The fact that we’re even talking about E3 in July rather than in May illustrates one of the many changes to the annual gaming blowout. This year’s expo was more exclusive than ever and a big departure from the E3 events of years past. That meant fewer throbbing lights and screaming gamers, and even fewer non-industry insiders in attendance. But that doesn’t mean we’re not looking out for you. In fact, we gave 50 Gamer Advisory Panel members the opportunity to attend the SCEA E3 Press Event on July 11. Better still, we have two G.A.P. members, Trina Schwimmer and Colin Bennett, on the inside attending further E3 events. They’re reporting back with all the eagle-eyed observations and candor you need to get the gamer’s-eye view.
So check out their posts to get a glimpse of what’s going on this year at E3:
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@blizzard
No doubt they are quartered away trying to figure out the easiest way to make themselves look like heroes instead of the villains and shysters they are.
When is the new kixaxis controller coming out?
OK, well someone has to say it, I am a PS fan, had the ps original, ps one, ps2, ps2 slim, planning to get my ps3.
1. Sony, you do not know how to be number 3, you guys actually need to learn how to be 3rd.
2. the price drop making it into price break and discountining the 60g SKU is a ridiculous strategy, I do not need more Hard Drive, I was fine with a 20G and you are going to make me buy a 80, what’s next a 100g? and bundle it with the rumble controller? so I will have 60g wasted. and I prefer the 60 with the motion engine that 80g with no motion engine.
3. you got this only for the United States if i were an european i will really be pissed, more for other parts as Oz and other places.
4. Marketing Lesson 1: Keep one model cheap and other updraded, an easy 20G with no packs and basic parts and other as leet as you want, with 250g if you want.
You were used to be #1 so bad, that you did not even had to think in strategies, and now that you need them, you do not have a clue.
That is for all SONY, europe, North america, Latin america, asia, etc. Now i will sit and think if a ps3 is really a good choice for me for the first time in 7 years
@ Darren
If I was in Europe i’d be pretty thankful for that HDTV some people were lucky enough to get instead of a price drop ::shrug:: count your blessings man
@ Dark_king
Thanks a lot bro.
Is there ever going to be Sony’s Press Conference for download on the PSN? I and I”m sure most of us would like to se that. I was for sure that would be something avaliable on the PSN,
Sony you guys need to become the publishers or co-publishers of Unreal Tournament 3. Dont let Micronaut get the game. Let them stay with Gears of War. I have been reading alot about what you and Epic have in store for us gamers and i really think that with all that stuff you two are going through for this game you could almost gert married. But seriously try and keep UT3. It makes no sense it goes to xbox360.
@Deadxbabiesxinc, i know compared to the u.s the u.k is small but we didnt all get a hdtv with our ps3…. one store in london gave away about 100 free hdtv’s, the other couple of million of us who purchased a ps3 got a free plastic bag to carry our ps3 home in!
keep in mind we pay nearly £430 for our consoles (about $800) so frogive me for not counting my blessings. the only thing i am left counting is the small bit of change i have left in my piggy bank but its not all bad as the uk gets delays ALL the time so at least i will have plenty of time to save up for a new game as we only get one release every blue moon over here.
@ who ever is out there
Theres a rumor that were getting 1.90 firmware this month that allows custom soundtracks. Is this true?
@Shinblade post 85
Easily the best post in this thread. I am a die hard Sony fan and I agree with everything you said. I’ve been paitient thinking that, ” sonyis new to online…they need some time to adapt….,” but they keep addining new codecs instead of adding content.
The future looks bright for now but I think they need to focus their attention on keeping the customers who have already bought in happy. As Shinblade put it we are sony’s biggest advocates right now.
Andto all of the PS3 owners out there unhappy with the pricing……you already have a system the price doesn’t matter for you. Worry about the games.
for those complaining about loosing the EE, what’s your problem? the Euro PS3 hasn’t had it from day one and so far the only game i own that didn’t run was Stuntman, and there is the traffic issue with GTA:SA which sucked somewhat, but hey, i have my PS2 still so no worries.
@deadxbabiesxinc something to balence the initial cost of the console? how i wish, fancy paying $100 for a new released game? i paid that for Oblivion when it came out as i was in dire need of something of substance to play. i don’t regret it, it’s an awesome game, but us UK/PAL gamers are being bled dry.
PS: anyone got some spare credits and a TFT/LCD/CRT monitor then get an HDfury chip, even on a non ‘HD ready’ it’ll give you a 576P(@800×600) display. NO MORE flickery menus on Motorstorm etc on standard TV. and a heck of alot cheaper than an HDTV and the quality is noticable. if you DO have a 1080i display you’ll be able to rock 1080P… serves Sony right for not letting us plug the PS3 straight into a monitor from out of the box or into a screen using HDMI/DVI-D unless it was fitted with an HDCP chip. like was that REALLY necessary for games play?
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slightly disapointed with E3, Killzone? 2 years old, MGS4 pre rendered eye candy, GranTurismo -puleaze- that’s oldhat against the new breed of racers and handles like a three legged dog.
it’s more cake tomorrow and stale bread today for us PS3 early adopters.
*goes to play upscaled TOCA3*
testes, testes. 1…. 2…. 3?!!?
Id like to say that im a first time poster but a long time PS Underground member (7 years?) and long time Sony user and Stock Holder.
First, id like to say that its nice to see the PS3 finally get some decent positive press, instead of so much negative new feeds over and over and I hope with new management in the bloodline, that this will continue because being a owner of all next gen (No thanks to the Wii) and all last gen and prior gaming devices and being a technology geek in general, the PS3 truely offers something different and with the corporate structure of Sony, the PS3 is in a very unique position to offer alot more content and value then other systems out there. Its just a matter of letting the public know of all of its benefits.
Having said that, I hope to continue to blog here and to get to know the SCEA staff and the members here
It’s good to have all the trailers and all but the fact that we never get any demos as much as other consoles is just not help your image sony, I love my ps3, but everyday there is a new demos on the 360 and we get nothing, we know that heavenly Sword demo is done but you still wont let us have it. You claim that you are providing us bigger hard drives for the content that you provided, but there are nothing to download. Honestly you are your own worse enemy, this is why you never hear anything good about you guys in the news, you need to step it up big time.
@Karamo
WE WONT GET A DEMO UNTIL MONTHS!!! DID I SAY MONTHS???…YES I DID MONTHS AFTER THE GAME IS RELEASED!!!! >>IF>IF
sorry must have hit the wrong button!!!
IF!!! we get the demo at all!!!
If you check the UK & Australian PS Stores you’ll see they got…yup THEY got not us! THEY got a Darkness demo…a demo for a game thats already released…and WE DIDNT EVEN GET THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
we get GAY TRAILERS!!!!….YES SONY I SAID GAY…GAY GAY GAY!!!
IF YOU WANT TO BEAT THE COMPETITION YOU HAVE TO COMPETE AND IF YOU THINK SAD TRAILERS OF GAY MOVIES IS WHATS GOING TO MAKE PS3 WIN OVER XBOX THEN YOU AS A WHOLE COMPANY HAS FAILED MISERABLY AND DESERVE TO SINK!!!!
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE S**T THE SAME S**T YOUR TRYING TO FEED US CUZ ITS NOT WORKING AND YOUR PISSING OFF WHATEVER FAN BASE YOU MANAGED TO GET
this has nothing to do with anything but iv just listened to the second episode of the sony podcast whitch came out i think last november and thik its realy good . does anyone know were can i subscribe to it
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