Topic: Nintendo Press Conference Summary

[TJ Spyke]

Anybody know where this can be downloaded?

Do you mean the trailers and screens or the whole conference?
http://press.nintendo.com/E32009/

name:E32009
Pass:nintendo

The whole conference.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Nintendo can afford bandwidth this time.

[Ian Sane]

S&P2 is Q1 2010

/braces self for Ian-rage.

Seriously?  **** me!  This is a damn shmup!  It'll probably have like two hours gameplay.  Awesome gameplay that is worth every second but still this type of game isn't huge.  And they revealed this LAST YEAR!

So we have ONE core game.  For the rest of the year.  How the **** could anyone consider this acceptable at all?

Oh noes taking time to make games!

I thought the HUGE GAP OF BUTTFUCK NOTHING we just dealt with was the time we were alloting to make games.  I thought Nintendo went with borked last gen hardware to crank out games faster.  Is this length of development time any different than the HD consoles?

Yeah because MS and Sony have so many first party games coming out this winter right?

They don't have to.  Third parties actually want to make decent games for their consoles.  Nintendo has to make up for that.  This level of output would be considered unacceptable on the Cube so why on the Wii should I accept it?

Seriously it's ONE GAME to cover a six month period.  FUCKING RIDICULOUS!

[KDR_11k]

Is anyone still going to argue that Nintendo's non-game focus does not eat up resources that could be spent on core games?

Oh it does take resources, just an insignificant amount. What "casual" games (non-games is the wrong word, that's reserved for applications like Cooking Navi) did Nintendo present? Wii Fit +, Wii Sports Resort and Style Savvy. For comparison, their "gamer" games were SMBWii, SMG2, M:OM, GSDS, RS2, VT, TW10, GST, COPS, ... They vastly outnumbered the games you'd call "casual".

Also I've seen the MS conference. Nintendo easily had more games and they showed exclusives, MS had few actual exclusives and a ton of cross-platform stuff with a bit of exclusive DLC or something. While I'd say Nintendo is overstretching Mario by announcing a 2D and 3D Mario at the same time, MS presented two Halo sidestories which is just repetitive (their touted features for ODST were a few extra guns and a nice intro...).

[BeautifulShy]

Ian E3 is not over. Quit your griping.

[NWR_pap64]

*Comforts Ian

There There... Gaming will still go on.

Just trying to prevent hardcore Nintendo fanboy suicide here.

[GoldenPhoenix]

*Comforts Ian

There There... Gaming will still go on.

Just trying to prevent hardcore Nintendo fanboy suicide here.

Yeah you can always play Ice Climbing: Modern Warfare 2 for your hardcore gaming fix.

[kraken613]

From this: http://wii.ign.com/articles/989/989857p1.html

IGN: You didn't show Pikmin 3, which is what we were expecting you to show. That kind of surprised us. Why not?

Reggie: Matt, we're all about surprises. We will show that game when it's ready. At the right time. Close to when it's going to be launched. It's not there yet. But Mr. Miyamoto still has his roundtable to do, so maybe you'll see. Maybe you might get that surprise after all.

IGN: Yeah, that's the next question. Mr. Miyamoto didn't have a stage presence here today. The first question is, why not because he usually does? And then, he is here. He has a roundtable. Can you give us a hint as to what it's about?
Reggie: Sure. Well, first off, if you look at how Mr. Miyamoto has interacted in our press conferences, it's been a wide range -- everything from making an appearance at the end in 2004 to being on hand to do a demo. This year, given all the content that we had, we thought it would be best for him to go in-depth with a handful of games during his developer's roundtable and that's what he's going to do later today.

IGN: So you think we might get a surprise or two out of the roundtable?

Reggie: Again, we're always trying to surprise you. So we'll see.


Please have Pikmin for 09!