E3 2016 Came and Went

I only actually watched the briefings on Monday, which was Microsoft, Ubisoft, the PC Gaming Show, and Sony. The PC Gaming Show was not that great in my opinion, because it felt to me at times like it was supposed to be something really hype-ie, but was more of a talk show, and that place in the middle it occupied was not ideal. Ubisoft was interesting to watch, but seriously, it would have been nice if we saw, clearly Just Dance 2017 up on the screen at the beginning. If you watched it, you know what I mean.
Sony... I am confused when I see headlines of different people praising Sony as having the best conference. It was not good, at all. It was practically all trailers, so everything could have just been put up on YouTube. The live orchestra was neat, but what it was playing did not seem to tie into anything of the presentation. Some of the stuff that was shown was not particularly impressive or well done either. A VR trailer for Final Fantasy XV where the first half of it is just the normal gameplay, and then we get a VR reveal within it. If this were the first trailer of the VR content, and we did not know the VR stuff was coming, it would have been good, but that was not the case at all. Seriously, there was no real, press conference type substance to the Sony press conference.
Microsoft, however, that felt like a press conference. There were trailers, yes, but also live gameplay, that was not just someone on the corner of the stage playing, announcements in video, and announcements from the stage. You could not have just put the content up on YouTube and have it be the same, because part of the content, the substance was live. The bulk of Sony was trailers, or gameplay that was not obviously gameplay ie. it could have easily been pre-recorded and no one would have cared.


So those are my thoughts on one day of E3, because I did not watch the others. Sunday I think I was asleep by the time it was going on, and on Tuesday, I mainly just forgot. Sad but true. Anyway, I'm sure we will see more announcements in the near future. Nintendo and Sony will have announcements for the NX and Neo. AMD I suspect (and hope) will announce an RX 490, or something similar (full-Polaris) in the next month or two. (It would make sense to not announce it before the release of the $199 RX 480, because the 490, likely targeting near $299, would have eaten into the 480 sales. The 480 is likely going to be all that most people need, because it targets VR and 1440p, which is as much or more than most people need. Why release a more expensive 490 that will do more than most people need, and eat into the sales of the other product? The 480 will probably make the company more money too, but it also makes sense to hold it back to reduce confusion, and the 480 is probably still going to be the product AMD wants consumers to target. Maybe that is weird thinking, but it makes sense to my mind.)