White Knight Chronicles 2 might be between Sony's cards at E3

White Knight Chronicles 2
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Every May people speculate wildly on what each first party developer will bring to E3. Everyone knows that Natal, Move and the 3DS will probably have most of the spotlight (unfortunately) this year, but can those new shiny pieces of hardware support by themselves the whole event?
I personally doubt it. Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo will probably try to bring as many additional cards as possible to enrich their hand.

Lately we've seen quite a slew of news and rumors on White Knight Chornicles 2, including a potentially groundbreaking one about the second chapter including a reworked and updated version of the first, to provide a sort of reboot of the series and to ease the approach of new fans to the franchise.
This is almost unprecedented, and would demonstrate a strong will from Sony to give the saga a second chance to success.

Thinking about it, it isn't really surprising. The first White Knight Chronicles received a quite mild critical reception (not from me, you can read my review here) despite how innovative it was compared to the usual JRPG, and sales weren't exactly top notch, even due to an extremely late western release that came when the hype was already almost dead.
Despite that Sony provided a lot of support to the ones that bought it, updating the game regularly and even providing free new quests in the latest few months. It's quite obvious that they still think that the franchise can be successful, and aim to capitalize on it.

Following the latest news it's actually pretty evident that Level Five and Japan Studio are striving to revolution every single element of the first game that wasn't received well. A completely revamped combat system, more focust on the battles between knights, a storyline with a more epic feel and a solid conclusion.

That's why I wouldn't be surprised if Sony brought White Knight Chronicles 2 as one of the cards between their hand at E3. The effort they're making in revamping the franchise seem to be definitely worthy of an AAA game.
The worst problem of the first game was timing, and this time around timing would be perfect. With an anouncement of a western release coming at E3 (more or less a month before the July 8 release in Japan), possibly slated for the holiday season or even earlier, with the confirmation of the inclusion of the first game in the bundle, some spectacular Knight combat footage (and maybe a confirmation of the possibility of customizing your own knight, that seems to be probable at the moment), might hit big in a market that definitely needs a new solid JRPG.

Obviously this is just speculation, but there are a lot of elements that seem to fall into place extremely well. In the meanwhile, you can enjoy the latest trailer released two days ago, that shows the first brief glimpse of the new Moon Princess knight in action (towards the end). It's after the cut.