What did we get right on TGS 2009?

Sony
- GT5 Demo – yes Release date -No
- FF13 No exact release date for North America, New demo yes
- No LBP or Assassin’s Creed demo for the PSP
- Demo and playable MGS: Peace Walker
- No dev kit announcement.
- No God of War 3 other than the demo will be part of the GOW PS3 bundle pack to be released in the coming weeks.
- No release date but more playable demo of White Knight Chronicles

Nintendo
- Yes – Wii price cut
- No – DS price cut
- No Wii Zelda Game
- No HD Wii
- No new controller
- Motion Plus technology not exactly a big thing for Nintendo

Xbox
- Still no handheld.

Pleasant surprises of the show:
Sony
- Playable MGS: Peace Walker PSP
- Playable Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep PSP
- Tekken 6 on the PSP
- Yakuza 4 PS3
- Lunar: Silver Star Harmony PSP
- Final Fantasy Agito XIII PSP
- Parasite Eve: The 3rd Birthday PSP
- Final Fantasy Versus XIII PS3
- Persona 3 Portable PSP
- Sony Wand device to be released in Spring 2010

Nintendo
- 4th! (Yes I did say 4th) Professor Layton game DS
- Final Fantasy Gaiden: Warriors of Light DS
- Phantasy Star Zero DS
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
- Okamiden DS

Xbox 360
- Forza Motorsport 3
- Nier Gestalt (Square-Enix action game)
- Alan Wake
- MGS 4 using Natal controllers

Multiplatform
- Resonance of Fate

From the list above I was surprised at the number of Square-Enix games that were shown. No sign of anything they acquired from Eidos yet. Maybe next year in the GDC. Sony showed a lot of games especially on the PSP. Nintendo was also focused on it’s own handheld as well. I only mentioned those that caught my eye. So the Bayonetta, Dead Rising 2, Lost Planet 2, Crackdown 2, Assassin’s Creed, I have a tendency to ignore since those games are covered to death by other gaming sites/ blogs and I don’t play them.

There was also Sony’s display of hardware including a 250 GB limited edition FF XIII PS3 bundle and a peek of all the accessories to be released for the PSP Go.

All in all this year was a pretty good show with nice surprises even if overall attendance was down by 10k.