Where to watch the Gamescom livestream

Sony has put up its countdown page to the live event tomorrow (6PM UK). So far there's already a pic of the usual shiny backscreen, and a big stage which suggests the usual line of droning executives and scarily enthused developers showing their latest wares. I'm sure there has to be a better way to present a show than this. Get Reginald D. Hunter to host it for a start!

With the focus likely to be on the PS4 and the "we've got poor third party support, so here's some indies" diversionary Vita tactic, I've dialled down my expectations and done my hyped/prepared-to-be-disappointed pre-game mental workout, and trotted out a guide to what Sony should be thinking.

The trouble with Sony is, while being good at a few things, and having some stellar staff, it really can't seem to join up the dots. Until it gets a true visionary on-board, it will continue this bumbling approach to its console/handheld symbiosis in terms of development and marketing, and the handheld will always be the worse off for it.

I'd love to be proved wrong (note, a PS4/Vita bundle will not make Sony "right"), but pretty much every hope has been slowly crushed at each event (and non-event, whatever did happen to that second Japanese PS Heaven gig?) since the Vita's launch. Still, there's usually the odd ray of light and if just one is bright enough the Vita might pick up some useful developer support.

Anyway, for all the as-live-as-I-can-type updates and post-match depression booze-up, I'll have a page up and running.