Ok E3 (or the retarded step child of the former E3...) has wrapped up, all the companies have shown there wares. Here's my take on it...

Microsoft- I actually got a chance to watch the conference for MS live on G4. And as I had predicted to a couple friends, they basically spent a third of it to talk about Halo 3. Look Microsoft, everyone, and I mean EVERYONE already knows Halo 3 is coming. It's already going to sell out no matter what. So why send so much time on it. Maybe because everything else you have is pretty mediocre or shared with a competitor?

Obviously, I was unimpressed. Granted, they've got some good titles for this year coming, but I still think that MS' game diversity is severly lacking. It's great to see some more RPGs coming (Mass Effect leading the way), but seeing titles from X360 worth having continuously leaking over to the PC is also disappointing. Oh and Scene It? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Nintendo- Over time, I've actually found Nintendo to be the most disappointing out of ALL of the major 3 for E3. It seems that Nintendo has given up on the real gaming crowd, in favor of trying to expand there market with gimmicks. I don't think that the basic form of the Wii is a gimmick, in fact, I love the whole Wiimote aiming system & motion controls. But a plastic gun case & plastic wheel get set up as big items? Who cares! And hardly anything new game on games. We knew about those big 3 titles, all Nintendo did was settle the dates. So? Do you have anything PAST 2007 to look forward to? Or more than 3 games for this year?

But the worst offense was the WiiFit pad, hands down. This thing is one big gimmick. Infact, it's basically just a wireless bathroom scale hooked into your Wii. I'm already calling it the worst Nintendo device since Virtual Boy, purely for it's offensiveness to gamers, being sold along side what is suppose to be a gaming console.

Sony- Easily the ones that won E3, but that was more to weak competition. They did a great job of focusing in on the amount of titles to look forward to this & next year (unfortunately, too many are next year...) , plus the new PSP Slim, for the small physical changes, sounds great, being faster and longer lasting. It's not all positive though...

The late breaking news of the 60GB price drop just being to move out the old with a switch to a $600 only system (with only backcrapability) is a shame. It completely runied what was a mostly positive Sony E3 for me. And given the overall quality of PSN so far, I'm really quesitoning how smooth the Home roll-out will go and how well it will function, as good of an idea as it is on paper.