TSA E3 Bingo: Your Picks

Just two days now until E3 kicks off. Let us hope that E3 is a good deal more entertaining than England’s last two performances, with Green scoring for the U.S. and us losing three nil to Japan.  Still the pundits are telling us that we drew our first game in 1966 so there is no cause for concern.  Yeah, right.

Anyway, back in the real world, with E3 happening in its entirety before England next play there will hopefully be a lot of great news for gamers by the end of the week.  Your cumulative picks for our E3 Bingo give us an insight into what you are hoping for or expecting so let us take a look at them.

There were 73 valid entries giving me a total of 873 picks to record.  Now the mathematical ones among you will have noticed that 873 does not divide by 73 without leaving a remainder.  The reason for that is that three of you who entered were so confident of your first eleven picks that you decided you did not need a twelfth.

Your Top Twelve

It is little surprise that your top pick matched that of the staff and that like us you are hoping to see Kevin Butler on stage.  The main differences are that you are expecting Resistance 3 while we predict the ‘Team Ico Collection’ and we do not expect a new PSP and you think Move will be priced.

• 31. ‘PSN Premium’ announced. {59 votes}
• 12. PS Move release date announced. (Keynote) {51}
• 26. Resistance 3 makes its début. {47}
• 3. New The Last Guardian trailer/footage shown. (Keynote) {41}
• 1. Kazunori Yamauchi appears on-stage to talk about Gran Turismo 5. (Keynote) {40}
• 72. Gran Turismo 5 (Running in 3D) {34}
• 7. Kevin Butler turns up.  Is awesome. (Keynote) {33}
• 11. Final PS Move pricing announced. (Keynote) {33}
• 23. GT5 worldwide release date announced and it’s this year! {31}
• 28. inFamous 2 makes its début. {31}
• 22. GT5 worldwide release date announced. {30}
• 68. Killzone 3 (Running in 3D) {24}

What Else You Think Will Happen

Unfortunately for the 21 of you who predicted that Motorstorm 3 would début at E3, Sony chose to announce it this week.  Comparing some of your other predictions we can see that more of you predict
- that we will see a PSP2 than those who picked that there will not a new PSP.
- that Splinter Cell: Conviction will be coming to PS3 than think MGS:Rising will be a 360 timed-exclusive.
- that we will find out PSN Premium includes cross-game chat and background downloading than it will be launched during E3.

• 16. New PS3 XMB revealed. {22}
• 18. Firmware 3.40 goes live during E3. {22}
• 27. Motorstorm 3 makes its début. {21}
• 56. Metal Gear Solid: Rising shown during the Microsoft keynote. {21}
• 42. PSP2 announced. {20}
• 66. LittleBigPlanet 2 (Running in 3D) {19}
• 51. ‘Xbox 360 Slim’ announced. {18}
• 6. God of War: Ghost of Sparta makes an appearance. (Keynote) {16}
• 46. No new PSP announced.  So this is more of a non-announcement. {14}
• 13. PS Move FPS title demonstrated on-stage. (Keynote) {13}
• 62. 3DS will be at retail worldwide before Christmas. {13}
• 65. Black Wii has been a success, so more colours announced for  later in the year. {13}
• 20. PixelJunk Shooter 2 is playable at the show. {12}
• 24. ‘Team Ico Collection’ announced.  HD remakes of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. {11}
• 40. PS2 games coming to the PSN Store. {11}
• 47. God of War: Ghost of Sparta playable at E3. {11}
• 2. Kazunori Yamauch plays Gran Turismo 5 on-stage. (Keynote) {10}
• 5. Dylan Jobe appears on-stage to talk about ‘Starhawk’. (Keynote) {10}
• 10. Dr Richard Marks ‘Moves’ on-stage. (Keynote) {10}
• 14. Jack Tretton plays one or more PS Move sports games on-stage. (Keynote) {10}
• 53. Project Natal hardware shown looking significantly different to last year. {10}
• 35. ‘PSN Premium’ includes cross-game voice chat. {8}
• 21. ‘Starhawk’ demonstrated on the show floor. {7}
• 9. Splinter Cell: Conviction announced for PS3. (Keynote) {6}
• 48. LBP2 PSP getting simultaneous release with PS3 version. {6}
• 64. Wii Vitality Sensor quietly forgotten. {6}
• 8. Teaser trailer shown for Bungie’s new EA-published cross platform title. (Keynote) {5}
• 25. The Last Guardian is playable at the show. {5}
• 37. ‘PSN Premium’ includes background downloading.  (Of patches and updates) {5}
• 44. PSP2 will have dual analogue sticks. {5}
• 59. 360 shown running a 3D game on an LG TV during Microsoft’s keynote. {5}
• 67. Dead Space 2 (Running in 3D) {5}
• 19. Q Games announce the first of their second series of PixelJunk games (i.e., PixelJunk 2-1). {4}
• 32. ‘PSN Premium’ launched. {4}
• 52. New ‘Xbox 360 Slim’ will have a slimmed down price. {4}
• 63. Wiimote with built-in Motion Plus announced. {4}
• 30. PS2 software emulation finally working and will be delivered before the year’s end. {3}
• 34. ‘PSN Premium’ includes online storage of saved games. {3}
• 36. ‘PSN Premium’ includes ad-free VidZone for subscribers in countries where VidZone is available. {3}
• 41. PSP-4000 announced. {3}
• 57. Metal Gear Solid: Rising will be a timed-exclusive with the 360 getting first look. {3}
• 61. ‘Wii HD’ announced. {3}
• 4. The Last Guardian played on-stage. (Keynote) {2}
• 15. Jack Tretton publicly humiliates the person responsible for all the Sony leaks. (Keynote) {2}
• 29. Final Fantasy XIV Beta launched during E3. {2}
• 43. PSP2 will have a touchscreen. {2}
• 54. Microsoft announce the Xbox 360′s successor. {2}
• 33. ‘PSN Premium’ will cost the same as Xbox LIVE Gold membership. {1}
• 45. PSP2 will be download-only. {1}
• 49. New Killzone PSP title announced. {1}
• 50. New WipEout PSP title announced. {1}
• 75. FIFA 11 (Running in 3D) {1}

What you Think Will Not Happen

Here are the options none of you voted for.  I am a little disappointed that nobody thinks there will be a Guitar Hero: Air Guitar game as with Natal/Wave expected to be Microsoft’s big push at this E3 that seems to me like an obvious title especially with the way that Guitar Hero and Rock Band seem to finally be differentiating themselves, with GH becoming more of a game again and RB becoming a simulation that you can ‘play’ with real instruments.  And I still suspect that Dead or Alive will be subject to the 3D treatment with the depth of field being exaggerated whenever the characters turn to face the camera.  Though admittedly neither of them made it into my 12 picks either.

• 17. The new PS3 XMB turns out to be just a streamlined in-game XMB.
• 38. Deal announced with MTV to bring original programming onto the PSN Video Store.
• 39. Deal announced with Disney to bring original programming onto the PSN Video Store.
• 55. Xbox portable console announced.
• 58. The next non-Bungie Halo title is revealed.
• 60. New Project Natal game ‘Guitar Hero: Air Guitar’ announced.
• 69. Dead or Alive (Dead or Alive 3DD?) (Running in 3D)
• 70. Ninja Gaiden Sigma 3 (that sixaxis “bounce” combined with 3D equals killer app?) (Running in 3D)
• 71. Gears of War 3 (Running in 3D)
• 73. Need for Speed (: Whatever) (Running in 3D)
• 74. Madden NFL 11 (Running in 3D)

Obligatory Graph

If you have read many of my posts you will have noticed that they are not normally complete without at least one graph, so here it is.  :)

And finally, to respond to some of your emails all in one go…  I know PixelJunk 2.1 is unlikely yogh_wayne, but I can hope can’t I, I’m very keen to see what Q-Games can come up with when they switch from 2D to 3D.  Don’t worry Reedus, your entry’s included.  To those of you who said you enjoyed last year’s and were glad to see E3 Bingo back (including BrendanCalls, Jas-n, clank250 and Aitrus) thank you, it’s always nice to hear what we do is appreciated.  Oh, and bunimomike, it seems I didn’t ‘lose’ your entry after all.  :)