Edge-Online has a report from the Sony booth at the current Tokyo Game Show.

Sony is putting in a comprehensive, broad-ranging performance at its Tokyo Game Show booth, with PS3, PSP and PSN represented in significance-appropriate degrees – but at the cost of any PS2 software presence, the format apparently having been consigned to history as far as first-party support is concerned.

I’m not that surprised that Sony has started to discreetly remove the PS2 from its focus at these types of event – the PS3 should be taking the mantle as the premium console in the Sony line up, and therefore less emphasis is palced on the PS2.

In the PSP corner, a hat-trick of noteworthy PSP sequels are playable on PSP-3000 hardware: Patapon 2 and LocoRoco 2 look like offering more of the same, which is what we all want anyway; ditto the sequel to last year’s 8-bit-styled Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaiki da, which will launch in Japan on the same day as the PSP-3000 (October 16) and will be available in a cheaper downloadable format, as well as on UMD.

Third-party PSP offerings on Sony’s booth include The 3rd Birthday, a gothic Square Enix game with character design by Tetsuya Nomura that looks like a blend of Parasite Eve and Tarantino’s Kill Bill; and a PSP version of Namco Bandai’s The Idolm@ster, which will inevitably sell millions in Japan.

Looks like Sony have quite a strong line up at TGS, with LocoRoco 2 and Pat-a-pon 2 both likely to be big sellers when they are released. I imagine that both games will be quite stunning on the new PSP-3000 brite screen.