They were pushing VR last year. Also their conference last year was lackluster, it was nice that it was back to back games but wasn't one of the reveals open world zombie the game or something? I don't remember much beyond that, VR pushing, RE7 and God of War. This was last year right?
2015(?) was the big Sony victory year with Last Guardian, FF7 and Shenmue rolled out. And I guess 2013 where they had next to nothing but they came out on stage and literally just announced "we're not the Xbox One" and everyone considered that worth celebrating.
I mean in fairness, yeah, what is Microsoft going to do this year? They tried to trick people like me by announcing a Swery65 game, Phantom Dust remake and Scalebound one year, but I knew better and we all know how that turned out. Their idea of appealing to "gamers" is a new Halo and a new Gears.
And then Nintendo has an entire 25 minute stream? I don't see them pulling much this year, maybe they'll surprise us with Metroid and the first Mario RPG worth a damn in like a decade, but I doubt it. I don't remember if it was last year or not but the last E3 direct of theirs I recall was absolutely terrible.