That is, unless you are a Sony or Nintendo fanboy.  Since I don’t own either a wii or a PS3, that makes me an Xbox fanboy.  For those of you like me, the winner, it’s we.

The big 3 console vendors have each had their E3 moment in the sun and one thing was clear, Microsoft has deep pockets.  Nintendo had little, if any, things to shake a wii stick at.  Sony is trying hard to catch up to Xbox Live and boy, the PS2 is sure doing well.  Microsoft on the other hand, dropped all sorts of bombs.  Some of which probably caused Sony to drop some bombs as well.  Mostly of the F variety.

The first shot was the news of previously exclusive Playstation developer Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIII coming to the Xbox.  Not really sure if I care much about that since I’ve never played an FF game, but it’s still a huge blow to Sony.  If MS would get their heads out of their asses and release a Blu Ray addon for the Xbox they would crush the PS3 for good.

The second shot was the official announcement of the Netflix streaming movie collection becoming available through the Xbox to Netflix subscribers.  While the news itself is something thats been rumored for awhile, it was also something most expected to see on both platforms.  The news here is that it appears to be an Xbox exclusive deal.

The third big Xbox announcement was the news of a dashboard update and this new avatar concept.  From what I’ve seen so far, they can keep em.  I’ll take the current blade system and my gamerpic.  The proposed new interface looks underwhelmingly unispired and the avatars look like bad mi clones.

Overall, I’m still glad I have an Xbox, even despite it’s hardware deficiencies (when compared to a PS3).  Hopefully some worthwhile game news will continue to come out of E3 the rest of the week.  Meanwhile, the Bungie countdown continues to work towards 7/16/08 07:07:07 GMT.  Please be something other than Halo 4…

[Update] Bah.  The Bungie reveal was squashed by Microsoft.