Everything You Need to Know From Sony's Gamescom Event

J-just don't mention the part where we decided you have to pay for online now o-okay?

I laughed really hard early on at that quick-close-up zoom.

What's with this 12GB PS3. Seems like a mistake to sell a system with less than 160GB onboard.

Otherwise an OK show. They are just toeing over the line of acceptable cockiness; heavy handed on the "we've been consistent" line.

@kanerobot: Stream and viewer

@pompouspizza: Just got a email from amazon.co.uk saying 29th.

No word on a PS4+Vita bundle yet? Dang...

Online multiplayer experiences like Battlefield 4 are amazing at launch. There's something infectious about discovering a new game with millions of other players. Also, never will the barrier of entry be lower and more welcoming.

Finally that vita price cut came, now hopefully the vita can get some momentum with the holidays and the remote play for the ps4 and dethroned that piece of garbage of the 3ds.

@bawalo said:

I believe this article was meant to be read like this.

Haha, nice one.

A 250GB WD drive is 60 bucks on Newegg. I was annoyed first too, but that seems a good deal.

It was a good showing. Lots of titles that were new. But just way to indie focused for me. Great that they support indies, but I ain't paying $400 for a indie machine.

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They do one every year. I take it this was your first time paying attention to gamescom?

The coolest looking new game announcements aren't even mentioned in the article: Rime and Murasaki Baby.

Wow. I keep expecting Sony to start reverting to type now that I have the pre-order in. But that's a big chunk of fan service right there.

I, for one, look forward to the PS4 being my Isaac, Drive Club, and indie game machine for the first year or so, till the system starts hitting its stride. Still not sure if I'll even bother buying a 'AAA' launch game; they're bound to hit the bargain bins hard in a few months.

Twitch, I'm sure for some that will be a big deal. I don't find their actual streams to be head and shoulders above the other services, but the community being there does matter. A lively chat is at least half of what makes a stream succeed.

do you think they will put up a replay of the live stream they did?

I had to head off to a meeting in the middle of the conference. I managed to tune in for a moment and they were talking about partnering with ISP's or something along the lines? Jeff mentioned something about how it made sense for GaiKai but I couldn't listen for long before I had to divert my attention.

What was that all about? Is it what @nethlem is referring to?

@alexglass: MS don't care for Europe. They couldn't even hold a conference. They couldn't even say a release date. Also PS4 Launches in 32 Countries This Year. PS4 has another Conference at TGS so more games will be announced.

Lacking a credit card, I've missed out on all the indie goodness. Good thing I can refill my PSN wallet with cards. Looking forward to playing all those games man.

Distinct lack of *big* game announcements though. Hopefully those will be forthcoming at TGS. Really want to see Monster Hunter 4 on PS Vita.

Now you know 2. Still own Shadow 1, 2 and 3 for the A3000T that sits in my collection closet most of the time. Can't wait to see more of the reboot.

Insane that the Xbone may actually come out first. I'm praying for an apocalyptic same-day launch though, since I don't plan on buying either right away and would love to see the madness unfold.

Isn't the Twitch thing just a player? That's not really gaining anything on MS if so (I missed that part of the stream).

So other than release date, the biggest PS4 announcement was TwitchTV?

Sony must be feeling pretty confident about Europe because that's pretty freaking underwhelming. I like some of the Indie games, but that was a pretty weak showing considering the expectations going into this were kind of reversed for me. Thought MS would have less and Sony more. I guess they only reason that they did a press conference is mainly because of the launch date unveil.

Yeah, that's what I was wondering. No way there would be something as awesome as a new Shadow of the Colossus.

I hope more people buy Vita. It's pretty great even without these announcements IMO...is a shame it's perceived as being a barren wasteland of games.

Hotline miami 2, N++, The Binding of isaac: Rebirth? holy shit that's a fucking good line of text!!

Twitch!!
Wow

Shots fired.

I am astonished at all the Vita stuff. This is making me ecstatic.

Not surprising it would be released in the middle of November and at least the Vita's finally getting a price cut for both the handheld and its memory cards.

People bought that one a bunch here in Europe already, just to get a load-time advantage in games that use installs. People are crazy.

Installing an actual HD in it is no problem, you just take any 2.5" drive and jam it in there with the (separately purchased?) HD mounting rails and let it format and do its job.

It's also confirmed that Sony is gonna offer subsidized PS4 bundles together with Deutsche Telekom broadband plans. Pretty strange turn of events...
Originally i thought only Microsoft would be dumb enough to actually pay Deutsche Telekom, but it looks like Sony is going full out.

For those who don't know: Deutsche Telekom has been heavily criticized this year for silently to changing their "unlimited data" plans into "volumen data" plans. Without lowering the cost for the plans or compensating the customers in any other way. This has been without precedent in Germany, as most volumen based plans had been phased out over the years, except for mobile plans.

Deutsche Telekom didn't and does not care about net neutrality. Instead they kept on telling content providers: Well you don't want us to slow down your traffic? Just pay us some extra, and your traffic will never be throttled!

The result of that: Customers pay Deutsche Telekom up to 50€ a month for 50 Mbit access to the internet, yet you can't watch any HD YouTube without if having to buffer for minutes first. Because Deutsche Telekom gives YouTube packets lower priority in their own routing. To fix this, Deutsche Telekom now demands that Google (or any other content provider with high traffic) pays them for people watching YouTube.

Basically Deutsche Telekom is holding net neutrality hostage for a ransom and Sony just agreed to pay that ransom. That's an really really really bad example they set.. Because now ISP's know they can get away with this, charging for same service three times. Worst case: Now they gonna look for other traffic they gonna charge extra.

Wanna check your mails? No problem, only 5€ for 5 MB Email traffic!
Wanna share stuff on Facebook? Book the Facebook-Option! 200 Facebookvisits for only 5€!
Wanna watch the latest GB QL on YouTube? Book the YouTube HD option, giving you 200 Minutes of HD video for only 5€ extra!
Wanna watch the latest GB QL on GB.com? Too bad we don't offer booking option for that, but you can just buy 2 GB (enough for a HD TNT) of traffic for 5€!

This might not seem like a problem to people in countries where volumen plans are the dominating plans offered. But like i mentioned before: In Germany we've gotten rid most of them except for the mobile sector. The few ISP's that still offer volumen plans offer, them very cheaply because they are aware that this day and age only very few people surf the net with volumen plans. Deutsche Telekom, now with the help of Sony, are basically pushing German Internet infrastructure back by a whole decade...

Btw what's up with not even listing the EU release date? Seriously?

Next stop for sony is now Tokyo Game Show where the games continue

(hope they will show Last Gardian at TGS)

I believe this article was meant to be read like this.

A 12GB PS3?

Hope no one buying that plans on playing a game that requires installation!

oh man i am gonna play the shit out of some Rogue Legacy on my Vita.

Happy that they switched to Twitch instead of Ustream, and that it's a friday that it's released so I can play it over the weekend and don't have to take off anytime to be around for delivery.

Rogue Legacy deserves it.

Friday is a pretty good day for a console launch. You got all the launch games out on that day (or probably a bit before then) and then Watchdogs on the following Tuesday.

Yay! Gran Tourismo 6 got its first delay!

All these next-gen games with story are going to be ruined for me with a 2-week delay. I hope the Xbox One comes out early here and before America.

Agreed. There are a significant number of non-US fans of Giant Bomb. Not even mentioning anything about the release dates for the rest of the world really rubs me the wrong way. I guess I have to go somewhere else for my gaming news and just come here for the entertainment.

Disappointing.

Cheers for not mentioning the European launch date (29th November), @patrickklepek. Totally irrelevant to anyone of course. :|

Shadow Of the Beast remake? I know at least one person whom this news will be of interest to.

This article needs more jib shots.

Please improve my image of you as a person and list November 29th for Europe in the article.

Please.

Ooops, meant Beast, lol.

Feel like a post titled like this should actually contain all titles show, instead of everything meaning what the author remembers/cares about.

Also the "goodbye Ustream" reaction, seems highly unprofessional. So Twitch is the most prolific service and you might not like Ustream, we don't know if both options were kept around and other people might prefer it. I don't know if Ustream doesn't have better servers in locations where Twitch doesn't. Heck I wish there are as many options available as possible, even Youtube would be a great move even if it is limited to people with a sizeable amount of subscribers.

Also I believe prices for memory cards might've been announced but due to the camera weren't visible, not sure.

Also as I feel a large enough audience of GB is not in North America, stating other release dates, etc. might be nice.

Now that the criticism is over, complements are also in order for the work that is actually done well. Keep it up.

Shadow of the Colossus?

You missed Rime, which was actually the most exciting thing in the conference for me. What a beautiful looking game.

It going to be a indie party on the PS4/Vita!

At least they seem to be trying With the Vita again. I'll need to see some more games I care about before I'll buy the thing because I don't care about Remote play at all, but again, at least they're giving the thing some attention again.

But it means that no one will use Ustream!