I thought the show floor was indeed poor, with all the decent stuff being showed behind closed doors. Nokia had the most amusing press conference I have ever been to, ending up getting embarrassed by MCV. I got to meet Atsushi Inaba from Capcom & Hideo Kojima from Konami.

I got to meet lots of new people (it was really nice to meet Toast from this forum), and lots of old friends, which I really enjoyed. After the day time was over, and the show closed for the day, a lot of them seemed to be hanging out in the local pub – The Tournament. Also never before have I learnt so much in a pub!

Playstation Experience was a lot better then I though. A friend of mine had come by herself, not for the games, but purely for the live music on the main stage! Until I had bumped into her at the start of the 4pm Session on Friday, I had neglected to notice how much work had gone into the non-gaming side of the event. The fight Stand was pretty cool, and she loved meeting Lisa Maffia. I personally thought Killa Kela was amazing. I was overall very impressed with the Playstation Experience.

The Nintendo van, to me, was a disappointment as I had played most of the games on display before. The versions they had on display haven’t changed much from E3. The few new games they had, like Sonic Heroes, were hidden in the corner of the truck, where I missed them. Just to emphasise how hidden they were, I am the biggest Sonic fan in the world, only going to play heroes, and couldn’t event find it on the 1st day of the show.

Here are my impressions:

http://games.kikizo.com/news/200308/022.asp

It was good to see everyone from the forums at the show! Now, bring on X03.

Bring on the Fall TGS!!!! :)

The main floor was a ok, a little better than last year, but not by that much. Was nice to see XIII being played, along with UT2004. I thought the PC lineup was way stronger than any of the consoles - though the new 8-way dance mat and karoke looked interesting ;)
Shame I never made it to the pub afterwards - Pirates of the Carribean was too tempting, and then the day after was a free drinking session on the other side of London. Ah well, next year perhaps...

The PSE was much more open than last year - way more floor space and very stylish in the normal PS fashion. Thought some areas were a bit dark for no real reason I could fathoml and trying to chase Joel Meadows was like looking for a needle in a haystack. The games on show were good, on the whole, with a few real gems tucked in the corner (ie: Unlimited Saga, which had all of 3 pods). The live music is a bonus for the masses, but didn' t interest me...

I liked Nintendo :) They gave me a t-shirt (ha! you' ll never live that one down Sharan, I' ve never played it before and still beat you) and they had some great games on show (F-Zero GX, Rebel Strike, FFTA, Advance Wars 2, MKDD!!) but I felt they were a bit mean by disallowing photos of screens.

Sorry to say Ceri, But I got a T-Shirt in the end as well!
After you left, Nintendo gave me all their leftover rubbish as they were packing up to leave

Ah, but you didn' t earn it did you ;)

lol, ok, point taken, you win, but next time
I WILL WIN!! DARN DARK NINTENDO SCREENS!!