Tokyo Game Show

Year	Days	Total attendees	Total exhibitors
TGS 2008	Oct 9 - Oct 12	estimated at 180,000	expecting 170
TGS 2007	Sept 20 - Sept 23	193,040	217
TGS 2006	Sept 22 - Sept 24	192,411	134
TGS 2005	Sept 16 - Sept 18	176,056	131
TGS 2004	Sept 24 - Sept 26	160,096	117
TGS 2003	Sept 26 - Sept 28	150,089	111
TGS 2002	Sept 20 - Sept 22	134,032	85
TGS 2001	March 30 - April 1 Sept 12 - Sept 14	118,080 129,626	53 53
TGS 2000	March 31 - Apr 2 Sept 22 - Sept 24	131,708 ???	66 66
TGS 1999	March 19 - Mar 21 Sept 17 - Sept 19	163,448 163,866	82 74
TGS 1998	March 20 - Mar 22 October 9 - Oct 11	147,913 156,455	93 92
TGS 1997	April 4 - April 6 Sept 5 - Sept 7	121,172 140,630	104 104
TGS 1996	August 9 - Aug 11	109,649	87

The Tokyo Game Show, or TGS, is an annual gaming exposition held in Tokyo, Japan. It's pretty much the Japanese E3, except for the kick-ass fact that the last two days of the expo are open to the general public, not just industry insiders. 2007 marked the first year that the Tokyo Game Show was held for four consecutive days. This was done to give more time to the business trade show aspects of the event. The very first years TGS was held biannually, once in the spring and then again in the fall. Holding two events a year ended in 2001 and ever since TGS has been an annual event.

Nintendo tends not to participate heavily in TGS, though, at times they have had people like Satoru Iwata give speeches. In the past Nintendo has sometimes put on their own convention, Nintendo SpaceWorld.

History

• TGS 2008
• TGS 2007 - DualShock 3 controller for the PS3 revealed
• TGS 2006
• TGS 2005 - Nintendo reveals the controller to its next-gen console.
• TGS 2004 - Sony's PlayStation Portable makes its first playable appearance.
• TGS 1996 - The Beginning

External links

• TGS official website