E3 2012: Expert opinion on Sony, Microsoft and EA

All but one of the main conferences are in the bag for E3 2012, but what do the headlines mean? Patrick Garratt, Brenna Hillier and Rob Fahey break the news down.

Sony came up wanting for Vita, Microsoft managed to push through for a final year of the current gen and EA did an bang-up job of making "five" appear to be "ten".

Get full coverage on all the conference here and read what our writers thought about it all below. Nintendo's confrerence will be the last at 5.00pm BST today, and we'll have comment from Johnny Minkley once the dust's settled.

• Analysis: PS3 goes Beyond, but Sony fails in Vita rescue bid (Rob Fahey)
• Analysis: Microsoft manages to pad it out for another year (Patrick Garratt)
• Analysis: EA’s core roster cut in half by hardware transition (Brenna Hillier)