Lame jokes and vitality sensor aside, Nintendo showed some kick ass games this year. Most of which will be releasing pretty damn soon (Goodbye drought!) but I didn't enjoy the conference all that much. I'm the type of person who will sympathize with a public speaker, or even someone bombing a joke in front of three people. So when I see them up there not hitting homeruns with their jokes, I tend to shudder. Though I can understand most of the audience reaction, but there were a few funny lines from Reggie that got nothing. Just odd.

But the thing that really got to me, was the subdued reaction to two very big surprise games. Another 3D Mario in the same gen, and a totally new Metroid. Rumors aside, I'm sure most of us didn't really expect another Mario. And so soon. Yet the way the audience reacted ...

I don't know, maybe there's a different crowd at E3 these days, or I was watching the wrong feed, but it was soooo dead. Only applause at the end, and even then it felt like "It's over? Okay we have to clap now."

Now I don't NEED the audience to tell me something kicks ass, but like a good movie, it's always better to hear someone else's reaction. A funny movie is okay alone, but having someone else laugh at a part kind of makes it more enjoyable for you ... or am I alone on that one?

I dunno, I guess I miss the "OMG!" reactions from fans. Really, the E3 2004 reaction to Zelda is still epic. And what about the first trailer for Mario Galaxy back in 06? Saw none of that this year. And because of that, I didn't enjoy Nintendo's E3.

Oh well, I can take comfort in the fact I'll be playing Mario and Luigi 3 this fall on DS (Can't wait!) and Galaxy 2 some point after. Not to mention Wii Sports 2 (If it had been online ... wow) and even Wii Fit Plus has me interested.

The Sony conference had a great audience, I don't see why the same people weren't a bit more lively for Nintendo's.

I guess the audience didn´t want more Mario games...but hey, what matters to you is...you.. you don´t 'need' anyone else to get excited about a gaming conference.

Simple explanation, the Nintendo conference just wasn't that good.

90% of the people in the audience really dislike Nintendo, and are only there because it's their obligation to cover the Nintendo games.

Gaming journalism is all about HD graphics and shooting with big guns. Nintendo is all about making happy looking games than anyone can enjoy. The two don't match, therefore no journalist is excited about anything Nintendo.

You'd be more believable if you name weren't "Killzowned."

^ had more megatons than the other 2


anyway the real explanation is that nintedno wa sin the nokia studio was was very small (why they went there i have no idea) and seats were reserved for investors and mass media (mass media incluing the very big websites like ign) everyone else was sat in a completely different studio watching on a screen. this was where the crowd and the cheering was but of course being in a different studio this wasnt picked up

I get the feeling the crowd is to busy writing everything down to applaude much. I don't know... do they let random fans into the conferences, or is it just for the media??

I felt bad for them

on the other hand jack tretton was cracking jokes away every 5 min, ANY RANDOM PS game announcement was getting big applause

Ironically nintendo's announced games are gonna sell the most & THEY KNOW THAT....so they don't really care

Well there was quite a bit of cheering when that Metroid trailer rolled. Watch some youtube movies of that and you'll see and hear. You'll need to watch the off-screen ones for that, naturally.