1. nintendo needs a great show. supposedly they have the most amount of floor space at e3 so they will use it... im sure they will have games running on final hardware, theve had that for awhile, but it has not been released yet... they have been holding back, and i think it will be good..otherwise, if they show crap, you can say bye bye
2. sony has to beat microsoft at this show.:smokin: they are both competing for the same target audience( and market share), if sony does a price drop(it is rumored $50 american or above drop at e3), a very smart and deadly move and shows off a slew of AAA games, its new hardrive+eithernet adapter, it will beat microsoft with no trouble in my opinion...
3. microsoft has no choice but to pull a perfect show... they recently got their new finalized chipset, and they need games running on final hardware.(that may be tough to pull considering they only got them finished a week ago, and like 2 of the finalized x boxes died while running
) they need to show much more then abe and the pc port: Halo to win this one. and im sure bill knows it
Software companies:
Ensemble studios will be showing off the new beta version of AGE OF MYTHOLOGY, the sequel to age of empires II, The age of kings. this game is fully 3d (for the first time in the age of empire series) it looks very good.
Konami will have a great show, and so will square with its great number of ps2 AAA titles announced, FFX FFXI MGS2 and so on.
I think it will be between nintendo and sony for #1 microsoft in third,
i dont know about developers