Its almost that time of the year, the most awesome time in a gamers year, the time when new consoles are debuted and new games are showcased, that time im talking about is the spectacular E3 Expo.

During the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th of June we will see the best from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo as well as videos and playable games from some of the worlds greatest game publishers, Sony have already started their countdown, you can view it here:
http://us.playstation.com/e3-2012/

So what do you think we will see this year at E3 ?

Nintendo showing of the Wii U ?
Sony Introducing a new Games console, or just a huge amount of PS Vita information ?
or
Microsoft introducing a new console ?

Whatever happens, i am quite exited

Most of you should already know what the E3 flasher is, for those of you who have been living in a cave and don’t know what it is, read this thread.

For those of you thinking of buying it, but unsure of how easy/hard it is to install Chris from ChrisTechTV has released a video tutorial on how to install the E3 Flasher.

At the moment the E3 flasher only supports flashing NOR consoles, so here is a compatibility list:

Finally the Video Tutorial:

Source ChrisTechTV Facebook

Sony PSP sold to date ~70 million units, and today (after various leaks), has officially announced the next PSP portable, PS Vita. The PS Vita is priced at $249 for WiFi version, and $299 for 3G version (exclusive to AT&T). Expected release date is end of 2011.

PSVita brings many new features such as dual cameras, OLED touchscreen, and touchpad on the back, dual REAL anaolog sticks (finally), and sixaxis motion control – all for the same price and better features compared to the Nintendo 3Ds.

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Previous reported specs:

Well i have been going on about E3 for a while now and according to the official E3 website, the dates were 7th to 9th of June, but it so happens to start today, below i will list the times of the Live feeds regarding the conference:

Today:
9:00AM PDT
Microsoft: 9:30AM to 11AM PST – 5:30PM – 7PM GMT
http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/e3
http://www.youtube.com/user/E3
http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/microsoft-e3/
http://www.ustream.tv/gamespot

Sony: 5PM to 6:30PM PST -1AM – 2:30AM GMT(Tuesday Morning >.<)
http://www.youtube.com/user/E3
http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/sony-e3/?tag=content_nav%3Bvideo%3Bsony
Playstation Home

Tomorrow:
Nintendo: 9AM – 10AM PST – 5PM GMT
http://e3.nintendo.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/E3
http://e3.gamespot.com/press-conference/nintendo-e3/?tag=content_nav%3Bvideo%3Bnintendo

EDIT:

Here is an image courtesy of Kotaku.

Well its almost here, the most exciting time in a gamers year and what make it all the more exciting, is when a new piece of hardware is showcased.

During E3 this year, Sony will be showcasing their recently announced Next Generation Portable(NGP), which has recently been rumoured to be called PS Vita, if you wish you can vote on weather you like the name or not here NGP > PS Vita ?.

Here are the specifications of the NGP, note that some of these on the final E3 product, may have changed since the console first revealed:

CPU:
ARM® Cortex™-A9 core (4 core)

GPU:
200 MHz SGX543MP4+
133 MPolygon/s
4 GPixel/s fill rate

Memory:
512MB, rumoured to have been halved already.

Storage:
16GB internal storage, rumoured to have been removed.

Media:
NVG Card – a small flash memory based card, dedicated for NGP software titles. Taking advantage of the flash memory feature, this innovative card can store the full software titles plus add-on game content or the game save data directly on to the card. By adopting flash memory based card, SCE will be able to provide game cards with higher capacity in the future, allowing developers to store more game data to deliver rich and immersive games.
NVG game cards will be available in 2 GB and 4 GB sizes.

Display:
5-inch OLED capacitive touch screen.
24-bit colour.
960 × 544 pixels @ 220 ppi.

Input:
Touch screen.
Rear touch pad.
Six-axis motion sensing.
Three-axis electronic compass.
D-pad.
12 × Buttons
(Triangle, Circle, Cross, Square, L, R, Start, Select, Home, Volume ±, Power).
2 × Analog sticks.

Camera:
Front camera.
Rear camera.
Both cameras feature face detection, head detection, and head tracking capabilities.

Connectivity:
IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi
3G
Bluetooth 2.1+EDR

As you will notice from the above specs, the NGP will have a new game medium, which is dubbed an NVG Card, so UMD is gone, which unfortunately means for all of you with UMD’s, wont be able to play them on the NGP, that is not the only thing that is gone, the famed XMB is gone and has been replaced with LiveArea, here is a quote about it from one of the sources:

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Well whatever it is going to be finally called, there is no doubt that it will be showcased at this years E3 presentation, starting this Tuesday the 7th of June, as usual, companies try and keep silent about specs and details, though inevitably information is leaked, here are leaked/rumoured details.

CPU:
Quad Core Custom IBM Power 6 Chip, Clocked @ 3.5GHZ.
Each core is two way SMT capable.
175.9 GFLOPS theoretical peak performance (single-precision).
87.6 GFLOPS theoretical peak performance (double-precision).

Memory:
Main Memory – 512MB XDR2 DRAM.
Video Memory – 1024MB GDDR5.
eDRAM – 16MB.

Storage:
2.5″ Sata HDD 250/320GB models available.
External Storage SD/SDHC of up to 64GB.

Media:
Custom Blu Ray up to 50GB.
Gamecube/Wii Discs.

Display:
HDMI.
Component.
D-Terminal.
Scart.
S Video.
Maximum Display Resolution – 1080p.

Control Pad:
Dubbed “Wii 2 Pad”.
8 Buttons.
6.2″ Touch Screen.
Front Facing Camera.

Source of above image.

Source Engadget And IGN

Remember nothing has been confirmed, so these are just rumours.