PlayStation, Xtra-vision sign to GameCon

Sony Computer Entertainment Ireland, and retailer Xtra-vision, have become the latest companies added to the ever-growing list of sponsors of the Irish multiplayer event GameCon.

With just over three weeks until GameCon 7,
less then half of the maximum attendance has been filled. The
publicised maximum attendance of the latest event is down from the 300
of GameCon 6 to 200. At the time of writing 58 people – including the
organisers – were signed up to attend.      

At the event, new sponsor Sony plans to have working PlayStation
Portables (PSP), while old sponsor Microsoft according to the event’s
organisers “will be bringing the Xbox 360 to GameCon 7. So you will all
get a hands on impression of this new badboy before it hits the shops”.
[Games Toaster imagines this refers only to the retail shell of
the console, not actually an Xbox 360 - developers have just recently
received Xbox 360 beta kits]

The full list of sponsors for the event now stands at 13, with games
console makers and publishers Sony (PlayStation), Nokia (N-Gage), and
Microsoft (Xbox); game publishers Activision, Digtal Jesters,
Electronic Arts, and Take Two (owner of Rockstar); hardware maker
Creative Labs; PC and hardware vendors Alienware, and Elara Systems;
retailers G3, GameStop, and Xtra-vision. [Edit 18/07/2004: On GameCon's
website Elara Systems, and Nokia, are no longer listed as sponsors]