i smell and ice climbers sequel... or maybe balloon fight.

I really hope its pikmin 3 but I dunno if Nintendo would classify it as a Big game. I am about 90% sure its animal crossing though with them launching their pay to play service and making more money on selling virtual chairs and dressers. It could obviously be both games though so thats what I am hoping for.

My predictions:

- PIKMIN 3

This one is a given. The only surprise is we HAVEN'T seen it yet.

- ANIMAL CROSSING

Another given.

- MARIO PARTY 9

Even more of a given. Let's just hope this one steps it up.

- Nintendogs for Wii

A Wii version of the DS MEGA-HIT seems inevitable to me.
The Wii-mote will allow for a new dimension of puppy-interactivity. I also suspect it will have online features as well as the ability to swap your puppy between your Wii and DS.

- KIRBY!!!

That Kirby game that was supposed to have been on the Gamecube is sure to find new life on the Wii.
I suspect it's arriving much later than Paper Mario and Barrel Blast simply because they're taking more care to make it a true Wii experience. I hope.

- POKEMON RPG

It won't be the MMORPG that people are hoping for and will never get but I think a REAL Pokemon RPG with online elements is coming late this year.

- SUPER MARIO GALAXY pt 2

Ok this seems far-fetched but hear me out. Without spoiling anything the game does drop a major hint that this is coming.
The engine is too good not to get more use out of and as amazing as the first one was there is so much more untapped potential.
I think we've only just begun to see what Mario's Galaxy has to offer and a part two is right around the corner.

...Am I the only one taking this with a giant grain of salt?

While I did expect Nintendo to reveal the rest of their lineup at E3 I don't expect anything extraordinary.

I'm being cynical, but I've been burned by executive talk so much that any promises of something great makes me raise my brow.

What's with that E3 obsession anyway, you'll just risk getting drowned out by all the announcements other people make.

Oh cool, Pokémon Opal, for DS.

It'll be like Pearl and Diamond but you'll be able to do random online battles and battle tower will be expanded, also teh underground wont suck.

Like pap, I'm not going to get too excited until I see anything. Although a Pikmin sequel or a F-Zero installment would be nice.

i smell and idiot... or maybe a retard.

nope, other than maybe Mario Kart i'm not going to expect anything else big this year. Not to mention Disaster will probably be canceled.

'Reggie' and 'promise' in the same headline! Blip Bloop! Danger Danger!

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The real question here is: "Will PAL territories get Brawl this year, or will E3 use some smoke and mirrors to delay it further?"

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So do I.

And if it's Nintendogs, that sucks.

Well, we know one is Kd Icarus.  I'm guessing the big holiday title is Animal Crossing.

I predict Mario Party 9, online but you have to pay to play online. Nintendo will make it sound like we "want" to pay to play Mario Party online because of all the bitching we did about GC not being online. Somehow they will spin it to sound like a good think.

i would say so... didn't you see where i was speculating about ice climbers!!!  how can you not be excited... ohhh i cant wait to be let down.

I don't like to get my hopes up because it just risks getting burned.  Executives obviously are biased when making such statements.  Why would they ever sell their own product short?  Everything is the greatest product in the universe.

Though I still can't help get a little bit excited and it's because of SSB Brawl.  It's an amazing game and that's gotten me in a really "NINTENDO YEAH!!" mood, and it's been too long since I've been in that mood.  Things will die down but I am very curious.  I don't want to be excited but I am.

I'm hoping for a new IP game. Nintendo and more sequels go hand in hand, but, given what Reggie said, it might sound like Nintendo has something new and big to show. Well, better not get my hopes too high.

You can't get more hardcore YET CASUAL-FRIENDLY than a game starring REGGIE himself.

If the "gamers" and the "expanded audience" are both supposed to be happy, then I sure hope their not expecting to do both with the same title. I'm just hoping that the "gamers" are getting some kind of fan service to enjoy while the "expanded audience" gets a dumbed down version of Animal Crossing.

AC with lower interest rates and foreclosure protection, eh.

I don't think Animal Crossing will be dumbed down, not with the way Wild World sold (and continues to sell) in Japan.

ahahahaha new Nintendo-speak floating around.

"bridge" games, games that bridge the gap between core traditional gamers and expanded casual non-gamers, like Mario Kart, and, uhhhh Contra IV

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It will be the new IP "Banjo Master: Tales of the South" from Miyamoto himself.  ...and Project H.A.M.M.E.R... Beleive

Me too.

More Work Please.

F-Zero please. Pikmin please. Disaster please.

Animal Crossing is a given. Plus, there will be a Star Fox if there's no F-Zero.

How about Star Fox Adventures 2, yes, no, maybe?

I think we'll get an F-Zero, but I think it will be for the DS. It's one of the few Nintendo franchises that hasn't made its way there yet.

My predictions:

WII PLAY 2.

A ZELDA SPIN-OFF PINBALL GAME THAT YOU PLAY WITH THE BALANCE BOARD.

Please... That is so Metriod. :D

FUCK NO.

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My guess(es)  - Animal Crossing Wii, Pikmin 3, and Super Mario RPG 2.

super mario rpg 2 when I cough up a goat and use the sale of its milk to finance my fabrege egg addiction

I don't know. Square Enix and Nintendo sure have been having a lot of sex lately.

Super Mario RPG 2 already came out. It's called Paper Mario.

For the love of all that is holy, RELEASE MARIO PAINT (WII MUSIC)!

As for the gamers, it's definitely some dumb game like Kid Icarus that everyone wants.....(but noone really)

sadly this game has the most potential out of all to actually get made.

and i hate kid Icarus i don't know why its such a loved game.  its hard and stupid.

It's not stupid, but it is hard. I've had it for a year and I'm up to the 4th level. The thing is that to make a modern game out of it it would have to be so different that it doesn't matter what the original game was like. I think the basic concept and setting have a lot of potential.

anyone who believes this lie may as well vote for Ralph Nader

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I'm a believer

how about an ice climbers rpg? 

If they try to do it with the wiimote, I'm afraid it's going to suck beyond all comparison.  DKJB was innovative.  This'll be gimmicky.

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i know there buying sony and there going to announce the PS-WII

yea and the launch game is going to be kid god of war!

why would we want Sony?  They have had nothing in their existence except market timing and name.  Certainly no value that could be purchased.

Now that HD-DVD is the loser you think Nintendo will contract Toshiba to provide HD-DVD drives for the next-generation Nintendo box?

If everyone's stuck with Blah-Ray a couple years from now, wouldn't HD-DVD be less convenient to pirate?

You know what is even harder to pirate? Cartridges

To an extent - that's true. But people have always taken advantage of the serial port that Nintendo used to have in all their systems, to allow people to play games off of a CD-ROM or Zip drive and whatnot.

Edit - also, take a look at the DS and GBA. They're cartridge based systems, and are only second to the Dreamcast when it comes to "ease of piracy".

Hah, zip drives. Talk about using one extinct technology to pirate another extinct technology

Why didn't everyone go with Superdisk...

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The PSP says otherwise. Look at games like Wipeout Pure, which sold dismally and there are torrents to download it that have been accessed significantly more (like one torrent 6 times more) than actual sales.

Yes, only a small percentage of those torrent downloads would likely buy the game, but it can no longer be argued that piracy is something that companies should ignore due to lack of real finical downturn. The PSP is a living testament to how much impact piracy can have in the industry.

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Rising fuel prices make $50 games seem less expensive.

Don't tell anyone those kind of secrets, prices raise.

Remember way back when the dollar was a bit stronger, and retailers charged $80 for SUPER FREAKING NINTENDO GAMES?

Yes I don't want to pay that anymore, all though I don't think the value of the dollar had anything to do with that.  I think they were just being dicks.

Well something changed between now and then, cuz I can't buy a can of soda for 50-cents at a machine anymore.

Ya those guys as Pepsi get paid quite a lot.  But 80% of us are still happy.

yeah on campus is 60 cents to buy a soda, i often have 50 cents, but not 60. I try to put in a dollar, but they want exact change. Looks like the soda machines not getting enough buyers to have exact change. You would think withe everyone having to put in that extra 10 cents there would be plenty of dimes in there.

It's a $1.90 here for a 20oz Mountain Dew. How ridiculous is that? In jackpot it was $1.19 and there was no sales tax. I wanna move back to NV.

Kid Icarus is the perfect franchise to get revived. Nintendo can try something completely new, with the obvious flying mechanics that the wii has been asking since it was created, and it can have a franchise name to get behind it. The first game was average, but it has enough cult status to let the new game get hype, something that I'm sure is the reason behind Nintendo's stuborn and stupid reluctancy to create new IPs without "training" or "play" in the title.

In short words, it would be a more of a new franchise than an old one, and I doubt it would have anything to do with the first kid Icarus gameplay-wise. There's not a lot to mantain anyway. Any game with a flying angel would pass as a 3D Kid Icarus, the franchise is no Metroid.

i know what your talking about... thats why i tape back up all my software.