PlayStation @ E3 2009 - The Games

PlayStation LifeStyle writes, "In just over a week, PlayStation LifeStyle will be reporting live from the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). We've been trying to get a handle on the plethora of PlayStation games that will be on display from June 2 through June 4, and it's quite astounding. If you weren't excited about the prospect of new announcements for the PlayStation brand, what if we told you there will be over 75 unique PlayStation games on display - that we know about?! While many are multiplatform titles (though the best still appear to be Sony-exclusive), it is a large increase from last year's showing."

[DoucheVader]

Better watch out Microsoft!

[Sev]

MS has been eerily quiet.

They either have nothing, or they got something so good that it's gonna blow people away.

[Wizeguy21]

That's right! M$ Has to have something big up its sleeves.. I have never seen them so quiet on the game front before. But Sony does have some great momentum!...

[Christopher]

alongside White Knight Chronicles since it will be coming to the U.S. this fall.

[trancefreak]

LOL Microsoft has some top secret area 51 type secrecy going on lolz.

They dont want to scare the competition so they'll be hush hush all year.

[SaberEdge]

Oh dont worry, Microsoft is going to have a great showing.

Sony's sounds really good too. This e3 is going to rock.

[KruLLit]

^^^^

Indeed. I hope that Nintendo will deliver as well.

[DoucheVader]

Will step in with MS for a day to show off his MGS4 tattoo!

[Kevin McCallister]

I think MS definitely has some tricks up their sleeves. These past couple of weeks going into E3, everything seems like it's been going perfectly for Sony. If just half of the rumors turn out to be true, Sony crushes the competition. I just don't think MS has been resting on their laurels this past year waiting for all this to happen. They have some things coming, but this year their major announcement can't simply be a multiplatform title.

[WhittO]

I think 95% certain that MS will have a HUGE announcement at E3, that will prob 'STEAL' the show, as they did last year.

But people forget Sony still had a great E3, they had a lot of games to show and loved the way they showed their stats and boring stuff using LBP - wasnt boring at all. Really they had the better conference and showing, but since MS had such a big announcement, as i said they "stole" the show.

This year i think it will be the same, MGS 360, i know noone believes me but its the only thing that could "steal" the show again, hopefully Sony has a few suprise announcements too.

If Sony release a FW update a few hours before the MS conference that includes in-game voice chat, LOADS more avatars, profile upgrade, faster in-game XMB etc then i think that would keep people buzzing about it, even if MS announce MGS, people will be like - "so look at what we have now" sort of thing lol...ok im rammbling, but hey would be a good move.

[Willio]

I dont get it. What did MS do to "win" E3 last year? Why do people believe in them so much? What has MS done for you? Did they give you free xbox live or did you pay? All these questions with no answer except the last one was rhetorical.

[Sev]

E3, less than 10 days away.

I am gonna miss the PS.Blog meet up, my flight lands early Monday morning. :(

Once I land it's straight to the EA Press Conference, then Ubisoft.

[trancefreak]

How bout straight to the ps3 slim for some pics or is that on another day.

Edit I thin sonys on tues. Hey sev have fun I might go there and try to steal someones pass. chump some kid in the corner ya know

[Christopher]

From my previous e3 events with IGN, there's a good karaoke bar called Brass Monkey off of Mariposa Avenue. It's likely to have more than a few of the people from E3 there each night, specifically the devs and pr people who couldn't get into the big parties. Just make sure if you go to pay cash, some of the waitresses don't know to handle credit card tabs all that great.

[Antan]

Sev, if you get a chance to eat near the convention centre, and you happen to like steaks, i can heartily recommend Arnie Morton`s Steakhouse! Fabulous!

[Sev]

@ Antan,

I didn't realize there was a Morton's Steakhouse nearby. I will definitely be going there. :)

Thanks for the tip!

[raztad]

Why is Lost Planet 2 in the PS3 games list? Did I miss some announcement?

[-EvoAnubis-]

That steakhouse is a favorite hang out of the IGN team, which is fitting as you should introduce yourself to them, Sev. They spoke of us on Podcast Beyond, but seemed to be unclear on who we were. Therefore an introduction seems fitting.

[50CALheadshot]

are you gonna be live bloggin on your site?

[Lucreto]

@raztad There was a playstation magazine stating it was confirmed for PS3 but I haven't seen or heard about it since.

[pippoppow]

Especially after the amazing TRICO reveal. So many good games coming out this year and into the next. After the high quality title that is Demon's Souls, I am looking forward to FROM SOFTWARE's next game.

[ultimolu]

....O_O

*purse weeps silently in the wind*

[Chuk_Chuk]

same here

[matt2005usaf]

Awesome can't wait!

[matt2005usaf]

This year is gonna be AMAZING!

[Cajun Chicken]

I need to find a great stream again this year. I think I saw Gamespot last time. I can't believe how exciting it can be to wait for and get announcements.

[Sev]

We wont have a stream, but we will be live blogging the SCEA Press Conference.

[Christopher]

G4 is supposed to be live broadcasting all of the major E3 press conferences this year. I'll be setting up my DVR to record what I can during the day. Might hop in Home each night to check out what they have going on there as well. I'm thinking some delays in certain spaces getting released are due to the E3 space(s) they're putting together.

[Cajun Chicken]

Aww, damn it no E3 for me, G4 doesn't exist in the UK. Surely somebody else'll have it.

@Sev, Awesome, a live blog. Nice one. If I do find a live stream I'll be sure you have yours in another tab on Firefox and keep on switching.

[thebudgetgamer]

do you have any idea if sony is going to do e3 through home?

[DRUDOG]

@Cajun
Check IGN. I watched the Sony and Nintendo press conferences (well part of Nintendo since it was boring as hell) on there last year.

[Sev]

@ Cajun, We will have a link up soon for people to bookmark leading up to the event. The live blog will start during registration about 30 minutes ahead of the conference start. That way we can get a jump on things.

@ budget,

There is a big possibility that E3 will be in PS Home, but if it's anything like TGS last year, it's barely worth visiting. You won't be able to play any games, demos, or anything of the sort. No streaming vids. Basically just a home space designed to look like the structure of the Sony booth. But I cannot say if this will or wont be happening.

I guess to some that is pretty cool.

[thebudgetgamer]

i guess something is better then nothing. they usualy end up putting their confress on the psn store so i can deal with that.

[jinxS1591]

sony will be showing the game that shock the BBC reporter

[Max Power]

have a link to back that up, right?

[trancefreak]

ya man whats your source you got a link or do u just have a feeling about it hehee.

[KingKionic]

Well be watching this on g4. Have to prepare to watch it.

Have to get something...you know... for the munchies .

[Chubear]

I'll be watching Sony's E3 via HOME. Don't want to deal with text msg from these gaming sites. Rather just watch the show like I'm right... but ofcourse that's just for PS3 stuff so I guess I'll have to depend on gaming site to trickle out Ninty and MS info on their respective presentation days.

btw is Ninty after or before Sony for their presentations.

[Kevin McCallister]

Nintendo is before Sony on June 2.

[KingKionic]

you prepare?

Got everything you need to see the conferences?

:)

[MetalGearBear]

PS3 winning in E3!!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!
welcome to my world!!!!

[alster23]

are all of those multiplat games really going to be demonstarted on the ps3 hardware?

[DoucheVader]

That remains to be seen, but most multiplatform titles are equal in terms of how they play on PS3 and X360.

[SaberEdge]

This E3 is going to be one of the best in years. Bring it on.

Sony is already looking really good, but I'm telling you guys don't count out Microsoft. They are going to have some great stuff to show.

That's whats so awesome. We're in the worst economic recession in decades and yet this is probably the best time to be a gamer ever.

[Argento-Nox]

Well, this E3 can't be the worst IMO, considering how brutal the last one was.

[bigjclassic]

MS and Nintendo are gonna have some stuff.
Alan Wake
motion control
Splinter Cell all could be good on the MS side

Kid Icarus
Zelda
SMG2 stuff could be great if the rumors are true. Kojima's surprise could be good too. If any of these come true then E3 will be killer.

Also hopefully HR comes out in 09.

[Argento-Nox]

Crap, why do the relatives I live with have only light service for internet. Oh right, they only need 30 kb/sec to check their e-mail ---> No streaming video for me (;_;). Hopefully some kind samaritan will take time away from E3 to give N4G, kotaku etc., some good timely updates.

[corbett]

I would like to see release dates for some of these games.

[Officer Ricky]

Going to be good. sony has it on lock with confirmed titles like God of war 3,MAG,Uncharted 2,Ratchet and clank:ACIT,Heavy rain and then the unannounced titles we don't even know.

[RustInPeace]

@ jinxS1591

I tried googling something along those lines (BBC reporter shocked at PS3 game),but only got 2008 reports of UT3. Any link to back up what you said?

[cpt_kaos]

Maybe MS thanking Sony publicly for fixing there RROD issues for them.

Jokin ;)

[saimcheeda]

would you look at all those games!!!nice!

[steve30x]

Surely Gran Turismo sould make an appearence. I am hoping it does anyway. Its one game I cant wait to get my hands on.

[StalkingSilence]

Hey I put together the list, shoulda put GT5 or a Prologue update under the areas that we EXPECT to see some kind of announcement. A lot of complaints about that ommission in our comments!

Sorry I'll look to see what might be coming on GTPlanet and update u!

[Psychosonic]

If microsoft..says they were able to throw enough money to get an exclusive game to go multi-platform again..and use that as their huge announcement..that is going to be sad..if only microsoft would do something great and unique..yes we all liked Halo 3 but...how long can you milk master chief..yes i know it sounded wrong after I wrote it..give me a reason to turn on my 360..regardless of it going multi-platform i'm still going to buy my final fantasy XIII on ps3 and if you get MGS4 out on 360..I'm not going to go out and buy it, even if i hadn't played it yet i'd still buy it on ps3..do something original please..

p.s. For those of you who played and beat MGS4 you may recall them using the blu-ray disk technology to make fun of the DVD..what would they do on the 360..? O: "Wait snake its time to change the disk, i know i know its a pain but do you see disk labeled Disk 2?" S: "No..." O:"Hmm that's wierd" S: "oh wait yes, it was under disk 4, didn't see it" O: Heh it's dual layered too nice, amazing they only needed four dvd's for this game, what an age we live in huh Snake?"

[Ripyealip]

great list. wish dare were more zombie games...

[StalkingSilence]

Has a zombie game coming out, might not get much E3 coverage as it should be out before then.

Also, maybe we'll see PopCap Games' Plants vs. Zombies come to PSN as well!