Good podcasts, gents, although I thought it was funny that nobody could bring themselves to press Stop. I think you're all spot-on with your predictions, although I do NOT think they'll say two words about Pikmin (sorry, Andy) and we'll find out that Animal Crossing is just City Folk in 3D. Here are my own (cynical) predictions:
1) Reggie will come out and somehow turn the 3DS' lowball launch into something celebritory. "We sold a million units in Syria!" he'll say. He'll tell everyone watching here and at home to turn on their 3DS and download the latest update, which will bring the DSiWare shop to the 3DS. Reggie will not give a hard launch date for 3DSWare, though, only something like "be ready this fall." He'll talk about a lot of games, unfortunately a lot of games we already know about (Zelda, Star Fox, MGS3). He'll talk about Mario 3D and how it should be out for the holidays. Mario Kart will be out by late summer, maybe the fall. That's the system seller. It will support unprecedented SpotPass functionality. But the big title? Smash Bros.
2) On 3DSWare, we won't get much an idea of what it will be. However, I am convinced that Nintendo will start publishing actual high-priority titles for it (Mario vs. DK doesn't count, Neal). They need to get top-tier franchises on 3DSWare (or any downloadable platform) if they want to be taken seriously on the downloadable frontier. We need an original Mario game, maybe Mario Kart...I think something like Endless Ocean or a PokePark game would work well.
3) They'll tout the success of the Wii but they'll make it clear this is the last "big bang" year for Wii. Dragon Quest X will be a big reveal. They'll talk about Wii Play Plus (or whatever it's called) but nobody will give a ****. I doubt Nintendo does either. Like Andy said, they just want that brand to stay alive. But the big game at the show?
4) Zelda. We'll actually learn about Zelda, and maybe its troubled history. We may actually see something completely different (aethetically) than we saw last year. After all, that's the last time anybody saw it. I don't think they'll have Miyamoto or anyone else come out and demo the show in front of a thousand people, but they MAY have some other random developer come out and demo an incredibly small portion of the game. Maybe in a box. They want it to be controlled, they want to show it works.
5) I think the DS/i/Lite/XL is dead in the water, but Nintendo may launch a new bundle, something like the Wii now, with a system, big-ticket game, and maybe some "premium" accessories. The DS needs a sendoff, and it hasn't gotten one yet. I doubt we'll see any new games for the DS this year aside from 3rd party licensed games that nobody wants. Despite that, Reggie can turn that into a plus: "developers are still flocking to the DS." Yeah, sort of.
6) Project Cafe! Iwata will whip that sucker out of his inside coat pocket. It will be small and compact. I'm with Andy that it'll be black, but I wouldn't be surprised if it launched (eventually) in multiple colors. It will be backwards compatible with all Wii games and Wii accessories. However, Cafe games themselves will not support Wii accessories. We won't get a lot of details on the Cafe software, or even its launch window. I can see them bringing back F-Zero and maybe a real Star Fox game. I think they're big news will be that developers who had formally stayed away from Wii will be making the games YOU love on Cafe, including Modern Warfare 3. Cafe will be a viable multiplatform system, relatively easy to develop for, and lacking in the gimmicks that drove people away from the Wii.
7) It will not have a screen in the controller. I guarantee none of the "confirmed rumors" or speculation regarding the technology or the hardware are true. I will bet you that Nintendo adopts a more Xbox Live style online system ('bout time) but makes it more boneheaded. They still haven't figured this online thing out, and it might take some time. I am hopeful, however, that they build the Cafe system around the concept of firmware updates.