Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2014 - 9/18/14 - 9/21/14 + Sony Pre-show (9/1/14)

[Elandyll]

http://expo.nikkeibp.co.jp/tgs/2014/en/

The show will be for the Professionals the first two days (9/18 - 9/19) and then open to the public on the last two.

The weird thing in 2014 is that SCEJ will have their traditional press conference more than 2 weeks -ahead- of the TGS this year, on September 1st (8/31/14 at 11pm PST for US west coast).

Youtube stream:

YouTube

Ustream:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sceja-...erence-english

http://www.jp.playstation.com/conference/2014/

http://www.destructoid.com/sony-s-pr...d-279850.phtml

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia is holding a PlayStation press conference in Japan at 3:00pm on September 1 (11:00pm Pacific on August 31) ahead of Tokyo Game Show.

Prior announcements to come out of these conferences have included things like the PlayStation Vita TV and Grasshopper Manufacture's Lily Bergamo (RIP). I'm hoping to hear more about Gravity Rush 2 -- either during this pre-show or TGS proper.

Now's the time. Bring out those PS Vita games.

Too much to present? Do not want to be lost in the excitement of the TGS opening?

I think the explanation is a little bit more down to Earth actually.

Just 3 days later (September 4th), the Xbox One will launch in Japan, and Phil Spencer has already said that although Micorsoft will indeed be present at the TGS, they will not have a presser there.

So it makes sense that if Sony has anything in reserve specifically to help the PS4 on the Japanese market (where it hasn't been doing well at all so far), they would want to do so -ahead- of the launch of their biggest (international) rival.
This being said, I do not think that too many people expect the Xbox One to fare that well on the Japanese market either (for reference, it's launching with two bundles, Kinect being the main differentiator, but neither being marketed at a price under the PS4).

About the anouncements on the Sony side, it seems that they still have more games to announce.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/08/...2014-says-boss

Sony plans to announce new titles during its PlayStation press conference at the Tokyo Game Show 2014, according to a Japanese-language Famitsu interview with Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida.

“But to be honest, in selecting the games we wanted to introduce, we realized it wasn’t possible to fit everything into the frame of the conference, so unfortunately there were some games we couldn’t introduce this time,” Yoshida said, translated by Gematsu, referring to Sony’s Gamescom 2014 press conference (below).

Yoshida added that game announcements cut from the Gamescom press conference, due to the amount of content Sony had to showcase, will be shown during its TGS keynote. PlayStation 4-related game announcements will be a focus for Sony at TGS this year, but Sony is still determining whether or not to exhibit its virtual reality headset Project Morpheus at the show.

More content created by Japanese developers is needed for the console to gain ground in the Japanese marketplace, said Yoshida, adding that Sony is working with publishers to increase the PlayStation 4 user base.

Is The Last Guardian going to be even teased? Shuhei Yoshida said No (even if they always protest that the game is still indeed in development) ... But who knows?

So far, we also know that Sony (probably in a bid to entice Japanese Indie devs to come) in a very cool move has deicded to entirely sponsor the Indie corner of the TGS this year, footing the bill (around $1000 per exhibitor) for every dev booth, regardless of the platform they develop on. Last year 41 exhibitors were at TGS in this area.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/28/575...game-area-free

[Show spoiler]We come to the stream for this



and leave it with this in mind