Video game fans around the globe took to Twitter to stream and react to the biggest announcements and surprises from the convention. The social media platform has exclusively revealed to The Hollywood Reporter which games, companies and moments drove the conversation of this year's E3.
The biggest moment of the event on Twitter was Nintendo's press conference on Tuesday morning, which unveiled gameplay from Luigi's Mansion 3, the remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and teased a Breath of the Wildsequel.
Keanu Reeves' surprise appearance at Xbox's press conference on Sunday afternoon, after the reveal that he would be starring in CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077, was the second-most-tweeted-about moment, while Square Enix's debuts of new Final Fantasy VII remake gameplay and Marvel's Avengers project announcement at Monday evening's presser were third.
Nintendo earned the most tweets of any game publisher this year, followed by Xbox, Sony (impressive, considering the Japanese company was absent from this year's convention), Square Enix and Bethesda. Additionally, each major game publisher that held a press conference this year (EA on Saturday, Xbox and Bethesda on Sunday, Ubisoft and Square on Monday and Nintendo on Tuesday) earned the No. 1 spot on Twitter's trending topics list during its presentation.
Of the newly-announced titles at this year's E3, the Final Fantasy VII remake was the most-tweeted-about new game of the convention, followed by Cyberpunk 2077 and Nintendo's Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Square's Marvel's Avengers project rounded out the top five.
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Biggest Press Events:
- Nintendo
- Microsoft
- Square Enix
- Nintendo
- Xbox
- PlayStation
- Square Enix
- Bethesda
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake
- Cyberpunk 2077
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- The Avengers
Nintendo on the whole appears to have done very well; good on Sony for getting as high on the publishers mention as they did, given they weren't even there. Goes to show you the extent of the PS4's absolute pervasiveness, really.