Highlights from Sony's E3 2008 press conference

96 Comments by Ross Miller Jul 15th 2008 4:13PM
Filed under: Features, PC, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, E3

In case you couldn't keep up with all the announcements, here are the highlights from Sony's E3 2008 press conference:

Brain hurting from the immense volume of E3 news? Check out all of our E3 highlights including a rundown of the biggest news from each of the Big 3's E3 2008 press conferences!

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Sean: Jul 15th 2008; 4:15PM

Highlights?

jsn: Jul 15th 2008; 4:17PM

damn I had to go check the mail, what did I miss??? I know I had to miss something exciting, something new?!?? This is the year of the playstation dammit! What did I miss????

Tmoney: Jul 15th 2008; 4:30PM

@JSN - You Mean you missed the FFVII Announcement?!?! In stores this Christmas exclusively in Sony fanboy's dreams!

Anticrawl: Jul 15th 2008; 5:05PM

E3 Nintendo Highlights:

Embarrassment
More Embarrassment
Animal Crossing
Humiliation
Angry Nintendo Fans
No Game for Core Nintendo Fans

E3 Sony Highlights:

Promises
More Promises
Word "Imagine" Said Several Times
MAG: Massive Action Game
CGI Trailer for GOW3
Lies (covered up by even more promises)

riggs: Jul 15th 2008; 5:09PM

THIEF!

GreyFox: Jul 16th 2008; 3:51PM

@Anticrawl:
I've been hearing that from a good amount of people and after seeing the later half of Sony's conference I believe it.

Anyone know where I can find the press conferences for download?

Jm: Jul 15th 2008; 4:15PM

Best conference of E3 2008

:P

marklar: Jul 15th 2008; 4:15PM

lol - that better be irony i'm sensing

Sora: Jul 15th 2008; 4:17PM

Nah, Microsoft still won because of the FFXIII announcement. Sony could win if Bungie's announcement tomorrow has to do with the PS3 or PSP, though.

Alzheimers: Jul 15th 2008; 4:18PM

I don't think anything Sony showed off really competes with the hands-on demo of Fallout 3. Resistance compares favorably with Gears of War, and the Home delays are turning it into a debacle of DukeNukean proportions.

Oh, and 85 movies for download != Netflix.

Envoy X: Jul 15th 2008; 4:33PM

Now that Nintendo is officially dead to me this E3 is really a tie with M$ and Sony. But IMO it really comes down to what Bungie announces tomorrow.

Dravean: Jul 15th 2008; 4:16PM

loved the little planet section, first business element that was interesting!

AlwaysOn: Jul 15th 2008; 4:17PM

Not bad but not even close to MS conference. IMO MS is easly nr 1 Sony easliy nr 2 and Nintendo is the BIG looser here. I really hope you guys at Joystiq confronts Nintendo about this useless show they had. And don't accept any lame excuses like "but u got animal crossing!!"...

Oh well let's see what the rest of E3 has to offer us now.

Ten Dolla Bill: Jul 15th 2008; 4:17PM

Well they announced a couple of cool things but I was kind of disappointed overall. Just recently purchased a PS3, mainly for bluray and I have to say that I'm much more excited about what 360 is bringing in the last half of the year that PS3.
That's not to say I'm not excited about LBP and Resistance 2 but everything else just doesn't interest me that much.

I own a Wii too but after seeing that debaucle of a press conference from earlier I'm questioning whether or not I should use it as an oversized paperweight from no on.

Tmoney: Jul 15th 2008; 4:19PM

So are you bummed that you could have waited and got an extra 40GB (the new 80GB coming out)? I assume you bought the 40GB version.

Ten Dolla Bill: Jul 15th 2008; 4:46PM

haha, not really. I got my PS3 2 months used off ebay for 299 with 4 games and a couple blurays. If I need to upgrade the harddrive I'll do it myself for alot cheaper than 100 bucks!

Sean: Jul 15th 2008; 4:18PM

If I had a PSP... the download movie and tv feature from the PS3 at no extra charge is a killer feature.

juju187: Jul 15th 2008; 4:29PM

or you can just do it from your computer...
failzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

rv: Jul 15th 2008; 4:45PM

ya, pspvideo9 has been doing it for years.......

Vidikron (FU): Jul 15th 2008; 4:54PM

Not sure piracy is a legit counter to a legit service.

xFenixKnightx: Jul 15th 2008; 4:18PM

Damnit I had to go cover for a co-worker. Didnt get to see most of it! :( So all in all, way better show than Nintendo. I have it DVR'd at home so Ill ck it out later on.

Hala Madrid!! (Madrileno hasta la muerte!): Jul 15th 2008; 4:41PM

Let me give you a resume of what happened.

Jack Tretton talking: blah, blah, blah, this is the year for the PS3 blah, blah, blah.

some gameplay:(little big planet RFOM2)

Jack Tretton talking:blah, blah, blah, this is the year for the PS3 blah, blah, blah.

New services for the PS3 and new games for the PSP

Jack Tretton talking:blah, blah, blah, this is the year for the PS3 blah, blah, blah.

New games for PS3(no gameplay) and the rest is just videos no gamaplay.

John: Jul 15th 2008; 4:18PM

Although we may disagree over whether microsoft or sony's conference was better, i think we all can agree nintendo's sucked ass

SpekOpz: Jul 15th 2008; 4:22PM

What the hell are you talking about? We aren't disagreeing, we're just being sarcastic. Playstation's conference blew compare to MS'

F1 & The Way PC used to be.: Jul 15th 2008; 4:19PM

I slept through nintendo's and in sony's I started a book. Microsft at least kept my attention.

SpekOpz: Jul 15th 2008; 4:19PM

That sucked. Besides "MAG", there were no big announcements or things that gamer actually care about.

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw: Jul 15th 2008; 4:21PM

True, but after Nintendo's I don't think you can say Sony's sucked. Sony showed off games I was actually interested in, Nintendo showed off stuff that no one in their right minds would buy.

Nightvortez: Jul 15th 2008; 4:19PM

Eh, I felt it was severely underwhelming but at least a new exclusive game was announced and the sneak peak at God of War 3.

Is the 80gb "Core" unit just the 40gb with a bigger harddrive?

Tmoney: Jul 15th 2008; 4:21PM

Yes

Pedobear: Jul 15th 2008; 4:23PM

Yes, it is.

Nightvortez: Jul 15th 2008; 4:32PM

Wow, I'm really sick of this harddrive war Microsoft and Sony are having, at least they could have kept the BC or something.

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw: Jul 15th 2008; 4:19PM

Here is a list of the press conference awards given out.

Best Show - Microsoft

Worst Show - Nintendo

Show that made you ashamed of the console you bought - Nintendo

Best Handheld show - Sony

Most upset fanboys - Sony/Nintendo

Least Surprising show - Sony

waynski1457: Jul 15th 2008; 4:25PM

I'm not ashamed of my Wii, it still has great games for it! Just... not really anything on the horizon...
I am pissed that there was no Pikmin anouncement...

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo): Jul 15th 2008; 4:36PM

I'm with ya there Wayne. There's still a lot of games I need to play on mah Wii. And Animal Crossing looks pretty neat so I can look foward to that.

Nigeria: SSBB: 0731-6347-2110: Jul 15th 2008; 4:43PM

Nintendo's showing was poor, but, in a way, I think it shows how out of touch most of the "hardcore" gamers truly are. Do we really matter that much, anymore?

Microsoft's showing was lauded for being spectacular due to getting a simultaneous release for FF13, but I'm sure if you hand most non-gamers a Final Fantasy game, especially the latter ones, and they'd look at you with sheer befuddlement. It's an old style, overly complicated, game that will appeal to a vocal minority. We've got to face facts: we do not speak for the gaming community, we probably never did. And minus the FF announcement, Microsoft's showing would have been just as lacklustre as Nintendo's, in my opinion.

I don't know, maybe I'm rambling. All I know is that Sega strictly pursued the hardcore market and now they're dead.

RolexDPracer: Jul 15th 2008; 4:21PM

At least it was better than Nintendo's train wreck. I thought Sony would have more than just trailers again. Little Big Planet looked cool; but I'm not sure if building my own levels is something I really want to put the time into.

rvkremer: Jul 15th 2008; 4:23PM

I had the same feeling about echochrome, but there are enough crazy shut ins around the world with mad level building skills that there should be plenty of content, even if you choose not to make any.

Count me in on LBP free content leeching!

Fernando Rocker: Jul 15th 2008; 4:22PM

Well.. best one was definitely Microsoft.

tmacairjordan87: Jul 15th 2008; 4:24PM

Agreed, but I think even you can admit sony's while underwhelming, was easily better than nintendo's.

I really want Banjo Kazooie XBLA NOW

finaldarklord: Jul 15th 2008; 4:44PM

I'm not exactly impressed with any of them, but it comes to something when the only thing worth talking about at your event was a port of another system's game.

A bombshell, sure. But once the dust clears you have to realize that it is simply a PORT.

The actual show had best impress me or I'm going to end up "regressing" back into handhelds like I did from 2003 until the release of RE4.

ThePerfectCompanion: Jul 15th 2008; 4:22PM

Not a lot of highlights but here goes...

Definitely tied with Nintendo...that was pretty shitty indeed. Only thing I thought was worth mentioning was God of War 3 and the MMO comic book game. Thanks sony....

So I guess the mantra for all the arrogant sony fanboys is now, "Just wait till God of War 3!"

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw: Jul 15th 2008; 4:23PM

I was about to ask how you could even compare the Sony conference to the Nintendo train wreck, but then I realized who I was replying to.

tmacairjordan87: Jul 15th 2008; 4:25PM

lmao yeah he's become pretty predictable.

Or maybe not. I was half expecting him to say it was worse than nintendo's.

Ordeith: Jul 15th 2008; 4:26PM

But God of War 3 is sometime in 2009 and 2008 is the year of Playstation.

So it can't be that, the wait is too long.

ThePerfectCompanion: Jul 15th 2008; 4:29PM

Naw ordeth sony fanboys are used to waiting a LONG LONG time for fullfillment.

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw: Jul 15th 2008; 4:37PM

I've never understood the whole "year of the playstation" thing...the year is more than halfway over and MGS4 was the only big this so far. Sure later in the year we've got LBP and Resistance 2, but so far it looks like my 360 will be getting more playtime with Gears 2 andddd...I totally just went blank on whatever else is coming out to the 360 haha.

ThePerfectCompanion: Jul 15th 2008; 4:40PM

@ CTC

You mentioned eariler in a reply to another poster that "no one in their right mind would buy" any of the games that Nintendo mentioned during their showing...

Well do you now claim to represent everybody and everyone on the planet?

Must have missed the memo on that one. Once again you sony fanboys don't represent everyone. And a game you may not like may be liked by someone else. And chances are there are more people who will buy Wii Music than R2.

But w/e you want to believe. If you want to ASSume that nobody found anything interesting in the Nintendo conference then that's your prerogative.

I personally found both Nintendo and sony's to be lackluster and ultimately boring.

Josh: Jul 15th 2008; 4:23PM

Sure, it's only Tuesday, and we've got the rest of the week, but this E3 is really sucking.

All three of the big three press conferences were made of varying degrees of fail. Microsoft was the only one that actually had anything big and unexpected, with the announcement of FFXIII on 360.

Draco Basileus: Jul 15th 2008; 4:24PM

No real-time KillZone stage demo, no real-time LBP stage demo, no real-time SOCOM demo?!?! Come on, Sony! What the Hell kind of press event what that?

At least Microsoft knows how to rally the fanboys into frenzy with demos and major bombshells.

Sony just sort of sits there waving a little plastic flag, saying 'yea, us'.

Skulburn: Jul 15th 2008; 4:41PM

No real-time LBP demo? What were you watching :S

i swear they showed the marketing stats with LBP, thats real-time and LBP.

1. - Sony (Great E3!)
2. - Nintendo (Severely poor)
3. - Micro$oft (You've ruined your console with Dashboard 2.0)

Out.

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