Tokyo Game Show 2007 is NOT – repeat – NOT cancelled
This is one of the weirder news we’ve seen today. NGCFrance reports in flowing French prose that “In spite of the rumours on its cancellation, the organizers of Tokyo Game Show announced that the edition 2007 will take place well.” They were even able to cite dates – September 21 to 23. And that this report is meant to reassure Japanese and foreign journalists.
Okay, first of all, what rumors?! Were we lost in some underground Locust tunnel when this rumor reared its ugly head? (Seemed to have been reported in JeuxFrance). Second, how could a rumor like this even come about in the first place? TGS is an institution. Yeah, E3 had to scale back, but it wasn’t meant to be a consumer show in the first place. TGS is, and they’re proud of it. (Speaking of institutions, whoever brought this rumor to life has to be in one.)
More importantly, we need institutions like TGS for stuff like potential Final Fantasy XIII playable demos open to the public. You can’t tear that away from us! Oh well, being “reassured” is nice, even for silly rumors.
(Postscript: a little outside digging has revealed that this rumor began as a sort of post-E3-is-dead ripple. Oh well. Long live E3 – er, now E4All. See? Why would TGS get cancelled if IDG Entertainment would raise the dead?)
This is one of the weirder news we’ve seen today. NGCFrance reports in flowing French prose that “In spite of the rumours on its cancellation, the organizers of Tokyo Game Show announced that the edition 2007 will take place well.” They were even able to cite dates – September 21 to 23. And that this report is meant to reassure Japanese and foreign journalists.
Okay, first of all, what rumors?! Were we lost in some underground Locust tunnel when this rumor reared its ugly head? (Seemed to have been reported in JeuxFrance). Second, how could a rumor like this even come about in the first place? TGS is an institution. Yeah, E3 had to scale back, but it wasn’t meant to be a consumer show in the first place. TGS is, and they’re proud of it. (Speaking of institutions, whoever brought this rumor to life has to be in one.)
More importantly, we need institutions like TGS for stuff like potential Final Fantasy XIII playable demos open to the public. You can’t tear that away from us! Oh well, being “reassured” is nice, even for silly rumors.
(Postscript: a little outside digging has revealed that this rumor began as a sort of post-E3-is-dead ripple. Oh well. Long live E3 – er, now E4All. See? Why would TGS get cancelled if IDG Entertainment would raise the dead?)
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