Microsoft's press conference sucked. BIG TIME. I hate to sound like a little cry baby 12 year old, but I can not help myself. This 26 year old man thinks Microsoft can go sit on an egg. They ruined their hardcore cred with one 2 hour event. Then, to ease the pain of all of those journalists in the audience who wanted to shoot themselves, they gave them free xbox 360's. If I read one single journalist call Microsoft the "Winner" of E3 I will know for sure the bribe worked.

First of all, Nintendo's conference kicked ass. Yes, you heard me right. Nintendo showed some awesome core games that I actually want to play. It was the best conference in years and it came from Nintendo. Compared to Microsoft, which did nothing but show a few core games we already knew were coming and then spent the rest of the time playing kiddie games that no self respecting core gamer would be caught dead playing, Nintendo's conference was for the core gamer just as much as it was for the casual.

They showed A NEW Goldeneye, Kid Icarus, Golden Sun, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Epic Mickey, Donkey Kong, And the 3DS, which looks awesome. Some supposed "core gamers" may lift their noses in the air when someone like me says that "Donkey Kong Country and Kirby" are core franchises, but those people are just young gamers who grew up with the playstation and have ZERO A/B roots. I was really impressed with Nintendo. I do not see how Sony can top it, but I hope they do. I love Sony, Nintendo, and even the thieving Microsoft, but Sony is my favorite. They deserve to win this years E3 and I hope they pull out the big guns because that's exactly what Nintendo did.

Wow, Ed, we didn't watch the same thing.  I was impressed with the games: Gears 3, Halo: Reach, Black Ops, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, and most of the Kinect games.

I can see myself making use of the increased functionality Kinect will give the console, mostly because my wife and I use the Xbox for games, Netflix and for many other things.

We own a Wii, too, and Kinect seems to be the answer to every complaint I have had with the Wii's motion control.  I'll still use the controller for my FPS titles, but a lack of controller makes more sense when we have family over (and make fools of ourselves).

I'm totally onboard with Kinect and can see myself buying quite a few of the silly titles to balance out the more 'hardcore' games I play when alone.

Meanwhile, Nintendo bored me.  To tears.

It would be impossible for me to disagree more with everything you said.

Well, I'll leave the bickering to Keith and Ed. Andrew, meanwhile, great job on this. I love the limerick series you do. Nice concise way to summarize two hours into two minutes.

Microsoft dominated E3 regardles if we disagree on the direction they are taking. Kinect is new and innovative. It does what the Wii did 4 years ago. It sparks the imagination. It's like Blade Runner and Minority Report combined.

The Sony conference was sad in comparison. Golf and Magic Wand demos? The Twisted Metal demo looked like Calling All Cars on steroids, but I did like the Nuke Mode video. I think they mentioned Tron about 5 times. They replayed the same game videos twice to fill in the gaps. It was awful.

I missed the Nintendo conference. But I saw the sad Zelda game. Who needs Zelda when you have Wii Fit?

@ Keith. Your exactly the type of Gamer that Microsoft is hoping for. A family man that didn't grow up gaming. Like I said in my post, Nintendo's conference didn't impress you because you just didn't understand it. That is not an insult, honestly. The people from my generation and from the type of core gamer group I am a part of grew up with Kirby, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Donkey Kong Country, Zelda, Goldeneye, etc. To be shown all of these games in one press conference is like giving a crackhead a life supply of.....crack. Hence why so many publications are already calling Nintendo the winner.

They showed us our childhood and said "Here, it is all yours". Compared to previous conferences of theirs, where all they did was show kiddie junk like Wii Music, with this conference they brought out their big guns. People have been asking for these games for years and years and Nintendo delivered. They showed tons of NEW stuff, not old stuff we alreay saw like Microsoft did. It is funny, because all the E3 conferences before had Microsoft showing off all of the hardcore games and Nintendo doing the whole casual thing. This year, Microsoft was doing the whole casual thing and Nintendo was showering the core gamer with awesomeness.

All Microsoft did was show what we already knew was coming. We already knew Gears of War 3. We already saw tons of footage for Halo Reach and Black Ops. We already saw how idiotic people look playing Natal. We already knew everything. Even that they were announcing a new slimmed down console. Honestly, it was the worst conference I have ever seen at E3.

@Ed. Didn't grow up gaming?  I beg to differ.  As a child I had the Atari 2600, then I got the Duck Hunt/Super Mario Bros NES with the original Punch Out! and Baseball shortly after launch... I was wow'd by Metroid, stupified by Super Mario 2 & then 3, and saw Metal Gear introduce me to Snake, who then become Solid Snake.  I bought the Genesis shortly after it launched in North America... then the N64.. then the Dreamcast.. then.. you get my point.

You don't know me, so don't patronize me.  And don't assume.  I understood it well enough.  It just bored me.  I am not some fanboy with blinders who will gush over every DS slop slapped on my plate and proclaim it is ribeye.  I must have been older than you when the NES launched, because I never cared for Kirby, and I thought Kid Icarus was boring kid's stuff (see Metal Gear comment above).  Regardless, Kid Icarus is 3DS, so not interested.  I admit I AM curious about GoldenEye, but shouldn't that have happened YEEEEARS ago?

Want to talk about stuff we already knew about?  Metroid.  Zelda.  Which will be dope, but I won't get my hands on Zelda until Christmas 2011, I'd wager.  Blizzard is the only company that delays more than Nintendo.

Give me Rogue Squadron Wii.  Give me a New Metroid Wii side scroller.  And for the love of Samus give me Zelda in the calendar year 2010.

The Limerick doesn't communicate very well, particularly since it's supposed to be news. In the midst of E3, we want accurate details, not vague metaphors.

But, the limerick might be more entertaining after we understand all of the announcements. Perhaps a limerick that summarizes E3 after it's over would be better.

@Andrew, sorry to be a part of all the bickering on your post.  Lost in it is my admiration for your limerick.  I liked it and thought it entertaining.  Good stuff.

I, too, worry a cough (or sneeze?) would send the Xbox into a loop of nausea-inducing menu flipping!

These don't really read as limericks to me. I'm no poet, but aren't the 1st, 2nd, and 5th lines supposed to have the same number of syllables and similarly the 3rd and 4th line should match as well? I'm too lazy to wiki it, but in my mind, most limericks I think go: 9 syllables, 9 syllables, 5 syllables, 5 syllables, 9 syllables.

My brain keeps trying to establish a rhythm from the first line and repeat it in the second... but they don't ever match so I get thrown... either inserting extra syllables unintentionally, or trying to emphasize the "rhyming" syllable before or after they actually show up.

Which are all details I'm quite sure no one cares about... but because these limericks do not follow traditional form, they don't really read very smoothly. To me at least.

Tell me to shut up if I'm too nitpicky, but this is a site for user generated content and feedback... and my feedback is that these limericks are hard to read.

Anyway, I'll shut up now.

@Val I agree. I was trying to find rhythm, too. But, I didn't know what a limerick was until I looked it up in the dictionary.

I too will leave the arguments to their participants.

As for the limericks, unfortunately the facts get in the way of good rhythm, so at times they do get stretched. It's light hearted fare, meant to be comic relief from the hundreds of news items all over the Internet. If you would like facts, I recommend all the other coverage our staff is producing -- it's truly great stuff.

I don't know what it is about putting together a gimmick that makes people break out the intense analysis, but I assure you, this is no time for that! Simply for a laugh, and I hope I at least made everyone smirk.

And here I was thinking that only the rhyming scheme (A-A-B-B-A) was what made a limerick a limerick and not the syllables (like a haiku). Even weirder that I'm learning this from a game site!  But there are some great writers here, so it makes sense.

Great job, Andrew, almost forgot how much I missed these!

@Andrew You took a bold risk with the limericks, and perhaps it didn't work out. I'm glad you wrote them, regardless if I liked them, or not.

The easiest thing to do is criticize someone's work. Also, people tend to leave a comment if we disagree or don't like soemthing. We don't usually leave kind words unless the work is mind blowing. If I'm "negative", I feel the duty "to help". Like "pulling the beam out of your eye". But, I may have a beam in my eye.