Magid analysts pick the winners of E3

Analysts at Frank N. Magid Associates, a market advisory firm, have weighed in on who won the big video game trade show, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago.

The analysts — Mark Allenbach, David Pucik, and Paul Silverman  — talk about who made most interesting announcements. The topics include Microsoft’s move to get older Xbox 360 games to run on the newer Xbox One game console, Sony’s wider slate of original games, Star Wars games, and other topics at the show.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.