Let's start with the leaks because it affects the next two topics I'm covering today. Well today was a biggie, the PSP Go! was officially confirmed through a leak earlier today, and in that leak there was another kinda big one. The leak was off what looked like a camera phone at a advance screening of the June episode of Qore the PSN monthly based subsciption show, and in this episode which is to be released after E
3 they were talking about the PSP Go! and while describing the benefits Sony's John Koller also pointed out a new Metal Gear Solid and he said Soild not acid or some other version. The PSP Go! will not replace the PSP 3000 currently being sold at retailers it is for a different market of customers. This UMD less PSP will feature a built in 16 GB hard drive, Bluetooth connectivity, and a slide out controller. The control will not feature a second stick as previously rumored, and as of yet there is no word on some of the other rumored features such as, the touch screen and phone capabilities. The second part to this leak is the Metal Gear Solid for the PSP. If you follow gaming closely you would know that Kojima has been teasing with countdowns for over 2 weeks now. Ending countdowns only to start a new one and driving gaming new mad at the same time. The latest countdown ended with a picture of Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake eater for the PS2, So now comes the question is this the same game to be coming to the PSP? Although it wouldn't surprise me much to see a new Metal Gear for the PS3 announced this year I believe it won't be the case and the countdown will be for the PSP game.The other some what big news is the leaked videos from two of Ubisoft's biggest titles, Splinter Cell: Conviction and Assassin's Creed 2. These 10 second clip are all CG and show no actual game play but I did see that they completely remade Sam Fisher the main character from the Splinter Cell games. In the previous trailers we've seen he looked to be in his 30's with and full beard and long hair, and this game has been delayed so many times its starting to show. In the new CG clip of the E3 trailer for the game the character I'm assuming is Sam Fisher looks to be much older (late 40's early 50's) and he is still very much a stealth character again when it looked like in the old trailers that he was gonna be more out in the open. The Assassin's Creed 2 clip showed nothing out of this world, but to the fans of the game it just bring us one step closer to the real thing. That's it for the leaks of today if anything pops up tomorrow I'll try my hardest to get it up on the blog A.S.A.P.
AS for Sony, as I just pointed out the PSP Go! will be a highlight at the show and yes, the fact it was leak will take some of the wind out of the sails but I'm sure Sony still has more to keep us excited. Along with the PSP Go! I see that they will unveil their own app store type store for the PSP. Something like a mix between the IPhone's App store and the PSN Store. It will offer a huge library of not only PSP titles for download but also PlayStation one games and PSN games like Pixel Junk monsters among others. then they will reveal the original games for the PSP available for download made just for the PSP Go!. For the PS3 will see a lot of the big already announced titles like God of War 3 and Uncharted 2. I have a good feeling we will get more information and possibly release dates for M.A.G., Ratchet and clank, Final Fantasy XIII, FFXIII Versus and GT 5. As far as new games I don't see much on that front. The end of the show will talk a bit about third party support and Home finally coming out of Beta and what new upgrades are coming to it. My hopes aren't high for Sony I think they blew their load with all the games announced last year. Now the rumors of a motion control and the PS3 Slim I don't see being part of this show. They might be real but they will be announced at another time, and I completely rule out a price cut, but we will see just a few days away.
Assassin's Creed 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9-ZNgm0j7I
Splinter Cell: Conviction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGejBtXAzYQ
PSP GO!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykJFpWzj7eY
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