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I was looking for some "Best of E3" wrapups, and at one point, I landed at IGN severely confused about their characterization of Sony's press conference. I simply couldn't figure out what was going on with the sarcasm when I read this under "Biggest Surprise":

To doubt this award is to admit being unfairly clairvoyant.

Oh no, man. Of course we weren't surprised when Sony announced the PlayStation 3 at its annual pre-E3 press conference. We totally expected exactly what we got -- a finalized piece of hardware complete with a new Spider-Man logo, a sleek George Foreman design, a new boomerang controller Mitch Dundee would be proud of, about 20 kicking game demos that may or may not have been real, and the promise that it would all release by the spring of 2006 (in at least some reaches on this planet Earth, anyway).

Turns out I was on the page for the Best of E3 for 2005. Ah, those were heady days for Sony supporters; too bad all of those things disappeared a year later (except for the Spider-Man thing). Of course, Sony earned the "Biggest Surprise" award from IGN in 2006 too, specifically for "Sony's Underwhelming Press Conference":

From the extreme boredom that set in when the Gran Turismo HD demo ran too long to showing lackluster titles at their press conference, Sony let the momentum they built up from last year literally fade away.

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