Who won E3 2006?

This is the million dollar question. To judge this objectively is a hard thing to do, that is why I decided to go the old fashioned way and pull in some numbers.

This graph is generated by the blog-trendsearch http://www.blogpulse.com. As you can see around April, 25th there is a huge spike on the Wii. Obviously this is when the name was announced by Nintendo. Note that it even generated a little bit more buzz than their showing at E3.

Nintendo Wii: generated the most buzz with their new innovative controller that was unveiled to the public for the first time.

Xbox 360: Considerable buzz mainly for it's huge line-up of AAA titles and a few peripherals.

Playstation 3: comes in last in the graph. They showed some promising titles and had the trailer of the show with MGS4 which was simply sublime. I'm guessing their huge price announcement also made quite a few blog ;) Sony what are you doing? :(

So after E3 buzz goes to normal and the 360 is on top again. The reason being that the product is out, games are released, etc. There is a small Wii spike at the date the < $250 price point rumour surfaced. My hopes are at $200 as I stated earlier on my blog.

Personally I was most excited about all the great games Microsoft announced. The games the Wii showed off unfortunately did not really catch my attention, then again I'm really interested in what games devs will come up with for the controller. For Playstation 3 I'm excited about Heavenly Sword, F1 and the Naughty Dog studios game. They really let me down on the controller, and their enormous price. I personally can't miss rumble, simply because this feature is really an added value when playing racing games and some sports games. And I'm really a racing fan. Too bad.