E3 2011 - What Nintendo Got Right

I don't think Nintendo "won" at all, at least not emphatically.

Microsoft, no doubt, "lost" - they concentrated too much on Kinect and trying to win the casuals from Nintendo and they run the risk of pissing off their core fanbase by doing so. They seemingly have nothing new to offer their core gamers, showing only remakes and sequels with at least the number 3 after them.

Sony did their usual "throw everything at you" type of keynote, but we got new games, actual 3rd party support and a look at what Vita can do. We also got (another) apology for the PSN debacle and a couple of actually funny jokes.

Nintendo gave us fan service and the promise of a new way to play games. They have to deliver on that promise and take 3rd parties along with them at the same time for this E3 keynote to actually mean anything.

Except, is Wii U (or WiiU ?) such a new way to play? What about PSP/PS3 system link games? What about GBA/GameCube linkup games? Hell, what about Dreamcast VU games?

There's nothing, apart from the screen size, about Wii U that can't be done by Sony using Vita and PS3, and Vita will be out at least 6 months before Wii U.

Also, nowhere did we see more than one "new controller" in any of the gameplay suggestions, I'm not sure that Wii U can support more than one remote screen. That limits the "wider and deeper" gameplay options in my opinion.

To my mind, Sony and Nintendo "joint won" E3, but if I had to pick just one of them, I'd take Sony due to Vita coming out earlier and actual, provable 3rd party support, not just more promises.

Of course, it remains to be see and I was wrong about Wii when it launched, but I just can't see Wii U being as big a change as Wii was.