Tokyo Game Show

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Booths at the Tokyo Game Show in 2004

Gamers play Playstation 3 in TGS 2006

The Tokyo Game Show (東京ゲームショウ, Tōkyō Gēmu Shō^?, or simply TGS) is a video game expo / convention held in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan. Like the Leipzig Games Convention, but in contrast to E3, the Tokyo Game Show allows the general public to attend during the final two days.^[1] As a result, it has much higher attendance than E3.

In 2007, the show was held from 20 to 23 September, with the first two days being business days, whilst on the latter two it was open to the public.

1 History
2 Summary of events
- 2.1 2004
- 2.2 2005
- 2.3 2007
- 2.4 2008
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The first Tokyo Game Show was held in 1996.^[2] Originally, the show was held twice a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn (in the Tokyo Big Sight), but this format was discontinued in 2002 when the show was held only in the autumn.^[3] The show is still held once a year.

[edit] Summary of events

[edit] 2004

The Tokyo Game Show 2004 was held on 24 September 2004, 25 September 2004 and 26 September 2004. It featured 117 exhibitors showing off more than 500 computer and video game-related products to the 160,000 visitors.^[4]

[edit] 2005

The Tokyo Game Show 2005 was held from 16 September till 18 September 2005.^[5]

Microsoft held its own press event on 15 September 2005, one day before the opening of the Tokyo Game Show.^[6]

The show was opened with two keynote speeches on September 16. The first was given by Robert J. Bach, senior Vice President for the Home and Entertainment Division and chief Xbox officer at Microsoft.^[7]

While traditionally Nintendo does not participate in the Tokyo Game Show, its president, Satoru Iwata held a keynote speech there in 2005, where he revealed the controller for Nintendo's next generation video game console Wii.^[8]

There were hints by Ken Kutaragi that the PlayStation 3 would be playable at the Tokyo Game Show,^[9] but this was not the case. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots was shown publicly for the first time in trailer form. The MGS4 demo was also demonstrated by Hideo Kojima on the Konami stage, running in real time on a PS3 devkit.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] 2007

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (PSP), Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS) and Kingdom Hearts coded (Mobile) were revealed by Square Enix. Sony announced the rumble PS3 controller by the name "DualShock 3", which is to be released in Japan in November 2007, and in North America and Europe in Spring 2008. PlayStation Home was delayed until the Spring of 2008, and the launch of a PlayStation Store service for PlayStation Portable in Japan was announced. Also, Microsoft announced Ninja Gaiden 2 was going to be exclusive to the Xbox 360. The PSP game Secret Agent Clank was also announced.