E3 News - Sony's Presentation

Following's Microsoft's presentation yesterday, Sony came to stage today with quite a few surprising announces in its arsenal. Despite the leak of its new handheld device, the PSP Go, Sony's CEO Jack Tretton was still optimistic about their new lineup of upcoming games and services.

Most notable announcements are as follows:

• Hideo Kojima, despite breaking news of MGS Rising to be available on the XBOX 360, announces a new MGS titled MGS PeaceWalker available on the new PSP Go and PSP handhelds. Updated news about MGS Rising is said to be multiplatform, so PS3 gamers were not cut from Hideo Kojima-san's next big creation. 
• Fumito Ueda, director and lead game designer, along with the team that brought us Ico and Shadows Of The Colossus, has announced their next new title. The next sequal to their franchise, titled The Last Guardian, features a young boy with a dog-face-hippogriff-mixed creature exploring a strange and mystical land. 
• A new trailer of FFXIII was released, along with voices of the characters, and new gameplay footage. 
• Following FFXIII's new trailer, Sony CEO Jack Tretton shock the whole audiences as he announces the never-before seen trailer of FFXIV (thats FF14 mind you)! The minute long trailer shows a Final Fantasy-esque land with a epic war fought in the skies. 
• A playable demo of God of War 3 was shown. Demo featured Krato's insane moves and grotesque executions of his victims. 
• Final Fantasy VII re-released is to be available on PSN tonight (June 2nd) at midnight for download. Whether or not this will be an upgraded version with better graphics (like that of Advent Children or just a port from the PS1 version) is still unknown. Will have to wait till midnight to find out. 
• MAG (Massive Action Game) live demo was shown with 256 online players engaging in the largest scale battle in online gaming history.
• A live demo of Uncharted2: Amoung Theives, was shown. The demo showed off PS3's amazing processing power, as the demo was fill with nothing but spectacular graphics and gameplay.  

Of course, new ideas that are still in development stages were showcased, including a LBP-concept based sandbox game called Mod Nation Racers, and a new PS3 motion-sensing controller. All these are not due for release till at least mid 2010. 

Other than that, Sony's presentation was its usual self in an E3 conference; statistical presentations, guests, demos, and a few surprising announcements. 

Lets just hope FFXIII and MGS Rising will make Microsoft's XBOX 360 feel inadequate with their DVD drive. I'm still pissed at them. They do not DESERVE to have such great titles. 

rOar