So…Who Won E3 2016?

E3 was a blast this year so many new games were revealed like God of War, Zelda, Pokemon, Battlefield and more. But there can only be one winner.

[ArchangelMike]

Sony... and PS4 gamers.

[Hoffmann]

Sony and gamers that have a Playstation + a PC

[super_bruno]

A good PC that is.

[spicelicka]

What about people that have PS and an Xbox?? Why does it have to be PC.

[Hoffmann]

spicelicka

Because you have a ton more games to choose from, you have all the mod stuff, better graphics and last but not least often better price options as well.

super_bruno

Even with a "bad" pc you can run the majority of the recent games

[naruga]

Sony ...although i almost broke my PC with Crash- still- in- Activision hands and RE7 abomination

[Livecustoms]

I Have a Ps4 and Laptop, but no way my laptop will be able to run those Xbox One games, so your statements kinda wrong but i see were your coming from.

[mcstorm]

haha I love how people say XYZ won. Lets be real and say us gamers won. For me Forza Horizon, Zelda and BF1, Recore and TitanFall 2 have me wanting them.
Its each to there own but to say Sony, MS or Nintendo won is just a fan boy coming out.

[darthv72]

Gamers won. We always win, it's our wallets that lose.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@Spic- "What about people that have PS and an Xbox?? Why does it have to be PC"

Because if you have a PS and XB you already have a limited selecton.

The only publisher on XB that was making exclusives, is now making their games on PC too, thus. by default the PS PC combo makes sense.

You get all the titles on both PC and PS4, you won't on PS and XB.

Everything MS will publish will be on PC, thus why get a limited XB that won't have all PC games?

I'd rather have the PS / PC combo as its getting everything anyway, or most I should say.

Titles only on PC you not see on PS4 or XONE, titles clearly made by MS will be on PC, so why support lessor?

[FITgamer]

Exactly. Best combo. You get the PS4 exclusives, PC exclusives(games/mods), better priced games, and Xbox One "exclusives".

[ThanatosDMC]

Sony hands down. It was game after game after game. Doesn't even include all the indie games that are coming out.

[gamer7804]

I like the idea of a console + pc, but i'm going to stick with playstation and xbox. Too many games that just crash, perform poorly, one i bought a couple weeks ago wouldn't even launch. and i have a basic i5 nvida combo with 16b of ram...

i'm going to stick with consoles for now, if there is a game thats only on pc that i want, i'll try to play it there, but otherwise on consoles.

[xfiles2099]

I agree Sony and PS4 gamers won I mean we are being hit with Exclusive after Exclusive. There is so much coming that there was no room or time to show everything. I was disappointed in EA and Microsoft. This is sad but I'm more excited about Pokemon Sun and Moon than anything Microsoft showed..

[sangoku_d]

and pc gamers that like xbox games for some reason

[AnubisG]

Have to agree with that. Sony showed us so many awesome games that there was no doubt in my mind after I've seen the conferences.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

Or gamers in general my Xbox isn't dry coming this year and next.

[jessionpc]

WTF is with these articles? Jesus how many people have to write the same fkn thing?!

Get a JOB! Go work at mcdonalds, flip a burger FFS... It was awesome the first 1-2 articles, but now I've seen like 3 dozen of these, "who won", floating around...

Everyones gotta get in on that youtube/journalist Ad money...

[NukaCola]

PlayStation gamers!

[Neonridr]

So many games to look forward to. Can't wait for PSVR, Horizon and of course Zelda.

[Stapleface]

I was super happy to see PsVR releasing 2 weeks earlier than the previous release date. The soon the better. Horizon can't come soon enough. That game looks so good.

[affrogamer]

how many times are we going to get these articles? It was easy money for Sony btw

[Stapleface]

I enjoyed both the Microsoft and Sony conference. A few things I'd like to play from both. A few yawn worthy games from both as well. New games wise I think God of War looked the best. I for one enjoyed the Scorpio reveal. I look forward to the same from Sony for Neo. I'm not going to pretend like every console owner has a pc capable of running God of War 4 at worth while settings all of a sudden. Nor are they going to run out and build one. So I don't see the play anywhere as a negative for the MS show like some do.
edit: If I had to pick, I'd go Sony just because they showed more new games. Hardware is nice, but it's useless without games.

[Pongwater]

I didn't think MS did badly at all, but Sony won convincingly imo. There have been years when I thought Sony would really need to bring the heat in order to win. This wasn't one of those years, but Sony brought the heat anyway.

[Relientk77]

Crash Bandicoot 1-3 remasters
Horizon
God of War
Days Gone
Kojima
Detroit

So many amazing looking games and WOW moments.

Sony won, and it wasn't even close

[xfiles2099]

Don't forget about Spiderman

[Relientk77]

Wow how did I forget Spider-Man. I want that game too lol

[spicelicka]

Although I agree Sony had great wow moments, and won the E3 presentation-wise, we also have to consider that none of their big games had release dates.

God of war 4 (my fav), Days Gone, Death standing, Detroit, Spiderman all looked incredible but had no release dates, and most are probably coming in 2018. This is what MS did last year and had a seemingly amazing E3/Gamescom, but couldn't deliver on the releases.

I was disappointed by MS but I think they played it safe and are very underappreciated for that. Everything they showed, Dead rising 4, Gears of war 4, Forza Horizon 3, Recore, Scalebound, Halo wars 2, Crackdown 3, Sea of thieves, is expected to release within a year from now. That's a pretty crazy lineup.

[yomfweeee]

Sony has already shown us their games that are coming out in the next 6 months. They are there. Now they are showing us the future.

Microsoft didn't give any dates for their few new announcements.

[ORyanDeee]

yeah E3 isnt about early release dates, its about showing whats coming in the future.

[JohnnyAkiba]

The Last Guardian release date.

[Relientk77]

That too, WOW moment

[Austin48]

Don't forget Resident evil 7!

[Thatguy-310]

You damn well know who one. All these articles cause is people ranting back and forth. It's obvious who one.

[thexmanone]

Yea MS

[Garethvk]

This "won" and "lost" stuff is silly. Nobody wins or loses based on incomplete games. All the buzz in the world does not mean a stable game or string sales. Watch Call of Duty will outsell all of the so called winners and possibly combined. I am at the show and there are many strong games but I have seen great demos produce garbage games. Aliens: Colonial Marines ring a bell?

[super_bruno]

Definitely Sony

[AG6686]

Why do people keep creating these articles? Just look at the other multiple ones one here!

[killer_goat]

Easily sony

[Sitdown]

"But there can only be one winner."

According to who? That screams I'm about to to bias. With that said, God of War, Horizon, and Recore top my list. We Happy Few has me intrigued as well.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

Microsoft because all the PS gamers will buy all the Xbox games from the Windows 10 store for their mega Windows 10 rigs.

[WickedLester]

I don't own an Xbox or a gaming PC.

[Sparta07]

At least we don't have to waste our money on an Xbox

[WickedLester]

Sony won hands down!

This is how badly Sony won, Sony won BEFORE they brought out Kojima, showed Spiderman, and closed with the Days Gone gameplay. At that point it just wasn't even fair anymore.

[jcgamer]

Sony.

[sangoku_d]

gaming won thanks entirely to sony

[LuckyChamCham]

Ps4 has the best exclusives!!!

[WharenPeace]

This was another year of Sony domination

[ILostMyMind]

There is still some doubt ?

[MacTastic]

MS conference was not bad, but whoever was in control of what game play was shown needs to be fired. They did show good games but bad gameplay. They could have shown better footage for scalebound and sea of thieves. Both conferences were good it's just that Sony's was prettier.

[kpanda]

Sony saved E3. Bow before greatness.

[sander9702]

Nobody won since Rockstar wasn't there.

[Davemyrose592]

Sony... miles ahead of all competition right now, ps4 is just now reaching prime, just like ps3, Xbox looks like it's running out of steam just like 360, and Nintendo has Zelda. As an owner of all three consoles I am most disappointed by Nintendo, and if you think all os now well just because of zelda you are blinded, this game should of came out 2 freaking Christmases ago?!!

[ThanatosDMC]

Always the same story with the Xbox. Xbox original life line was cut short. 360 stopped having great exclusive games after 3rd-4th year. Xbone had so many issues like 720p-900p poor textures, terrible UI, slow console, 180s, DRM, lack of 3rd party support, lack of first party support, etc. XboneS got killed because of the Scorpio announcement.

[theFAYEsorceress]

if sony and ms were basketball teams, sony would be prince's and ms would be charlie murphy's.

[Lukejrl]

game blouses

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Prey, We Happy Few, God of War, Death Stranding, Resident Evil 7 and Days Gone were my highlights :3

[Davemyrose592]

Yea , Prey was my most shockingly surprised this e3, wish they stuck with Tommy and native American back story, but gotta admit game looked really cool!!!

[burza1982]

Gwent: The Witcher Card Game announcement (PC, XBox One, PS4)

[Gunstar75]

Forza Horizon 3. That is all.

[RosweeSon]

Open minded gamers.

[S2Killinit]

PS4 gamers won it.

[Segata]

Any gamer who found something of interest. I only found 3 games of interest. Nier,Gravity Rush 2 and Zelda. I never been a big Zelda fan but BotW blew my mind so I am all in.

[Utalkin2me]

Love these rhetorical titles...

[WellyUK]

Only fanboys pick a side.

[Inzo]

Why is this even a question?

[hirobrotagonist]

Sony clearly won on VR and games, but Microsoft won on system hardware (though they didn't really show anything) especially since almost all Microsoft games are coming to PC (wish it was through Steam though) as a PS4 fan and a PC gamer, this is good news for me

[Servbot41]

Sony, Microsoft, and Ubisoft, in that order. Then comes doing chores, napping, and/or watching paint dry. Then Nintendo, then EA.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Forgot Bethesda!

[RDF]

Sony hands down. They were like a boxer,showering us with hit after hit. No time to breath,just standing there and taking the abuse and loving it. It seems this generation I made the right choice and that choice was a PS4.

[UnHoly_One]

It was pretty clear to me that Xbox had the better showing as far as the console shows went.

Lots of great games coming soon, new XBL features, a slim console revision, and a new console coming next year.

Sony meanwhile had Horizon, which looks fantastic, then a couple games that look like TLOU ripoffs, including the complete bastardization of God of War... And a lot of their games are further off into the future than Xbox's new console.

I hate almost everything Hideo Kojima has ever made, and his trailer was the worst and weirdest thing I've ever seen, so that didn't help either. lol

[WickedLester]

"And a lot of their games are further off into the future than Xbox's new console"

WRONG! Those "near future" games that you speak of at MS' conference are playing catch up to all the games that have already released on PS4 in 2016 and PS4 owners have been enjoying for quite a while now. Sony releases their titles throughout the entire calendar year instead of hording them until the last quarter like MS does. Therefore Sony can show more games on the horizon. We already know about the "near future" games coming for PS4, so why waste conference time on those? We'd rather see what the FUTURE of PS4 holds.

[UnHoly_One]

What do games that came out before E3 have to do with their E3 presentation?

I'm just talking about what I saw in both shows, talking about other things is another argument altogether.

[Foxhound922]

The same old irrelevant arguments from the same old irrelevant n4g'ers. Always excuses from you and the gang. E3 NEVER has been about showing games that are coming out in the next few months and it never will be. Your entire argument is null because Sony is already releasing a ton of games this year, no need to keep giving us the same game footage from games we already know about. E3 has always been about announcing new games and hardware. Microsoft announced almost no new games, and hardware that's years off with no specs and no price. The same last gen gears, halo strategy game, and the 5th forza in 2 years. If your excuse for lackluster content is "at least it comes out sooner", then I suggest you come up with a better point.

[UnHoly_One]

So what are all of these games coming soon that you already know about and didn't want to see at the show?

Don't tell me No Mans Sky, either, because if they had shown more of that game you guys would be wetting your pants and citing it as the sole reason they "won" E3.

I'm sorry, but just like last year they showed a lot of games that didn't impress me.

God of War looked awful. I couldn't help but smile when I saw Kratos, then I saw what the game looked like, and that it also appeared to be a TLOU ripoff and I wanted to cry. I pretty much checked out right then and there, honestly. Horizon was the saving grace of the show, but that was about it.

Horizon looks absolutely fantastic, and I'll be buying that for sure.

But the rest, not so much.

Days Gone looks like a lonely open road version of TLOU. I didn't see anything to get excited about but I'll keep an eye on it.

Detroit isn't my style of game, really.

VR is a gimmick with gimmicky looking games so far.

Last Guardian is coming finally, but as much as I loved ICO and SOTC, they haven't shown me anything of it yet to excite me.

Frankly, the only really good thing they showed besides Horizon was Call of Duty. That trailer was badass.

[dilbig5]

Gamers won. Everyone showed some good stuff. Few exclusives from Microsoft, more than normal but some of the same old ones (Gears, Halo, Forza). Which isn't bad but they need newer IPs so it's always welcome.

Sony showed a good bit more with little focus on multiplats which is great. Sequels, reboots, and remakes of old favorites along with entirely new IPs is what gamers really want.

And Nintendo doing they're own thing showing a good amount of Zelda is what everyone wanted and looks good too. Pokemon is always welcome along with some niche games.

Ubisoft showed a good amount off Watch dogs 2 which looks loads better than the first one. For Honor is the game from them to stare at. South Park is always funny. And the rest don't look bad.

EA did what they always do and focus on already established franchises. Battlefield looks amazing, hopefully battlefront is as good or better than the last and hopefully the vr game is good.

[SynestheticRoar]

It's official my brother inlaw is finsh with his X1 he traded it for a PS4 this morning. Probably a results from that E3 or me making fun of him all the time, I know sometimes i'm not nice. Subsequently he and his son were diehard X-box 360 fans. My nephew is so jaded he made a promise never to touch video games. As an alernative he walk around doing youtube videos of himself singing in the street when its raining. Sad, but true. In retrospect you know who won.

[spicelicka]

Wow your brother in law traded his Xbox? it official guys! Hey guys, this guy's brother is law is trading his xbox guys, please write this down in history.

[UnHoly_One]

Sounds to me like anyone that doesn't live near your crazy family won.

[SynestheticRoar]

Oh shit what is the chance I would run into you. I remember you from pshome. You made believe you were a girl trying to con people to buy you games. When you were caught I was there. You won't remember me, because I go by a another name, but I remember your story. You said when you were young you be sleepping and at night your father would come to visit you. He touch you, In all your private parts. Everyone there ask you why you didn't tell your mother, and you said she was there watching. You told us it's the reason you name your avatar Unholy-One because you committed unrighteous acts, cruelty and evil. After you were caught you left pshome, and we never heard from you again. Now I see your attacking strangers on N4G because of your love for a plastic box. With your history.for shame. Don't let me go into detail of the things that were done to you, and how you liked it

[TwilightSparkle]

This is a sony site. So i guess sony won. Anyone who says different gets tons of dislikes and is called a troll. Dont believe me. Try to say microsoft or nintendo and see what happens. You've been warn!

Ng4 were your opinion dosent matter unless its something good about sony :-/

[UnHoly_One]

Just look above at my post and you'll see the proof of your words.

[TwilightSparkle]

I know that's why I said it. Look at mines. If I would have said sony all they way I would have more up votes.it's fun pointing out truths. No one can give their own opinion unless they are a sony fan.

[UnHoly_One]

It's sad.

[Xavy]

Change the title to PS4 and then w'll talk ;D

[CrimsonWing69]

Sony hands down saved this E3

[Gamist2dot0]

I thought Sony's press conference was short until I looked at the time. I wanted more...

[zb1ftw777]

Gamers won. Like they do every year. Anybody who fanboys it up are nubs.

[GravelerMagnitude9]

Owners of PC Xbox and PS4 and not nintendo, never nintendo. naw just joking, its not a competition though.

If you have some sort of gaming platform , you're good

[Brugal]

Not that MS had a bad conference, their conference was really good. Gotta give the nod to Sony though, their conference was spectacular.

[Ceaser9857361]

Gamers

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

gamers

All this console war crap need to end

[PS3and4_HAS_GAMES]

Once again Sony wins. They started off with GOD OF WAR 4!!!!! you know they ain't playing. After that was just straight to the point with games games games. My only problem was no The Last Of Us 2. But i know it's coming. Sony wins hands down.

[TwilightSparkle]

God of war was the last of us 2. Just kratos is edition :)

[RPGrinder]

Nintendo was had the most popular booth and the game of the show. Zelda was empty? That is a troll

[T-Dawg6]

I think Sony and Microsoft both had great showings, but all the other conferences on the other hand... not so great.

[Austin48]

Sony won and my favorite game was Resident evil 7! Can't wait for that game.

[Davemyrose592]

Lol that's like asking who won WW2, is it even debatable

[II__BONE__II]

I have my PSVR all paid for and I can't wait for October.
You VR haters gotta chill, regular games are not going anywhere there will always be lots of non vr game to choose from.
Sometimes I think people hate on VR because they know they will never be able to afford to buy it so if they hate on it enough it might go away. I think this mentality actually had an effect on 3D TV's. I FULLY believe because 3D TV's were so expensive at the time and out of the price range for most people they just hated on them because they couldn't get one. I think this had an effect on studios producing 3D Movies.
Back to PSVR,...I think this is going to be that GREAT party app when friends or relatives come to visit. What a fun ice breaker it will be to have visitors experiencing VR for the first time.
I mean,..what do you think would be more fun, getting into and showing off your VR to friends or sitting them down and trying to show them how to play Fallout? I know even the non gamer will be interested in VR but if you sat them down to explain Fallout you would only see boredom all over their faces especially after a few beers.
I don't plan on spending hours and hours playing VR everyday, just now and then to add a change of pace to my gaming time.

[gamer7804]

No "Winners" just two very different conferences which each their own announcements to celebrate. Zelda looks good, but i fear for nintendo if their next console doesn't knock it out of the park.

[gamer7804]

its interesting watching some agrees and disagrees, it would seem in general that the users of this site prefer sony about 4 to 1 or so.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

Any answer other than "Worship Sony" will get you flooded with downvotes.

Let 'em rain, then!

I personally wasn't super impressed with Sony or Microsoft.
They had a lot of games that I wanted to play, but many were coming from outside developers. Not from those two themselves.
As far as a game directly from the hands of one of the console makers, Zelda is the one that got my highest vote.
And since I judge who won E3 by who had the game that excited me most, I'd say Nintendo took it for me this year.
It's a pity that they couldn't have done this last year; it would have been so welcome and they wouldn't have done as bad.

[xcolavs21x]

I think that comparing Microsoft's and Sony's E3 presentations is an "apples-to-oranges" comparison. I believe that both companies had two very different goals for their presentations. Full disclosure: I own both an Xbox One and PS4, but prefer my XB1, so I can't say there is no bias at all.

I don't think Microsoft was focused on the long-term games future for their console. They wanted to let their customers know what games can be played on their console this fall and holiday season, as well as in early 2017. Every game they showed, whether it was exclusive or not, had a release date no later than Q2 2017 (some were not specified such as Sea of Thieves, Scalebound, and State of Decay 2, but I don't think suggesting that they will be out before next E3 is a stretch). This messaging may not resonate with everyone, but I personally feel like having 4 exclusives (Gears, ReCore, Forza, and Dead Rising 4) mixed in with a bunch of multiplats in a fall/holiday season is pretty good, not to mention Halo Wars 2, Scalebound, State of Decay 2, and Sea of Thieves in early 2017. As well, Microsoft also has Gamescom to show off a few new IPs that are farther into the future (potentially). Microsoft just didn't strike me as a company this E3 that wanted to talk about games that were very far off in the future (which a new IP would be at this stage).

Sony definitely won on a presentation standpoint. Their catalog of games is undeniably impressive, and I am really glad I own a PS4. However, it cannot be argued that they did not present a short-term focus for their console (I know they have exclusives lined up for this holiday, but they did not show them in their conference). They only showed one exclusive with a 2016 release date (The Last Guardian), and they showed more of it last year than they did this year. They did show Horizon which has an early 2017 release date, so that does count in that measure. However, the majority of their exclusives were presented with no release date, and they will launch optimistically in the second half of 2017, some of them more than likely in 2018. I don't have a problem with this mode of presentation, but it seems disingenuous to compare the two conferences when they aren't trying to convey the same message.

[sorenx]

Zelda one. Didn't care for the other games besides the last guardian the horizon didn't impress me looks like many other games that are out I like the robot things that is it resident evil looks cool and if God of War would fix the camra I'll be in but that's it