TSA E3 Bingo: Staff Results

It has been over a week since E3, sleep is being caught up with and we have time to review and reflect what we read and saw.  All of which means there as been time to check all the items on TSA’s E3 Bingo list and start looking at how we all did with our predictions.

First up, mainly because it is a shorter list, are the staff.  In the month since we kicked off this year’s TSA E3 Bingo there have been a few changes to the staff roster but the bingo results will reflect how things were then.

So there you have it.  Ex-staffer Zuler did significantly better than the rest of us, but we put up a much better showing than last year with all of us getting at least some hits.  For the conspiracy theorists who might have been expecting nofi to do better owing to all his industry contacts and insider info, perhaps he was deliberately obtuse in his choices?  I am sure that will be his excuse anyway…

Full List of Hits and Misses

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

Items 22 and 23 were on my provisional list but Sony failed to announce dates for their homeland and the PAL territories.  With eighteen hits from the list of seventy five there is ample opportunity for one of you to have got a ‘full house’.  You will find out tomorrow…