E3 2008 Expectations

This year E3 Media & Business Summit is coming back to Los Angeles, and its only a month away. E3 2008 will take place on July 15-17 and as you can see with the above picture, the heavy hitters will all be there and ready to blow your mind with the latest news, trailers, announcements, etc. But what exactly can we expect at E3 2008, well lets take a look at the possibilities from each of the companies, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.

[Bazookajoe_83]

Sony really pawned last year, i think MS will take some ground back..

[trancefreak]

i really dont think u have it all straight. Ms had a strong lineup last year and this year sony is really getting the ball movin

[SmokingMonkey]

M$ and NIN are going to go up against some serious competition, expect that

[ash_divine]

he's talking about the press conferences, not the game line-ups

[trancefreak]

and how did u derive that from 2 small sentences lol

[Bazookajoe_83]

Yes i meant E3, i thought people would get that. Thanks =)

[trancefreak]

u see the way this author worded each consoles lineup. what a tool. some people have no clue.

[jkhan]

Sony has some strong titles this year. Plus they will definitely be showing F-XIII & F-versus XIII plus White Knight Chronicles. We can expect something from Shadow of Colossus developers, Sony London's Studio, Sony Japan Studio, Infamous, Agency plus a couple of unannounced titles. Oh yeah and a little game called God Of War 3.

On Microsoft end we will see Gears 2, Fable 2, Halo War, Bungie Next project, Halo 3 on PC, Forza 3, SplinterCell Conviction, Too Human and a bunch of RPGs.

[Superfragilistic]

I think Sony has a strong lineup, and much stronger than recent years, but other than the "secret game" they're a pretty well known quantity. Home, XMB, Square Enix, Resistance 2, God of War 3 and LittleBigPlanet are likely to dominate proceedings.

On Microsoft's side we know many titles for this year, but they've been uncommonly quiet on a number of fronts. I expect to see Halo Wars, Halo Chronicles, and Alan Wake all make surprise appearances. And Banjo and Too Human to get much better write ups than people expect. But the big unknown factor is the "Newton" and it's packaged games, along with XNA, Molyneux's "Dmitri", Rare's Mii program and those firm rumours about Netflix.

As for Nintendo, I don't forsee anything major although there is space for them to announce new Wii peripherals, a hard drive and better online features. Nintendo's third parties will make a much stronger showing than previous years with a number of potentially AAA titles to broaden its offerings.

I really think this E3 is less about the games than previous years and more about the technology and features of the competing consoles. On that note MS's uncharacteristic quietness towards rumours makes me suspect they are intent on stealing the show this year. I think most of that will hedge on whether the "Newton" controls are well received or not. It could be a spectacular success or an embarrassing failure. Not long now...

[Clinton514]

There are some really weird comments in here.

[ash_divine]

if you're referring to the first comment, he talking about the press conference. not the games lineup. and i agree, considering all the pressure and crap people gave them last year.

[Killzownz84]

And I own both the PS3 and 360 but I have to say that I have a feeling it will be microsoft's this year at E3.. Grant it Sony will have a great showing and as a PS3 fan first I hope im wrong.. Now unless sony can show off God of war 3, announce a new Twisted Metal show some great multiplayer for Killzone 2 and give an exact Home release date along with when to expect ingame XMB then that would rock!

[CertifiedGamer]

Power of green so an ignorant dumb comment.

[PoSTedUP]

sonys gunna rock the house at E3. they know it and i know it.

who else has a separate section for their online devision?

drop them bombs sony, DROP EM!

impress the world with the transformer, head tracking, in game XMB, home, the video store, an up grade to qore*, all the exclusive titles we got coming, possible ps3mote?, 3D blu-ray, trophies? price drop? WHAT!?
GIVE ME A FU*KING VIRTUAL REALITY HELMET SONY!!!
PS EYE GAMES!?
PSN GAMES!?
SOCOM BETA!
40GIG BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY!!
PSP GPS
PLAY TV!!!
I CAN GO ALL FU*KIN DAY!!!!!
SONYS ONLY GETTING STARTED!!!
MLB '09 THE SHOW! (hopefully) 08 was the best Base-ball game i ever played.
sorry i got a lil excited people, i apologize! AHHHHHH, i cant wait!

@whoop- SONY + HIPHOPGAMER = sickest presentation ever!!!

[AznSniper]

I hope to see all three succeed. PSWii60 FTW!

[Whoooop]

SONY to stand out from the others. Weak presentation from MS.

More of the same...

[Silogon]

3rd party cooking up something for Sony? Forget 3rd party, no one is going to give Sony any exclusives. Sony needs to announce major 1st party exclusives that simply showcase the ps3 and they need to do it at e3.

As I said before, I'm interested in Little Big planet, Infamous, Resistance 2, Killzone 2 and Home but we've seen it all before 3 years now in a row. I'm sick of seeing and hearing about them. Let's play them for once.

I want something new from Sony and it better not be some idiotic motion controller. I want content to play!

Edit: due to 1 bubble "ha"

how the hell can anyone disagree with what I said here? So, lemme get this right, you don't want 1st party Sony exclusives now? Please, are you all that absurd around here? You think I'm bad? I'm logical.

[PoSTedUP]

read my reply, sony has a bunch of sh*t coming. they deserve all the time in the world to make this stuff happen. and its all coming eventually.

[Big Jim]

I really hope Team Ico shows us something. New FFXIII info would also be nice. I expect nintendo to show off "Wii Vacuum", the new vacuuming simulator for the wii.

[Aclay]

At E3 I pretty much expect Sony to steal the show. There's just so many games that have been in the works for the PS3, it's just crazy.

Sony will definantly be revealing some big heavy hitter exclusives for 2009. I think that the rest of Sony's lineup for 2008 is pretty solid. LittleBigPlanet, Motorstorm 2, Socom Confrontation will be nice game titles, but it's obvious that Resistance 2 is really the next big heavy hitter other than MGS4 for this year.

There's that "Secret" PS3 game that supposed to be unveiled and from what I've heard so far, it's supposed to be coming in 2009.

I'm sure that Team ICO will probably be at E3 to unveil their next game, but something is telling me that their game wont be coming out until Q3-Q4 2009 or 2010 because they have a small development studio and because and they basically recruit new people to work on new game titles.... Ico came out in 2001, and Shadow of the Colossus came out in 2005 and that's a pretty big gap and that's why I think that their game wont be coming anytime soon, but I REALLY want their new game to come in 2009 at least.

GT5, God of War 3, FFXIII, FF versus XIII, Infamous and Wardevil are all supposed to be coming out in 2009 for the PS3 and just those games I listed are ALL heavy hitters, but those games don't even include the other exclusives for 2009 that haven't been dated yet. From what I've seen so far, I think that Sony has the strongest Exclusive game titles.

[desolationstorm]

I just really feel like this E3 will be the biggest one in years concerning 3rd party support for Nintendo. Its apparent that the wii is gonna keep selling for atleast this year so they are very likely to be at 35 million by the time christmas rolls around. So I just feel that we are finally gonna see some 3rd party love with big games. Im starting to enjoy the 3rd party support right now as it is. Not huge engrossing experiances but unique and customizing experiances with Boom Blox and Blast works.

We shall see not far away now.