Actuellement se déroule à Tokyo, le Microsoft's fall Xbox Japan press conference !

La grosse utilité de cet évènement est bien entendu de faire un max de bruit autour de la baisse de prix de la console là bas, mais pleins d'autres infos arrivent !

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Voici une liste en provenance du live blog consacré à l'évènement:

4:14 And now what looks like a new Star Ocean 4 trailer. Game play clips. "ST10 -- Venture forth into the great star ocean." Says the announcer voice. It's dated as Spring 2009. .

4:33 Winning Eleven is going to be out this winter.

4:35 Gundam Musou 2's producer Yoshitak Goto from Bandai and Koei producer Hisashi Koinuma take the stage. Show the Gundam Musou 2 movie.

4:36 HACK AND SLASH with ROBOTS. GIANT ROBOTS.

4:40 The game features new robots that weren't in the previous Gundam Musou, the combat system has been tweaked as well.

4:41 Showing us a Gundam Musou battle fight.

4:44 "At the end of the year, we're gunning to get this out on the Xbox 360," says Goto. Both men have left the stage.

4:44 Sensui is back on stage.

4:44 He shows us a trailer.

4:44 NINJA BLADE.

4:46 "It's developed by FROM SOFTWARE." From Software Producer Masanori Takeuchi is on the stage. He's talking about the game, which is "cinematic action" title. The trailer showed a ninja standing on a plane, falling into Tokyo and running down the side of a building. The game is set in Tokyo -- "famous Tokyo landmarks" like Shinjuku Station.

4:47 The action scenes and the cut scenes are seemless
Wow, Lost Planet designer Keiji Nakoka is working on this game.

4:48 Norihiko Hibino did the music -- who's also done music for MGS 3 and Ryu Ga Gtoku 2. Production I.G. worked on the cutscene animation.

4:48 Holy smoke this looks cool.

4:51 They're showing us helicopters, the ninja jumps off and cuts up demon monsters as he falls down to Tokyo below. He catches onto a buiding with a rope and inside the destroyed building, there are zombie monsters. The ninja cuts them up and then a LARGE OBJECT comes crashing into the building. The game is dated for 2009. The game will be playable at TGS.

4:52 Takeuchi has left the stage and Sensui is back on stage.

4:52 Talking about how Xbox 360 can take Japanese game contents to an INTERNATIONAL audience


4:53 Capcom on the screen.

4:54 Keiji Inafune (dead rising, lost planet, mega man) is now on the stage.

4:55 He's talking about the global audience. Saying that games like Resident Evil have found an international audience and that Capcom decided it needs to make games for the international audience.

4:55 The screen keeps showing pics of Dead Rising.

4:56 Inafune says that "black humor" in Dead Rising isn't really popular in Japan.

4:56 Shooting in Lost Planet not so popular in Japan.

4:57 He's talking about the games developed in the West, like at E3 and how he wants to challenge the Western game developers. That that's the most important thing.

4:59 Showing a trailer... It's...

4:59 It's...

4:59 GTAIV subtitled in Japanese!!

4:59 (Capcom publishes GTA in Japan.)

5:05 Capcom wants to revive old titles and new titles says Inafune

5:06 Talking Street Fighter...

5:06 Watching a SFIV clip that's a mix of in game and the paintbrush trailer (remember that?)

5:08 Okay, so SFIV is coming to the Xbox 360...

5:08 BUT....

5:08 Release date TBA.

5:11 He's going to show one last thing...

5:12 Well, rather, Jun Takeuchi is going to show one last thing...

5:12 Resident Evil 5 -- new trailer

5:13 Chris Redfield is walking on a ship. In the rain.

5:15 There's a car chase, an oil tanker flips ove, Sheva shooting shit, a man with a bird beak mask and a cloak. A woman in a low cut dress with (the virus in ?) a syringe.

5:15 Trailer's over and we getting a play thru.

5:31 Capcom is off the stage -- and no Dead Rising 2. Sensui is back talking about the "Platinum Collection" -- the lower priced line of titles like AC6 or Assassins Creed. Now talking about the new Xbox Experience. "Xbox Live Party", up to 8 people can get something like a party room and share pictures or play games together.

Sensui is talking about the new 60GB, the 19800 yen Arcade Xbox 360 and the cheaper Elite -- which was today's big announcement, but that leaked. There's an Infinite Undiscovery faceplate.

By next spring, Microsoft has a hundred titles slated for release.

Oh, new slogan! "Susume, wakuwaku Xbox 360."

5:32 That means something like "keep going thrilling Xbox 360"

5:32 And then... Sensui thanks us for coming. And he leaves and THATS IT.