I might want to say gamers won this year, because if you look at the list of games that don’t include shooting, it’s bananas: “Banjo-Kazooie”, “Star Fox 64”, “F-Zero 64”, “Oddworld”, “Conker’s Bad Fur Day”, and “Final Fantasy VII”. Were half of those games good? No! Was “Daikatana” cool as hell back in ’97? Hell yes! The ’90s were extreme to the max, yo!Īnd if you just look at all the games that had shooting in it, you also get “Turok”, “Starcraft”, “Max Payne”, “Goldeneye”, “Metal Gear Solid”, “Tomb Raider II”, “Fallout”, “Panzer Dragoon Saga”, “Time Crisis”, “Shadows of the Empire”, “Doom 64”, “Grand Theft Auto”, and “Resident Evil 2”! Look at this list and tell me it’s not world-class stuff for reveal trailers and new gameplay footage: “Half-Life”, “Unreal”, “Quake II”, “Star Wars Jedi Knight Dark Forces II”, “SiN”, “Daikatana”, “Thief”, “SWAT 2”, “Duke Nukem Forever”, and “Prey”. PC first-person shooters! And shooters in general, to a certain extent, I guess. Nintendo and the Ultra 64 did! Did you know you could now control Mario in 3D using an analog stick? And that’s not even including the following line-up: the Game Boy Pocket, “Pilotwings 64”, “Wave Race 64”, “Shadows of the Empire”, “Donkey Kong Country 3”, “Kirby Super Star” (aka the best Kirby game), and “Super Mario RPG”. Which I found out was nicknamed “E Cubed” by its creator until people told him it was super dumb and then he changed the name to E3. Sony’s lead is so far beyond comprehension in terms of sales it’s hard to imagine anyone knocking off Sony from their throne, and it all started its gaming dominance at the very first E3 ever.
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The Dreamcast couldn’t compete with the PS2, the $399 Saturn and the super cheap N64 couldn’t compete with the PS1, and pretty much everybody hasn’t competed with the PS4 or PS5, or ever really will again. The Saturn ostensibly died at this very moment, and while Sega didn’t know it until 2001, its place in the console market also died that exact same day. This is the greatest moment in E3 history, by the way it killed an entire console in one fell swoop. No more delays, or COVID nonsense, it’s time for some god damn trailers and hype-ass announcements! Yes, I am a hypocrite but at least I know I’m one. But after not having an E3 last year, we desperately need it this year. None of us should be celebrating the mega-corporations behind the games, just the games themselves, and the developers who crunched themselves to death working on these E3 vertical slices and barely functioning demos. This is all my opinion, none of this is objective because how can it possibly be that. Like a train wreck of Christmas gifts, exploding everywhere and hurting all the employees who make the games, but it’s still a spectacle you cannot take your eyes off of. The whole thing is revolting, and yet somehow hype.
It’s just rich companies getting richer by promoting their marketing materials directly to their loyal diehard customers. Yes, capitalism breeds companies to compete, but it’s not a war.
But there is some credence to the thought that one press conference stood out from the others, but it’s usually in the toxic way fanboys pit conglomerates against each other like sports teams playing against each other. The silly idea that every year us gamers chronicle, in magazines and on the internet, a “winner” to E3 is preposterous, ridiculous, and downright criminal. You cannot win a convention that isn’t a real competition or match or contest. Let me be perfectly clear: no one entity, person, game, product, piece of art, company, or thing can “win” an E3.
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