Flashback: Reliving The Drama Of E3 1995, When Sega Took On Sony And Lost

“They deflated my inflatable Sonic character that we brought to the show”.

It’s ten years since E3 2013. You’ll no doubt remember it. Microsoft, the market leader in the US, went into the show with its Xbox One, and fluffed its lines. The entire pitch of the console, particularly the decision to tie games to a single console, had been widely ridiculed even before E3 had begun.

Sony, meanwhile, after a disastrous PS3 generation where it lost almost half of its audience, came in and stole the show with PS4. It even gently mocked its competitor with a now infamous video on how you can ‘share’ PlayStation games.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

“They deflated my inflatable Sonic character that we brought to the show”.

It’s ten years since E3 2013. You’ll no doubt remember it. Microsoft, the market leader in the US, went into the show with its Xbox One, and fluffed its lines. The entire pitch of the console, particularly the decision to tie games to a single console, had been widely ridiculed even before E3 had begun.

Sony, meanwhile, after a disastrous PS3 generation where it lost almost half of its audience, came in and stole the show with PS4. It even gently mocked its competitor with a now infamous video on how you can ‘share’ PlayStation games.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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