Japanese media coverage of the Tokyo Game Show
If you were wondering how the Japanese media has been covering the Tokyo Game Show, check out this video of NTV and Fuji TV news segments about it:
The first part is a general look at the show from NTV. They visited the show on a media-only day and were impressed by how many foreign reporters had come to experience Japan’s newest video games. They pointed to the evolution of home gaming systems as the highlight of this year’s show. Project Natal for the XBox 360 is given special attention, with the reporter joining the game’s creator for some wacky dance moves. Later, we are given a look at the presentation of the PS3’s new motion controller and the PSP GO. Towards the end of the clip, the reporter plays around with the gravity grabber, a projector game called Twinkle, and a object grabbing game that is supposed to help with medical rehabilitation.
Six and a half minutes into the video there is a Fuji TV segment about the Tokyo Game Show. Fuji TV places its emphasis on portable games for the PSP GO and mobile phones. Game companies are noticing that many people are now iPhone and iPod Touch owners, so they are trying to break into that market. The number of mobile phone games featured at the show has grown from 110 in 2008 to 168 this year.
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Ha ha! The PSP Go is turning out to be a huge blunder on Sony’s part, and I can only imagine how hard they are trying to market the system.
However, as of Sony’s announcement yesterday that there will be no way to convert your UMDs into digital files, there is almost no reason to buy the Go. That combined with the fact that there will be very few titles available on the PSN and no used games make this at best a very expensive experiment, or at worst, a huge waste of money.
If you really have the $250 lying around to pick up the system, I seriously suggest getting a normal PSP that can actually play physical media, or pay $50 more and get a PS3 or Xbox.
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This x9001
If Sony wanted to make the PSP Go even somewhat competitive, they also blundered by not upgrading the antiquated 802.11b wifi capability or adding a camera (although they got it somewhat right by integrating bluetooth capability)…at least that would have made the PSP Go competitive as a web-appliance in addition to a hand held gaming platform. Sure, it would have raised the price-point, but the PSP Go is in most ways the same piece of hardware as the PSP-2000 introduced in 2007 (same processor, same wireless, same RAM, same, well, you get the idea), so I’d be curious how much that would really be.
Also, what genius decided to work the USB connector into something proprietary? Anyway, while they were at it, they could have also gotten rid of the otherwise useless Mylo 2 (what the hell market segment is that supposed to even appeal to…18-24 mentally handicapped farm animals?) Technological convergence, a concept that Sony is apparently forgetting about these days.
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The TGS was much smaller this year than before.
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I don’t really understand why the Project Natal camera was blurred out in both segments as it was already shown at other conventions.
The only reason I can think of is that they changed a few things and wanted to surprise everyone. but I didn’t hear anything about that. The blurred camera looks a bit smaller though than the one shown at earlier conventions.
By the way, who’s that reporter in the first segment? Looks familiar.
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