Topic: What will likely happen at E3

[Michael8983]

"Nothing says third party friendly like being a control freak."

Seems like most third-parties would be pleased Nintendo would showcase their titles along with its own first and second party titles.  

[PaLaDiN]

I'm with Ian on this one, all the secrecy and cloak-and-dagger stuff is pretty silly and I'm getting tired of it.

Luckily, not much longer to go.

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Originally posted by: PaLaDiN
I'm with Ian on this one, all the secrecy and cloak-and-dagger stuff is pretty silly and I'm getting tired of it.

Luckily, not much longer to go.

Hey the cloak and dagger stuff makes the surprise even bigger when it is revealed. Besides the most important time of a consoles life is the last 3 or 4 months before its release, so in a way I understand why Nintendo keeps the Wii hidden. If things are let out of the bag too soon there is still a chance of their ideas being stolen if they indeed blow the socks off the competition. We will see this E3 if that is indeed the case.

[Artimus]

The reason for having it in their booth, I imagine, is the setup. They're probably going all-out to set up the most public and comfortable space possible. They want all the Wii games in one place so that they'll all be playable in the same quality enviroment, not stuffed in some corner of another booth. I think most companies are ok with it, as I expect the booth will be stunning and awesome to play in.

[Crimm]

Well, odds are Nintendo custom designed all the Wii booth, considering the unique demands of the control.  They may have simply wanted to make sure that all booths were usable so as not to adversely effect the impact of this control scheme.

[Ian Sane]

"Seems like most third-parties would be pleased Nintendo would showcase their titles along with its own first and second party titles."

There's a difference between inviting someone to have their game showcased in Nintendo's booth and forcing everyone to.  There's also the issue of telling someone they can't have their game demoed because there's no room or forcing a limitation on how many demo units a third party gets.  If I was a third party I would like to have the flexibility to have as many demo units as I want.  I would also want my Wii games to attract attention to my overall booth and thus get people looking at all my products for all the consoles.

From Nintendo's point of view I think it would look better to have third party Wii games all over the floor.  Nintendo has had problems with third party support.  Even when a Nintendo console gets an exclusive third party game it seems like a special deal while the REAL support from that third party is somewhere else.  Like Nintendo gets a game here and five games there but never anything serious.  I think having all Wii games in the same area creates the feeling that it will be the same thing yet again.  Nintendo gets a few token games but all the real support goes to Sony and MS.  This one section of the floor is for the Wii but everything else isn't.

I think it should be like the Wii is everywhere and that Nintendo doesn't have to make special deals to get third party games.  That third parties will actually support Nintendo out of their own free will without Nintendo setting it all up.  I think it would be better for someone checking out all the booths to think "hey there's a Wii game in this booth too."  It looks more important if it's everywhere.  A seperate section seperates Nintendo from the rest of the industry.  I think it's better if it appears that Nintendo is infiltrating all sections of the industry and slowly taking over.

[NWR_pap64]

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
True, but nothing gets me away from forums like another game to play.

What's out for the DS in the coming months?

Yeah, but then you finish the game, then back to the ranting and argumenting XD :p .

[Michael8983]

"There's a difference between inviting someone to have their game showcased in Nintendo's booth and forcing everyone to."

For all we know, they may have been invited. You don't know that they've been forced.
Besides this E3 is all about the console's deput and upcoming launch. The focus is obviously going to be on a few select third-party titles along with Nintendo's own titles. A year from now when the console is a success and the third-party support increases I'm sure things will be different.

[EasyCure]

remember the Zelda booths at e3 last year? the one with the interactive environments (the collapsing bridge, the ripples in the watter, etc)?

i say this year, to truley make it year of Wii...
nintendo have like little glass rooms with two holes youc an stick your arms in and grab a sword and swing at stuff, or grab a gun and shoot at stuff. then have some guy standing next to it going "thats how Wii role on nintendo's next consol ;-)" and bitch-slap you with a Red Steel sticker to the face.

maybe that would just be cool in my book though.

[Crimm]

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Originally posted by: EasyCure
...bitch-slap you with a Red Steel sticker to the face.

maybe that would just be cool in my book though.

I'd pay to see Tommy Tallarico get bitch-slapped.  

[wandering]

What will likely happen at E3?

I'm expecting "We are the Champions" to be played sometime during the conference. Preferably when Reggie comes out. I'm also expecting Wii marketing slogans to be plastered everywhere in Nintendo's booth: "Wii will change everything", "Wii are Nintendo", etc. I also think the Wii start-up screen will make an appearence, and I think it will probably a variation on the Wii video Nintendo has already shown us.

Also, I'm sure some stuff not directly related to the new name will be shown too.

[WindyMan]

If Nintendo is going to have anything to hide after E3, it might as well be a next-generation Game Boy.

Everything will be known about Wii after E3.  Everything.

[IceCold]

I don't think so.. they even said they want to stagger the information to keep the hype going - May to [October] is a long time.

[Kairon]

Yet CNN's Chris Morris believes that Nintendo won't announce the exact launch date and price point, participating in a protracted cat and mouse game with Sony.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[BigJim]

Typical. Nintendo didn't announce pricing for GameCube or DS at their E3's.

But both are pretty darn predictable this time, I'd say.

[JonLeung]

I think playable demos are very likely.  Not just tech demos, but demos showing possible launch games.  The Wii is coming out THIS YEAR, and the controller as a selling point needs to be experienced hands-on.

At 6 days, 21 hours, and 20some minutes to E3, that could mean that at this very moment next week, I'll have gotten to the front of the line to play the next Super Smash Bros.!

I remember counting down since over a month to E3.  Now in mere days a lot of speculation will be over.  Depending on what they show, we may be speculating more though.  There may be currently unfathomable game experiences that we will all be discussing very soon.

[Smash_Brother]

Playable demos are a goddamn MUST. In fact, I expect to see some SSB footage.

Nintendo basically has to convince a LOT of people as to why they shouldn't be afraid that the "wee" name will kill their sales in the US. The only way to do that is with games. They need to bring the games in playable form. Videos alone will NOT cut it.

[IceCold]

Well, Nintendo has said that they didn't want to release videos because it was the whole experience of playing the game with the controller that was important, so I'm pretty sure that there will be many playable games..

[mantidor]

In defense of the graphics quality, if it was bad, they wouldve had released screenshots around this time like what they did with the name so we could get used to the idea before the conference.

[jasonditz]

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Originally posted by: mantidor
In defense of the graphics quality, if it was bad, they wouldve had released screenshots around this time like what they did with the name so we could get used to the idea before the conference.

That depends entirely on what they think the expectations are. Bad is a relative term, if you showed me a game that looked as good as TP and said "well, there it is", I don't think I'd be massively disappointed.

I've got a relatively high threshold for iffy graphics of course, coming from an Atari 2600 background (you young whippersnappers never had to use a tank made of two rectangles to shoot another tank with a dot, did you?), but late-in-life Gamecube graphics are still "plenty", IMO... and we know the Wii is going to be capable of well more than that, so from my perspective the only way a game's going to look bad is if the designer half-assed it.

[lastexit]

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DELAYED

hilarious.  also probably the most realistic.  lol

[Artimus]

Uhh, playable is confirmed. Press people have already played 3rd party games.

[31 Flavas]

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Originally posted by: mantidor
In defense of the graphics quality, if it was bad, they wouldve had released screenshots around this time like what they did with the name so we could get used to the idea before the conference.

Well, if the name was release because Nintendo knew people would have problems with it... But Nintendo still isn't releasing screen shots or videos despite popular opinion and even supposed "fact" with the IGN article that the graphics are weak... Then that must mean that Nintendo is confident that noone will need any "re-adjusting" time with the graphics.

 

[TerribleOne]

**sigh** nintendo has pulled bad PR stunts in the last few E3's but its like impossible for them to f it up this time. One thing that i don't trust though is for them to hav an overkill of games to show but that's cuz Nintendo likes to mess with our feelings :-(

[Jensen]

They haven't released screenshots because they mean very little without the context of a video... and videos don't mean much without the context of the controller.