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vitoxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 17 July 2009

3 hours is a long time to not anounce something good.



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Bullet100000 on 17 July 2009

Sweet Price-cut, GT5 release Date Bring it $ony Bring it!!!



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The_God_of_War on 17 July 2009

Sounds like the perfect time to reveal the Slim. It's 3 hours long, they'd better reveal at least one new game too.



  

FilaBrasileiro on 17 July 2009

Don't care about the slim, I already have a PS3
Don't care about the price cut, I already have a PS3
Just give me Gran Turismo 5



AdventWolf on 17 July 2009

Eh. still a month away.



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Seihyouken on 17 July 2009
dbot said:
Here is the link to IGN's liveblog from Leipzig last year -> http://ps3.ign.com/articles/899/899988p1.html

Here is a summary of what they discussed:
Little Big Planet Demo
Heavy Rain live gameplay
Eye Pet
Singstar announcements
Vidzone
The Agency
Free Realms
DC Universe Online
PSP3000

Games Showcased
Little Big Planet
Killzone 2
MotorStorm Pacific Rift
Resistance 2

I don't think Sony will announce anything at this convention aside from release dates. I think GT5, the Slim, and the pricecut would be announced at TGS.
I don't know why you'd think that last year's GC had more Sony announcments than TGS 07 and TGS 08 combined. Furthermore, E3 last year was over a month later than this year. That's more time with which to build announcments. You also need to take into account that Sony's coference at GC last year was only an hour long, where as this time it will be 3 hours. Quite a bit of difference. Just a quick reference:

Tokyo Game Show 2007 Sony Presentation: 1 Hour
Sony's E3 2008 Presentation: 1.5 Hours
Sony's Games Convention 2008 Presentation: 1 Hour
Tokyo Game Show 2008 Sony Presentation: 1/2 an Hour
Sony's E3 2009 Presentation: 2 Hours
Sony's GamesCon 2009 Presentation: 3 Hours

Even if Sony simply showed us everything they already showed us at E3 last month, they'd still have at least an hour of new things to show us. It's been well over two years since Sony has had a public presentation that long. You can definitely expect a slew of new announcments. Trust me, if David Reeves were still in charge of SCEE, he wouldn't shut up about this thing for the next month.



sabby_e17 on 17 July 2009

Cant Wait. New Jak and Daxter and more news on GT5 hopefully.




makingmusic476 on 17 July 2009

Slim
Major Fall PSN update (voice chat yay!)
Gran Turismo 5 (though they may wait for TGS)

I'm thinking those will be their big announcements, and they'll also focus on other SCEE goods. More SingStar, maybe a release month for Heavy Rain, maybe a new title from Sony Liverpool, things like that.



dbot on 17 July 2009
Seihyouken said:

I don't know why you'd think that last year's GC had more Sony announcments than TGS 07 and TGS 08 combined. Furthermore, E3 last year was over a month later than this year. That's more time with which to build announcments. You also need to take into account that Sony's coference at GC last year was only an hour long, where as this time it will be 3 hours. Quite a bit of difference. Just a quick reference:

Tokyo Game Show 2007 Sony Presentation: 1 Hour
Sony's E3 2008 Presentation: 1.5 Hours
Sony's Games Convention 2008 Presentation: 1 Hour
Tokyo Game Show 2008 Sony Presentation: 1/2 an Hour
Sony's E3 2009 Presentation: 2 Hours
Sony's GamesCon 2009 Presentation: 3 Hours

Even if Sony simply showed us everything they already showed us at E3 last month, they'd still have at least an hour of new things to show us. It's been well over two years since Sony has had a public presentation that long. You can definitely expect a slew of new announcments. Trust me, if David Reeves were still in charge of SCEE, he wouldn't shut up about this thing for the next month.

I hope you are right.  Digital Polyphony has a history of announcing GT titles at TGS.  I think that's where they will announce GT5.  The slim and pricecuts have been rumored to hit in September at the earliest.  I think August is too early to announce either of these things (if they exist). That's why I suggested TGS for these announcements.

Three hours seems like a long time, and I don't have any idea what Sony will be discussing.  Based upon past Leipzigs, I wouldn't get your hopes up for any megatons.  I hope that Sony clarifies some release dates for big titles (which I doubt they will), and properly demonstrate their motion control.  I don't think you are going to get much more than that.  

 



Thanks for the input, Jeff.

 

 

TheThunder on 17 July 2009

Fat Princess release date