Microsoft's Xbox 360 trumped Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) and the Nintendo Wii at the Game Critics Awards, with Xbox 360 games winning 11 'Best of E3 2007' awards, compared to the PS3's eight, and the Wii's one.
EA's Rock Band won Best In Show ousting Bioshock, Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect and Fallout 3 for the honour. Sony's Little Big Planet won Best Original Game, while Microsoft's Mass Effect took home the Best Console Game prize and Sony's Killzone 2 earned a congeniality award for outstanding visuals.
The Game Critics Awards is judged by a panel of 36 journalists who submit nominees in over a dozen categories for games that were playable at E3, the industry's most notable yearly conference.
Special attention by the judging body is given to so called 'hardcore' games says the panel's co-founder Jeff Keighley. As a result, the industries two best selling systems, the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii, only went home with one award a piece.
The full list of awards can be found on the Game Critics Awards' home page.
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. said: I doubt the Wii will be a winner its still a novelty at the moment and when the prices of the xbox and ps3 come down the wii will be pushed to the back as it is no improvement on the previous generationThe PS2s eyetoy could do near enough the same thing that the wii achieves with the remote
Replay said: Yes Xbox 360 beat Wii and PS3 in games awards for 2007 You wont believe if you go to gametrailerscom You will learning lots of them and PS3 will be best console 2008 Xbox 360 got a huge problem with Ring of Death Microsoft have to pay 15 billion for this problem X360 system
Z101 said: The Wii is the best selling console of this generation Many Xbox360 Games are canceled because the publisher needs the teams to produce Wii eclusive games The honored Xbox titles are all intended intended long before everyone sees that the Wii is the winner
Jimi said: The Xbox 360 is a great console and I am sure will be the best selling console of this generation