Post by: MegaByte on June 02, 2009, 12:00:00 PM
Watch the Nintendo conference live as we blog about it! 9:06:24: Cammy is on stage now
9:08:43: New Super Mario Bros for Wii!!! 4 players!
9:09:22: Pick up and carry players, simultaneous co-op
9:10:30: Propeller suit power up
9:11:58: When a player touches the flag pole, other players have 3 seconds to touch the flag pole.
9:12:36: Launching holiday 09
9:13:10: Wii Fit best selling game
9:13:40: 15 Million Balance Boards
9:14:06: Wii Fit Plus announced
9:14:44: Can become your own trainer, 6 new yoga and strength activities
9:15:35: Keeps track of calories burned, 15 new balance board games
9:16:59: Comes out this fall. As a bundle with Balance Board or by itself
9:17:14: Reggie time!
9:18:12: Reggie talking about interface and it's importance
9:18:43: Wii MotionPlus
9:19:50: MotionPlus trailer
9:20:23: Trailer looks interesting to say the least
9:21:11: Trailer focusing on sports activities
9:21:51: Looks like archery and canoeing is in Wii Sports Resort
9:22:46: Bill is on stage
9:23:39: Demonstrating Wii Sports resort, starting off by jumping out of an airplane first activity is sky diving
9:24:29: Sky Diving formations look fun
9:25:26: Purpose of Sky Diving is to show how Wii MotionPlus is different
9:25:42: Archery looks awesome
9:27:35: Bill is challenging Reggie to a game of Basketball
9:28:29: Reggie is trash talking heh
9:30:07: Reggie beat Bill with the last money ball
9:31:04: Tiger Woods PGA 10 will be sold with Wii Motion Plus
9:31:38: Tiger Woods, Grand Slam Tennis, Virtua Tennis will include Wii MotionPlus support
9:31:58: Red Steel 2 requires MotionPlus
9:32:22: Third parties sold most on Wii
9:32:38: Square-Enix title!
9:32:55: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers trailer
9:33:12: Trailer looks fantastic
9:33:45: Square is bringing Kingdom Hearts for DS on Sept 29th
9:34:12: Trailer looks fantastic for a DS game
9:34:58: Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
9:35:45: Gameplay trailer looks like a lot of fun
9:36:40: Mario and Luigi Bowser's Inside story will be release in NA and EU this fall
9:37:13: Golden Sun DS
9:38:16: DS LTD = More than 100 Million
9:38:46: Oct 13 David Patterson's Women's Murder Club for DS
9:39:06: from THQ
9:39:43: James Patterson sorry about that
9:40:26: C.O.P. from Ubisoft for DS
9:40:56: Interesting games to highlight at the press conference
9:41:26: Style Savy for female gamers
9:42:37: I have a feeling Kairon will love Style Savvy
9:42:55: Talking about DSi now
9:43:39: DSi highlight about how people love the DSi
9:44:56: DSi sold more than a million in US same period DS lite sold 400,000
9:45:35: Moving Memo shown
9:45:58: Flip Note Studio fill be available this summer on DSi
9:46:29: Mario Vs Donkey Kong 3 allows players to make levels, upload levels locally or online
9:47:09: only for DSi via DSiWare
9:47:27: Wario Ware DIY
9:48:10: Can share levels to other owners
9:48:59: DSi camera photos can be uploaded this summer to facebook
9:49:25: MS and Nintendo adding different kinds of facebook functionality interesting...
9:49:39: LoZ:Spirit Tracks mentioned
9:49:48: Playable at the show floor
9:50:53: Iwata coming on stage
9:51:37: Global gaming populating expanding
9:52:19: Active play games, never play games, might play games 3 different gamer groups
9:52:51: more than 295 Million gamers in Japan US and Europe playing games
9:53:01: 149 Million Potential gamers
9:55:18: Raising the bar in gamers may alienate new potential gamers, lowering the bar will not satisfy veteran gamers
9:55:54: Goal is to satisfy both novice and expert gamers
9:58:03: Wii Vitality Sensor
9:58:20: Senses a player's pulse
10:00:12: Iwata exists the stage
10:01:11: Mario Galaxy 2!!
10:01:25: YOSHI!!
10:02:08: Graphics look amazing
10:03:15: Loud applause to mario galaxy 2
10:04:00: Reggie reads blogs
10:04:32: Reggie shows 3rd party games exclusively on WIi
10:04:46: Conduit
10:05:58: Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles
10:07:08: Dead Space Extraction
10:07:49: 1 FPS and 2 Rail Shooters nice theme
10:09:15: Team Ninja
10:09:33: Team Ninja is making a game with Nintendo, Project M
10:09:58: Metroid Other M
10:10:30: Nintendo and team ninja making a metroid game!!! 2D metroid
10:10:56: releases in 2010
10:11:25: There's your megaton folks a 2D metroid on Wii
10:12:36: Show is done
10:13:00: No Miyamoto this year is interesting
Post by: ShyGuy on June 02, 2009, 12:05:24 PM
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 02, 2009, 12:23:37 PM
Post by: D_Average on June 02, 2009, 12:40:24 PM
Post by: Kairon on June 02, 2009, 12:44:19 PM
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9:42:37: I have a feeling Kairon will love Style Savvy
I have simple tastes: only the best.
Post by: Mop it up on June 02, 2009, 12:55:25 PM
Post by: Caliban on June 02, 2009, 01:15:57 PM
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 02, 2009, 01:16:13 PM
Post by: ThomasO on June 02, 2009, 01:16:23 PM
Post by: Caliban on June 02, 2009, 01:18:04 PM
Aside from the it's over 9000 vitality sensor, everything was great.
WSR really surprised me in its variety.
Post by: KDR_11k on June 02, 2009, 01:24:48 PM
I think Nintendo just won the conference war.
Oh don't worry, journalists will still pretend that MS won. Nintendo did have a lack of Motion Plus games though...
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 02, 2009, 01:25:28 PM
Post by: blackfootsteps on June 02, 2009, 01:26:41 PM
Post by: Pale on June 02, 2009, 01:28:43 PM
Post by: stevey on June 02, 2009, 01:29:24 PM
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 02, 2009, 01:30:41 PM
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 02, 2009, 01:31:21 PM
I think Nintendo just won the conference war.
Oh don't worry, journalists will still pretend that MS won. Nintendo did have a lack of Motion Plus games though...
Nintendo loses cuz there was no Dynamic Slash.
Post by: Caliban on June 02, 2009, 01:32:22 PM
Is no one else discouraged by the fact that breast physics inc. is making a metroid game? Is it only me?
No. Actually yes, it is only you.
I think Nintendo just won the conference war.
Oh don't worry, journalists will still pretend that MS won. Nintendo did have a lack of Motion Plus games though...
I think WSR showed what M+ can do more than enough.
Post by: Pale on June 02, 2009, 01:33:11 PM
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 02, 2009, 01:33:22 PM
Is no one else discouraged by the fact that breast physics inc. is making a metroid game? Is it only me?
Aside from that, say good-bye to Metroid's fancy 3D puzzles.
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on June 02, 2009, 01:34:30 PM
Post by: NWR_pap64 on June 02, 2009, 01:34:51 PM
The Vitality Sensor still has me scratching my head as to what it can do. No games were announced for it which is very weird for Nintendo.
And Miyamoto being absent was shocking.
Post by: AV on June 02, 2009, 01:35:51 PM
Zelda was assumed but it's ok to not see it.
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 02, 2009, 01:36:40 PM
Post by: NWR_pap64 on June 02, 2009, 01:38:32 PM
I'm not expecting megatons, but considering Miyamoto was absent at the conference we could hear more from him there.
Post by: Caliban on June 02, 2009, 01:39:02 PM
Post by: DAaaMan64 on June 02, 2009, 01:39:08 PM
Post by: UncleBob on June 02, 2009, 01:39:34 PM
The Vitality Sensor still has me scratching my head as to what it can do. No games were announced for it which is very weird for Nintendo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_64
I missed the entire press conference. Had to take one of the poop machines to the vet - he ate some nasal spray. Idiot.
NSMB Wii... I like. Want more Mario vs. Luigi for DS though...
Post by: BigJim on June 02, 2009, 01:39:47 PM
Post by: vudu on June 02, 2009, 01:40:14 PM
Anyone know why the chat went down?
Glad to hear it wasn't just me.
Post by: NeoThunder on June 02, 2009, 01:42:21 PM
I was expecting to hear annoucements of new Motion Plus games.....and nothing we already didn't know
Post by: Caliban on June 02, 2009, 01:43:16 PM
Post by: Sundoulos on June 02, 2009, 01:51:18 PM
Post by: AV on June 02, 2009, 01:52:28 PM
Remember guys that Miyamoto still has his roundtable discussion where he might talk about games not shown at the conference.
I'm not expecting megatons, but considering Miyamoto was absent at the conference we could hear more from him there.
Ask him about Pikmin 3 and Zelda please when you go. When does that happen ??
I guess it might be like Brawl and not have a video until later
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on June 02, 2009, 01:53:30 PM
Post by: stevey on June 02, 2009, 01:54:02 PM
Is no one else discouraged by the fact that breast physics inc. is making a metroid game? Is it only me?
No, notice that Samus is the only Nintendo female that isn't a Princess. As far as Nintendo is concerned, Samus is the whore of the Nintendo world and the zero suit, SSBB, and Other M just prove it.
Post by: UncleBob on June 02, 2009, 01:59:13 PM
Post by: vudu on June 02, 2009, 02:03:44 PM
I'm surprised we didn't see anything about Sin and Punishment 2.
Really? The game appeals to maybe 100,000 people, tops. It'll be on the floor tomorrow, but I wouldn't expect to see it in the press conference.
Post by: NeoThunder on June 02, 2009, 02:17:11 PM
Post by: Ian Sane on June 02, 2009, 02:24:07 PM
I'm in utter shock that the Mario title was actually a real game and not just some bullshit sports game. And there are two Mario games! And one sounds like a four swords kind of thing which is great because I loved Four Swords!
But what the **** are Retro doing? Seriously what the **** are they working on? Is Metroid Prime Trilogy seriously it? I'm very disappointed in that.
Motion Plus doesn't seem to be anything beyond Wii Sports Resort thus far. I thought it would be the new Nintendo standard and virtually ALL of their new games would use it.
I'm VERY skeptical of Team Ninja working on a Metroid game. Haven't seen the footage yet but the description sounds about as Metroid and Metroid Prime Hunters was (ie: Metroid skin over unrelated game). I would rather get something original from Team Ninja and not have Metroid be shoehorned into something else. Plus this is the same stupid misunderstanding regarding third party support Nintendo had on the Cube. Hey let's get a third party to make... the same sequels we would make ourselves. What's the point of having a third party involved if they just make Nintendo games? Part of the point of third party support is that they provide something DIFFERENT than what Nintendo normally does. There is no variety if they just use Nintendo franchise characters.
There's some good stuff here but it's the same old sequels and franchises. I'm glad that unlike last year I've got something to actually look forward to but they certainly didn't blow me away. There's something missing. With the Wii it just feels like something is missing. Where is the Wii's Pikmin? Where is the Wii's new IP and brand new gameplay experience that isn't non-gamer focused? Where is the core game that couldn't be done on the Gamecube? It doesn't exist and after all these years I'm pretty sure it never will.
Post by: Pale on June 02, 2009, 02:36:47 PM
"They are hard at work but we aren't ready to show their project this year."
Post by: D_Average on June 02, 2009, 02:50:14 PM
Post by: stevey on June 02, 2009, 02:50:47 PM
Did Nintendo release a public login for the Press.Nintendo.com site this year?
name:E32009
Pass:nintendo
Post by: BeautifulShy on June 02, 2009, 02:55:16 PM
Did Nintendo release a public login for the Press.Nintendo.com site this year?
name:E32009
Pass:nintendo
Thanks stevey.:)
Post by: MikeHrusecky on June 02, 2009, 02:55:23 PM
The Vitality Sensor still has me scratching my head as to what it can do.
Casual players can check online to see if their grandparents are still alive, without having to call or visit them at the home.
WIN?
???
Post by: NWR_pap64 on June 02, 2009, 02:56:38 PM
Also, remember that we have Miyamoto's roundtable tonight and the rumored after E3 conference Nintendo will do in Japan.
It would explain why the conference held back many games and announcements.
Post by: King of Twitch on June 02, 2009, 02:57:58 PM
Billy actually asked Reggie about Retro on G4 and he said something like..
"They are hard at work but we aren't ready to show their project this year."
So they really are the new Rare :(
Post by: stevey on June 02, 2009, 03:01:37 PM
(BTW, can anyone download the Metroid M trailer? I keep getting 404s)
Post by: Peachylala on June 02, 2009, 03:23:16 PM
No, they are not. Rare killed themselves with bad gameplay ideas made after DK64.Billy actually asked Reggie about Retro on G4 and he said something like..
"They are hard at work but we aren't ready to show their project this year."
So they really are the new Rare :(
But for Retro, that's a wait-see.
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on June 02, 2009, 04:31:47 PM
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Is Metroid Prime Trilogy seriously it? I'm very disappointed in that.
Yep They put the project of porting three game in the hands of their whole studio which is around 60 people. Seriously Ian, do you know what you sound like sometimes?
Post by: Peachylala on June 02, 2009, 06:02:56 PM
Ian is Family Guy re-incarnated into a human being?QuoteIs Metroid Prime Trilogy seriously it? I'm very disappointed in that.
Yep They put the project of porting three game in the hands of their whole studio which is around 60 people. Seriously Ian, do you know what you sound like sometimes?
Post by: ThomasO on June 02, 2009, 08:30:42 PM
Post by: BeautifulShy on June 02, 2009, 08:41:13 PM
Post by: broodwars on June 02, 2009, 08:49:36 PM
Like I said, Nintendo did what it needed to do. It just didn't have much this year that excites me that we didn't already know about. Sure a hell of a lot better than Sony and Microsoft did this year, though.
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on June 02, 2009, 08:54:25 PM
Post by: BeautifulShy on June 02, 2009, 08:56:37 PM
Not to derail, but can anyone tell me if Miyamoto's roundtable is being streamed anywhere?I'm not entirely sure but you can check out Channelsurfing.net might have it.
Post by: kraken613 on June 02, 2009, 08:57:23 PM
Post by: BeautifulShy on June 02, 2009, 08:58:55 PM
Nope no mention on the twitter.
Post by: stevey on June 02, 2009, 09:02:09 PM
Post by: kraken613 on June 02, 2009, 09:03:04 PM
http://wii.ign.com/articles/989/989996p1.html
Post by: stevey on June 02, 2009, 09:06:40 PM
Is NWR at it? Is there a thread for it?
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28429
Post by: kraken613 on June 02, 2009, 09:08:01 PM
Post by: KDR_11k on June 03, 2009, 03:07:01 PM
Ian: They showed all those third party games and the one you complain about is Metroid? What about Red Steel 2? That's a new IP for veteran gamers (I refuse to call it core, it has abandoned the core ideals and is moving towards the new market which, unlike what some idiots say, is NOT defined as casual gaming) developed by a third party that couldn't be done on the Gamecube. What about The Conduit? FPS sucks on dual analogs. Can also add The Grinder. Sin & Punishment 2? I played S&P1 on the GC controller, it was cumbersome. Yeah, sure, these were announced before E3 but the same goes for Microsoft's conference (except for their stupid gimmick Natal and yes, it's a gimmick while the Wii is not because Natal only has gimmick software, stuff you play for 5 minutes, the Wii has REAL games that you'd pay money for). MS and Sony can only show third party stuff and often it's not even exclusive (compare that to Nintendo, I think ALL of these games were exclusives, they didn't have to fish in their cross-platform bin to find anything worthwhile or declare how great they are because they have ONE exclusive DLC song for Rockband Beatles).
Seriously, Ian, your standards are completely unreasonable, MS didn't even reach Nintendo's level and you call Nintendo inadequate? Even if we say Galaxy was a completely unnecessary sequel MS's two biggest games were Halo yet again. Nintendo is expected to show sequels to EVERY franchise that they've ever started in their lifetime AND new IPs all at one E3 while MS gets called the winner of the show because they show two sequels to one franchise that has about enough ideas to warrant two entries total and a bunch of cross platform stuff by third parties that is the n-th entry to an existing franchise that was started less than 5 years ago. They shove the same games down our throats over and over again and get lauded for novelty! What new IPs did MS have, not counting their mock-ups (Milo was not even shown behind closed doors, Molyneaux is notorious for making **** up on the spot, I call that vaporware)? Alan Wake was the only one that wasn't a sequel and that has been known (and in development) forever and the result looks like yet another third person shooter where the gimmick is that you have to point your crosshairs at an enemy for a few seconds before pulling the trigger. The MS press conference was so damn boring I pulled out my DS to pass the time!
Post by: Caliban on June 03, 2009, 04:09:31 PM
Post by: Pale on June 03, 2009, 05:10:38 PM
Even though Assassin's Creed is multiplatform, the demo done at Sony's really paid dividends. The FF 14 announcement was a shocker (even though it will probably end up multiplattform too). I have the same opinion of their motion controller that I do of MS's. Oh yeah, and the Gran Turismo news of adding rally and nascar was really interesting too, especially after Forza 3's obvious run at that series during MS's.
So yeah, I'd probably put them Nintendo > Sony > MS. I honestly can't believe that neither Sony or MS trotted Jack Black up on stage to talk about Brutal Legend... that's probably my most anticipated game of the year, with both Wii Sports Resort and NSMB:Wii coming in a close second and third.
Post by: vudu on June 03, 2009, 05:34:03 PM
I honestly can't believe that neither Sony or MS trotted Jack Black up on stage to talk about Brutal Legend... that's probably my most anticipated game of the year, with both Wii Sports Resort and NSMB:Wii coming in a close second and third.
Realistically, the game will be extremely lucky to sell 500K copies across all systems. Neither company is going to give up time on multimillion-copy franchises for this game.
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 03, 2009, 05:59:50 PM
It was weird, but the Nintendo conference just seemed incomplete, and just kinda abruptly ended. but they were just slinging out game after game and didn't even cover them all. I'm still shocked that they didn't promote sales numbers for atleast 5 minutes.
MS conference wasn't that bad, but we already knew everything coming, and while the tech behind Pre-Natal is interesting, that human-pet simulator did seem very pre-scripted.
Sony's conference started off soooo boring, but finally picked up during the last 30 minutes after the 10minute barrage of games (new & old) that they didn't even bother to label. I still find it funny that they are the only one to focus on "record sales" out of the 3, since they posted their first loss in 14 years last fiscal year. I really like the demonstration that Sony put on with their glow-sticks. Bow and arrow and shield and sword made me think nothing but ZELDA ZELDA ZELDA while they were doing it.
for me
Nintendo> > >Sony> MS
I wasn't particularly blown away by any of the three conferences, but Nintendo is the only one that seem to leave me wanting and expecting more.
and from everything shown games wise, Metroid Gaiden was my game of the conferences.
Post by: D_Average on June 03, 2009, 09:51:26 PM
for me
Nintendo> > >Sony> MS
I wasn't particularly blown away by any of the three conferences, but Nintendo is the only one that seem to leave me wanting and expecting more.
and from everything shown games wise, Metroid Gaiden was my game of the conferences.
From a potential sales perspective it goes:
Nintendo >>> MS >> Sony (I think we all know why. Wii Fit will continue to rock it, consumers will balk at the PSP, and MS will continue to move units)
From a presentation standpoint it goes:
Nintendo >>> MS >> Sony (Most would put MS on top, but I subtracted 250 points for the pretentious wanna be soulless Tom Cruis knock off, in addition to "Kudo" acting like he just invented the internet. And Sony, well, aside from the live Uncharted and GOW3 demo, it was just dry.)
From a "games for the core" perspective it goes:
Depends what you're looking for. Yay, everyone wins ;D
Final Tally:
That said, considering Nintendo wins 2, and its a best of 3 series, they are the undisputed winner of the "Make Believe Best in Show contest". Not bad Nindy, not bad.
