The talk around town is that Nintendo might have a significant presence this year at the traditionally Sony-dominated Tokyo Game Show, going so far as to secure a booth. The video game trade show hasn't made much of an effort to include Nintendo in the past, as the company stuck to the Space World expo and its own events to make announcements. But with the Wii's current momentum and Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Sky set to appear on the Nintendo DS, leaving Nintendo out of TGS just doesn't make sense.Wired's Chris Kohler has an interesting post on how Nintendo's attendance at the September event will affect the console market in Japan and what the company might present at the convention. Playable DQIX demos of seem given, but we're sure that Nintendo has a lot more planned for the biggest dedicated video game show in Japan. What games and announcements are you looking forward to hearing about?
1. "I imagine that the TGS management lobbied hard to get Nintendo on board this year."
This is interesting, Nintendo wish to control things with their own events, but they'll really need to be willing to push out there and make open comparisons achievable, otherwise many will still dismiss the Wii.
I don't think Sony can kiss goodbye to the console market though. Sega, which had nothing like the dominance of the the ps2 with the Master System, then making a lot of mistakes with the Saturn, But the dreamcast went on for a year or so, and had to make yet more mistakes then.
Posted at 12:44PM on Apr 24th 2007 by Ethan Duffy