Then Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, took to the stage, joking about how the leak of information perhaps threatened the size of the assembled audience.

The Sony event was again held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and started with a slick video presentation showcasing the various Sony game properties and hinted at what games might be coming for the assorted platforms. Rumours of a revised handheld were effectively confirmed in the days before the show, but we’d been lacking firm details about the PSP Go. The PS3, despite its processing power and functionality as a Blu-ray player and home entertainment hub, is running a distant third in the console sales race. The company’s PlayStation 3 console has been in the hands of game developers long enough that they’ve figured out how to create breathtaking experiences with it, and this could be a make or break year. It was the last briefing before E3 2009 officially opened, and expectations for what Sony would announced at their press event today (June 2) ran high.

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