GamesIndustry.biz E3 Award Winners ( Xbox One X, i'm cry )

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-06-16-the-gamesindustry-biz-e3-award-winners

Devs game of the show is pretty excelent choice.

Best Developer: Ubisoft Montreal

The firm has two major games on the show floor - Assassin's Creed Origins and Far Cry 5 - which are both excellent.

Best Publisher: Ubisoft

Ubisoft ticked every box going. We've played some of the games too, and Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle in particular is excellent. It was supposed to be Microsoft's year, but E3 2017 was a triumph for Yves Guillemot and his team.

Rising Star: Annapurna Interactive

Annapurna looks set to rival Devolver Digital as the home for the very best of the independent scene.

One to Watch: Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

We loved what we played, and with a great score and unusual gameplay this might prove to be one of the big Switch games of the year. It's also coming out very soon: August 29th.

The Hype Award: Super Mario Odyssey

Press coverage has been unanimously positive, with the BBC stating that it "caps Nintendo's triumphant comeback." After Nintendo's last major adventure, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the anticipation for this one is extremely high. No game created more excitement than Super Mario Odyssey, and no game is more likely to justify the hype.

Technical Innovation: PlayLink

This was subject to some fierce debate. Surely the technical triumph of the show was Xbox One X? Microsoft has created the most powerful games console yet and crammed it into a tiny box. Yet whereas that's unquestionably a technical achievement, we've decided to go with PlayStation's PlayLink due to its innovative use of technology.

Best Booth Design: Nintendo

Nintendo once again excelled by theming its area entirely around one game: Super Mario Odyssey. The recreation of New Donk City included a Mario Tank, Mario Bullet Bill, Mario Chain Chomp, a giant hot air balloon and even the voice of Mario himself.

Best Marketing Execution: Devolver

Ever since Devolver pitched up in a Hooters parking lot with free beer, free BBQ, and some of the best indie games on the market a few years ago, it's been clear that the publisher intended to do E3 differently. The renegade approach has worked brilliantly, and this year it aimed to push it even further, doubling the space for its offsite presence and, in a surprising move, holding its own press conference.

Best Launch Execution: Beyond Good & Evil 2

Michel Ancel's emotional address when the trailer finished offered a rare moment of utter sincerity in a week where so much feels manufactured and rehearsed.

Developer's Game of the Show: Super Mario Odyssey

We spoke to a wide range of developers to find out what their single favourite game of E3 2017 was. It was close between Mario + Rabbids and Super Mario Odyssey, but Nintendo's Switch exclusive secured the most votes. Simply put, Odyssey looks superb, in much the same way that Zelda did at E3 last year.

Retailer's Game of the Show: Destiny 2

The retailers were really split on their game of the show. We had votes for the new versions of Skyrim, Call of Duty: World War II, Anthem, Beyond Good & Evil 2 and Sea of Thieves. However, Destiny 2 snatched the victory with just a single vote.

Good bandage for ps fan before the wound get reopened again as the game get announced to be better and looks better on the One X heh

All of this is rather meaningless at the end of the day.

Nintendo for the win!

You know if Destiny 2 wins an award that this is fucked up lol. Oh and if the Beyond Good & Evil 2 trailer won something it should be for the most f bombs dropped in a 60sec trailer :P

All I know is, XBox One is out of Amazon's Top 100 already. Whatever E3 bump they were hoping for seems to not have materialized. PS4 has three in the Top 50 and Switch has two in the top 40. The gen seems to be running away with the Japanese :)

Nintendo does do a real good job at decorating everything.

Yes they're trying to sell you a Scorpio and no XB1 is in the top 100, could everyone be saving their money for when the Scorpio releases? I remember when the XB1 S was the top seller in NA for 4 months the cows were saying that everyone was waiting on the release of the PRO lol

That and is Amazon the only place you can get an XB1 in the US?

My sons birthday is in 3 months, how much will Nintendo charge to decorate a cake for him :P

I thought the same way about the Pro, last year. Remember, the XBox S model actually won two months in a row after E3 even despite the Scorpio announcement then. So, I naturally thought that there was some kind of dip in interest in the PS4 in terms of people waiting to get a Pro. It still ended up that the normal/slim SKUs were the big sellers in the end. I'm not at all convinced that the greater majority is in the market for 4k consoles, yet. It's still a good thing that Sony and MS are putting them out, though.

Could you imagine if they tried to sell the Pro and Scorpio as a new generation? I'm very glad they did not do that. I'm actually giving MS credit on that.

It would be very interesting seeing the sales of 4K TV's since the PRO has been out to see if there is an increase/decrease or if they are steady.

As for me, well my Viera is 8yrs old, so i'm in the market for a new TV, i'm just not 100% sure just yet if i'm in the market for a new console, but Forza 7 is pushing me in that direction, and I keep changing my mind daily.

I just also recently read that Slightly Mad Studios said they won't be doing parity (as they didn't for XB1/PS4) so if they can pump out Project Cars 2 that's something similar to Forza 7 it would be a no brainer for me as a massive racing fan to make the jump.

Damn, not even a single award for the Xbone? Embarrassing.

? No wonder lems are so mad.

It's DOA dude.

I know this is mad unrelated to the thread subject, but it's probably not a bad thing you haven't upgraded to a 4k panel quite yet. The new spec HDMI TVs are going to have a blowout at CES this (technically, next) year. The next generation of OLEDs are going to make previous gen OLED look a generation apart. If MS and Sony have brains on their heads, they will definitely support jutter control and 60+fps framerates for Gen 9. With some panel makers already flirting with 8K TVs, I know the demand on PC hardware is about to take an even bigger leap in the next 4 years.

Coming from who?

Ubisoft stole the show this year otherwise it was just a bunch of stuff we already knew was coming. Nothing really exciting so thank you Ubisoft!

I will do my research and buy what will fulfil my needs. It seems that tech is moving to fast for consumers to keep up. We haven't even explored 4k to it's fullest and there's already 8k talk.

Ain't even talk, brah. Crazy, huh?
https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/2/12349954/8k-broadcasts-start-japan-nhk

Very crazy.

How Ubisoft won anything is laughably bad. Their games always manage to be trash.

Poor Microsoft .... Guess they didn't win anything ....

Nintendo taking a dump on Sony and MS with their weaker system.

lol at people who think power makes the platform. It's always been games and it always will be, everything else is just window dressing.

Only one crying lately is TC and his search for threads to make against Xbox. When I dislike something I just dont think about it. Its pretty easily to see from a psychological stand point this kid has a stick up there over the X1X

Those are some nice subjective awards...

Doesn't change my opnion on anything.

@mowgly1:

Meaningless as SW Battlefront 2 has the most view on Youtube. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-2-is-youtubes-most-viewed-e3/1100-6451016/

The rest of the top ten most-viewed games are as follows:

1. Star Wars Battlefront II
2. Assassin's Creed Origins
3. FIFA 18
4. Call of Duty: WWII
5. God of War
6. Super Mario Odyssey
7. Spider-Man
8. Anthem
9. Need for Speed Payback
10. Dragon Ball Fighter Z

tech is moving faster than other tech can keep up, we have a camera that captures 4K full 360vision+audio and actually storing the feed has been somewhat difficult as some of the motherboards that support 10gb web socket dont actually move the data from the socket at higher than 5gb/s, then there's the hard drive... 2nvme ssd's in raid isn't quite enough

Isn't it #99? Or am I looking at the wrong list

Bunch of awards for the games that haven't released yet , stupid

Lol they went in case of technical innovation for PlayLink... There goes their credibility

Well chances are it's dakurt and we all know how much he talked about MS and how he wished MS would leave the gaming industry.