What Is Sony Going To Announce At GamesCom 2011?

'Twiggy', PushSquare: "Sony always has a big presence at GamesCom in Cologne. In 2009 it used the European show to reveal the PlayStation 3 Slim. And last year it made some huge software announcements: Virtua Tennis 4, Resistance 3 and Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One all got their debuts at the German event. But what can we expect from this year's show?"

[potedude]

Cut the price and watch the late adopters flock to the system. All the more to play online with...

[EasilyTheBest]

kinect Games.

Sorry, I just had too, if you cant beat them just join in to the merry go round.

[DJMarty]

@EasilyTheBest - MOVE does motion controls better as it's controls arn't limited. MOVE has BUTTONS/better accuracy.

Kinect is simply crap. Controls too limiting.

Jump on spot, lean left,lean right, run on spot, point finger at screen too shoot 'Pew, Pew, Pew'................LOL

[princejb134]

games, games and more games
gotta love sony

[aaabbbccc4324]

i hope they will announce god of war 4 and at least have some news on agent.
But i have a feeling this will be a poor gamescom with no new surprises and just stuff from games we already know about just like e3 2011

[get2sammyb]

They won't announce God Of War IV. That's for SCEA to reveal.

[remanutd55]

my predictions :
1. lots of playstation vita info ( hopefully full release date details included )
2. new psn improvements
3. quantic dream new project
4. guerrilla games new project

[KingSlayer]

Solid predictions, but I would add price cut too. When is GamesCon anyway, late this month?

[SoundGamer]

August 17-21.

So, it starts soon!

[remanutd55]

sony press conference is tuesday , you can watch it live on playstation home , playstation blog , playstation mobile app (if you are in europe )

[SoundGamer]

@remanutd55

Yeah, I wish they had the PlayStation app here in North America because I'll be at work when all the press conferences take place :(

[remanutd55]

At sound gamer its coming man , hang in there thight , I think Jeff from the playstation blog said the app will be coming to NA in September but I'm not sure , anyways james from the european blog said that they will put the whole press conference in the playstation YouTube channel just hours after the live event so I think you can watch it in youtube

[Zir0]

A price cut that they so desperately need. If they want to sell anywhere close to what the 360 is selling they will need at least a $100/£60 price cut.

Although that will be quickly neutralised if MS chooses to cut price after them.

@KingSlayer
That link was for an estimation from analysts not actual sales :)

The 360 is still ahead of the PS3 WW for this year. PS3 has been down YoY for a while now while the 360 is up YoY.

[KingSlayer]

"Desperately need" is an exaggeration http://www.industrygamers.c... Their sales are just fine. A $199 console with bluray, 3D, the multiplatforms and the exclusives...no number on Sesame characters or iOS ports will stop that steamroller.

[M-A-R-S-H-A-L-L]

Is that what you 'people' do? Have a jerk circle over sales? What does this have to do with the article? And the PS3 doesn't desperately need a pricecut. The PS3 is doing fine.

[get2sammyb]

They won't drop $100. There's simply no need. The console is still selling fine. $50 is a more reasonable drop to anticipate. That will boost sales going into Christmas and put them back up YOY.

I really don't think Sony cares which platform sells more anymore. It's all about hitting predictions and maintaining profitability at this point.

They'll go down to $199 next year I suspect. There's just no need to do it yet.

[MasterCornholio]

Oh my god. And he keeps trolling and trolling and he never gets banned.

Why do immortal trolls exist in the first place?

[Raven_Nomad]

Sony isn't going to announce a price cut. This is an extended generation and Sony is just now making money. Also having full console cost $50-$100 less then their new handheld probably wouldn't bode well for the Vita. I mean if you had the choice between the two, you gotta go with the PS3.

Also, who here doesn't think Microsoft wouldn't cut the 360 price the second Sony cut the PS3's price? That's why both companies aren't too eager to call a price cut, because they'd make less money and it'd be instantly negated by the other company. Imagine a Xbox 360 arcade for $99? or a 250 gig Xbox 360 for $199? or even a Kinect/Xbox 360 bundle for $249? Everything would be matched.

I'd expect a heavy showing of Vita, maybe even some Move items, I may not be a huge PS3 fan, but I'd love to see something/anything on Sorcery. It's the only game I saw worth owning a Move for.

[king_noah9]

for once I agree with you.

[Seventh_Blood_Reborn]

@ ZirO:

I would not use the term "desperately" when the PS3 ( with a higher price tag than the competition ) came out a year ( in EU almost an year and half ) after 360 and WW total sales numbers are so close. PS3 sold more than 360 if you watch the first 4 year life cicle of each console.

You are desperately trying to forget the reality, troll.

[christoph203]

i'd like too see sony demo a few of vita's hardware features like party. and perhaps even announce skype for vita.
also...
Quantic dream project reveal would be the highlight, love that studio man!

[Disccordia]

Skype is owned by Microsoft?

[christoph203]

skype was announced for vita :)

[Disccordia]

Yes it was actually announced a while back accidentally and I missed it. Great news! Bubbles anyway for good info and nice response :)

[cannon8800]

I would love to see guerrilla games new ip that they're working on. Maybe some info on it would be nice.

[golsilva]

does anyone know if dontnod entertainment game is still funded by sony. this article said there were rumors that it might not be anymore?

[Godchild1020]

They will announce the game at Gamescom.

http://n4g.com/news/823968/...