TSA E3 Bingo: Story So Far

While we wait for day two of E3 to get going and with most of the big conferences out of the way I thought it might be fun to take a quick look at which of our E3 Bingo entries have already come to pass or been disproved.

This is not of course the final list and I may have missed a few happenings from the first two days of the news storm, but these are the entries I am sure about. Hits are in bold while misses are struck through.

Sony Press Conference (These first 15 must happen during Sony’s press conference to count)

• 1. Kazunori Yamauchi appears on-stage to talk about Gran Turismo 5.
• 2. Kazunori Yamauch plays Gran Turismo 5 on-stage.
• 3. New The Last Guardian trailer/footage shown.
• 4. The Last Guardian played on-stage.
• 5. Dylan Jobe appears on-stage to talk about ‘Starhawk’.
• 6. God of War: Ghost of Sparta makes an appearance.
• 7. Kevin Butler turns up.  Is awesome.
• 8. Teaser trailer shown for Bungie’s new EA-published cross platform title.
• 9. Splinter Cell: Conviction announced for PS3.
• 10. Dr Richard Marks ‘Moves’ on-stage.
• 11. Final PS Move pricing announced.
• 12. PS Move release date announced.
• 13. PS Move FPS title demonstrated on-stage.
• 14. Jack Tretton plays one or more PS Move sports games on-stage.
• 15. Jack Tretton publicly humiliates the person responsible for all the Sony leaks.

PS3 (At any time during E3)

• 16. New PS3 XMB revealed.
• 17. The new PS3 XMB turns out to be just a streamlined in-game XMB.
• 18. Firmware 3.40 goes live during E3.
• 19. Q Games announce the first of their second series of PixelJunk games (i.e., PixelJunk 2-1).
• 20. PixelJunk Shooter 2 is playable at the show.
• 21. ‘Starhawk’ demonstrated on the show floor.
• 22. GT5 worldwide release date announced.
• 23. GT5 worldwide release date announced and it’s this year!
• 24. ‘Team Ico Collection’ announced.  HD remakes of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.
• 25. The Last Guardian is playable at the show.
• 26. Resistance 3 makes its début.
• 27. Motorstorm 3 makes its début.
• 28. inFamous 2 makes its début.
• 29. Final Fantasy XIV Beta launched during E3.
• 30. PS2 software emulation finally working and will be delivered before the year’s end.

PSN (At any time during E3)

• 31. ‘PSN Premium’ announced.
• 32. ‘PSN Premium’ launched.
• 33. ‘PSN Premium’ will cost the same as Xbox LIVE Gold membership.
• 34. ‘PSN Premium’ includes online storage of saved games.
• 35. ‘PSN Premium’ includes cross-game voice chat.
• 36. ‘PSN Premium’ includes ad-free VidZone for subscribers in countries where VidZone is available.
• 37. ‘PSN Premium’ includes background downloading.  (Of patches and updates)
• 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.
• 40. PS2 games coming to the PSN Store.

PSP (At any time during E3)

• 41. PSP-4000 announced.
• 42. PSP2 announced.
• 43. PSP2 will have a touchscreen.
• 44. PSP2 will have dual analogue sticks.
• 45. PSP2 will be download-only.
• 46. No new PSP announced.  So this is more of a non-announcement.
• 47. God of War: Ghost of Sparta playable at E3.
• 48. LBP2 PSP getting simultaneous release with PS3 version.
• 49. New Killzone PSP title announced.
• 50. New WipEout PSP title announced.

Microsoft (At any time during E3)

• 51. ‘Xbox 360 Slim’ announced
• 52. New ‘Xbox 360 Slim’ will have a slimmed down price.
• 53. Project Natal hardware shown looking significantly different to last year.
• 54. Microsoft announce the Xbox 360′s successor.
• 55. Xbox portable console announced.
• 56. Metal Gear Solid: Rising shown during the Microsoft keynote.
• 57. Metal Gear Solid: Rising will be a timed-exclusive with the 360 getting first look.
• 58. The next non-Bungie Halo title is revealed.
• 59. 360 shown running a 3D game on a LG TV during Microsoft’s keynote.
• 60. New Project Natal game ‘Guitar Hero: Air Guitar’ announced.

Nintendo (At any time during E3)

• 61. ‘Wii HD’ announced
• 62. 3DS will be at retail worldwide before Christmas
• 63. Wiimote with built-in Motion Plus announced.
• 64. Wii Vitality Sensor quietly forgotten.
• 65. Black Wii has been a success, so more colours announced for later in the year.

3D (These games must be seen running in 3D during E3)

• 66. LittleBigPlanet 2
• 67. Dead Space 2
• 68. Killzone 3
• 69. Dead or Alive (Dead or Alive 3DD?)
• 70. Ninja Gaiden Sigma 3 (that sixaxis “bounce” combined with 3D equals killer app?)
• 71. Gears of War 3
• 72. Gran Turismo 5
• 73. Need for Speed (: Whatever)
• 74. Madden NFL 11
• 75. FIFA 11

Well I make that thirteen hits so far, which means here’s a chance of somebody getting a full house, and there will almost certainly be four more as I go through the reports of which 3D games are being played on the show floor over the coming days.  I have a suspicion number 64 will turn out true too after Ubisoft decided to go it alone with their own similar device.  Feel free to point out any mistakes in the comments if you have got proof.