The E3 want their fans back.

As the E3 trade show flopped. Now, the U.S. video game trade show as a spectator again Daddelparadies masses attract. New game concepts and a mobile player are among the highlights, the next week in Los Angeles show.

 

Los Angeles - America's largest computer trade show E3 to the radical Abwärtssog escape the past years. In the coming week will show once again the powerful Right and a glossy, at least comparatively reach full size - with around 40,000 visitors. World premieres like the new iPod challenger Zune HD from Microsoft to help provide the E3 to a successful comeback to pay.

Finally in 2006 were 60,000 fans to the games come E3. But after a radical conversion of the exhibition concept, which only provided professional audience, the former leading last only counted 5,000 visitors, a year earlier, only about 3,000 experts arrived.

The major console manufacturers will be on 2 to 4 June, the focus primarily on new game titles set. "The contents of part of our business," said Uwe Bassendowski, Germany boss of Sony Computer Entertainment. Thanks to new game ideas and party games like Singstar and Buzz "is the target for the Playstation in the past years already considerably younger - and female - have become.

The Japanese games specialist Nintendo, with its successful Wii the star of the console manufacturers, will be significantly more external developers win. In Los Angeles, the world's largest game publisher Electronic Arts, therefore, among other things, new sports titles like "Grand Slam Tennis" and "Tiger Woods PGA" for Nintendo Wii show.

Whether the visitor to the E3, but actually a firework of news experience, is still unclear. New consoles, they can at least in this year's expected. "We are in the midst of current-generation hardware," says Stephan games specialist Freundorfer. "But there are expectations that Sony and Microsoft on the huge success of Nintendo's Wii with its own developments will react." Even Sony could be a first flop bewegungssensitiven with a control unit with a new edition bring to Los Angeles, estimates Freundorfer. "I think that all console manufacturers in the direction will go."

Yet all densely

Nintendo was after the start of the new generation of devices with its much cheaper then, but also technically Wii slimmed-down and surprisingly effortlessly in two major competitors passed.

Nintendo continued not to faster chips and better graphics cards, but clever game concepts and a bewegungssensitiven controller that is now a variety of sports games support. Last year sales of Japanese games specialist in the U.S. market almost as many devices such as Sony and Microsoft.

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Still, the company their innovations largely under wraps. But before around fourteen days to the public was urged that Microsoft for its Xbox 360 game console, a new 3D video camera in the quiver, which is similar to Nintendo's Wii controller to control games with body movements could be used.

Back to "shine and Gloria"

One of the highlights in Los Angeles, however, Microsoft's new Zune media player will be HD. The Zune was a few years ago as a possible challenger to Apple's iPod begun, however, it has until now not on the North American borders and fristet also managed in the domestic market more of a niche. The new model with integrated HD radio reception and high-resolution display now Microsoft wants mobile access for its online gaming platform Xbox Live to expand and the first time at E3 to the public imagine.

Microsoft Zune Players HD: At the E3 video game trade show to see the first live

The world is currently around 17 million users of online gaming platform Xbox Live will also fall from mobile to TV and feature films as well as games and music on the move, announced at Microsoft. Among the major console manufacturers Microsoft was so far the only company that does not offer mobile player had.

With the set of innovations could be the E3 for a lot of stress in the care sector. The fair will be after three lean years back to the original "shine and Gloria" to return, said Bassendowski. In any event, the exhibition will show the way, where the industry is said Freundorfer.