TGS 07 + Huge List of Links to New HD Videos of Interviews, Gameplay, Trailers, etc

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The Tokyo Game Show officially started today and ends on Sunday. I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread to discuss news, topics and games coming from this year's largest gaming conference, TGS.

As I already made a post about the TGS keynote speech made by Kazuo "Kaz" Hirai, President and Group Chief Operating Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, in another thread, I'll start this thread off with that:


Summation of Sony’s TGS Keynote Presentation by Kaz Hirai:
  • Typical console sales report on the PSP, PS2, and PS3.

  • Report on PSP game titles that have sold over a million copies.

  • Six new color variations for the PSP.

  • Announced that the Limited Edition of Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII for the PSP sold out in one day.

  • Star Wars Battlefront and Daxter will be offered in PSP bundles.

  • New PSP add-ons:
    • GPS receiver
    • Camera
    • SEG TV Tuner

  • Recap/followup on Sony's upcoming download services.

  • Recap/followup on PSN's Go! series of games.

  • New demonstration on PS3-PSP Remote Play:
    • New Remote Play icon is shown on the PSP XMB.
    • Turning on and off the PS3 with the PSP over the internet.
    • PSP's wake on LAN and sleep on LAN.
    • PSP as a second screen. (F1:CE is used in the demo... different than the previous "side-mirror" demo)
    • Using PSP as a PS3 controller.
    • PS3s will be able to connect to each other to view the same multimedia content on remote consoles.

  • Montage Trailer for:
    • LittleBigPlanet
    • Final Fantasy XIII
    • Lair
    • Aqua
    • Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
    • Ratatouille
    • Devil May Cry 4
    • LocoRoco Cocoreccho
    • Imabikisou
    • PixelJunk Racers
    • Eye of Judgment
    • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
    • Gallian Chronicles
    • Sega Rally Revo
    • (unkown horse racing game)
    • Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
    • NBA 08
    • Record of Agarest War
    • Spider-Man 3
    • Railfan
    • Oblivion: The Elder Scrolls
    • Go! Sports Ski
    • Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
    • flOwer
    • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    • Tony Hawk Project 8
    • Conan
    • Angel Love Online
    • Turok
    • Guitar Hero III
    • Heavenly Sword
    • FIFA 08
    • Killzone 2
    • echochrome
    • Transformers
    • Time Crisis 4
    • Last Remnant
    • Nobi Nobi Boy
    • Warhawk
    • Dynasty Warriors 6
    • Final Fantasy Versus XIII
    • Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
    • Afrika
    • Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
    • Yakuza 3
    • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot
    • White Knight Chronicles

  • New footage from Afrika.

  • Report on future business plans, including building relationships with licensees, sharing of SCE WWS assets, periodical meetings of the advisory board, and supporting partners with their PS3 games.

  • Report on strengthening of first party title development and Sony's Worldwide Studios sharing more assets and knowledge with other teams.

  • Announcement on Sony's acquisition of Evolution Studios, developers of the World Rally Championship series and MotorStorm.

  • Announcement on Big Big Studios also joining the ranks as a first party team developer for Sony.

  • Report on PS3 hardware and reducing costs.

  • Announcement on rumble equipped DualShock 3/SIXAXIS and current and future game support for rumble.

  • Report on PSN registered users.

  • Announced Gran Turismo 5: Prologue December 13th Japanese release date as well as a free PSN demo.

  • Announced that PS Home will be delayed until Spring 2008.

  • Presentation of Dress for Home.

  • Report on worldwide PSN content:
    • 30 PS3 Games
    • 300 Game Add-ons
    • 100 Game Archive Titles
    • 40 Free Game Demos
    • (+ countless game & movie trailers, many wallpapers, and even MP3s)

  • Announced PC access to the PlayStation Store. (they also showed a screen showing the PSP connected to a laptop computer running Windows with the new PC PlayStation Store interface)

  • Presentation on the CELL processing power and its floating point operation capabilities.

  • Announced the surpassing of arguably one of the largest milestones in computer science by achieving a petaflop (one quadrillion floating point operations per second), was achieved thanks to Folding@Home and the PS3. What makes this all the more impressive for the PS3 and IBM's cell processor is that despite PS3s accounting for less than 15% of all the Folding@Home active processors, combined they accounted for 805 TeraFLOPs, just over 75% of the petaflop. The average active PS3 processor was credited for 24 GigaFLOPs, while the average of all other processors was just over 1 GigaFLOP.

  • Announced 40 playable titles on the TGS show floor.

  • Kaz Hirai then opened the floor to a Q&A session.
 
When I saw this I had to do a double take...

EWillis
Well, Tokyo Game Show 2007 is turning out to be completely pathetic. Can someone give me a hug? :/
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Why the double take? Well besides all the interesting pre-show news, and keynote presentation... Duck posted this on 9/20 at 12:14pm +0900 (JST) - that's just two hours after the show opened. TGS runs through Sunday, so it seems rather premature to be making that kind of "assessment" after just two hours, and seems to be without clearly knowing what has already been discussed, which has been more than previous game conferences over the same period of time.

Perhaps Duck's disappointment is that once again Microsoft has little in the way of announcements at TGS this year:

Microsoft To Japan: 'We Got Nothing'
Posted on September 12, 2007 by Chris Kohler
At E3 2005, Microsoft filled the front rows of their press conference with shills, audience plants who hooted and hollered and applauded the arrival of the Xbox 360. I thought they'd learned their lesson, but they did it again at this year's Tokyo Game Show press conference.

This time, at least, they put them in the back. They were Xbox Live community members from Japan, ostensibly. And on cue, they hooted, hollered, and applauded in a very, very un-Japanese manner. Almost as if they were asked to. This is a country who goes to professional wrestling matches and sits there in stony-faced silence.

Anyway, Microsoft's latest plan to win Japan seems to be exactly the same strategy that has done wonders for them before: RPGs. With Final Fantasy XIII a very long way away for PlayStation 3, Microsoft is trying to build the ultimate platform for turn-based role-playing games. Last Remnant! Lost Odyssey! Infinite Undiscovery! The three of them start to all run together after a while, honestly.

And that's about it. Taking a cue from Microsoft's E3 conference, they didn't actually announce many new products. Certainly Ninja Gaiden II will do well worldwide. And Rez? Rez. That's never a bad thing. But other than that, Japanese developers -- besides the few that Microsoft has specifically spent the last year or so courting -- have run from the Xbox 360. And the ones who are there are just producing the same kinds of games that haven't worked in the past.

If Microsoft really wants to tap into Japan's desires, they need to create unique, original software that reaches a broader audience. I was hoping to see some spark of ingenuity at this briefing, and the closest they came to that was announcing new controllers that happen to be the same color as the Nintendo DS.

As long as Microsoft keeps sticking to the exact same strategy, Xbox 360 will continue to sell a statistically insignificant amount of consoles in Japan.
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This seems to be a strange trend for Microsoft lately:

Digital-Nitrate
Duċk;2746572
That's because the last time MS unveiled an '08 title was at X06 nearly a year ago. Sony has unveiled many games this year for both '07 and '08 (Killzone 2, GT5, LBP, and Infamous to name a few), and there's still TGS, Leipzig, and another SGD event to go. And there's other games we know are in development they haven't officially unveiled yet (I'm talking about showing off what it all looks like now with videos and photos) MotorStorm 2, Socom 4, The Getaway, Eight Days, etc.

Likewise, MS has Leipzig, TGS, and their event in Europe to show off whatever Rare has been working on. If they pull an E3 and we don't see many new things for 360 this year, then yes, the PS3 has more games coming out in '08.
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Just for clarification...


Microsoft Cancels X07 Event
Posted on 7/19/2007 9:11:00 AM by Staff of Tradeshow Week
Microsoft officials confirmed that X07, a European event usually held in late September, was canceled. The event was established in 2001 and often was used to make big announcements for the upcoming year on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, including new game titles. A company spokesman has said Microsoft will try to find another venue to talk about the 2008 lineup, possibly the Leipzig Games Convention or the Tokyo Games Show.
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Duċk;2748745
Well... MS cancelled their Leipzig conference. No game announcements today, nothing. 👎

When the heck are they going to show off some of their '08 titles? TGS? Surprise buttsex announcement?
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O Microsoft, Microsoft! Wherefore art thou Microsoft? :ouch:
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I wonder if this is all part of Microsoft's plans for trimming their Xbox divisional expenses to minimize their ever growing financial losses?



Oh well, at least they will be enjoying a massive amount of publicity leading up to the launch of Halo 3 next week! 👍


Still, it can't be a great sign for Microsoft to start the gaming conference off with a less than stellar E3 presentation and then cancel one show after another.

Regardless, with the trimmed down version of E3, TGS is now the world's largest video game conference, and so I'm sure there will be lots of announcements, presentations, demos, and more.



BTW: Here is the show schedule & info:

  • Name: TOKYO GAME SHOW 2007
  • Organizer: Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA)
  • Co-organizer: Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. (Nikkei BP)
  • Supporter: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry planned

  • Dates:
    • September 20 (Thursday), Business Day (10:00 - 17:00)
    • September 21 (Friday), Business Day (10:00 - 17:00)
    • September 22 (Saturday), General admission (10:00 - 17:00)
    • September 23 (Sunday), General admission (10:00 - 17:00)

  • Venue: Makuhari Messe (Mihama-ku, Chiba City)
  • Expected Attendance: 180,000
  • Expected Booth units: 1,550
  • Expected Exhibitors: 160
  • Exhibits (planned):
    • General Area
    • Mobile Contents Area
    • Game School Area
    • Kids’ Area
    • Sales Area
    • Business Solutions Area* (new)
    • *The Business Solutions Area will be dedicated to game industry B to B exhibitors. In addition to makers of development tools and middleware, the corner will introduce a number of other services such as firms specializing in game character licensing, supporting system for ventures and financing method for game business.

  • Admission Fee:
    • Advance Ticket: 1,000 yen (tax incl.)
    • Day Ticket: 1,200 yen (tax incl.)
    • *Children (elementary school and under): Free of charge
 
GameTrailers has posted many new HD videos from TGS 07 as well as others. Although discussions on many of the TGS 07 announcements, news, and game demos have been made in various specific threads, rather than post in each one, for those interested, here are links to many of the new video clips:


Misc:




Special Games:




PSN Games:




PS3 Games:

 
Absolutely pathetic.

I forgot all about Drake's Fortune. Looks pretty intense. No Call of Duty 4 videos sucks, but it's coming out soon.
 
Here are some photos taken during TGS posted on Sony's US PlayStation Developer's Blog:

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Solid Lifters
I forgot all about Drake's Fortune. Looks pretty intense.
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I know how you feel, it's nice to see all the new footage.

The developer also posted some news on Uncharted on the US PlayStation Developer's Blog:

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (Update)
Posted on 10/3/07 by Evan Wells // Co-President, Naughty Dog


Hey there everybody! Wanted to let you know that we hit Beta on Sunday, September 16th! That’s a huge milestone and it means we’re one step closer to finishing Uncharted. The team really pulled together to help achieve this deadline and we couldn’t be more excited about the progress we’ve made. Finally, most everything is in the game and we are just chasing down the last bugs and making a few minor balancing tweaks here and there.

We’ve had our last major focus test week last week too, and we received the data we need to make sure that the gameplay is finely tuned for our final release. This is a process that we take very seriously here at Naughty Dog and something we’ve been doing since the Crash Bandicoot days. We test the game over the course of a week and track a huge number of statistics from the types of weapons used, the amount of time spent in each area, and the number of times the players died. We then use this data to smooth out the difficulty and fix any puzzles or layouts that are too tricky to figure out. This will be the fourth time we do a full focus test like this and we are actually going to squeeze a final mini test in right before we Gold Master to make sure a bug didn’t creep in to mess up our tuning.

It’s also at this stage that a bunch of people in the office who have been so busy making the game, finally get a chance to sit down and play it. A lot of people have been so heads down that they are discovering areas in the game they’d never seen before. And because the cinematics are usually some of the last elements that go in, most people haven’t really seen the story unfold in its entirety. Our own Naughty Dogs make great gameplay testers too!

So we have a little less than 4 weeks to go now, but our bug count is actually shrinking instead of growing. There are going to be a lot of late nights ahead of us, but we’re finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And as a sign that we’re almost launching, the official game website has gone up - Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
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