E3 2013: You'll Be Able to Watch Sony's Press Conference on Your Vita

As offensive as the time is for us in Europe, commentators in the US claim Microsoft shot themselves in the foot for having their Xbone reveal at 10 in the morning stateside while folk were at work. It's hard to find a middle ground when it comes to these things.

This means tjat maybe one of that dozens of titles that are coming to Vita are going to be revealed at E3.

what is that in UK time?

Crikey

@get2sammyb Not going to E3 to watch it Live Sammy?

I hope the stream doesn't struggle if all thirty of us Vita owners watch it. * joke *

What does everybody think of the CVG report that PS4 will make you pay to play pre-owned games like the Xbox One? If true then Sony are morons and I'd put a sneaky fiver on The Big N actually winning the console race! Although personally I think it's just miffed Microsoft fanboys making stuff up.

I work overnights so Microsoft's 10am was FAR FAR more convenient for me than Sony's was.

Watching on Vita sounds awesome! Let's just hope it's not done via the browser. Maybe live YouTube (Not yet possible on the Vita iirc) or some one time use application.

@get2sammyb What a year not to go!

Sounds good i doubt it will use youtube maybe they'll be an app or something on the ps store ?

@rastamadeus I feel the same way. People have known about the PS4 for 3 months, and during that time no one brought this up. A few days after the Xbox reveal and everyone wants to accuse Sony of blocking used games, as well. I think these rumors are just concerns and people are blocking them out of proportion.

Hopefully at E3 they prove that they really aren't planning on blocking used games.

@TheRealBatman Gotta admit its starting to worry me the amount of people on here who are now saying "He's right." Haha. Maybe I'm not completely insane after all...

That's not bad, but frankly I don't trust my Vita when it comes to watching something this important! I usually have about three live streams open just in case something awful happens.

18:00 PST = 6pm, so I'm in EST, so that would be 9pm for me! Hey, that actually works out great for me! I feel sorry for the people that have to watch it at 2am or later, I couldn't do it.

WHAT. I'm excited to watch this on my Vita! Hope it's not like the PS3 during the PS4 reveal... way too laggy but I was desperate to watch.

If I could get more than a bar of Wi Fi on my Vita I would probably consider watching this

neat so long as it's not a laggy mess

@rastamadeus

It's not miffed fanboys making stuff up, reports are all over the web from many different sources including big time pro-Sony guy Geoff Keighley. I believe Sony has hopped into bed with EA, M$ and other scummy companies and it's too late to back out of it now. Some fancy wording will be used to make things seem they aren't as bad as they appear but I've put any plans I had to get a PS4 on hold and think there's a good chance I may skip this gen all together. If Sony doesn't take a stand with Nintendo and bet on consumers outside of the idiotic casual North American, this industry is finished. Unfortunately I have no reason to believe corporate fat cats at a giant corporation will do the right thing because 99.9% of the time they don't.

@Gamer83 Makes you wonder if the real reason EA aren't supporting the Wii U is not because Nintendo wouldn't use Origin but when EA said what was going on with pre-owned games and that Wii U should follow suit Nintendo told them to do one.

If Sony was going down this used games road they should be undoing right now if they're smart. They can pull out and it should have too many repercussions. Ea might think they can survive without WiiU support but they cant make it without Nintendo AND Sony, and if XB1 is the only console with this used game fee then it wont sell as much and EA will have to come crawling back to WiiU and PS4

@3Above Sony's hands may be tied though. If the third parties WANT this to happen then it will go ahead and Sony have to go with it. Nintendo can survive without third party support as their franchises are strong (they arguably have been doing so since 1996), Sony couldn't.

Very unfortunate that EU has to suffer the time slot. Time constraints are weird but you know how Sony is trying to reclaim the US market.

@rastamadeus IF so! My wii U will be the only console Wii U is looking prettier and prettier.

@ EA: I hope you go bankrupt. I never cared about there games... Battlefield is another bland shooter and they killed mirrors edge... Sim city was a huge huge huge middle finger to the fans... Just like diablo 3 from blizzard.

@rastamadeus

I'm sure the reason EA and others have ignored Nitnendo is two fold. 1. third party games generally don't sell well on Nintendo consoles anyway, and 2. I'm sure Nintendo made it very clear up front it was not going along with this bs. Nintendo is still a giant corporation, it's still not perfect but as I've posted before I fully believe they took a pro-consumer stance on this so for that I applaud them. What annoys me about Sony and MS is all they had to do was the same thing and companies like EA would have no choice but to suck it up. Sure it could put Madden, Fifa, etc on PC but I don't care what anybody says those games wouldn't generate anywhere near the same amount sales on PC alone that they would on consoles. Once companies see the strategy not working they'd have to go back to MS, Sony and for some of them Nintendo as well and more importantly they would have to work harder to get back in the good graces of consumers. Instead M$, not surprising because it's a big publisher itself, took EA's side, you can say Sony has to do the same, but I don't believe, it could've bet on the consumer, instead it also went the same route as MS.

Unless Nintendo can get the Wii U to really take off (gamers will buy it for stuff like Mario and Zelda but it has to change its marketing drastically to reach the casuals) this industry is in deep crap. If the stuff surrounding PS4 is true, I'm tempted to buy a basic model Wii U later this year, eventhough the only upcoming game I really care about is the 3D Mario platformer, just because I believe Nintendo should be rewarded for putting its faith in us rather than building a non-b/c, always-on voyeur machine.

@Sanquine

Well stated about EA. I'm all for a crash if it means it gets that scumbag company and the slime (they don't deserve to be called human beings, because they're not) that works for it out of this industry for good. I think Nintendo has enough going for it that it could come back afterwards. It may mean the end of $ony and M$ consoles but since they're conspiring with EA that's not a bad thing. I'd love if it would open the door for the real Sega to return but that's a dream that I should probably have given up on by now.