It's always been a silly question to ask. This year more than any other, it's quite obvious that many people had their expectations out of whack. It should go without saying, but COVID has been going for a year and a half now, and has affected just about everyone and everything.
With that said, I still think it's fun to compile a bit of data whenever I can. So, what if we applied a little math and science to it anyway? If you were in chat during any of the press conferences media briefings showcases, then you may have seen a poll at the end asking you to rate the show from 1-10. Well, I took all that data and used it to determine who the Giant Bomb Community thinks "won E3 2021."
I'm only running data on the showcases that Giant Bomb talked over.
Of course, the true winner of E3 was the gamers ...CHAOS! Well, either that or the Devolver Digital show, which was also pure chaos.
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After Nintendo ended on Tuesday, I asked everyone who they thought had the best showing at E3. This was the result:
So, if we take this data and compare it to the data collected after each conference, what do we get?
Almost the same order. The "Overall Vote" may have been skewed a bit since it was immediately after Nintendo, but who knows.
Either way you look at it, Xbox dominated this year's E3 according to the Giant Bomb Community.