This year, the Tokyo Game Show will take place September 26-28, from 10am to 5pm each day, at Tokyo's Makuhari Messe convention center. The show will be open to the public on the 27th and 28th, but on the 26th it will be open only to the press. Currently, 94 exhibitors are signed up for booths in this year's Tokyo Game Show, which is already nine more exhibitors than last year's show had.

　　The Tokyo Game Show has traditionally focused more on the general consumer visitors than on the industry-related audience, which has set it apart from E3. While its focus still seems to be the same, changes have been taking place to get more attention from the industry visitors, especially since Nikkei BizTech became a cohost of the show. This year, the press day will be lengthened to a full day, seminars dedicated to the industry visitors will be hosted by the show, and Nintendo's president, Satoru Iwata, will be invited to make a speech about the past 20 years of Famicom and the future of the game industry. As another change, a noticeable number of peripheral and middleware companies, such as Nvidia and CRI Middleware, will be present at this year's show. The list of companies presently scheduled to appear at the Tokyo Game Show is as follows:

　　General Area

　　Aruze Corp.

　　ATI Technologies ( Japan ) INC.

　　Atlus CO., LTD.

　　Bandai CO., LTD.

　　Bose Psycho Reseatch INC.

　　Capcom CO., LTD.

　　Career Aid Co., Ltd.

　　Electronic Arts K.K.

　　Enterbrain, INC.

　　From Software, Inc.

　　Fujiwork Co.,Ltd.

　　Genki CO., LTD.

　　GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.

　　Hamster Corporation

　　Hobby Japan CO., LTD.

　　Hudson Soft CO., LTD.

　　Intel K.K.

　　Kadokawa CO., LTD.

　　Koei Co., Ltd.

　　Konami CO.

　　Korea Game Development & Promotion Institute

　　Landport Co., Ltd.

　　Machida INC.

　　MediaCreate Co., Ltd.

　　M-etel Co.,Ltd.

　　Microsoft

　　Namco LIMITED

　　NC Japan K.K.

　　NetDragonJapan Co., Ltd.

　　Network Multimedia Industry Promotion Project

　　Nexon Japan CO., Ltd.

　　NTT DoCoMo

　　NVIDIA Corporation

　　P2P Distribution Services

　　Pyramat LLC

　　Sammy Corporation

　　Sanwa Supply INC.

　　Sega

　　SNK Playmore

　　Solid Networks INC.

　　Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

　　Square Enix CO., Ltd.

　　SUCCESS Corporation

　　SystemFrontier Co., Ltd.

　　Taito Corporation

　　Taiwan Trade Center

　　Takara CO., LTD.

　　Tecmo, LTD.

　　Tokyo Music & Mediaarts Shobi

　　Tomy Company, Ltd.

　　Tonkinhouse

　　Vehicle Information Center

　　World Cyber Games

　　Kid's Area

　　Capcom CO., LTD.

　　Gakken CO., LTD.

　　Konami CO.

　　Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.

　　Game School area

　　ACT-College of Information & Communication Technology

　　Aso Business Computer College

　　Digital Entertainment Academy

　　HigashiNippon Computer&Business College

　　Japan Electronics College

　　Kanagawa Computer Culture College

　　Kobe Computer College

　　Media Works Inc.

　　Nagoya Kougakuin College

　　Niigata Computer College

　　Niigata High Technology College

　　Niigata Institute of Technology

　　Sapporo Visual Arts

　　Sogogakuen Human Academy Game College

　　Tokyo Netwave

　　Tokyo Technical College

　　Trident College of Information and Technology

　　Vantan Dennoh Intelligence College

　　World Institute of Zeal Artists for digital and Technology

　　Sales Area

　　Alchemist

　　Atlus CO., LTD.

　　AT-X, Inc.

　　Broccoli Co., Ltd. & Gamers

　　Capcom CO., LTD.

　　COSPA inc.

　　Digicube Co.,Ltd.

　　Enterbrain, INC.

　　Hobby Japan CO., Ltd.

　　KID corp

　　Konami CO.

　　Media Works Inc.

　　Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.

　　SOFT Inc.

　　Sammy Corporation

　　Softbank Publishing Inc.

　　Square Enix CO., Ltd.

　　Development Tools & Middleware Area

　　Alias|Wavefront K.K.

　　Butterfly.net

　　CRI Middleware Co., Ltd.

　　Criterion Software Ltd.

　　Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc.

　　GRB Co.,Ltd.

　　Metrowerks Co., Ltd.

　　Nokia Japan Co., Ltd.

　　NXN Software Inc.

　　SN Systems Limited

　　Web technology Corp.