PlayStation Fans: Watch E3 Online Right Here

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PlayStation Fans: Watch E3 Online Right Here

Last year, we invited three hundred fans into our press conference. This year, we’re shooting for a million.

You’ve been requesting it, so for the first time, we’ll be broadcasting the entirety of the PlayStation press conference directly into this Blog. Additionally, we’re setting up a mini-studio in the PlayStation booth, and we’ll be bringing in developers while the show floor is open for interviews, live demos and to answer your questions via a built-in chat module. It all starts right here on June 6th.

Kaz Hirai, Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.

UPDATE: We’ve got several hundred more entries than we’ve got spots open, so we’re cutting off the entries now. We’ll grade the papers over the next few days and contact winners by email. Thanks for entering!

Since this is an LA event, we’d still like to do something for some of our Southern California fans. Because our press conference is already at capacity, we unfortunately won’t be able to get anyone into building (again, everyone can watch the livestream right here). However, we were able to secure over one hundred 3-day passes to the E3 Expo, where attendees can visit our booth and go hands-on with NGP and our stellar PS3 lineup as a guest of PlayStation.

We want to make sure only the biggest local PlayStation fans get in, so instead of having folks queue up in the unpredictable Spring weather (as has been the case in past years), we’ve created a web quiz you can take from the comfort of [wherever you are sitting].

Here are a few things to note:

  • E3 takes place from June 7-9th at the Los Angeles Convention Center, so you’ll obviously need to be in SoCal during that time to attend. Don’t bother taking the quiz if you won’t be there!
  • You must be 18 or older to attend E3 – that’s their rule! Your ID will be checked when you go to pick up your badge, so if you’re under 18… don’t bother taking the quiz!
  • E3 badges are non-transferable, so if you’re not sure if you’re going to be able to attend… don’t bother taking the quiz!
  • The information we’re asking for (name & email address only) is required for all attendees by the ESA, who run the E3 Expo. We won’t ask for any additional info!
  • We’ll grade quizzes and select winners by late next week, and contact winners via email with information on how to pick up your passes.

Good luck!

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  • 492

    i hope your right

  • seeing that there is no announcement and its the 30th then i dont think the ps store will come back tomorrow.still i hope it will come back before E3 or sony will have a bad time there.theyll have to explain their failures in front of millions of gamers ;/ .

  • Sorcery release date !!!

  • “You’ve been requesting it, so for the first time, we’ll be broadcasting the entirety of the PlayStation press conference directly into this Blog.”

    how about you give us something that we all actually want. cross game chat, home out of beta, PSN store back online…

  • This sounds like fun but do you think the blog could give the community an update about the store because tomorrow is the 31st and i hope you don’t shoot the arrow and miss. = (

  • fanxxx sony!!! ;DD
    plzz hav it on ps home (live stream), plzzzzzzzz
    dat’d rely push a heck lotta people onto dat app if u du! fanxxx once more! xDDD

  • Good stuff

  • Man, i wish there was a mobile version of PS blog in the U.S.
    (Hint,hint)

  • Who here REALLY wants them to talk about Sly 4 in E3????? I’m dieing!!! I love the sly cooper series!!!

    MUST……..PLAY……GAME!!!!

  • This is perfect! Now I’ll be able to watch while I’m at work. Will you also be making the recording available on the PSN like last year? If so, could you please make it available sooner, like within a week or so?

  • What does via a built-in chat module mean is we gone have cross game chat

  • when is pss will be back on so we could get it for call of duty black ops escalation

  • Turn…the…store…back…on…please…

  • FUC SPELLL CHECK TOO TIRED AND PISSED TO WORRY ABOUT A FLAW IN A PARAGRAPH

  • @Jjoxford2007

    Not being open with their customers is what got Sony into this mess in the first place. We’ve been given vague promises and silence regarding the network for well over a month now. We’re coming up on them breaking yet another vague promise with the 31st being tomorrow, and still there’s no update from Sony on the store. In the meantime, I can’t play my L.A. Noire DLC, I can’t redownload purchased PSP games to transfer to my PSP, nothing.

    At this point, it’s starting to feel like Sony just has contempt for its customers (and I helped PAY for the network as a Playstation Plus subscriber), not helped at all by snide official comments like Jeff’s from earlier in the thread. Sony is not demonstrating to me that it deserves my loyalty, my business.

    And the thing is, I’m not asking for too much here. Just give us a REAL date for when the store will be back up, and keep us informed if that changes. Instead, we get silence from Sony, and after a month I’m really tired of it. And while they still don’t have their **** in order with the network, they want me to somehow believe that they’re capable of handling a live-stream of the biggest Sony news event of the year? Yeah, good luck with that.

  • Hey, sony could you please put the psn store back on ive been waitting for a long time i really want to buy some add ons and games could you please tell us when it would be back up and could you tell us when does the escalation map pack come out for ps3. Thank You

  • When will they release the red bull bandoleer, like the one on the commercials I keep seeing? I would also like the optional pretzel holder. Thanks

  • someone can have the link for the quiz???

  • You know this is going to end up just like the first attempt to restore PSN. SONY you guys are the only company who seems to get off on EPIC FAILS. Any other company would be trying to communicate with their consumers. Not Sony, evidently, every employee must take a vow of silence. This is ridiculous. Sony employees must have been trained by the Department of Transportation, no one else in this world gets paid more for standing around doing nothing. Now tomorrow all you SONY SCROTUM JOCKEYS can cry that everyone is just plain mean to SONY. Epic Fail Sony Epic fail

  • nice. I’m always curious to see how much E3 has changed since the glory days of the 90’s when I worked as a game developer and got to go. Thanks for sharing this!

  • I hope that there is a lot of new info on Uncharted 3 and Battlefield 3. Too bad I can’t go to E3, but I will be watching it. It would be cool if they had it in a different place every year. Please friend Sarge435.

  • See thats just the point. SONY is pretty much IGNORING millions and millions of their consumers. I f this was any other company, the consumers would run them out of business. I’m sure this is hw SONY treeats their customers on all facets of their business. People must see that this will affect sells of tvs, cameras, etc. How long do you think it will be until Sony scoops up more headlines by actually being boycotted or their business going bankrupt. Generally we don’t know if we have a good president until ten years after he’s out of office. It’s looking more and more like within the next ten years Sony may not even be in business at all. No respect for its customers or customer service. ANd to even allow someone in your company to talk to consumers like that. Yes Jeff Im talking to you. Its just ridiculous. and something should be done.

  • d3m_sHoTTaZ-420-

    Sony is the best!! i love Sony <3

  • Jeff Rubenstein social media manager. More like SONYS CRAP MANAGER

  • My new PS3 is useless without the download list, if PSS isn’t up before E3 PS3 users will be the laughing stock of gamers!

  • Hopefully at E3 they’ll announce some kind of comprehensive customer appreciation / welcome back program for me, similar to what other loyal PSN customers are getting. You’d think they would want to welcome ALL of their customers back, not just the ones who haven’t already bought their old games.

  • jeff i have been defending sony since this started because you said it was targeted for the end of the month and AT LEAST TELL PEOPLE YOU ARE OR ARENT NOT A VAGUE ANSWER RESERVED FOR KIDS jst give us an answer that it will or wont MAKE YOUR TARGET YOU GAVE

  • Hi Jeff,

    Listen, any chance I might be able to watch it on my iPhone ? I’ll be at work, so maybe I can watch it on my lunch break?
    Take care man!

  • What is the hurry for tomorrow, like always Sony will give us another day for tomorrow for the Ps Store, MORE WAITING, do you guys really thing that Sony is working on the Ps Store today. Not an update in days and I tell to Sony for all this waiting and not given us an update in days I am going to buy NOTHING

  • and by now you should have an idea at least or is this like when our information was stolen we didnt rate an answer till a week later step up to the plate and at least answer some questions its what we pay you for as a consumer yes your rude answer is what pissed me off the most is that how sony treats their customers and yes i know you will not read or even post anything beginning to see you think we deserve nothing from you kind of sad to see sony fall for the lack of courtesy to their customers

  • thats the thing about tomorrow, its always a day away. lol

  • As much as I”m looking forward to Sony’s E3, instead of worrying about it being livestreamed on the website, I’d like to see PSN fully restored.

  • @523 naw they arent working today its a holiday soaking in their jakuzi

  • so if somebody misses the live stream..is there a way we or I can watch it later?

  • frag out……

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  • I am very happy with Sony. You guys are amazing, no matter what!

  • Since the PSN went down that is the only thing SONY has been able to do, LIE to its consumers, Do nothing and when they do give answers they are rude. If we had been talking face to face and he gave me that answer I would bust him in his damn mouth. Maybe Sony can get stuff done while they are choking on their teeth. As tomorrow rolls around and nothing is done Im sure more and more people will be moving on, just to a company thats more considerate. If There was any reason for Sony to continue to have the lawsuits pushed against them, I think the fact that it appears they have no idea what is going on would be the number one reason, secondly complete lack of respect for its consumers. SONY how ridiculous does your company have to become for you to realize this is the wrong business plan to use? I mean do any of your higher ups see this? See how you are treating people? SONY is turning into a huge BS company.

  • and nope wont jump ship dont like microsofts junkbox i have a wii and ps3 wont support bill the crook gates

  • CallofDutypro789

    @Jeff Rubenstein

    I hate to be off subject but here I go….

    I heard a rumor about PS4 and will we be able to change our username like on XBOX or maybe an update on the ps3. just asking

  • @wartech

    I totally agree with you there. Looks like M$ throws big bucks at G4 just like MTV and Spike tv.
    Although I do like Adam Sessler, but in general they do lean more towards XBox. A shame Sony can’t fix their marketing better, they have so much more to offer but everywhere I look, its a damn XBOX commercial or merchandise tie in.. Like Mcdonalds or something. My 2 yr old fat ps3 is overheating on everything, I’m pissed but I’ll be getting the new black ops bundle tomorrow at best buy. I won’t jump the fence for M$. Got 2 RRD already on them.

  • battlehammer1992

    @ Jeff

    I would like the store up but what I would really like to know is if we have a code for downloadable content and it expires before Sony is able to get the store back up will our codes be useless or will you guys extend the experation dates on them since it is not our fault that we can’t use them. Thanks for everything and I know that you guys want the store up as well, I can’t imagine the kind of money you guys lost due to this whole ordeal.

  • its part of business to lose money once in a while its how they handle it which right now is not very well as their customers seem to be of no concern of theres

  • Ok I have been pretty patient from the time the PSN went down until now. I have lost all the patience that I had and I am really angry at Sony and the nonchalant attitude they have had this whole time. They have been nothing but vague with the the dates on restoring the PSN Store. They said by the end of the month, well I have news for you it is the end of the month and still no PSN Store. Do not give us vague answers like “The end of the month”, give us a definitive date and if you don’t have one yet then tell us “As of now we do not have a definitive date but we will keep you informed when we do.” that would have been the proper thing to tell us. Instead of treating your customer base like idiots, treat them with the respect they deserve.

  • Sony you have to remember this isn’t Japan, people in North America, South America, Australia, and Europe don’t like being left in the dark and disrespected. You went in the right direction for an apology with the Welcome Back Program but a lot of those games on that list most people actually do already own either in hard copy or download form from the PSN Store. I know you are trying to make amends and I applaud you for that but it would have been better just let us pick a game we want or put say $30 in our online wallets. But everyone’s main problem is the PSN Store not being up as a lot of people have games they can’t even play because EA’s online pass requires the store to redeem it. Some like myself have a ton of dlc codes to redeem from game purchases, and still some if not all would like to buy more things from the store but can’t. Sony I understand that you are losing a lot of money with the store being down but your customers have lost their patients, and all we are asking for is some respect and a definitive date on when the store will be up. That isn’t to much to ask, it’s not like your customers are being to demanding.

  • mjolnirfatemaker

    who cares about watching e3 we want to know when the store is coming back already

  • if you think they don’t want store up you are insane they need to make sure info will be safe when you purchase from them sony is losing money left and right the STORE will be up when it is safe to use

  • So is the 31st the day because I would like to receive my free gifts for being so patient.

    Not only that, but why is that Netflix customers are not able to received a free month also.

    My 40gb would not play my netflix will the ps3 service was down.

  • If a company doesn’t meet it’s target date that is normaly bad form them. One thing we have to remember is that they can’t say anything until they are able to release the information. I hate to rain on peoples parades but it’s the truth. Provided everything works the way they need it to and is up to standards it could very well be tomorrow. Now another point, when we tell people to stop askng about the store and it’s been beaten to death by asking there is a reason. They post their question and don’t bother to read the rest.

  • iI purchased an XBOX 17 days into the outage with membership and map packs and game 315.00 the day psn came back on I traded it [XBOX] in for store credit 120.00 and bought LA NOIRE for ps3 XBOX community sucks no web browser PS3 and PSN rule

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