Adam Doree | TGS 2006 Unseen: PS3 Launch, Sony HQ, Insider Access & More @AdamDoree | Uploaded 10 months ago | Updated 2 hours ago
Here's my recovered tape material from Tokyo Game Show 2006 including various showfloow caper and behind-the-scenes access, never before published in full. Celebrating its 10th year, TGS 2006 was the event where Sony had to deliver at all costs, and Microsoft had to push harder. A cooler-than-usual Tokyo climate was a fitting backdrop to a display of confidence from both, despite PS3's turbulent PR journey to the event and Xbox 360's poor performance in the Japanese market. Their ongoing battle was far from decided. TGS 2006 offered promise and excitement about the stuff gamers would be buying in a new console generation. Ever-improving game experiences seemed likely as gaming entered its most highest stakes - and most expensive - era to date.
Intro and outro music in this video is from the awesome Virtua Fighter 3 Arranged OST (2021), as featured in Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown's / Virtua Fighter eSports's Yakuza Series Collaboration Pack DLC, and in the newly announced Virtua Fighter 3tb Online (2023 in Japan).
Here's my recovered tape material from Tokyo Game Show 2006 including various showfloow caper and behind-the-scenes access, never before published in full. Celebrating its 10th year, TGS 2006 was the event where Sony had to deliver at all costs, and Microsoft had to push harder. A cooler-than-usual Tokyo climate was a fitting backdrop to a display of confidence from both, despite PS3's turbulent PR journey to the event and Xbox 360's poor performance in the Japanese market. Their ongoing battle was far from decided. TGS 2006 offered promise and excitement about the stuff gamers would be buying in a new console generation. Ever-improving game experiences seemed likely as gaming entered its most highest stakes - and most expensive - era to date.
Intro and outro music in this video is from the awesome Virtua Fighter 3 Arranged OST (2021), as featured in Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown's / Virtua Fighter eSports's Yakuza Series Collaboration Pack DLC, and in the newly announced Virtua Fighter 3tb Online (2023 in Japan).
![Super Mario 128 [See description for updated ULTIMATE version]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cDDy1ZFvO04/hqdefault.jpg "Super Mario 128 [See description for updated ULTIMATE version]
March 2024 Subtitles Update: Thank you so much to Shinki Nishikori for providing subtitles for this video, assisted by Claude 3 Opus.
UPDATE: Best 2023 version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBH50xxUKEk
ORIGINAL POST: As requested from the vault. Please note this was before we learned to invest in a tripod :) and remember this was not intended to be viewed raw from start to finish, so you will see plenty of clumsy camera adjustments etc in those days, we only intended to publish segments of a few seconds here and there, because that was the way online video was done back in 2000 no one downloaded more than a few MB at a time so any videos you would find were much smaller clips (with the primitive MPG video compression of the era). But for the sake of completeness this is the whole Mario 128 presentation re-encoded in h264.
Also, while an English translation was made available to press conference attendees, it was beyond our capability at the time to feed that into the capture... we started doing that kind of thing at conferences from 2003 or 2004 I think. So enjoy the wonderful Japanese language!")
