PTE68: Because It's A Tradition...

[Neon Ignition]

The undoubted losing platform has to be Vita. I know theres some easy ports of other formats stuff coming but even the baffling launch of PSTV couldn't pry a proper game reveal from out of Sony. A shame to see so little faith in it from its parent company but given that was its fourth E3 its clearly over as a major format in their eyes outside of shunting stock as a ps4 peripheral for the most part.

[sj33]

Sony have so much faith in the Vita that they actually dropped the 'Vita' name from the Playstation Vita TV.

[wakka]

Yeah it always seemed like Sony didn't care about the Vita, and now it's official!

A lack of even one 'big' game was really no surprise. It keeps trucking as a good system for fan of niche Japanese games though, particularly visual novels, JRPGs and rhythm action titles.

Poor old Vita. Makes a snazzy paperweight for those who aren't fans of the above genres and don't own a PS4.

[briareos_kerensky]

Sony have so much faith in the Vita that they actually dropped the 'Vita' name from the Playstation Vita TV.

Glad to know I'm not the only one thinking that. Saw Sony's presentation today and after they presented the Vita TV I realised they didn't give Vita games much of a primetime, just a brief trailer sandwiched between other heavyweights...and sale figures. It seems that in the west Sony are more interested in selling the Vita TV as a streaming device for the PS4.

Anyway, I'll give my vote to Nintendo, based alone of the number of games shown I'm interested to. Sony's a second, and in their whole presentation, I only cared about Magicka 2. MS...eh, I hope in some Japan-only game for the XBO.

[teddymeow]

The more I watch the Nintendo Treehouse stream on Twitch the more I think they have been my favourite this year.

Zelda, Yoshi Wooly World, Splatoon, Bayo 1 & 2, Xenoblade.

Just a shame that their amount of third party support is shocking!

[speedlolita]

They hardly need third party support...

[teddymeow]

They hardly need third party support...

From my point of view I agree. You buy a Nintendo console for Nintendo published titles.

Joe Public though, they need Cod, FIFA et al to push them over the edge to purchase.

[speedlolita]

Did Nintendo ever provide on that front though? I'm not so sure.

[dataDave]

I wonder if either of the other big two will copy this presentation format for next year? Are they capable considering 80% of what they show being pre-rendered?

Although it looked a little shonky you have to give props to Miyamoto & Co. for showing off those prototypes. Better to show something in prototype form that's running on the actual hardware than some pre-rendered bull**** where the finished product ends up looking like around 10% of what was promised.

[Asura]

It's really telling that despite all the issues with the Nintendo conference (missing fan favourites like F-Zero, Metroid and no real showing of Starfox, no new major Mario title, most stuff being 2015, trailers like the Zelda one being a bit light on info) it's still the highest voted of the three.

I don't know about anyone else, but I was amused more by the trailer for Splatoon than anything else.

Did Nintendo ever provide on that front though? I'm not so sure.

Depends on the console. I've yet to play their WiiU games but the only machine I've ever been a little let down by was the GameCube in terms of Nintendo's own output (but that's largely because I disliked Double Dash, Mario Sunshine, the WaveRace and 1080 sequels - which many people like).

Certainly on the 3DS, they've done well overall. Mario 3D Land, MarioKart, Fire Emblem - I think they've been up there with the better handheld games I've ever played.

EDIT: There's a point - I really want to see WaveRace and 1080 sequels on the WiiU, but ideally ones that follow the original template for both titles more closely.

[nakamura]

I've suggested HD packs from old games to bump catalogues. HD F-Zero X, Wave Race and 1080 in a racing pack would be awesome.
I'd pay ?40.