Sony had the best show hands down. Even if their biggest surprises weren't exclusive, games like Last Guardian and Uncharted 4 are still very exciting.
Microsoft was fine.
Nintendo completely flubbed it. Star fox looked rough, Metroid Prime federation was insulting, tri-force was okay but clearly thrown together and 3/4s of the direct was spent on stuff we already knew. It's such a shame because between their inclusion of Ryu in smashbrothers, and the momentum they've built up with Splatoon (two new free weapons came out tonight btw; not that you'd ever hear of it now) they were in great shape going into the show. It's going to take a lot of work to crawl out of this one. I would argue that had they saved ryu/roy for today and emphasized continued splatoon support; the perception would have been a lot kinder.
Very confused as to why they decided to pace things as they did today.
They decided to do what they did. We can "what if", or "they should have" all we want. This is what they thought people would like. And that's the disturbing part of all this.
I think they misinterpreted last year's succesful Digital Event. Like it wasnt just the content lacking this time, but the whole thing in the context of the showing made the thing even worse. The muppet style comedy wouldnt be such a bad idea if the content was actually good, but now it looked like they are crazy people just trolling us. Also last year's Developer stories werent a succes because they were developer stories. It was mostly because the developer stories were exclusive to newly anounced content. Now they decided to splat the developer stories almost at every game including games we knew about a long time ago, and stretch them into boredom territory. I mean how do you have a huge developer story 2 E3's in a row about Yoshi's woolly world, and then it taking almost 10 minutes of the whole thing? We get it nintendo, your gamedesign philosiphy is good. No need to beg for recognition
I think there's really something wrong with the leaders at nintendo as a whole if they couldnt see how this was a bad idea in reviewing the video. As I said, I think Iwata needs to step down and perhaps take a Miyamoto role together with him by managing the talent. They also interpreted amiibo's succes wrong in my opinion. They're not looking at it from "why do people like amiibo's", but it seems more like they thought "how can we make even more money and faster from them". Hence the whole segment with skylanders, the Animal crossing amiibo party stuff, the Woolly world segment with amiibo yoshi images pushed into our faces.
I think I've realized that Nintendo doing badly has been why the Wii U got such great games, because when they do well somewhere (amiibos), they forget every one of the loyalists to go after the buck. And I guess George is right in that regard. Nintendo has always been more about business than they have been about pushing the game industry.
