And finally, we come to Sony’s press conference…

Killzone 3
– Built for 3D from the ground up
– Put on your 3D glasses… big contrast to the Nintendo show a couple of hours ago that made fun of 3D with glasses.
– The 3D effect is lost on the internet stream. We’ll have to rely on user impressions.
– To me, it looks like a good shooter, but generic in the sense that it could be Lost Planet or Resistance in terms of the theme.
– If all I need is normal 3D glasses I “borrowed” from the last 3D movie I saw, I might get it.
– Full compatible with PlayStation Move, but no details as to what that means

Short montage of game titles:
Motorstorm, Gran Turismo 5 in 3D, The Sly Collection, Crysis 2, Mortal Kombat, NBA 2K11, The Fight, Eyepet, Tumble, MLB10

PlayStation 2
– Still going. Don’t know why they keep bringing it up in these press conferences. Makes them seem like they can’t tout their current machines, so they go back to their former glory.

PlayStation Move
– Trying to push it to hardcore gamers

Sorcery
– 3rd person action adventure game
– PlayStation Move controller is a wand onscreen
– This is my type of game in general, and looks really good. Better than any Kinect game Microsoft showed yesterday.
– Generic Harry Potter.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
– Not very interesting to me, but I’m sure golf fans will like it
– Seems like there was a little lag from hand to screen. Wonder if that’s in-game?

Heroes on the Move
– Could be fun

PlayStation Move
– I have the Eyetoy camera from Eye of Judgment, so it’ll cost me $80
– Games will be $39.99 retail
– Price and games like Sorcery mean I’ll probably get it.

invisimals
– PSP camera game
– A cross of EyePet and Pokemon

God of War: Ghost of Sparta
– GoW prequel for PSP.  Looks very good, as expected.

PSP Game Montage:
Monatrion Racers, Ace Combat Joint Assault, Gravity Crash Portable, Dragon Ball Z Tenkachi, Hot Shots Tennis: Get a Grip, Madden NFL 11, Patapon 3, Tetris, EyePet, Piyotma, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Valkyria Chronicles II, The 3rd Birthday, Persona 3 Portable, and Ys: The Oath in Felgana.
– Wow, did they even release that many games in the last year?  I’m interested in several, like Valkyria Chronicles II, The 3rd Birthday, Personal 3 Portable, Ys, and GoW.  I might have to dust off the PSP.  Assuming that they’re on UMD and not download only.  If I have to rent… err, download them, I may or may not get them.

Little Big Planet 2
– I really didn’t  find LBP interesting, so LBP2 doesn’t do much for me.
– Lots of top down stuff.  Not much focus on platforming.
– Looks like LBP ran headlong into some party game.  Meh.

PlayStation Plus
– Sony finally goes subscription with the console.  Supposed to be in addition to what you now get free, but I’m sure most stuff released from now on will be through the subscription only.
– Exclusive in-game DLC, free full games, early access t demos and betas.
– All content will be owned for the “duration of your subscription”  This is exactly the sort of thing I mean by renting content!  As soon as you drop your subscription, you lose access to the content you received through your subscription.  Fail.

Medal of Honor
– Out of WWII and into the present.  ie Medal of Honor: Modern Warfare
– Not my type of game.
– Unlockable beards.
– Special edition will include an HD remake of Medal of Honor Frontline from 2002.

Dead Space 2
– Never finished Dead Space, so I don’t know about this one.  Maybe if I go back to it and finish it I’ll get more excited.
– Nice to see the franchise continue
– LE has Dead Space Extraction with PlayStation Move support. Hopefully it’ll get some attention since it’s a great Wii title with poor sales.

Portal 2
– Gabe Newell!  Hasn’t spoken kindly about Sony in the past.
– Woah! He says it will be “the best console version of Portal 2.”  Big reversal.  Can’t wait for it, and will definitely pick it up on whichever console is best.
-Steamworks integration on PS3.

Final Fantasy XIV Online
– I played FFXI Online for a little while, and I’m sure I’ll have to try this one.

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
– Exclusive PS3 missions and multiplayer beta
– I have nearly all the Assassin’s Creed games and haven’t played any of them.  I guess I should sometime.

Gran Turismo 5
– looks very photo-realistic
– Not a gearhead, so I’ve never really seen the fascination. At least you don’t have to control it with a pretend air wheel.
– Coming finally in November. See, it isn’t Duke Nukem Forever for racing.

inFamous 2
– Not much in actual play footage. Lots of rendered footage that looks good though.

Twisted Metal
– Live action trailer
– 16 player online multiplayer team deathmatch
– Looks really good. I’m more of a solo gamer and not big on deathmatch at all, but if you are, it looks great.

Final Thoughts:
Sony stepped it up this year for sure.  I have to say I the PS3 was at the bottom of my list before the show started, with very few titles on my radar.  But there are a lot of good titles coming, and a good diversity too.  Only a couple are must buy at launch though.  Maybe I’m just not as into Sony franchises as I am other consoles.  There were 18+ titles announced for the PSP, which is a bit of a surprise to me too, considering how weak it’s been lately.  And they’re decent-looking too.

It’ll be interesting to hear how the 3D games like Killzone 3 looked.  I’m not sold on all the 3D hype lately like 3D TV’s, and every movie coming out in 3D it seems.  So I’m a bit of a skeptic about putting on glasses and playing 3D games on my TV.  Sorcery made the PlayStation Move look pretty good, as did the Tiger Woods game.  I have a feeling other games that support it though, like Killzone 3, will just have it tacked on and it won’t be very good.  I would have liked to see more to get a better handle on whether it’ll be worth the extra expense.

I’m very disappointed in the PlayStation Plus subscription model.  It’s bad enough buying digital games that give you no physical media for your investment.  But to get additional content that’s only “yours” for as long as you keep paying it pretty lame.  Remember the old days when you bought something and it was considered yours?  You could give it to someone or trade it or put it on the shelf in your collection?  Those were the days…

Stay tuned for my final grades and E3 2010 Roundup post.