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A Look Back at E3 2014 (with graphs!)
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timetokill
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Wow, really? Can you link me?
Yes. It's based on the same data as the one in the OP.
Did you really just say "multiplatform exclusivity"?
jimbobsmells
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I'd like to see that too please.
timetokill
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Awesome, thanks
That was pretty funny. Too bad they didn't read the text that described some of the categories but that's okay. I'll be more descriptive of what I included next time around.Quote the first post.
Chû Totoro
Member
Awesome job OP, very instructive. Some things were obvious but some really weren't. Mostly regarding Microsoft for me so I may take a look back at what they've show this E3.
jimbobsmells
Member
Thanks but I tried that, it's expired or something.
timetokill
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Sorry about that. I just updated the link with a fresh upload.
Based on those stats I'd say
Nintendo>Xbox>>>PlayStation
Very surprising, the fact more shooters were shown on Sony's press than in Xbox'. Thanks for taking the time to make these stats, really interesting stuff.
Though IMO to my interest, the ladder would be something more like
PlayStation>Xbox>>Nintendo>Everything else........................................ EA
Nintendo>Xbox>>>PlayStation
Very surprising, the fact more shooters were shown on Sony's press than in Xbox'. Thanks for taking the time to make these stats, really interesting stuff.
Though IMO to my interest, the ladder would be something more like
PlayStation>Xbox>>Nintendo>Everything else........................................ EA
timetokill
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I'll probably go through and make more explicit rules for that at some point and detail them out, yeah. I kind of did this as a lark so I may go back and formalize some stuff at some point since it seems to be popular enough.
Psycho_Mantis
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MS' and Sony's offering will look WAY more impressive when shown in numbers. They showed more games and more gameplay and they have more exclusives than Nintendo.
While percentages work in Nintendo's favor.
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Not always
My take:
Yeah I figured as much. Percentages don't work here as comparisons as they are percents of a different pie.
Terrible_Majesty
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can you include treehouse stuff? compare it with sony and microsofts streams.
would you say you are.......concerned?
That really puts it into perspective.
Wrestlemania
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How many of those came from indie game sizzle reels?MS' and Sony's offering will look WAY more impressive when shown in numbers. They showed more games and more gameplay and they have more exclusives than Nintendo.
While percentages work in Nintendo's favor.
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Not always
Linkstrikesback
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I'll admit I came into this thread half excepting it to just be another punchline at polygon's expense.
But it's an interesting thing to see, and I would like it you did something like this again next year!
But it's an interesting thing to see, and I would like it you did something like this again next year!
Wrestlemania
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For reference - the eShop highlight video which wasn't part of the digital event but had equivalents in the Sony and Microsoft conferences shows 29 games.
http://youtu.be/raZ5bTMRjpw
http://youtu.be/raZ5bTMRjpw
And it would appear if they showed it on their event.
The others had also games outside of the conferences
Wrestlemania
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Sure. It would be more interesting to do some analysis based on the showing of each from the whole event rather than just the conferences.
Chobel
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Not shooters, but games with shooting, OP probably count games like broforce, GTA and MGS as "shooting".
timetokill
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Yeah I generally tried to put games where aiming and shooting at things were showcased or core parts of the gameplay. The games you listed I put as "shooting" but I'm not calling them shooters.
Well the OP has a very strange definition of shooting, so that's probably the most worthless of all the graphs.
Dragon Puncher
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The Powers TV-show messed up those Sony graphs.
timetokill
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Well thanks
The point wasn't to be about "here are all the shooter games" but more "here's all the games that are about/related to shooting things" which I feel is a lot more important as far as the industry goes as a whole.Well thanks
And I've pointed out your inconsistency in applying that label in a previous post:
This is the category that is most rife for personal bias, so I stand by the statement that it's worthless the way it's presented now.
timetokill
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For the people asking about indies, other games at the show, etc: I only took what was in the "press conference" or Nintendo's substitute for one, partly because I wanted to try and compare as directly as possible, and partly because I wanted to limit the scope of the project to something reasonable.
That means if indies were shown in the conference (like MS and Sony) they were included. If they weren't, they weren't included.
You indeed did show your bias, with the "but it's in space so that doesn't count"
Wooly World is throwing, indeed. I also didn't include any games that were bow/arrow based because I was focusing on guns/bullets/shoot-bang type stuff.
Xenoblade could certainly be included in the shooting category.. I didn't include Bloodborne because I only saw the trailer and didn't know there was shooting in it (or I didn't notice it in the trailer). I literally only looked at the conference videos.
Anyway, yes, it's not perfect but like I said I will probably go back and formalize things at some point. Good job, good effort, enjoy finding it worthless and keep posting about it.
That means if indies were shown in the conference (like MS and Sony) they were included. If they weren't, they weren't included.
You indeed did show your bias, with the "but it's in space so that doesn't count"
Wooly World is throwing, indeed. I also didn't include any games that were bow/arrow based because I was focusing on guns/bullets/shoot-bang type stuff.
Xenoblade could certainly be included in the shooting category.. I didn't include Bloodborne because I only saw the trailer and didn't know there was shooting in it (or I didn't notice it in the trailer). I literally only looked at the conference videos.
Anyway, yes, it's not perfect but like I said I will probably go back and formalize things at some point. Good job, good effort, enjoy finding it worthless and keep posting about it.
Devilgunman
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Not sure why people still use the word "indies". Games are games. There shouldn't be discrimination between a game like Witcher 3 and Magicka 2.
Luckily we have you as our last line of defense before games like Cuphead destroy our children with the shoot-bang type stuff.
It's not like Mario Maker would ever stoop so low to feature projectiles!
Because there is a lack of transparency on the selection criteria and obvious inconsistencies in what is selected. That is shit?
timetokill
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Damn dude why are you so bent out of shape over it?
TheSpaceBetween
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Those "game type" graphs are just embarrassing.
Caayn
Member
Thank you for gathering the data and creating these graphs.
The exclusivity chart for Nintendo is nice and yet it hurts.
The time spent chart feels wrong I thought that Sony had a lot more going on besides showing games. Most likely due to the boring parts with the Powers guy and the Jack Tretton replacement guy (honestly I don't even remember his name anymore), and Adam Boyes' lame jokes/fan mail part.
I'm surprised by the amount of 2014 titles shown by Nintendo. After I watched their digital event it felt like most was 2015.
The exclusivity chart for Nintendo is nice and yet it hurts.
The time spent chart feels wrong I thought that Sony had a lot more going on besides showing games. Most likely due to the boring parts with the Powers guy and the Jack Tretton replacement guy (honestly I don't even remember his name anymore), and Adam Boyes' lame jokes/fan mail part.
I'm surprised by the amount of 2014 titles shown by Nintendo. After I watched their digital event it felt like most was 2015.
TetraGenesis
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My take:
Jesus, OP, come on. This is ridiculous.
Angelus Errare
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Messofanego
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Why the focus on shooting as a sign of the industry as a whole or that it's sad if the vast majority of games are about killing? Splatoon looks rad, from Nintendo, and that is hella TF 2 levels of violent.
Is Nintendo doing a TPS a sign of the end times, that games can't express meaningful gameplay without violence? What conclusion are you driving towards, that nonviolent games won't have a chance to reign supreme or only be in smaller games? Some of the biggest games aren't about killing, and they're considered as part of the vast majority (mobile games, sport games, puzzle games, simulators). I just don't agree that we should generalise what is shown at 3 platforms' E3 conferences as indicative of the entire videogame industry.
Is Nintendo doing a TPS a sign of the end times, that games can't express meaningful gameplay without violence? What conclusion are you driving towards, that nonviolent games won't have a chance to reign supreme or only be in smaller games? Some of the biggest games aren't about killing, and they're considered as part of the vast majority (mobile games, sport games, puzzle games, simulators). I just don't agree that we should generalise what is shown at 3 platforms' E3 conferences as indicative of the entire videogame industry.
timetokill
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What is ridiculous? Those numbers are in my OP, under the graph itself.
graywolf323
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it'd probably help if you included more statistics instead of just pie charts OP
for one thing that time spent chart seems skewed, Sony spent at most 30 minutes out of that close to two hour conference on non-gaming stuff which does not amount to 46%
for one thing that time spent chart seems skewed, Sony spent at most 30 minutes out of that close to two hour conference on non-gaming stuff which does not amount to 46%
Zombie James
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Far more accurate way to showing this data.
Idk about protagonists, but for playable female characters Nintendo had Palutena for Smash, the Squid girls from Splatoon, May in ORAS, I believe there's a playable girl in STEAM, and Zelda and Midna for Hyrule Warriors announced. Thats not including previously announced playable characters such as Bayonetta in her games, Impa in Hyrule Warriors, and the Smash femme fatales.
This female push is almost certainly a conscious decision by Nintendo.
Nintendo had a much shorter presentation, a lot of their stuff was shown or announced elsewhere. That makes comparing the events quite difficult. They could have extended the Digital Event by a mere three minutes to show their eShop reel and end up at 40 games as well.