, of course, being their typical arrogant selves again.
- Uncharted 4... when Drake finally dons his Klan robes like it's his birthright. Whoop-de-doo.
- Oh, yay, Last of us on PS4
- Beta access is cool... until you realize this just means you're playing the game in its most awful and buggy state.
- Nevermind that more crashing PS4's means more replacement PS4's that have to be made when they all break.
And for all the gab from Sony trying to support the Vita, it seemed non-existent at their show. Sorry, but I just don't have
any motivation for LBP3. Even so, the biggest thing keeping me away from any new Sony products is how they treated me in the past, and the fact that I'll probably end up having to get an in-store replacement plan so as to not be out of pocket for five or six to find one that will actually work.
Partnering for a
Robot Chicken style for the Nintendo presentation was... amusing, if only briefly. At least none of the sketches dragged on. Nintendo had every right to hype up Smash brothers, but I still don't see the appeal of Amiibo. Then again I never saw the appeal of Skylanders or Disney Infinity either. Splatoon actually does look rather cool. Annoying that there was next to nothing about third party stuff.
I can't vote for any of them, simply because there wasn't anyone with anything truly deserving of an award.