The E3 Announcement Thread...

Mr E

Kicking off now....

Lets see what they come up with.

~Marky~

Is there a website to see what is happening?

Mr E

http://livewire.ign.com/2008/e3/index.html or gamespot. Gamespot video isn't loading for me though, and IGN is laggy as sh1t.

~Marky~

This is good quality http://www.justin.tv/war1111

Mr E

Hmm... Shawn White Snowboarding (using balance board)... looks pretty cool.

Star Lord

Any sites with a blow-by-blow text update?

N-Europe have one, but isn't updating...

[edit]
I was too hasty... for people behind firewalls etc who can't see the videos:
http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=12044

Mr E

More plastic gizmos.... Wii Speak (microphone for wii) .... lol.....

Dman001

Animal Crossing coming this year. I'm still hoping for a new Zelda.

speedboatchase

Wahey, I was right about AC; City Folk

Supermanscat

They've just announced the Wii is ****e and overrated!

Im sorry im just frustrated with it these days!

Mr E

Reggie has just done 10 minutes of "Why we are great". Charts, numbers, stats.
Don't care.

Mr E

3 New games. Here we go.

OK Star Wars Clone Wars, thats the teenage nerds taken care of. Next...

Rayman Raving Rabbids - first 2 games were sh1t. Next...

Call of Duty World At War. Thats what I have my xbox for.

Oh dear....

Mr E

DS Stuff..

Guitar Hero On Tour Decades (new GH Game in Autumn, with song sharing between versions)

Spore Creatures. Only handheld version....

Next...

Mr E

GTA China Town Wars on DS... Hope its better than the last handheld version.

Dman001

New Pokemon game. Come on new DS!!

Dman001

Some Airport App coming out and a new cooking game.

Dman001

A new Wii Sports that uses the new Motion Control accessory.

FutureGuy

Dman001 wrote: »

A new Wii Sports that uses the new Motion Control.

I smell a package deal...better be cheap though.

Apart from Pokemon, am underwhelmed so far. Fingers crossed for a new Mario platformer :pac:

Mr E

Wii Sports Resort.... more Wii Sports, eh?
Comes with Wii Motion Plus.

Dman001

New Wii Sports coming out next year but theres one more thing...

machiavellianme

FutureGuy wrote: »

I smell a package deal...better be cheap though.

Yeah like the free expansion pack for Dk64 or the free rumble with lylat wars.

Supermanscat

Hopefully they dont announce a price decrease im trading mine in next week:D

Mr E

Wii Music. Ow my ears....

Mr E

One of the comments on the feed sums it up:

I'd rather listen to Duffy while cutting myself a new ass with a rusty butter knife.

Might sound ok on a non-laggy feed.

FutureGuy

Mr E wrote: »

One of the comments on the feed sums it up:

I'd rather listen to Duffy while cutting myself a new ass with a rusty butter knife.

Might sound ok on a non-laggy feed.

Joe Duffy or Blonde Duffy?

Mr E

Wow, that was very poor - no Zelda, no Mario, no Kid Icarus, no balance board Punch Out, no resurrected franchises..

Supermanscat

Is it over??

Dman001

I honestly thought this would be better then the MS conference. Looks like I was wrong. Lets see if Sony will blows us away.

FutureGuy

Thats IT??? For the love of God, that is as bad a lineup as I can remember. What a complete and utter anticlimax.

Honestly, my 70-year-old Wii owning parents have alot more to be excited about. Back to my 360 for another 6 months...:mad:

What have Ninendo been doing over the last 12 months???

Dman001

FutureGuy wrote: »

Thats IT??? For the love of God, that is as bad a lineup as I can remember. What a complete and utter anticlimax.

Honestly, my 70-year-old Wii owning parents have alot more to be excited about. Back to my 360 for another 6 months...:mad:

What have Ninendo been doing over the last 12 months???

Counting all the money they made.

FutureGuy

I'm not surprised actually. I was looking at the top 20 in Game recently, and it's made up of rubbish.

I'm waiting for Street Fighter 4. Oh pleeeaaaasseeee may there be something on SF4 during the week!

Supermanscat

Now i'm definetly trading it in

seriously thought that was ****e by the sound of things.

CMON SONY!!

FreeOSCAR

Pretty bad showing Nintendo. Only thing that interested me was Animal Crossing and GTA Chinatown. Why the hell aint they releasing an F-Zero, Donkey Kong or Star Fox?

Kinetic^

Supermanscat wrote: »

Is it over??

It is for Nintendo!!!!

FutureGuy

Kinetic^ wrote: »

It is for Nintendo!!!!

Highly unlikely. Nintendo are in such an incredibly strong position right now. It' s just that alot of games are aimed at non-gamers. Which is boo-urns.

Kinetic^

FutureGuy wrote: »

Highly unlikely. Nintendo are in such an incredibly strong position right now. It' s just that alot of games are aimed at non-gamers. Which is boo-urns.

Ye I know, yore man's comment was left wide open for my response though.;)

valleyoftheunos

very disappointed by that, more Wii sports and Wii music? Where are the GAMES!

Wasn't really expecting Mario or Zelda to make an appearence but had hoped for something that might appeal to actual gamers.

Icarian

That was an atrociously, embarrassingly bad line up of games + some motion sensor that should have been part of the Wii remote from day 1...

Retr0gamer

Well that was the most disappointing Nintendo E3 since forever. Nothing for any american journalists to get excited about and whoop.

mayordenis

So so disapointed that there was nothing really announced of any note - I can't believe there unwillingness to tackle the real hamstringing of the console . . . the lack of a HDD.
crazyness

evad_lhorg

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Well that was the most disappointing Nintendo E3 since forever. Nothing for any american journalists to get excited about and whoop.

almost... lets not forget their big announcement one year being pacman VS or somethin.

this is really bad though. no f-zero, no pikmin, no KID ICARUS!?!?!?! :eek: boourns. although animal crossing is a welcome addition

Retr0gamer

evad_lhorg wrote: »

almost... lets not forget their big announcement one year being pacman VS or somethin.

Yep the E3 where they focused on connectivity was really poor but at least they showed some games to get excited about like Mario Kart, FF chronicles, zelda four swords etc. Not much on the Wii front to get excited about.

Icarian

yup, this was way worse than even the Pacman VS E3


the whole thing was a huge disappointment

M$'s conference was dull, its only surprise was the FFXIII bitch slap to Sony

Sonys conferences was equally disappointing with the only big SURPRISE announcement being MAG

Nintendo's wasembarrassingly, shockingly, laughably bad, with no surprises, no big new franchises, no high profile sequels NOTHING!! for core gamers whatsoever...

All 3 disappointed, but Nintendo was especially bad...

TheAlmightyArse

There's MadWorld, Wario Land Shake, this thing I can't pronounce the name of and a Western release of Rhythm Tengoku DS. But obviously none of those are as exciting as mashing buttons at random to watch the Wii play music for you, right Nintendo?

elekid

I'm not remotely interested in anything they announced

I never thought I'd say this but I'm so glad I bought my Xbox 360

calex71

GTA on the DS ??? if they said wii i might have considdered keeping it b4 the rush to trade them in :pac:

havent touched the wii since mario galexy and nothing they announced makes me want to go abck anytime soon

Dman001

$49 for the new Wii Sports with the MotionPlus accessory:
http://gizmodo.com/5025641/exclusive-wii-sports-resort-with-motionplus-is-49-in-spring

Tails142

Dman001 wrote: »

$49 for the new Wii Sports with the MotionPlus accessory:
http://gizmodo.com/5025641/exclusive-wii-sports-resort-with-motionplus-is-49-in-spring

So we'll see it for 50-60 euro when it comes out here :rolleyes:

Irish Halo

Mr E wrote: »

Wow, that was very poor - no Zelda, no Mario

He mentions that the internal development teams behind Mario and Zelda are at work on new titles for Wii.

OK not much of an announcement or confirmation that they are new Mario & Zelda tiles (assume they are) but Nintendo prefer to drip feed the announcements that matter to gamers, this conference was to generate media coverage in the mainstream press and the return of Kid Icarus wouldn't do that. Fancy doo dads that sparkle in the sun will.

Mr E

Nothing shown in the E3 presentation, Irish Halo... Nothing to make us go "Holy sh*t, a new xxxxx game". The Zelda and Mario teams are working on new games - big deal - it might be 2010 before we see them.

valleyoftheunos

TheAlmightyArse wrote: »

There's MadWorld, Wario Land Shake, this thing I can't pronounce the name of and a Western release of Rhythm Tengoku DS. But obviously none of those are as exciting as mashing buttons at random to watch the Wii play music for you, right Nintendo?

i'm excited about mad world just because its so different from anything else on Wii, it may well be a pile of pants in the end, as for Wario Land Shake a 2d platformer with some motion control, really? is that it? Mario World is available on the VC, aint no topping that when it comes to 2D.

I'm in no way convinced about GTA on the DS, the DS chugs along when asked to do anything but the most rudimentary 3D, anyone willing to take a bet that it will be back to top down GTA for Nintendo?