E3 Live Blog: Sony Pulling Lid Off Powerful NGP Portable

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E3 Live Blog: Sony Pulls Lid Off Powerful NGP Portable

• By Chris Kohler
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• June 6, 2011  | 
• 7:16 pm  | 
• Categories: Console Games, Portable Gaming

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LOS ANGELES — Want more power in your portable gaming? Sony will give it to you at E3.

The maker of PlayStation is expected to spend a great deal of time discussing NGP, its upcoming next-generation handheld game device, at its E3 press conference Monday evening. Sony has already given several press outlets, including Wired.com, a hands-on look at the device’s initial lineup of games, including Uncharted and Wipeout. But it has probably saved the biggest announcements for its E3 extravaganza. Sony might reveal the final name of the product, which some rumors say is “Vita.”

Sony is also expected to address the situation with its PlayStation Network online service, which went down April 20 following a security breach and has still not been restored to full service in every country.

The company is also expected to announce some big exclusive titles for its PlayStation 3 home gaming system.

Wired.com’s live blog coverage is below.

4:52 p.m. — We’re in the venue. The Wi-Fi seems to be working not very well and this place is kind of a cellular dead zone, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed I’ll be able to live blog effectively throughout the whole show.

4:57 p.m. — I’m right that E3 has been pretty disappointing so far, right? Lots of deeper dives on games we already knew about, tons and tons of shooters, and no surprising big announcements. It would be great if Sony would come out and change all of that with some shocking PlayStation news. But no pressure or anything.

5:05 p.m. — This event is getting started on Sony time, which is somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes behind the rest of us.

5:10 p.m. — Oh, did I mention we all got pairs of 3-D glasses as we came into the venue? This is gonna be like watching one of them newfangled movies they have now.

5:12 — They want us to put the glasses on now. Show begins in two minutes, they say. “They” is the disembodied voice of a woman. Not GlaDOS.

5:15 — No, really, it’ll start at some point apparently. Like, any minute now. Yep. Aaaaany minute now.

See Also:

• Hands-On: Uncharted Maps Safe Route for Sony?s Slick NGP Handheld
• Sony Touts Console-Like Power of Upcoming NGP
• Kinect Games, Halo 4 Lead Microsoft?s E3 Push

Chris Kohler is the founder and editor of Wired.com's Game|Life, and the author of Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life. He will talk your ear off about Japanese curry rice.
Follow @kobunheat and @GameLife on Twitter.

Tags: E3 2011, NGP, PlayStation, Sony

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