At the Tokyo Game Show last week, gamers lined up to see the PlayStation 3 and play some of the launch titles that will be released alongside the platform when it makes its retail debut later this year-granted the game show took place in Tokyo, Japan, which is homefield as far as Sony’s concerned-everyone loves Sony there. Microsoft has had significant difficulty selling the XBox and XBox360 platforms in Japan, and Nintendo is only now coming to the fore with a platform to really challenge the next gen systems in the form of the Wii.
However, new games and goodies were unveiled for the Playstation 3 at the TGS last week, and the general reception that the PlayStation 3 recieved was positive. Sony’s been deluged with horrible press and gamer focus on its missteps around the PS3, including the predicted shortage of the platforms when they’re released in the United States later this year, the shortage of blu-ray drives to go in the PS3 units to be sold, the high price points, and so on, but it remains possible that these problems could yet be overcome by launch, but only time will tell. In the end, the games will be what matters, and so far those, at the very least, are looking good.