So – out of the big three – who had the best E3 conference this year? Didn’t think I’d be saying this, but my vote goes towards Microsoft. They dropped a couple megatons, such as the new dashboard interface coming in fall and of course — Final Fantasy XIII. But there also were a number of exciting low-key announcements, like Geometry Wars 2 and Banjo-Kazooie for XBLA.

Nintendo’s conference was rather disappointing. Animal Crossing Wii – great, but the only other announcement for hardcore gamers was GTA: Chinatown Wars. This surprised me, as I thought Nintendo was going to have quite a showing this year. None of the widely circulated rumors — like the second DS redesign — or Kid Icarus — were confirmed true.

Sony, on the other hand, had a good showing. The announcement of Resistance Retribution for PSP was a surprising one. And let’s not forget the launch of the video download service. Still nothing that could top Microsoft’s FFXIII announcement in my opinion, though. Your thoughts?

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