Did Ubisoft Just Win E3?

"So, after several amazing presentations and perhaps a few mediocre ones (hello, EA and Microsoft), I’m left with mixed feelings..." Explosion.com

[NYC_Gamer]

Watch Dogs stole E3 this year no doubt

[NastyLeftHook0]

watchdogs was great looking on pc.

[LOGICWINS]

I expect it to be great looking on all the platforms it comes out on.

[Hisiru]

@LOGICWINS
Only PC and MAYBE WiiU (we still need to see specs).

[thorstein]

Watch Dogs, Last of Us, Dust 514,

But I don't get the Question... I didn't realize E3 was over. They need to update the E3 site/ sarcasm

[saladthieves]

E3 is done, and of all the people, the French stole the show.

[ShinMaster]

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So I guess whoever "wins" is really dependent on each individual.
Personally, I liked Sony's E3 better than Ubisoft's simply because of God of War and Last of Us gameplay footage, unveiling of Beyond and free monthly full PS3 games for Plus.

[thorstein]

@Shin

Indeed, I am going to have to buy a larger hard drive.

[da_2pacalypse]

They really win by default... The other conferences were overall very weak... This year's E3 was probably the worst in quite a number of years.

[GamingPerson]

what about this star wars 1313!

[SilentNegotiator]

"E3 is done, and of all the people, the French stole the show"

Isn't that one of the signs of the apocalypse?

It's pretty sad that Ubisoft had one of the best showings; they usually stink.

[ATi_Elite]

everyone is all excited about Watch Dogs (except me)!!!!!!

1. still not convinced the game play is fully open like GTA. that demo seemed way too scripted.

2. That was the PC version. The consoles will NOT look like that. Ubisoft should of shown a console version instead.

Everyone's presser seemed the same. Cool game to start and end with, with a bunch of FILLERS in between.

to me Sony won! That Move Book thing looks really good for kids.

[LOGICWINS]

1. It's not supposed to be. It seems to be a much more focused adventure than GTA. Did you hear any dev say that it was supposed to be open like GTA?

2. Ummm...so? BF3 on PC being the best looking version of the game didn't stop people from getting the game on consoles. I'm sure it will look fine on consoles as well. AC3 is open world and it looks incredible on consoles. The game is coming out in 2013...by that time, the console version should be able to surpass the demo we saw graphically.

[TLG1991]

finally someone else making sense. the game was extremly scripted, not that its bad, not bad at all. but people will be mislead and disappointed.

iv'e said this so much on here but its assassins creed 1 all over again making it out to be something its not then when everyone plays it its disappointing because they was expecting something else.

but im sure the game will be amazing either way
and sony won for me last of us won by a clear mile, if you realy think about it watch the videos back a good set of times and you will see how amazing it is and how scripted watchdogs was

[lastdual]

Yeah, most of the other big titles (TLoU, Halo 4, etc.) we saw coming. Watch Dogs was a total surprise, and the rest of Ubisoft's lineup wasn't bad either.

[xCaptainAmazing]

I might be alone, but Far Cry 3 was game of show for me. Extremely compelling and mature content themes through that sucker. It was amazing. Watch Dogs was a sucker punch out of nowhere though, great stuff.

There are plenty of games that were equally awesome. It's too hard to pick one, but when you open your demo with tits and eroticism in general and have it for a mature and psychological reason, I feel you get some major bonus points.

[LOGICWINS]

"I might be alone, but Far Cry 3 was game of show for me."

Your not alone. I feel the same way. Its a tie between Far Cry 3 and AC3. FC3 needs to polish up that co-op though, it seemed a little tacked on to me.

[Nimblest-Assassin]

I think its because we were so starved for surprises... since every new game was leaked in some form or capacity right before their shows.

But watch dogs was a huge surprise. Looking forawrd to that game, but I think it stole the show based on it surprising everyone, and the fact it looks really goood

[lelo]

Yep, Ubisoft had the best show.

Ubisoft > EA > Microsoft > Sony > Nintendo.

[ShinMaster]

[Fanboy detected]

[Commander_TK]

@ShinMaster

How is he a fanboy by saying that? But I think MS and Sony both had equally good shows. Ubisoft won. A lot of variety of games was the key for them.

[TekoIie]

@shinmaster

Yeh he's clearly an EA fanboy/s. IMO they had the worst conference on a serious note...

Also notice how he puts MS before Sony and is therefore a fanboy... Other way round is apparently the only logical possibility.

[Fel08]

MS better than SONY??? HAHAHAHA NO

[mugoldeneagle03]

The whole "What you don't wanna get whopped by a big black girl" comment.

I mean I personally didn't give a fuck and thought it was hilarious, but I'm sure some suits somewhere might throw a fit over it.

She was great though, as were a lot of the games they showed. Can't wait to see more about them

[vortis]

You don't think "Girl-wood" was the deal breaker?

[Nimblest-Assassin]

Beyond
Last of Us
Watch Dogs
AC3

Unfortunately sony dug their conferences grave with the long wonderbook presentation... but hands down Ubisoft won e3... which surprises the crap out of me everytime I think about it

Kudos to them

[S_C]

1st - Sony/Ubi
2nd - Microsoft/EA
3rd - Nintendo (EPIC EPIC FAIL)

[unknownhero1123]

call me shallow but when i saw those wind effects at the beginning, i was already in love. The gameplay looks very promising and I can't wait to see more of this game in the future.

[humbleopinion]

I already said it myself on a previous comment on the game:
It's a 110/-10 for anything VS Watch Dog. Nothing on this show even came close to the stunning graphics of this game.

Not to mention, besides their own show, some of the best games on the MS/Sony/Nintendo show also came from Ubisoft.

[Venoxn4g]

Ubisoft won

[LOGICWINS]

With a combination of AC3, Far Cry 3, Watchdogs, and Blacklist...yes, Ubisoft had the best conference.

[Gorilla_Killa_X]

Agreed. And a huge improvement from the wacky showing last year.

[Captain Qwark 9]

blacklist looked amazing

[LOGICWINS]

^^Yeah, can't wait for the co-op reveal. I'm buying all these games on launch day :)

[ShinMaster]

Who "won" depends on the games one cares about.

To me, the only game from Ubisoft was Watch Dogs, which was great, but not enough to win me over Sony's conference.

[TENTONGUN]

ubisoft has always been my favorite. glad to see them still kickin ass

[Venoxn4g]

don't forget Rayman: legends and ZombiU

[Eamon]

I'd say it's a close win between Ubisoft and Sony.

Ubisoft definitely did surprise this year. Was probably their best year too.

Microsoft and Nintendo were just seriously bad. Their worst years since I started watching E3 in 2007.

[Aloren]

MS, Sony, and Nintendo were all more or less equally "bad". I'd say EA was even worse... Ubi was actually the only very good conference this year.

[PtRoLLFacE]

everything was great, besides the shows host, a pair of retards

[Fez]

I liked Charlie from Friends. She was really confident (and extremely fit :P). And the guy was harmless.

[PopRocks359]

My order.

Ubisoft
Sony
Nintendo
EA
Microsoft.

How the hell is it that Nintendo and Microsoft had such underwhelming shows? Heck if I know.

[StreetsofRage]

To each its own I guess. I personally feel Microsoft had one of the best. Halo 4 was amazing and my game of E3. What was so special about Sony's? That wonderbook was a snoozefest. I was hoping for The Last Guardian and nothing. And even The Last of Us kind of underwhelmed me. The game play and AI looked simple. Same shooting mechanics as Uncharted. Meh! The new God of War game is the only thing that saved Sony for me.

[pwnmaster3000]

Halo has the same shooting mechanics wth.
Imean what kind of shooting mechanics do you want from last of us.atleast the gameplay is totally different, if it wasnt for halo. Ms conference would of bombed

Also the gameplay and ai does not look simple at all.
The lack of anything in the game looks good, making it seem more survival. Also with no regenerating life bar makes it harder. Also I like that when he gets injured like even shot at, you can see his reaction, like he is getting hurt. Also one last thing. I love how the ai reacts. When he ran out of bullets, when he held the guy hostage and even the guy begging for his life.
This game is very mature

[StreetsofRage]

Yes Halo's gameplay is still the same shooting mechanics. You are right. I give Halo 4 a pass only because it's a sci fi game and you're able to get "different" from new creative sci fi enemies.

Where as in Last of Us. It's just "wait till the bad guys stick their head out and shoot, than repeat" The additions you mention are cool but the core gameplay is the same old gameplay I been playing for years. The holding the guy hostage has been done many times before.

[pwnmaster3000]

You only seen one gameplay of it.
Your still forgetting humans arnt only the enemies in this game. Halo is probably my favorite game, but if it gets a pass for having "different" enemies, then this game to sinse it doesnt only have human enemies

[Bladesfist]

WTF have you ever played halo. Which version only had human? please tell

[StreetsofRage]

I was really hoping for something next gen and only Watchdogs came through.

[TheCagyDies]

It is rather absurd for me to say a third party company won E3 but I will say it...
Ubisoft The Third Party Company won E3.

[Cajun Chicken]

Yes. I loved all of Ubisoft's. Can't wait for Farcry 3.

[TheLyonKing]

They destroyed it!

1.Ubisoft
2.Sony
3.Nintendo

[BattleTorn]

Ubisoft definitely won.

Watchdogs was the "show stealer"

Splinter Cell Blacklist was unvealed, and AC3 is looking great.

And I'm still enjoying Ghost Recon!

[Chuk5]

They did have the best show.

I also don't see how someone could say the nintendo press conference was better than Microsoft's.

Nintendo's press conference was the most disappointing one I have ever seen at any e3 in my life. Considering they had a new console in their hands, for them to just come out so bland is Beyond me.

[shackdaddy]

Usher

[CouldHaveYelledUiiW]

Yes.
Why?
Aisha Tyler.
of Archer and Talk Soup
(And a Authentic Nerd/ Geek)

[BattleTorn]

It seems every conference had their "Usher"

Sony had the 'Wonderbook'
Microsoft had, well, "Usher"
Ubisoft had "Flo Rida"
Nintendo "Wii-Fit family BS"

Is this what they think "gamers" want? Celebrity guest appearances and dancing?

It seems 'core-gamers' aren't the being targeted anymore, as we're not the "majority" anymore.

[TheLyonKing]

The wii u sing was much cringier than the wii u fit.

"Clap with me everyone" I felt awkward watching the trailer.

[PopRocks359]

Sad really, since mostly core gamers are the ones who even fucking tune into E3.

[vortis]

LOL so freaking true, dude!

Wtf did they expect? The audience was dead silent on all that casual crap especially that spell book stuff, the WiiFit stuff and the Kinect crap.

It baffles me why that's such a prominent feature for each E3 when core gamers aren't going back to the forums, chats and message boards to talk about motion-controlled fitness games.

[Skynetone]

visually the best looking game ive ever seen, i expected gta4 to look like this way back when the next gen consoles where first revealed, but the hype outperformed the consoles, gameplay wise it looks rock solid, but its nothing we havent seen before, if it was truly next gen that car crash scene should have droped your jaw to the floor

[OmniSlashPT]

Just like I said before, you can't compare Ubi to the big 3 conferences. They only showed games. Ubisoft conference is about the games. Sony conference is about the PS3, the PSVita, the PSN, the PS+, the PS Mobile...it's about the PS brand, both software and hardware. They had hardcore moments (Beyond, Gow, TLOU), casual moments (...wonderbook) and apps news (ps+ offers) and talked about the vita. Ubi just showed game after game.

And games that we already knew and games that were even shown before the conference and after it! People say Ubi 'won' it only because of Watch Dogs. The conference itself was mediocre, dancing game to open the conference? lmao e-sports gamers? lmao We had already see Splinter Cell and Farcry 3 in action, and although ACIII was impressive, Sony had a much better gameplay demo at their conference.

IMO the best conference ever in any E3 was the Konami E3 2010 conference.

[AWBrawler]

Yes they did! Almost everything I was intrested in came from Ubisoft, but there is still a software show for Nintendo.

As of right now, Ubi has it, and Watch Dogs looks like GOTY material

[JKelloggs]

For me:
Ubisoft
Sony
Microsoft
EA
Nintendo

[Chuk5]

Agreed.

[JKelloggs]

For people who disagree, post your own opinions?

[trenso1]

Since I disagreed I will post my opinion.

Ubisoft
Sony
Nintendo
EA
Microsoft

[TheColbertinator]

Ubisoft took E3 by a landslide.Nice work guys.

[Ricdog]

They all sucked!!! Ubisoft did have the best conference but given the competition that ain't saying much.

Besides Watch Dogs and Far Cry 3 they have nothing. I've never liked the Assassin Creed series, its easily wanna the most overrated games ever (and being milked like crazy too). Blacklist is already another insult to the TRUE SP franchise that came out last generation (Conviction & DA sucked ass).

And the Ghost Recon game that came out recently, although a decent game, is nothing to how the original series was in terms of gameplay. They might as well have made it a brand new IP, da fuck with all this "futuristic" crap. When was Ghost Recon ever about that?

[FrigidDARKNESS]

Of course they won absolutely smashers and crush Sony and Microsoft faces.

[WooHooAlex]

I think you have to rate them differently than you rate Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. For a third party presentation, (annoying host aside) they killed it.

[astar123456789]

Ubi host killed it for me I couldn't deal with her, so points off on her, the only game I cared about was watchdog, which looked great but was playing on a powerful pc. I want to see onthe big two.

Ms the only thing I like was Xbox glass thing, but so far their is only one game for it so that is a wait and see, halo I'm not in to so I don't care about it.

Sony, last of us and beyond look great, and the vita is getting great, but I wanted a price to drop.

Nintindo just suck all round, no price, specs on system just rehash of games all ready done with one new ip

Ea all sports all the time

[noxeven]

Ubisoft won all the way

[Tapioca Cold]

watch dogs hype here we go. Ubisoft can't win e3. they're a developer. The contest is between the console makers you twits.

How can ubisoft win?

[RockmanII7]

For me it was Ubisoft > Microsoft > Sony > Nintendo > EA but I'm a Halo enthusiast so I know a lot of people will disagree with me. Also we can't forget that Nintendo will have a 2nd conference tomorrow night exclusively for the 3DS, if they play their cards right they could pass up MS and Sony IMO.

[gumgum99]

The fact that Ubisoft even "won" E3 is kinda depressing to me.

Its like all the race cars blown up, and the only one that crossed the finish line was that hobo clown everyone made fun of in middle school. He has a cool Ferrari car, sure, but its not saying much as a whole for me.

[sriki007]

ubi always comes out all guns blazing at e3. Its just that the host sometimes can be a crazy person making wierd noise.

[SITH]

Won what?

[mt]

i guess i am one of the few people who felt the game is okie and I need to see more gameplay.

[Mykky]

To me it was a mix between Sony and Ubisoft. Had my hopes up for some major announcement from Nintendo but I was left dissapointed.

1. Ubisoft: AC3, Watch Dogs and Far Cry 3.
1. Sony: Beyond and Last of Us
2. Nintendo: Pikmin 3 and cool wii u features in several games.
3. EA: Don't remember anything big.
4: Microsoft: NOTHING.

[MYSTERIO360]

Ubisoft showed amazing games they took the show

1.Ubisoft
2.Sony ( was a little disappointed with no onlive play, no news on last guardian and lots of time on WONDERBOOK.
3.EA (just because of BF3 premium and crysis 3 looked decent)
4.Nintendo wii u games
5.343i's halo 4 the rest of Microsofts conference sucked not interested in COD thank you

[MYSTERIO360]

seeing ubisofts conference makes me wish E3 was 5 times a year

[covkidcookie]

You can compare ubisoft to the big 3 because when a third party outperforms 1st party's its easier to compare ubisoft gave us what what everyone wanted, core games. what did sony give? yeh a few cool games (tlou gow and beyond) but they let us down with none core stuff like not many vita games and wonderbook???? why is that even shown to hardcore gamers?? microsoft again the same with sony but this time waisted time on some silly glass that not many people will buy. nintendo, just kept saying we dont have time for this we dont have time for that then went blah blah blah blah about mii vers and nintendoland, wasted time on those and not much reall wii u gameplay or nintendo 3ds things. i dont give a crap if they have a seperate show online we are talking about main conferences. EA well what more need i say than co-op in a thriller turned action orianted, crysis 3? same as last time then two remakes (need for speed and moh the same as last games) then a whole bunch of add ons and stupid sims games, so what did ubisoft offer, yeh just dance and flo rida plus tobuscus were just gimmicks, they had nine wii u games including avengers and zombie u which were amazing showcasing nintendo wii u more than nintendo did plus reinventing its tom clancy series showcasing hardcore games like farcry 3 and ac3 and shootmania for the real hadcore and finall a whole new ip, yeh we dont no the full details, balh blah graphics for consoles blah blah better on pc but they were confident enough to step outside the box unlike anyone else yeh sony had beyond but we had no real gamepaly where as watch dogs showcased real gameplay, scripted? so its going somwhere games havent been and ubisoft took a risk and hell it paid off. ubisoft brought all its guns and left harrdcore gamers wanting to know more unlike sony microsft ea and nintendo who i was happy when they were over becausee they were bofing snore. thankyou ubisoft for giving us the e3 the hardcore gamers want not a family filled gimmick which no familys watch anyway??
No fanboy here as i have an xbox and think microsofts is crap... just telling plain truth
1.ubisoft
2.sony
3.microsoft
4.EA
5.Nintendo- was a huge letdown considering they had huge hardware..

[HarryB]

The only game worthy in my opinion and its just my opinion is watch dogs.

I hope the following thing is true about watch dogs.

1) SAND BOX world. I want open free world like gta where you can access side missions and just do havoc with my smart phone like in that demo. I want open world explore the entire city not 15 square blocks.

2) I want it on PC and im sure this was a PC game.

3) I want replay value. Games like red dead redemp, and gta 4 and hitman are the only games that I actually played and redone the entire game. I want this.

4) I hope to god its open world man, if its not im going to be seriously pissed off. The game looks beautiful. My hands are like itching for the fucking keyboard trying/wanting to play this game even when its just a video. I was like in my mind GIVE ME THE CONTROLS.

5) French fries. I want french fries.

[HarryB]

I thought nintendo was boring.

For myself, I dont want to be social on the fucking gaming world. Forget that bs. You think parents what their kids to start talking to their friends at home ? They are already obese fat kids who play xbox360 all day, now you are going to make them make avatars and socialize in the game and make them anti-social in the real world.

Listen we all game thats fine. But sometimes its good to go outside, forget these gaming social things. Play video games but remember what outside looks like. Come on now.

[chanmasta]

Looks like Watch_Dogs is coming out for the Wii U!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Psychotica]

What do they get for winning?

[deletingthis34675334]

Ubisoft has the only remotely decent show this year's E3. Everyone else sucked equally.

[Rrobba]

Personal opinion:

1. Ubisoft - perfect overall, Watchdogs and AC3 were great
2. Sony - Last of Us and Beyond were great but Wonderbook took up too much time.
3. Nintendo - Pikmin 3 and Zombi U looked good but we still don't know price/release date and no new IPs.
4. EA - Some interesting stuff but quite boring and no surprising announcements.
5. Microsoft - Halo 4 looked good. Everything else was BALLS from Usher to the Kinect demo.

[Dark_Overlord]

Watch Dogs was amazing, it was the only part of Ubi's conference I liked. The rest of it was horrible, the presenters were cringe worthy and everything else they showed was crap (don't even get me started on that splinter cell abomination)