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E3 '08: And the Winner Is…

With E3's major press conferences now over, its time to take a look at what new things each company will bring to the masses of gamers for the following year. All three press briefings had their high and low points and it was truly a close call. While each company took a different approach, only one can truly be predicted as the E3 2008 victor.

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aggh im on fire - 523 days 21 hours ago

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I think they were all pretty bad. The lipzig will be better hopefully.
It seems as though E3 is all about pleasing the masses and Microsoft's X days, Sonys game day and Lipzig are for the hardcore gamers.
E3 is a pale imitation of its yester-years, hell microsoft didn't even show the 360 there first, they did it on MTV.
Bring back the booth-babes i say.

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Overr8ed - 523 days 21 hours ago

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Booth-babes made E3 now its lost its flame...

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Real Gambler - 523 days 18 hours ago

1.2 - Booth babes FTW!

All three conference were not that great. Booth-babes may have helped us forget how bad they were.

Now saying Microsoft won it? It's likely their worst presentation EVER. Apart from FF going multiplayer, it was less exiting than any other presentation they ever made!

"Microsoft came out strong right from the start giving core gamers what they wanted. They showed demos for Fallout 3, Resident Evil 5, Fable 2 and the highly anticipated Gears of War 2. Core gamers can also be excited with the news that Microsoft will be allow console owners the ability to install games directly to their hard drives."

Strong? 90 minutes conference. First 30 minutes showing 4 games. 10 minutes to show Fallout (6 of the slowest kill I ever saw). A totally flunk demo of coop mode for RE. Both multiplatforms. Then sure Fable and GoW was simply awesome.

Now, saying game install is a great news when you know that a good chunk of 360 owners have only the Arcade version? Saying after all the fanboys laugh at Sony's installs? They had to say that because they got FF, and it's the only way they will be able to play it. Sad.
Then 15 minutes for Lips? 10 minutes for the Mii avatars?

They showed almost no games! Pity. In my mind, they were second. And yep booth-babes may have been the only thing saving their conference!

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kewlkat007 - 523 days 17 hours ago

1.3 - I stand by this comment & Booth Babes, Disagree or reply..lol

I thought MS's conference was more important to them after 3 years
with the talks of stagnant user-base/boring dash and and not enough outside the hardcore games. They focused on these and showcase some HOT games with the devs playing them.(hands-on approach) It was different with a big BOMB for last.

Sony is accustomed to showing more of it's 1st-party titles(as it has more studios) but to me, only KZ2 and LBP look dazzling. Resistance 2 showcase was retarded/boring.(More CGI trailers/teasers mostly) But they have 3 fronts. PSP/PS2/PS3 so it seemed more satisfying, as there was more content.

Sony chose the wrong horse to showcase if you ask me. Had it been KZ2 and LBP(hands-on)...that would of left a better taste with more analyst/fans.

It was more important for MS to re-assure the fans about where the 360 stands after 3 years. Then it was for Sony that showed mostly CGI games and teasers. Nothing about HOME, and other functions that warrants why it's the better experience.

Ms is proving:

It's getting better.
It's profitable.
Quickly loosing that(Only Shooters Stigma).
Catering to the East(JRPGS)
More Casual Content
Somehow it can get 3rd-party to swing both ways.

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Real Gambler - 523 days 17 hours ago

1.4 - Kewlkat, you didn't saw the same conferences I saw for sure!

"only KZ2 and LBP look dazzling."
They basically didn't show KZ2. That's the worst part about Sony's conference in fact!

"they have 3 fronts. PSP/PS2/PS3 so it seemed more satisfying, as there was more content."

They spent 10 minutes on the PS2 and PSP. Much better than spending 20 minutes showing "Urine the movie" and "Lips" What a waste!

"Sony chose the wrong horse to showcase if you ask me."
They showed lot more horses than Microsoft for sure! Like 5 time more!

"Nothing about Home"
About 5 minutes, showing awesome theme (or game) rooms. What about the little remote control boat. Way more than KZ2 for sure

"Somehow it can get 3rd-party to swing both ways."
Game now cost too much. Unless you have a contract like they have with Bungie, any dev can and will likely swing both ways. Only thing not swinging is first party devs. And if a dev doesn't want to swing, they can buy them (Rockstar)

Na, I'm really sorry, but we didn't saw the same conference!

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kewlkat007 - 523 days 15 hours ago

1.5 - Hey look we DISAGREE and I got a reply

doesn't happen very often.....

I didn't compare the conferences game for game...I looked at the focal point and where the consoles `are right now respectively and what was important for them to stress.

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i_like_ff7 - 523 days 21 hours ago

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They all sucked this year but i think sony had the best showing...Nintendo was utter failure. Ms seemed while showing nice games like Gears 2 and Announcing FFXIII, they didnt really announce any new ips...apart from portal 2.

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Overr8ed - 523 days 19 hours ago

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i heard that it is a expansion pack.

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Mc Fadge - 523 days 18 hours ago

2.2 - Don't know why you got a disagree

It is just a bunch of maps

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donalbane - 523 days 20 hours ago

3 - True dat

I think E3 is dead... almost every big announcement (except for FF XIII) was leaked ahead of time, and the focus didn't seem to be on games. MS and Sony seemed to focus on competition with one another, while Nintendo was like "We're making a killing with this causal market, and we're going to milk it till the udders squirt blood."

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Omega4 - 523 days 20 hours ago

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MS wins again, and they didnt even need to annouce any new games

I guess a showing of quality games rather than quantity is the key ;)

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Origin - 523 days 18 hours ago

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i dont think a screen going blank and the demo restarting is really quality

i see none of the articles that say microsoft wins even mention it happening

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red_ring_of_death - 523 days 19 hours ago

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easy victory 4 sony

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BigKev45 - 523 days 19 hours ago

6 - E3 '08: And the Winner Is…

MS but not by much. This E3 sucked.

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PoSTedUP - 523 days 18 hours ago

7 - yea these articles are retarded...

MS biggest disappointment was avatars? what about not fixing the RROD? i though they'd fix it by now so i can F-ing buy one.

sonys disappointment was home? how is that a disappointment? it has a due month people. dont expect it now. i was disappointed that GoW3 wasnt playable.

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Karebear - 523 days 18 hours ago

8 - The winner is...

the conference center that E3 was held at? Local Mountain Dew and Red Bull suppliers? Tissue paper, hand lotion, and dirty magazine distributors in the region to service the descending hordes of geeks?

Clearly none of the presenters WON. Kind of a meh conference. Nothing new that we didn't know before except that FF is going multi plat.

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RedVsBlue - 523 days 18 hours ago

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This is a matter of opinion. No ones opinion will be fact

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chester - 523 days 18 hours ago

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......wow......

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BigKev45 - 523 days 18 hours ago

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Get a life.

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Peow - 523 days 18 hours ago

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Am I in the gamer zone? Honestly, I can't tell. Where're the mods? Hey, buddy, I think your zone is over there -------------> kthxbai

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1stKnighT - 523 days 18 hours ago

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Well Microsoft won no doubt about that. The acquisition of FF was thee biggest news in a long long time. Other than that, E3 was pretty boring. Great videos of Gears 2 and Fable 2. Sony showed Resistance for the psp and MAG. Nothing good there. The FF news was the only thing worthwhile at this year's E3.

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Ps3Fanboy777 - 523 days 18 hours ago

12 - Sony won

Microsoft announced not one new game. Someone please explain this?

Then again you know what, believe what you want. Ps3 has been dead for so long according to some.. Obviously they didnt know what they were talking about.

Look forward to:

Little Big PLanet
Killzone 2
RFOM 2 (WOW)
MAG
Motorstorm

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pshizle - 523 days 18 hours ago

13.1 - tell me how MAG is huge when we saw

ZERO GAMEPLAY footage

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RINGOFDEATH - 523 days 18 hours ago

14 - these writers are xbox fans

go figure,look at the voting pole,look at the real winner.

Sony

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KingKirchner - 523 days 18 hours ago

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How the fvck is MS the winner? Their grand finale was a port! Sony's grand finale was the announcement of two new EXCLUSIVE games, God of War 3 and MAG.

MS showed off multiplat. games more than anything else.

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munish23 - 523 days 18 hours ago

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I try not to comment on these types of news stories where consoles are compared and put against eachother, but I agree that Microsoft won even if by a little margin. Sony did well too, but Nintendo bombed.

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jlytle1234 - 523 days 18 hours ago

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sony seemed to offer more to look forward too.

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djroberts - 523 days 18 hours ago

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IMO, Gamez = Sony, Other = MS

Although as for new announcements and shockers, definitly MS.

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DaTruth - 523 days 6 hours ago

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Suddenly 360 fanboys don't think it's about the games

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1stKnighT - 523 days 18 hours ago

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What did Sony show off?

Resistance for the psp? Nope!
Mag??? Another war shooter? Nope!
God of War 3? A teaser that showed nothing and we're talking about a release of maybe the end of 2009.
Killzone 2? Making it the 15th E3 in a row they showed this game.

Sony showed nothing exciting. Microsoft at least showed games that are coming out this year. Gears 2 and Fable 2 are looking AMAZING. Microsoft took it easy.

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Origin - 523 days 17 hours ago

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killzone 2 wasnt shown
anymore ppl who didnt even watch sonys conference?

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borgome - 523 days 17 hours ago

21.1 - HAHA,

Your comment made me laugh, because I can tell you live in the ghetto.

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tatotiburon - 523 days 17 hours ago

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let's check:

HOME DATE-----none
MAG Gameplay----none
SOCOM demo gameplay----none
Killzone 2-----none
GOW3 gameplay----none
any psp game demo gameplay-----none

and in the other side

Microsoft show us the new dashboard in motion
Rsedeint Evil 5 demo gameplay
Gears of Gar 2 demo gameplay
Fable 2 demo gameplay
DATES of upcoming updates

so next year what do you want? microsoft show us a bunch of CGI videos?

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Bluejet - 523 days 17 hours ago

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Even though i am looking forward to the ps3 line up a lot more then the 360 line up. I would have to give the 360 the slight edge due to the FFXIII announcement. I liked a lot of what i saw from both sides even though there were a lot of games that we have seen already. And i would have to say that this was the most boring E3 ever.

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Bluejet - 523 days 17 hours ago

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LOL I like your enthusiasm! Go SONY FTW!!!

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xunderx - 523 days 17 hours ago

25 - ya right!

biggest announcment of e3 08, a game(multiplat) on xbox360 that doesn't arrive until late 2010. Weird, maybe just in time for the next, next gen xbox.

keep dreaming

sony, best of all three, hands down

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Adamalicious - 523 days 17 hours ago

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Microsoft? The poll at the bottom begs to differ :)

I didn't find any of them all that exciting, but the Sony one had the most stuff that interested me - namely games. Oh and Nintendo's was excruciatingly horrible, but what else is new?

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Expy - 523 days 17 hours ago

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E3 -> Electronic Entertainment Expo -> 4 Days

Winner can't be decided by the press conference alone. The winner should be decided on the entire 4 days worth of content.

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chanto23 - 523 days 17 hours ago

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Who Had the best E3 Press Briefing?

* Playstation 3
818 63% of all votes
* Xbox 360
389 30% of all votes
* Nintendo Wii
10 1% of all votes
* None of the Above.
It was a snorefest.

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interrergator - 523 days 16 hours ago

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thats this sites opinion the real home is prolly comin out 2009 and 360 version of ff13 is not gona be any better than ps3

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donalbane - 523 days 16 hours ago

29.1 - not even...

It's not the sites opinion, it's one writer at one site's opinion.

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donalbane - 523 days 16 hours ago

30 - You know what I found interesting

I was sure Jack was going to say "Now go home and download... Home!" but no...

Last e3 Sony focused so much on Home that if they had said "but it won't be out this time next year" I wonder how that would have gone over. Home looks cool, but they really need to put it out there. They put out plenty of stuff in a semi-working state then fix it as they go... just look at the in-game XMB.

Donde esta "Casa", Sony?

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Sk8boyP - 523 days 19 hours ago

1 - And the Winner is...

...Sony! Like it wasn't clearly obvious after all of the announcements which blew away any other conference. LBP, PSN Movies, GoW 3, MAG, PSN functionality, Resistance 2 etc.. while Microcopy bored their audiences with their "totally original" style (cause they didn't rip off Wii, lol yeah right) and Nintendo's fail conference amused no one, not even the reps themselves looked to be seriously enjoying making fools of themelves, and it's obvious who published and wrote this story... http://s234.photobucket.com...

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ELite_Ghost - 523 days 16 hours ago

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so... you're saying MS showed GeOW2 and games that are also on ps3 and you're saying that MS is better? Are you retarded?

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bpac123456789 - 523 days 14 hours ago

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even though im a sony fan (always have been and probably always will be) i have to admit that Microsoft won E3 by a very slim margin. And that is NOT BECAUSE OF THE FINAL FANTASY 13 ANOUNCMENT.
i think micorosft hit the hardcore market and the casual market very well. they showed alot of demos and introduced alot of new features like the new dashboard and avatars(which they blatantley copied from nitendo and sony.) they also had a very organized demonstration.

p.s. when sony used little big planet to show there stats that was one of the most genious way to demonstrate something that i have ever seen.

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testerg35 - 523 days 19 hours ago

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ok.. I might as well start since it will be a common excuse for PS3 fans.

This is a microsoft site!

Microsoft paid them!

Microsoft copied the interface because it goes left to right when choosing an option!

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power of Green - 523 days 18 hours ago

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LOl at the poll in on the website, PS3 fanboys have been dragging Polls through PS3 fanboy websites to throw the numbers, where has that poll been! just N4G's? lol.

Everybody knows who won hence the only people posting them are usually PS3 fanboys; not looking or ignoring the non pro PS3 articles, good job on the *few* posting credible and honest takes on the event.

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TheDeadMetalhead - 523 days 18 hours ago

3.1 - @ power of rrod

<<OH, LOOK. AN XBOT. I'LL USE MY NEW FLAMETHROWER ON YOU. SUCK IT, BOT.>>

@PoRROD below
...What?? That was one of the worst comebacks in the history of Xbots and the Open Zone XD

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power of Green - 523 days 18 hours ago

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LOL somebody with a RROD user pic saying sh*t like BOT and RROD wants to be heard lol.

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GiantEnemyCrab - 523 days 18 hours ago

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Like I said before. I know who the winner is and I don't even need to read it. Anybody who watched the conference's and doesn't live in the N4G bubble saw that MS did the best.

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PoSTedUP - 523 days 18 hours ago

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i can easily say that sony won E3 man. it dosent even mattrer who won it and it is your personal opinion, sales speak for themselves ya know. each company could have done alot better but they didnt cause they dont really care cause soon there will be no E3. E3 is dead.

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juuken - 523 days 18 hours ago

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...And nobody can explain how in the world Microsoft won E3 with cheap ass knockoffs.

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TheDeadMetalhead - 523 days 18 hours ago

5.1 - I know! I KNOW!!!

Because Xbots are dumbasses! XD

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juuken - 523 days 17 hours ago

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Correct! Come on doooooooooown and find out what you've won! *cheap Price is Right music begins to play*

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TheDeadMetalhead - 523 days 17 hours ago

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What I win?
WHAT I WIN!!?

Car!?
$50,000!!?

Tell me, dammit!! =D

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juuken - 523 days 15 hours ago

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Um...um...

MORE BOTS TO DESTROY! :3

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TheDeadMetalhead - 523 days 17 hours ago

6.1 - ha.

Threatening to kill people is no way to make friends, Rhezo. ;)

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brothersimon - 523 days 17 hours ago

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Microsoft owned it.

Nothing else needs to be said really..

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Mad droid is mad

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A-ROD - 523 days 17 hours ago

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Funny thing is those Microsoft avatars look like the Wii's Mii's...

No one won E3.

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jack who - 523 days 17 hours ago

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lolwat? to all who says sony....all games demoed on G4tv = played on 360 allllll GAAAAMEEESSSSS

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brothersimon - 523 days 17 hours ago

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They're in denial.

Just like the first day they bought a PS3.. now they know they should sell it and buy a 360 but they're too arrogant and retarded to see through Sony's failure :/

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A-ROD - 523 days 17 hours ago

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You know they could always own both...

Sorry I forgot to take my medication lololoolol

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