nintendo e3?

killyoutodeath

what time do they start spilling the beans at (irish time not american)

Mr E

5pm today, Irish time.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=79132

killyoutodeath

TmB wrote:

5pm today, Irish time.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=79132

thanks at least i got a straight forward answer p.s is e3 alredy started?

Mr E

Yep, the microsoft (boo! hiss!) conference was this morning.

killyoutodeath

TmB wrote:

Yep, the microsoft (boo! hiss!) conference was this morning.

lets hope nintendo come out first seeing them be last! well for the first day

carbsy

killyoutodeath wrote:

lets hope nintendo come out first seeing them be last! well for the first day

Anyone got a translation for me?

Mr E

In big announcements, I'm guessing.

carbsy

killyoutodeath

sorry i wasent making sense there:D and nintendos e3 show starts in like 5 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Giblet

http://zdmedia-e32007-nintendo.wm.llnwd.net/zdmedia_E32007_Nintendo

Mr E

5 minutes to go...

Live Blog from Event (Joystiq)

koneko

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=79482

Eurogamer live text feed, for those in work (like me) and can't watch video (or can, but would get busted that way)

Mr E

Wii Zapper.... hmmmmm.....
Seems like a gimmicky peripheral to be honest.

Hugh Hefner

I hope Brawl makes it for a Christmas release in Europe.

Smellyirishman

Just watching the feed now with some guys in work. No europe release date for Brawl

koneko

Don't count on it, if I had to guess I'd say March 2008 for Europe. I'm not joking, I think that's probably going to happen. Nintendo doesn't like Europe, remember?

Bloody dreadful presentation so far.

How about not showing Phantom Hourglass? It's already out in Japan, we all know exactly what it looks like.

koneko

Note to Nintendo:

If there's one thing you shouldn't brag about, it's your online service. Seriously.

I'm drowning in montages now. Show something good

Hugh Hefner

Woooo! New channel! I just won 5000 Kotaku points!

Hugh Hefner

Good to see that the sports games are finally getting online. Not that I'll play them. The only interesting thing so far has been the zapper...


... ohh, I typed too soon. Mario Kart Wii online! Schweet.

Smellyirishman

Disappointing so far alright. Some neat things but it's just not enough.

Mr E

Is it over? Video stopped suddenly and won't restart...

Dman001

The Mario Kart steering wheel looks nice.

BOHSBOHS

mario galaxy to be released november 12th in the states

Hugh Hefner

I've got a jones for that WiiFit and I don't know why. Anything brand new is exciting I guess.

joe316

WiiFit, methinks nintendo are pushing it a bit



the mat thingy didnt work tho

although the mat can measure full body movement, footy game? tony hawk?

LookingFor

I keep waiting for the punchline to this whole conference, but it doesn't seem to be coming.

That whole Wii Fit segment was just..where are you going Nintendo? This isn't for a gaming conference.

Niall0

Any picture of the mario kart wheel?

Jim

Eh...are they accidentally playing music over Regi talking?

Smellyirishman

Shame. Only new game was Mario kart, not a single new IP mentioned and hardly any 3rd parties.

Nintendo will do a LOT of business with the Wii, they're gonna keep making money, but there are no proper flippin' games on it . I can see my mam, dad and sister getting into WiiFit, but they should have stuck with weight measurements if anything as BMI can be misleading.

Roll on Sony, expecting them to put up a good fight against MS.

joe316

Niall0 wrote:

Any picture of the mario kart wheel?

on a sidenote another very boring conference, although not half as bad as MS's one last night, please Sony pull something interesting out of the bag

Smellyirishman

joe316 wrote:

although not half as bad as MS's one last night

I'm sorry? Can you explain to me how this is possible?

Ninty just bored the s**t out of me for the best part of an hour and a half. At least Microsoft were showing off some promising looking games and isn't that what we're all here for?

Stalfos

Agreed, Conference was very dull tbh. E3 doesn't seem to be as big this year at all for some reason. Ninty haven't showed me anything that i would go mad for. The Wiifit thing looked ok but not much to do with gaming at all. Only thing that will save it for me is a new SSBB trailer.

joe316

Smellyirishman wrote:

I'm sorry? Can you explain to me how this is possible?

Ninty just bored the s**t out of me for the best part of an hour and a half. At least Microsoft were showing off some promising looking games and isn't that what we're all here for?

ok, i dont wanna argue with you. they were both pretty damn awful, but MS just stinked of "we ve got nothing new ourselves, so lets get all the 3rd party publishers to fill the time slot", like that game with the controllers which are a complete rip off of buzz. Ill give ya assinins creed looked good. this video summed it up. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/video/the-worst-way-to-launch-a-console-ever-277067.php

there might as well have been thumble weed blowing in front of him...... and laughter from an invited audience says it all. it sounded like a board meeting, "its a billion dollar franchise" yeah for you and bill maybe.

I wanna be blown away like i was with wii and littlebigworld, at least ninny came 20% of the way there with the zapper for fps games. that seems cool and mario kart

BlitzKrieg

meh E3 for everyone is a quiet thing this year.

I think Sony is the only company that *has* to impress at E3 because there have been far too many questions asked about exclusives for the console.


Microsoft did a fairly decent job I think, the machine is the most established of the three and the presentation delivered on proving that its a machine that is here to stay by showing the large amount of support it has. Microsoft doesnt need to reveal any new hardware or plans, honestly it has everything spot on and just now needs to encourage more people over to them by providing the games. The only matter they have to resolve in urgancy is the hardware failure rate, but they are well on the way of doing that.

On the whole Halo 3 console thing, its pretty much a non plus, its a special edition version of the 360 with halo themed controller and face plate...its not big deal and if you remember Peter Moore's previous attempt at announcing products and overdoing it (*cough* tattoo *cough*) I think it was better to announce something so minor with just a little mention at the end. Its like one of those special pokemon edition DS's you can buy in Japan.

Sony did good in having the Killzone 2 presentation before the microsoft one as it seems it has taken some wind out of the halo 3 trailer (though in my personal opinion the halo 3 trailer is better, but thats just me) and it has people excited for the full show tonight.


Nintendo, a bit meh, seems to me they are shooting all over the place with the Wii, add on after add on, games look quality but damn I thought the Wii control revealed last time was the *revolution* not all these add ons. It might have been the cheaper console but man that doesnt mean we need to cash out for all these controllers. But still Mario Kart online is a whoot from me.

What Nintendo needs now though is a show of strength from all the 3rd party developers showing off wii exclusives they are making, because no one can deny nintendo make great games, but the Wii needs to show that its popularity can be transformed into 3rd party support.

So they may have named off their support a bit at the presentation, but we need EA etc to step up and show that they are pushing the Wii as strongly as the other two if not stronger.

Mr E

Interesting stat from the nintendo conference.... 60 games already out, 100 before end of year?

Show me the release list with those 100 games....

(edit.. heh... maybe with 3 a week on the VC )

Tusky

I'm a massive Nintendo fan. I had a stupid amount of games for the N64 and got the wii on release day with great expectations. I feel seriously let down. I'm fed up buying Nintendo consoles purely for Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Zelda, Metroid etc..

Pedro Monscooch

Same here. Especially when I'm being made to wait an ENTIRE YEAR for Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Metroid etc

Awful presentation.

Tusky

Pedro Monscooch wrote:

Same here. Especially when I'm being made to wait an ENTIRE YEAR for Mario, Mario Kart, Smash Bros, Metroid etc

Awful presentation.

Its not just the presentation im talking about, its Nintendo in general. I want a games console, not a 'fun for all the family entertainment unit'. Wheres the GAMES?

I haven't played the wii in months, the amount of average to bad games on it is unbelievable. It still only has one 'must have game', Zelda, and even that doesn't use the controls very well. They are v.tacked on. I have yet to see a good use of the controllers, apart from maybe Resident Evil 4, but I haven't played it on wii yet.

Niall0

Tusky wrote:

I haven't played the wii in months, the amount of average to bad games on it is unbelievable. It still only has one 'must have game', Zelda

Most consoles go through this when they first come out , i got an xbox 360 at launch and the game selection was very poor for months . Things will pick up eventually at least they (nintendo) take the time to make the games as good as they can , instead of rushing out crappy ones like most of the first wave of third party wii games.

BlitzKrieg

I admit the nintendo conference has been the weakest of the 3 today. But the other two werent amazing either.

I am horrified to admit it but I want to see what EA pull out in theirs.

thelordofcheese

Niall0 wrote:

Most consoles go through this when they first come out , i got an xbox 360 at launch and the game selection was very poor for months . Things will pick up eventually at least they (nintendo) take the time to make the games as good as they can , instead of rushing out crappy ones like most of the first wave of third party wii games.

I'm always amazed at how quickly people forget this.

Also, i'm pretty sure we're getting Metroid Prime 3, Super Mario Galaxy, and Phantom Hourglass all before Christmas, or at least according to some guy on eurogamers comments board.

kyp_durron

Tusky wrote:

Its not just the presentation im talking about, its Nintendo in general. I want a games console, not a 'fun for all the family entertainment unit'. Wheres the GAMES?

I haven't played the wii in months, the amount of average to bad games on it is unbelievable. It still only has one 'must have game', Zelda, and even that doesn't use the controls very well. They are v.tacked on. I have yet to see a good use of the controllers, apart from maybe Resident Evil 4, but I haven't played it on wii yet.

Pretty much sums up my thoughts exactly. My Wii has being gathering dust since I completed Zelda and Barring Mario and Metroid there seems to be nothing of interest on the horzion. I sick of been told 'oh it will get better' cause in all honestly I don't see that it will. Hell even the Gamecube had a much better selection at the same stage in it's life.

Also the Wiimote is pile of crap for Zelda and detracts from the gameplay rather then enhancing it.

Where are the 3rd party RPG'S, or anything for that matter? Cause all I see atm are a load of party games and gimmicks.

/me puts on flameproof suit

koneko

http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/e32007/enGB/pr_releaselist.html


Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) 2008

thelordofcheese

Nintendo wrote:

Advance Wars 2 (Nintendo) Q4 2007

Wait a second, isn't Advance Wars 2 the GBA game, or is there another Advance wars DS in the works?

Niall0

koneko wrote:

http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/e32007/enGB/pr_releaselist.html


Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) 2008

Thats annoying , they should really get ssb and mario kart out for christmass even though ssb is out in usa december 3rd :mad:. why does it take that long to bring a game from the usa to europe?

killyoutodeath

Niall0 wrote:

Thats annoying , they should really get ssb and mario kart out for christmass even though ssb is out in usa december 3rd :mad:. why does it take that long to bring a game from the usa to europe?

nintendo hates us...! wish we had a wii freeloader

joenailface

its because they have to translate pal into so many languages, japan = japanese, america = english, europe = how many languages? exactly. be happy were getting so many amazing games, instead of bitching about what you cant have.

Retr0gamer

joenailface wrote:

its because they have to translate pal into so many languages, japan = japanese, america = english, europe = how many languages? exactly. be happy were getting so many amazing games, instead of bitching about what you cant have.

Well then how come it takes them so long when companies EA, Ubisoft and Microsoft can get games out on near simultaneous release dates. No excuses.

killyoutodeath

Retr0gamer wrote:

Well then how come it takes them so long when companies EA, Ubisoft and Microsoft can get games out on near simultaneous release dates. No excuses.

maybe they take so long to make themselves feel important and rushed of there feet or they hate us