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Making the grade: Sony's E3 presentation
Thanks to their presentation at last years E3 conference, Sony became the laughing stock of the entire industry. From an array of embarrassing demos to the unbelievable price of the PlayStation 3, "Riiiiiidge Racer!" became the battle cry of a company that was painfully out of touch with reality.At their GDC presentation earlier this year, Sony had turned over a new leaf. With more of a focus on showing us the goods than crunching the numbers, they introduced us to some exciting new properties and showed a glimmer of what made them they most powerful entity in the past decade of the console wars to begin with.The final part of our making the grade series for E3 2007 features a company not only trying to roll with the punches, but to get some momentum going with each swing. Don't call it a comeback: here's Sony.
Making the grade: Nintendo's E3 presentation
Where would Nintendo be if not for controversy? Lounging in a gold plated mansion built a top an enormous mountain of platinum bars, no doubt. Their rise to power no longer a question but an inevitability, all eyes were on the potential market leader Wednesday morning to see what sort of stunt they would pull. In our previous E3 feature, the guessing game, we said that Nintendo potentially had the most to lose coming out of this conference as a lack of content could easily derail the hype train. As it turns out, we were half right.In part two of making the grade, we look back on a conference that was at times inspiring and at others down right frightening.
Making the grade: Microsoft's E3 presentation
"So, who won E3?"No matter the location or the format involved, everyone just wants to know who "won" this years E3 conference. Do you want to know who won? We all did. The closest thing to massive damage was Peter Moore's singing and even that was charming in its own unique way. The big three had a lot of great games to show off and quite frankly, it's going to be an incredible year."Unacceptable! Tell us which of our favorite major corporations won!"So be it! Here we begin the first of our three part series, focusing on the E3 presentations of Sony, Nintendo and our first target, Microsoft. Jump in after the break as we cast the first stone of judgment!
