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What technological innovations will there be at the Tokyo Game Show

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What technological innovations will there be at the Tokyo Game Show

After two years of virtual format due to the pandemic, the Tokyo Game Show returns to the Japanese capital. But two big names like Nintendo and Sony will desert him. Microsoft, on the other hand, focuses heavily on Asian markets

The season of international fairs, at least in the videogame field, seems destined to end. The first to forfeit , especially at home, that is, at the Tokyo Game Show, was the Japanese Nintendo that for the entire period in which it was led by the late and charismatic Satoru Iwata , preferred virtual appointments to stages around the world, organized by involving your own social community. In a certain sense, the Kyoto House anticipated a trend that was imposed with the pandemic, which forced every event to stop and all announcements moved to digital. After two years of streaming, the Tokyo Game Show is back physical and this, in itself, is enough to make it a chat and awaited edition, regardless of the content. Not only that: in June, its biggest rival, E3 in Los Angeles, which generally stole the show by constituting the main showcase used by the big names of digital entertainment to present their highlights of the winter period, jumped. In short, several unpublished titles could appear for the first time in the pavilions of the Japanese fair.

MICROSOFT NOW WANTS JAPAN (AND NOT ONLY)

Microsoft will focus a lot on this edition of the Tokyo Game Show, so much so as to bother Phil Spencer himself, CEO of Microsoft Gaming of the Redmond giant. The Microsoft console has never made sparks in the Japanese archipelago and so far it had been a mutual disinterest: the Japanese did not like Xbox too much and the Xbox did not want to break through in Japan.

But now, with China opening up to the gaming phenomenon and India taking great strides towards the economic boom, TGS is a showcase for the entire Asian world, the most populous and the one with the largest number of users. to conquer. This is why at first Microsoft had made it known that it would be present above all with titles that will appeal to Asians only to correct the shot and reiterate that the offer will be for everyone.

Microsoft has announced that its Xbox Stream is set for Thursday, September 15 at 11.00 Italian time. It could be the right time that the software house founded by Bill Gates dust off an IP cut also for the Asian market: the RPG Fable .

Everyone's eyes are still on the social profiles of the histrionic Hideo Kojima , successful game designer, father of the Metal Gear saga and of the acclaimed but divisive Death Stranding . The number 1 of Kojima Production knows how to keep the attention of fans alive and in fact for days has been disseminating clues about the titles that will be presented at the Japanese fair: we are talking about a video game for VR and one for Xbox.

In a tweet we see an image showing a girl with long light hair but with her face in shadow, moreover, covered by the phrase Who Am I ?. A link leads to a very cryptic page called: 0XF7K4P59BX0 . Maybe Kojima's titles may not please everyone, but it cannot be said that he is not a genius in marketing … In this regard, it is questionable whether Konami, the software house in which Kojima has worked for years, will exploit the Tokyo Game Show 22 to present a new Metal Gear .

AN ITALIAN COMPANY IN JAPAN

The Italian 505 Games will also be present at the Japanese fair. We do not know if at 11 Italian on September 16 we will finally be able to see the sequel to the acclaimed Control , but titles of the caliber of Miasma Chronicles , a strategic strategy developed by The Bearded Ladies expected in 2023 on PC and next-generation consoles, Serial Cleaners , will almost certainly be shown. , Stray Blade and Unholy , action stealth horror that should hit stores in the last months of 2022.

CAPCOM DOUBLES

Capcom could surprisingly present a new Resident Evil , in its two appointments of 15 and 16 September, at 16 and 17 Italian. After the reboot represented by the seventh chapter and the partial return to the street with the eighth ( Village at the bottom recalled a lot of RE4 ) it is really reasonable to expect everything.

But above all, the Gold Edition of Resident Evil Village is given for certain at the fair with the possibility of trying the game on Playstation VR2, Street Fighter 6, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak , not to mention Exoprimal and Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection .

WHAT SEGA, BANDAI NAMCO AND SQUARE-ENIX WILL DO

We conclude the review with some of the most famous Japanese software houses. Starting with Sega, which for years has been reduced to a simple software house, no longer producing proprietary hardware. The Grande S will present the news at 1pm on the second day of the fair and obviously will once again entrust its blue hedgehog with the role of standard-bearer with Sonic: Frontiers .

Square Enix, which for everyone is synonymous with J-RPG, took two hours, from 3pm on September 16, to show 25 games, including those that it signs as a distributor. The most anticipated are: Final Fantasy XVI, Forspoken, Valkyrie Elysium, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion and Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth. Fans of manga and anime, at 15 September 15, will be able to view new trailers of One Piece Odyssey and Dragon Ball: The Breakers , from the Bandai Namco stable.

SONY AND NINTENDO: YOU WILL NOTICE MORE IF WE DON'T COME OR IF…?

The two big absentees will be Sony and Nintendo. The two Japanese giants will desert the call despite the fact that they could have played at home. The Kyoto House for its part wanted to anticipate with a digital format broadcast a few hours after the opening of the Tokyo Game Show in which it presented about forty video games, many of which will be released in 2023.

It was a rather soporific live broadcast with no big announcements, if we exclude the presence of Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope , available from 20 October and developed here in Italy, in the Ubisoft Milan studios, under the direction of Davide Soliani and of the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild , which now finally has a name, Tears of the Kingdom and a date: it will arrive on the Nintendo Switch on May 12, 2023. Never had so long gone between one chapter and another of the series: six years and two months.

Sony, after missing the Summer Game Fest and the Gamescom in Cologne, will not even show up in Tokyo. But this does not mean that there will be no titles for its console developed by third parties. Indeed, there is a lot of anticipation with reference to products for PSVR2, so as to understand the next moves of PlayStation in this regard. The Sony peripheral, from being marginal, seems destined to become more and more predominant.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia-on-demand/tokyo-game-show/ on Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:22:28 +0000.