Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg has labelled their performance at E3 nothing short of ”historic,” saying they dreamed of ”opening with The Beatles and closing” with Spielberg.
They topped last year, and added that E3 has had ”its glory” returned. While unable to see the rival events himself he watched both ”in their entirety” on TV, adding they ”had a good show”.
”Last year there were so many big games that we showed. We had Resident Evil, we had Gears of War 2, we had all the big blockbuster and people were like, ‘how are you gonna top that?!’ - and we did,” said Greenburg, in a Major Nelson podcast.
”A lot of people thought it was the best E3 we’ve ever had, I definitely think it was historic. We dreamed of opening with The Beatles and closing with Steven Spielberg and it happened.”
”E3, I think, returned to all its glory,” he went on, noting however that, ”it was the first year in maybe five years that I couldn’t get to the Sony and Nintendo conferences.”
”I watched on TV both of them in their entirety but yeah, it was insane. I sent one of my staff and he reported back and yeah, it was good, I thought they had a good show, I think Sony did a good job.”
The Xbox 360 product boss admits he’s a gamer first, executive second: ”I hope I don’t get in trouble for saying this, but I’m pretty open in that I own a PS3 and I play games on it: I’m a gamer.”
One thing’s for sure, everyone is happy to see E3 back as it should be - big stages and big names, unlike the disastrous one last year dubbed a dentists’ convention.
Source: VG247
