I decided to group Day 2 and Day 3 together in order to actually fill this entry out.  Don’t get me wrong, the Tokyo Games Show is really big, but as I said in my Day 1 post the market out here is heavily based on mobile gaming and console gaming.  That, actually, is not limited to Japan.  The entirety of Asia is a huge booming mobile gaming market. With that being said, there were very few PC titles or hardware to be seen.

Day 2 was filled with helping Mike take the pictures he needed, and find more around the show.  The show was rather large and a bit of a burden for 1 man to cover alone, so I thought I would help him out where I could.  Some of you may wonder why they sent me versus a second DPAD guy to help Mike cover the console show easier.  Those of you who pay close attention or may have spoken to me will know that not only do I manage our site here at FPSLabs with Thomas Gribble, but I also am the Public Relations Manager for the GotFrag Network.  What does this mean?  It means that I am the one who contacts all the companies who provide review samples, press releases, hands-on previews, and anything else relating to external relationships.  So, my primary job at this show was to establish more relationships with companies such as game publishers, designers, and other groups in the gaming market.  As a secondary objective, I was to root out any PC related gaming or hardware news for our site.  And finally, I offered to help Mike if he needed it.

The final days of the show went really well.  I had an impromptu meeting with a company called Vuzix.  Found a fun little PC game hidden amongst all the console companies.  Oh and at one point we were denied access to the show, missed our flight back to the States, and other bits of chaos and adventure.  I will share the details of our trip home in the final post.

Sunday, we had a flight that we would have to get to right after we were done with the show.  We checked out of the hotel and traveled the hour of trains and taxis carrying all our luggage.  Arriving at the show we found that we needed to walk to a different area of the building to get in.  Thus, we took the trip and were told at the entrance that we c could not enter with media badges that day and would need to purchase tickets to enter the show floor.  This was completely different than any other show we had been to previously, so needless to say I was pretty shocked.  I didn't believe the guy we talked to you as there was have been something lost in translation.  It's not that we wouldn't have paid the $10-12 USD to enter the show, but that we would only be able to enter to the show floor and we needed to get to the lockers to store our luggage while walking around the show. 

We took the walk all the way back around the building with out backs ready to give out and went to the press booth that had moved as we had arrived later in the day.  Had we been there when it initially opened that morning at 9AM it would havve been in the same location.  A quick swap of business cards and our old press badges earned us a new badge that allowed us entrance.  We found a locker that would only fit my garment  bag and briefcase.  Poor mike was stuck rolling his suitcase around the show, but we got what we needed done.  It was on Sunday that I found a cool new game!

Well, we had to leave the show early to catch our flight.  Little did we know that 3 hours would not be enough time to travel to the airport that was a half hour drive away.  More on that in another post, I have a few things I want to talk about so keep in an eye out on this area of the site.