Sunday, September 26, 2004
Tokyo Game Show 2004 (Sept 24-26, 2004)
The annual "Tokyo Game Show" sets trends and is a must for game professionals and fans. More than 100 companies exhibit.
This years highlight is the SONY "PlayStation Portable" - PSP - to be introduced towards the end of 2004. SONY prepared a huge arena with an gigantic models of a PSP hanging overhead where visitors to the show could try out advance models of the PSP.
SONY also displayed the new "Gran Turismo 4" game, the release is scheduled for Dec 3, 2004. "Gran Turismo 4" was not the only car racing game at the show, we counted at least three more in this hugely popular category.
The DoCoMo pavillion highlighted 15 of the most important i-Mode game partners. These 15 were selected from over 4000 i-mode content partners. Games are one of the most important sectors on the i-mode menu - many customers are driven by games to buy the next handset upgrade. Therefore DoCoMo has a great interest in mobile games. DoCoMos focus at the game show were games for the 900i FOMA/3G series.
Find out more in the picture series below and in our "Japan game industry" report.
SONY PSP - Playstation Portable:
In a stunning arena around a gigantic hyper-real model of the PSP PlayStation Portable (PSP), visitors try out the PSP. PSP is announced to be released towards the end of 2004.
SONY offered a preview of "Gran Turismo 4" representing the enormously popular segmet of car racing games with realistic landscapes and surroundings.
DoCoMo presented an intense show of 15 key i-mode partners focusing on games. The map immediately below shows the lay-out of DoCoMos exhibition area, together with small pictures of the main display of each of the 15 DoCoMo partners
One of the most important DoCoMo game partners is Square Enix with the best selling Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy is a "role playing game" where the player joins a group of fighters. This photograph shows the Square Enix presentation in the DoCoMo display. Square Enix also had its own presentation area - complete with models, preview area, shows etc.
"Rumble rose" is the most spectacular representative game of sexy games - Rumble Rose is about women wrestling...
ATLUS shows stunning color and illumination effects.
This years highlight is the SONY "PlayStation Portable" - PSP - to be introduced towards the end of 2004. SONY prepared a huge arena with an gigantic models of a PSP hanging overhead where visitors to the show could try out advance models of the PSP.
SONY also displayed the new "Gran Turismo 4" game, the release is scheduled for Dec 3, 2004. "Gran Turismo 4" was not the only car racing game at the show, we counted at least three more in this hugely popular category.
The DoCoMo pavillion highlighted 15 of the most important i-Mode game partners. These 15 were selected from over 4000 i-mode content partners. Games are one of the most important sectors on the i-mode menu - many customers are driven by games to buy the next handset upgrade. Therefore DoCoMo has a great interest in mobile games. DoCoMos focus at the game show were games for the 900i FOMA/3G series.
Find out more in the picture series below and in our "Japan game industry" report.
SONY PSP - Playstation Portable:
In a stunning arena around a gigantic hyper-real model of the PSP PlayStation Portable (PSP), visitors try out the PSP. PSP is announced to be released towards the end of 2004.
SONY offered a preview of "Gran Turismo 4" representing the enormously popular segmet of car racing games with realistic landscapes and surroundings.
DoCoMo presented an intense show of 15 key i-mode partners focusing on games. The map immediately below shows the lay-out of DoCoMos exhibition area, together with small pictures of the main display of each of the 15 DoCoMo partners
One of the most important DoCoMo game partners is Square Enix with the best selling Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy is a "role playing game" where the player joins a group of fighters. This photograph shows the Square Enix presentation in the DoCoMo display. Square Enix also had its own presentation area - complete with models, preview area, shows etc.
"Rumble rose" is the most spectacular representative game of sexy games - Rumble Rose is about women wrestling...
ATLUS shows stunning color and illumination effects.
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