Nintendo has pledged full support for this year's E3, with Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime stating that "E3 brings a wide variety of key audiences into contact with products from many companies, including Nintendo. It's the place where creativity is on display, and as a 'sneak peak' for our entire industry it helps generate excitement for gamers around the world."
Reggie has mentioned on multiple occasionsthat Nintendo will deliver a much stronger presence at this year's E3. The company's 2008 presentation was met with a lot of criticism and disappointment, and even forced Nintendo to apologize.
I heard there is going to be booth babes at this E3.Any truth to that Pap?
I heard there is going to be booth babes at this E3.Any truth to that Pap?
That is correct.
I think the reception of E3 2008 was so bad that it forced the officials to go into alert mode and decided to bring back everything.
I mean I would be lying if I said that no one complained about the lack of booth babes.
Pap are you going this year? If not who is?
Agreed. We need booth Birdos.I heard there is going to be booth babes at this E3.Any truth to that Pap?
That is correct.
I think the reception of E3 2008 was so bad that it forced the officials to go into alert mode and decided to bring back everything.
I mean I would be lying if I said that no one complained about the lack of booth babes.
That is tragic news.
Ok Pap.Pap are you going this year? If not who is?
I can't this year. I have school in June and my funds are limited. The rest of the staff is likely to go, though.
I remain skeptical of Nintendo. They have to show me, I don't take their word anymore. Reggie hyped up last year's E3, too.
Though I'm glad to see E3 try to be a big deal again. It used to be an event, like Christmas morning for gamers. Why the organizers ever wanted to mess with that I'll never know.
I remain skeptical of Nintendo. They have to show me, I don't take their word anymore. Reggie hyped up last year's E3, too.
Though I'm glad to see E3 try to be a big deal again. It used to be an event, like Christmas morning for gamers. Why the organizers ever wanted to mess with that I'll never know.
They messed with it because publishers complained about the booth cost and the press complained about having to cover too much ground in 3 days. Basically, the industry complained, and the market told them to shut the hell up. That's how we ended up with the New-E3-same-as-the-old-E3.
I remain skeptical of Nintendo. They have to show me, I don't take their word anymore. Reggie hyped up last year's E3, too.
Though I'm glad to see E3 try to be a big deal again. It used to be an event, like Christmas morning for gamers. Why the organizers ever wanted to mess with that I'll never know.
They messed with it because publishers complained about the booth cost and the press complained about having to cover too much ground in 3 days. Basically, the industry complained, and the market told them to shut the hell up. That's how we ended up with the New-E3-same-as-the-old-E3.
It was easiest to complain right after Wii kicked everyone's collective ass and stole would-be booth visits at E3 2006.
*crickets*
[Some Company] "You know, this trade show thing isn't work out so well for us."
I remain skeptical of Nintendo. They have to show me, I don't take their word anymore. Reggie hyped up last year's E3, too.
Though I'm glad to see E3 try to be a big deal again. It used to be an event, like Christmas morning for gamers. Why the organizers ever wanted to mess with that I'll never know.
Last E3 was defensive, they acted on the expectation that MS and Sony would make serious advances towards the "casual" gamer and if Nintendo had been caught unprepared then they could have faced defeat.
Realistically Nintendo's E3 didn't suck. Their lineup for the next nine months or so SUCKED. Animal Crossing Port, Wii Music and a bunch of a rehashed Cube games. There was no way they could have possibly polished that turd.
But its likely that they will show at least one new game from Nintendo that uses MP extensively. A killer app so to speak. Whether is a casual or core title its up to Nintendo to decide, but I think it might be a core title because casuals already have the MP killer app (Wii Sports Resorts).
But its likely that they will show at least one new game from Nintendo that uses MP extensively. A killer app so to speak. Whether is a casual or core title its up to Nintendo to decide, but I think it might be a core title because casuals already have the MP killer app (Wii Sports Resorts).
Nintendo cares about core gamers, but core gamers will bitch no matter what.
Yeah but when the complaints are "Nintendo has sold out because they are no longer focussing on hardcore gamers" what are they supposed to do, tell the majority of their userbase "go away, we've got to please some internet whiners"?
I think the reception of E3 2008 was so bad that it forced the officials to go into alert mode and decided to bring back everything.
I think the reception of E3 2008 was so bad that it forced the officials to go into alert mode and decided to bring back everything.
I think the fact that the presentations by all three companies was so lackluster was what really did this.
Scantily-clad women standing outside booths aren't going to suddenly mean that we'll have more good games announced.
Yeah but when the complaints are "Nintendo has sold out because they are no longer focussing on hardcore gamers" what are they supposed to do, tell the majority of their userbase "go away, we've got to please some internet whiners"?
From that viewpoint, we at Nintendo have to reflect on domestic Wii software deployment in the former half of this year. Like what had been to be released in the former half of this year was postponed to the latter, we were not able to reach the original goal – to regularly make new proposals.
As for our deployment during the latter half of this year, I would like to announce on the other day as it is not today’s main topic. I would like to address that Nintendo recognize that we have been short of new proposals during the former half of this year, so far.
You specifically said you don't like how they're focussing on another audience despite that focus consisting of only a handful of games and some rhetoric. Look at what they're actually releasing. Excite Bots and Punch Out vs Wii Sports Resort? That's not even equal amounts of core and new audience, that's just plain weighted towards the fans. Their core games outnumber the new market games 2:1.
Their core games outnumber the new market games 2:1.
I see two games handed off to North American third party developers vs. a product handled by EAD, Nintendo's TOP first party development team.
QuoteYou specifically said you don't like how they're focussing on another audience despite that focus consisting of only a handful of games and some rhetoric. Look at what they're actually releasing. Excite Bots and Punch Out vs Wii Sports Resort? That's not even equal amounts of core and new audience, that's just plain weighted towards the fans. Their core games outnumber the new market games 2:1.
I see the focus towards non-gamers as more lopsided. You see two core games vs. one non-game. I see two games handed off to North American third party developers vs. a product handled by EAD, Nintendo's TOP first party development team. To me that suggests a considerably stronger focus on non-gamers as Nintendo has their top guys working on non-games while the core games are outsourced to teams that can be described as compitent but not particularly exceptional. I don't buy Nintendo consoles to play Next Level or Monster games. I buy a Nintendo console to play NINTENDO games.
It's not just this-many-games vs. that-many-games. It's about what the real priority is. Initially the Wii core games were all sequels. Now they're outsourced to other devs. I think we should get NEW IP core games from Nintendo's top inhouse teams. I think that is a reasonable request and is not just needless bitching. If Nintendo was busting out the same quantity and quality of stuff as before with the odd non-game thrown in then those complaints could be seen as bitching. But the last time we got a core game from Nintendo themselves? Mario Kart Wii almost exactly ONE YEAR AGO. Everything else since then has been outsourced or a non-game or literally a port of a Cube game. So you're going to have a really hard time convincing me that this is the same type of Nintendo output as before with the odd non-game thrown in.
This E3 will be the real indicator. Will we see new IP core games from EAD, Retro or IS? Hoping for new IPs is probably wishful thinking so let's see if we get at least one core game from each or at least one new IP core game from at least one of them. Will there be an "it game" that every Wii owning core gamer is going to be talking about for the rest of the year?
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Nintendo letting outside developers work on games for them is a good thing, and it helps them release more games. As for playing Nintendo games on Nintendo consoles, do you have problems with the Kirby series? HAL Laboratory is technically a third party studio (Nintendo doesn't own them), and they make most of the Kirby games and made Super Smash Bros. Melee.No, HAL Labs is a 2nd party. They were third before they started making Kirby games. Nintendo does own part of them. Unless they suddenly became third party, which hasn't even been announced.
For those who don't remember/haven't been around long enough... I made that comic back in 2005. ;)
And isn't EAD 4 the same team that is behind the Metroid games and Wario Ware? I remember reading somewhere they were originally R&D1.
