AFTER A LATE START, Sony covered a lot of ground in its E3 2011 press conference Monday night. Here’s the quick recap of everything they touched on:
- SCEA Pres and CEO Jack Tretton wastes no time in addressing the recent PSN outages, showing appreciation for support from both gamers and partners.
- A ship-based, waterlogged Uncharted 3 demo with live gameplay. Of course it’s PS3 exclusive, with a bizarre multiplayer tie-in with Subway. Releases 11.1.11.
- A Resistance 3 demo, also PS3-exclusive.
- HD collections for God of War and ICO/Shadow of the Colossus coming in September.
- To help lower the barrier for entry to 3D gaming, Sony has created a 24†monitor specifically to support both 3D and co-op gaming – two players looking at the screen at different angles will see two different things. A special bundle including the monitor, 3D glasses and Resistance 3 will retail for $500.
- More demos: Kobe Bryant comes out to help show off NBA 2K12; a Move demo featuring Medieval Moves; a demo for Infamous 2, another PS3 exclusive that releases Tuesday; a trailer for Starhawk, a new game from the makers of Warhawk; a teaser trailer for the Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, coming 2012.
- Eve Online creators CCP have a game called Dust 514 that looks pretty sharp, and will be PlayStation-exclusive.
- Irrational’s Ken Levine talks about BioShock Infinite and how Sony got him to consider adding Move to the PS3 version.
- A Star Trek game with Move and co-op support, timed to release with the next movie in summer 2012.
- Three EA announcements: the PS3 version of SSX will include a special Mount Fuji level; Need for Speed: The Run will include a disk with 7 PS3-exclusive supercars; Battlefield 3 will include a copy of Battlefield 1943 on the PS3.
- Sony’s new handheld will be called PlayStation Vita. It will feature dual analog sticks, a 5†touch sensitive OLED screen and dual cameras.
- Demos for several Vita games: Uncharted, an RPG called Ruin, a new Mod Nation Racers, LittleBigPlanet.
- A bit of a surprise: Capcom shows Street Fighter x Tekken, for both PS3 and PS Vita.
- Finally: pricing for the Vita: a version with wi-fi support for $250; and a second version for $300 with 3G support exclusively via AT&T as well as wi-fi support.
Not a spectacular showing, but we’ve seen far, far worse from Sony. If anything, Monday’s briefings leave the door wide open for Nintendo to steal the show on Tuesday.
E3 2011: Sony Presser, Condensed
AFTER A LATE START, Sony covered a lot of ground in its E3 2011 press conference Monday night. Here’s the quick recap of everything they touched on:
Not a spectacular showing, but we’ve seen far, far worse from Sony. If anything, Monday’s briefings leave the door wide open for Nintendo to steal the show on Tuesday.