sweet!

GRANDMA JUMPS OUT OF PLANE WTF

Anyone know why the chat went down?

I have simple tastes: only the best.

New Super Mario Bothers on Wii has co-op? That's something I've been wanting ever since the alternating 2-player mode of the original Super Mario Brothers!

Samus is beautiful.

Metroid by team ninja will be interesting

Super Mario Galaxy 2! WOOHOO!

I think Nintendo just won the conference war.
Aside from the it's over 9000 vitality sensor, everything was great.
WSR really surprised me in its variety.

Oh don't worry, journalists will still pretend that MS won. Nintendo did have a lack of Motion Plus games though...

Golden Sun, the vitality sensor, Metroid by Team Ninja caught me way off guard. Nintendo certainly didn't disappoint though I wish Miyamoto was on stage.

Eh the games shown were nearly all good but whoever makes the trailers needs to inject a bit of vigour next time. Most of them seemed flat.

Is no one else discouraged by the fact that breast physics inc. is making a metroid game?  Is it only me?

Screw Retro, Team Ninja is making all my Metroid games from now on!

Well Pale Itagaki isn't in Team Ninja anymore and Nintendo is obviously supervising everything.

Nintendo loses cuz there was no Dynamic Slash.

No. Actually yes, it is only you.

I think WSR showed what M+ can do more than enough.

Is that no to the first question or the second? =P

Aside from that, say good-bye to Metroid's fancy 3D puzzles.

Sony has some nice odds stacked against them

Did anyone noticed that Nintendo was VERY serious this year? Its like a direct response to the silliness at display last year.

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.

WhERE is pikmin 3 ??

Zelda was assumed but it's ok to not see it.

Itagaki is making Pikmin 3.  by himself.

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.

hahaha that would be seriously hilarious if it came to be, pikmin with boobs

No other franchises that I'm dying to see also, Star Fox, F-zero.  Fuck Pilotwings and Kid (No inspiration) Icarus :D

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...

Oops, I watched the 2010 E3 conference by mistake. When does the 2009 one begin? ;)

Glad to hear it wasn't just me.

Big let down.  No pikmin, star fox, retro studios project

I was expecting to hear annoucements of new Motion Plus games.....and nothing we already didn't know

A few of us were on chatango because the chat was full or something.

I'm surprised we didn't see anything about Sin and Punishment 2.

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

SP2 will be another Nintendo game that gets no advertising.

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.

Did Nintendo release a public login for the Press.Nintendo.com site this year?

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.

not to mention nothing at all in reference to Nintendo Wi-Fi connection and online gaming

It figures.  I had a meeting this morning at work.  Was following along on forums and such and heard about New Super Mario Bros Wii.  Managed to find a video of the conference in time to JUST miss it.  And the meeting started around 9:30.  So all I got to see was the stupid non-game stuff.  Fucking hell.

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 fuck are Retro doing?  Seriously what the FUCK 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.

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."

I thought Billy did a really good job pre and post game on G4.  He definitely brings some depth Blair and whats his face are severely lacking.  However, I was hoping he'd ask Reggie about that Wii Sensor that you stick your ___ in.

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Thanks stevey.:)

Casual players can check online to see if their grandparents are still alive, without having to call or visit them at the home.

WIN?

???

Guys, there were a lot of games revealed at the press site that weren't mentioned in the conference, including many of the new IPs shown at last year's conference.

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.

So they really are the new Rare :(

There's also a new Zelda trailer! :)

(BTW, can anyone download the Metroid M trailer? I keep getting 404s)

No, they are not. Rare killed themselves with bad gameplay ideas made after DK64.

But for Retro, that's a wait-see.

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?

Ian is Family Guy re-incarnated into a human being?

Pro is Futurama

Not to derail, but can anyone tell me if Miyamoto's roundtable is being streamed anywhere?

I'll look around.There is about 13 mins till it starts.

Well, Nintendo certainly made some big strides this year talking about actual games this year instead of glorifed toys, and from an objective perspective they did everything they needed to do.  They announced some big titles, hyped titles that needed hyping (Conduit), hyped the DSi, and threw in a big announcement at the end (Metroid: Other M).  Honestly, though, I came away from this conference rather indifferent.  Yeah, they announced 2 new Mario games, but neither really excite me as sequels to games I didn't particularly find thrilling either.  I'm very troubled by the thought of the legendarily sadistic Team Ninja making this new Metroid and I'm not thrilled with this new direction, but I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt for the moment.  Seriously, though, where was Zelda Wii and Pikmin 3?  Or something different like a Good (if I could bold that, underline it, add astericks, and top it off with big glowing neon signs I would) Star Fox game, or something completely new and interesting altogether?

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.

The thing is that Sony NEEDED to have a great conference, Nintendo and MS not so much (especially Nintendo) and to be outclassed by both does not look good.

I'm not entirely sure but you can check out Channelsurfing.net might have it.

Is NWR at it? Is there a thread for it?

I don't see one yet. Let me check the twitter.
Nope no mention on the twitter.

anyone have a live blog?

This is the only one I know of.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/989/989996p1.html

thanks

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28429

Now on the the F5 press every 30 seconds or less.

I was expecting Nintendo to have more WMP stuff to basically say "WMP is the future of ALL gaming and here's a number of games that will make you forget there is anything else out there", instead they only reiterated mostly known stuff.

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 shit 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!

Nintendo Conference > Microsoft Conference > ... > ... > ... > Sony Conference

Honestly, I thought the MS one sucked the most of the three... mostly because I don't think their camera will EVER see the light of day, and I think that virtual boy (pun intended) Molyneueadx showed was totally canned and fake.  If that crap was real they'd be winning AI awards for computer science excellence... not showing it as a glorified tamagotchi at E3.

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.

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.

Actually even the FFXIV announcement was already known. It was just known by the name Rapture.

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.

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.