Some big news items have come up recently related to Sony and announcements that are going to be made by them at their E3 press conference.  By far the biggest on so far is the information about the PSP-4000 or PSP2 that is surfacing.  According to sources, it is going to be debuted at E3 and is slated for release in December of this calendar year.  This is big news for Sony as a company, because they are the only company successfully competing with three separate consoles on the market at the same time.

Besides the PSP2 news, there have also been new talks about God of War 3 gameplay demos, as well as the same coming from the upcoming title M.A.G.  It seems like they are showing all of their cards early, in order to try to ride a wave of hype heading into E3 this summer.   While this is just the opposite approach than what Microsoft is doing.  They are…. Silent.

Just like last year, heading into the conference they mentioned no specifics, but just slated that they would be unveiling “big things”.  This was an understatement if anything, as the FFXIII bombshell was one of the biggest announcements in all of gaming history.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see something close to this level of magnitude or importance.  Maybe even FFXIII going multi-platform in Japan?  There are rumors swirling as to what Microsoft is going to announce.  The only thing that everyone can be sure of is: It’s bound to be more interesting than Nintendo’s press conference last year.

"This was an understatement if anything, as the FFXIII bombshell was one of the biggest announcements in all of gaming history."

...really?

I am expecting to see some huge bombshells this year. This is going to be a great E3!

This should be an awesom E3 with all 3 companies actually showing stuff this year.
SONYs show for me is the most hyped, followed by Nintys.

Doubt MS will have anything THAT big, possibly Gears 3 announced + 2 more Halo games.

are these confirmed or just specualtions of what will be shown at e3?

Remember when Microsoft said that ff would sell more on 360 I think it will be one year timed exclusive for 360 outside japan.

LMAO. That would be epic.

Probably announcing that VSXIII and next MGS is Multiplat

If microsoft pulled something like that sales will get really interesting.  The reason being is because suddenly sales of the ps3 exclusive version in Japan would sell like 4 million to a platform base of 3 million (because of the region free baby).  So in effect it would microsoft would fail in it's attempt to outsell the ps3 version from the start.

umm, i wouldn't really call GOW3 and MAG gameplay demos as sony showing their cards early. more like common sense? i'm expecting much more exciting things from them come june.