It’s getting closer to that time again this year guys. As of me typing and making this thread it is about 1 month and a half away. I decided I’ll go ahead and get a head start on this thing since over the next few weeks more E3 information will be coming out and it’ll be nice to have everything collected in a general thread as time winds down. If their is any E3 information (news or rumors) that you guys come across please post it in here…hopefully I can take the first couple of days off like I did last year to keep up with everything.
List of titles confirmed to be there
E3 dates
The show will take place during the week of June 7th…Usually there will be at least one of the big 3 starting out on the Monday before (June 6th) with the other 2 following on the official start of Tuesday.
Microsoft’s Conference
Monday, June 6 at 9 a.m. PST
EA
Monday, June 6 at 12:30 P.M. PST
Ubisoft
Monday, June 6 at 2:30 P.M. PST
Sony’s Conference
Monday, June 6 at 5 p.m. PST
Nintendo’s Conference
Tueday, June 7 at 9 a.m. PST
As the times and dates for the Big 3 and 3rd party companies are revealed I’ll update as necessary.
Rumor Mill
Sony Related
Another beloved series getting the HD collection treatment…possibly MGS
NGP named Vita
Microsoft Related
Gears of War Kinect Title
Halo: Combat Evolved HD
Alan Wake 2? (sorta confirmed)
Nintendo Related
Project Cafe (Confirmed!)
Konami Related
Another Hideo Kojima game that isn’t MGS: Rising…speculation is either MGS 5, the long awaited for ZoE3 or even Snatcher. (unconfirmed for now may have been delayed or canceled)
This of course will continue to be updated as we get closer to E3.
Expectations from the Big 3
Sony
Anyone who has been paying attention to to the game industry knows what’s been going on with the BS hacking that Sony has had to endure. It’s gotten to the point that some people have even traded in their PS3’s in frustration over Sony’s online service. It’s pretty clear at this point that Sony more so than the other 2 companies has a heavier burden on their shoulders going into this year’s E3 so I’m expecting them to go the distance this year because of it. Perhaps seeing a live demo of Last Guardian finally along with some Versus XIII footage, and announcing that they’ve got a host of exclusives coming to the system all to try to keep it’s customers and make the ones that gave up wish they hadn’t. I’m hoping to see how far Sorcery has come since last year and if they’re still as gung ho about move like they were last year. I’m not expecting them to drop Move suddenly since they spent money, time and resources into this…it’s just going to need some compelling software. I’m also not expecting them to give much room in the conference to Move in comparison to other things…maybe 1/5 of the conference max.
Half of the conference I’m fully expecting to be completely dedicated to the NGP. There’s a lot of information that needs to be given out on this thing. Official name has to be finally announced. hopefully we can see more of a shape up on what the lauch line up will be because the NGP can’t slouch. 3DS will have been out on the market for most of this year when this hits and though the 3DS has been deemed to have a ‘meh’/‘ok’ launch that time that it’s been out will have given it time to build the library. When the NGP hits it’s going to have to deal with a wall of games from it’s competitor that they’re going to be showcasing this year. Nintendo has shown time and time again that the hanheld space is their house so Sony is going to have to show everyone why they should pick up their more expensive powerhouse hand held over 3D Mario Kart.
Really this conference should be great because of the fact that it has little room for error.
Microsoft
To be honest, I don’t know what to expect out of Microsoft’s conference this year besides the usual suspects and Kinect. Based off of the report that they’re supposed to be trying to triple their Kinect titles for this season I wouldn’t be surprised if close to half of their conference was dedicated to it. This could lead to a lot of lulz or could actually be genuinely intriguing depending upon how it’s used. Rumors of Dance Central 2 have ben hitting the web and it wouldn’t be surprising if we had to sit through another group of people getting down on the dance floor (not a bad thing necessarily since Dance Central was good). Luckily we already had to sit through all that explaining on what Kinect was at the last E3 conference and we won’t have to deal with that. Maybe we can see that Mechwarrior game or the Project Draco game during the conference? I’m sure those titles could be really good to show just how valuable Kinect can be.
I’m sure Gears of course will be there but in possibily 2 capacities. We’ll be able to see what XBLA games Microsoft is gonna dig up that will be awesome for the summer. I’m fully expecting Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 to be shown. And there’s been rumors of Grand Theft Auto V roaming around…It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if a trailer for it was shown during this conference. Then of course you got your Halo 1 remake rumore and whatever game Peter Molyneaux has been cooking up that he will more than likely over promise on.
Nintendo
Nintendo’s conference should be solid…period. I’ve said it before, they’d literally have to try and fuck it up for it not to be 8/10. Most of the conference should be dedicated to the Cafe since it’s supposed to be playable. Nintendo has been able to make some amazing playing and looking games on limited hardware so it’s going to be interesting seeing what they can actually do with an HD console. Not to mention the fact that developers have apparently been sitting on this system for awhile…There should be some good content to show for it. Then they have all the games that they have to show for the 3DS that are supposed to be hitting this holiday season like Super Mario 3DS and Kid Icarus. And we still don’t know what exactly the is in this 25th anniversary Legend of Zelda thing they are doing.
Pretty much the only thing that worries me in this conference is on the Wii side of things. NOA has been sitting on a bunch of great games that they just haven’t released over here yet like Last Story and Xenoblade. Legend of Zelda is a great series but with the likes of Gears 3, Uncharted 3, CoD Mod War 3, Batman: Arkham City, etc. the list pretty much goes on and none of those multiplat games are coming to this system. LoZ is going to need back up it’s not going to be able to stand up to all of that alone. I’m hoping Nintendo knows this and is fully aware of this and will show their solutions to the problem at the conference.
Streaming info
IGN
http://www.ign.com/events/e3/2011/live-video
IGN also put up their schedule on the side as well.
Gametrailers
http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/e3/e3-live.html
Gamespot
http://e3.gamespot.com/
They actually have a small schedule on the right side.
G4
http://www.g4tv.com/e3-2011/press-conferences/
The Best Gamers Stream
http://thebestgamers.net/stream.html
If a website doesn’t have a stream pin pointed excactly yet I will fix it as it becomes available but for now I’m posting where they will likely be found.
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