What Nintendo will show at E3?

[Joelcool7]

trestres said:
I have a feeling this one will be casual centered once again. After those new patented products "Wii Fit Plus" and "Art Academy" appeared today in Japan, plus with the show about Wii Sports Resort we may just have to accept this is indeed going to be similar to 2008.

They better have something else, because so far, all that's been revealed and hinted at has been casual games: Wii Fit Plus, Art Academy, Wii Sports Resort, Friend Collection, Personal Trainer: Walking... At least they have some DS games Zelda: ST, Pokemon Gold/Silver Remakes, Mario & Luigi. But for the Wii? Nothing big or notable... They better show something new for the core audiences, MP Trilogy is just a repackage of older games, I'm sure they will also announce NPC Pikmin 2 and then shed out some info about S&P2, but besides that? I already lost all the hype, but that's good, since I'm disappointed now, and my disappointment won't last till E3.

So they patented Wii Fit Plus, sounds to me like my speculation might be spot on. Nintendo will want to capitalize on WiiFit's success. Keep in mind WiiFit is alot like Brain Age and Nintendo has really milked Brain Age for all its worth and they've made millions and millions in doing so. I suspect we'll see a new WiiFit.

Miyamoto admitted last year that hardcore fans were dissapointed. So has Reggie with both of Nintendo's biggest heads (Excluding Iwata) admitting that core fans were dissapointed I can't see them repeating the same mistake. Pikmin3 is pretty much a must at the show considering Miyamoto confirmed it already at last years E3. Also Mario and Zelda's teams are hard at work and Retro has also been silent. I can't see this E3 not appealing at least half to the core gamer.

Plus keep in mind that last year saw what 3 new games for Wii, Nintendo has the most first party developers of any of the three console manufacturers. It is the largest games publisher on the earth. With so many studio's Nintendo has to be hiding alot of games, their shouldn't have been such a big drought.

My guess is that last year was Nintendo's attempt to drive up third party sales. By completely ignoring their hardcore user base they hoped those users would turn to the third parties instead. However third parties didn't have the best line-up either and it turned out to just be a horrible year.

Nintendo can't afford to throw this year to the dogs, if Nintendo doesn't show something big gamers will be driven into the hands of Microsoft and Sony, who's consoles are now within the budget Wii Price range!