Sony draws up Leipzig battle lines

SCEE's president and CEO David Reeves has told MCV that E3 was a phoney war, and that Sony will let off the first of its peak season "fireworks" in Leipzig next month.

Talking exclusively to MCV, he intimated that a series of big announcements will be made at the Game Convention trade and consumer show in Germany – massively enhancing the appeal of both the PlayStation 3 and PSP.

[AznSniper]

i guess we will have to see next month

[marinelife9]

They need to show the Getaway and Afrika. Along with announcing the price drop and the new sku.

[ShiftyLookingCow]

A price cut for Europe would be great for PS3. I hope they dont announce it with another cr*p ad.

[Art of Motion]

Eight days and the getaway 3, e3 was a bit boring, no huge suprises. Leipzig should be good.

[Vojkan]

I dont think they will show 8 days and getaway 3 at leipzig. Its probably going to be all about hardware. But i do expect PES08 and MGS4 playable demo.

[artman]

uhmmm who is that girl on ur avatar???

[hazeblaze]

I think we will see games like Eight Days and Afrika next month. I'll be interested in seeing what they have to announce at any rate.

[big_tim]

It seems that Sony and MS keep putting out little teases that generate hype and then disappoint. I want there to be big announcements, but I am not counting on anything ground breaking.

Dlacy13g - Good points. It just seems like an endless tease with these companies. They slip us just enough to fill up the forums with comments and generate hype. Good marketing tool.

I understand MS tactic for only showing games for this year. They had a strong statement to try and win over others. I was hoping for more game announcements also.

I will definitely keep an eye out for the news that was referred to.

[OC_MurphysLaw]

What I mean is MS purposely held back on talking about ANY new games except for RE5. So no big announcements for 2008 at all....that HAS to change and I suspect given they are not doing an X07 they are realizing these shows will be the right place to do it.

Sony, I think understands that MS is going to come out big at Leipzig so they are creating their own stir. And Sony is definitely good at marketing to gamers. They know how to steal the thunder at a show that is for sure!

Should be a interesting month....

[hotshot1237]

this year AND DEFINETELY NEXT YEAR will be good for sony. but next year is win they will take the lead

[BaMYouRDeaD]

Can't wait.

[SimmoUK]

8 days, The Getaway and WarDevil will all be there because there being developed by European studios, we might see EyeCreate and other innovative EyeToy software from the likes of Studio Liverpool and London but they might save them beautys for the japanese show because there going to love it...

[THE_JUDGE]

that your right. I thought that E3 was pretty lame except for KZ2 and Infamous nothing really new came out of it. I hope that they show all those games and more. Especially WarDevil, I have a keen interest to see what that title is about for sure.

[nurayi]

show us wardevil! and some of the other sleepers (afrika, getaway, 8 days). I think they will save the biggest guns for TGS tho (atleast thier biggest gun for me) the next Fumito Ueda masterpiece. sotc II, anything, I just want to see it, even though it might kill me.

[daveman3]

i cant wait to see what they have in store for us