They'll only say that in comparison to Darksiders or some other marginally related game that they think should have gotten more attention.

I’m surprised that at this point in time videogame journalists still don’t seem to understand why Nintendo isn’t focusing on the Hard-Core gamer in their E3 news conference. On an arbitrary weekday in the middle of the year Nintendo can make a couple of sentence announcement with little information and dominate the news & rumour cycle in the gaming press for weeks (or longer); but they only have one event in the entire year where they can make an announcement that will get out through the mainstream media to build excitement with people who don’t follow gaming closely.

Certainly they can, should and do release information about their core games in their presentation but they need to focus on demonstrating what their new broad appeal products are, what they can do, why this is important/cool, and generally give people a desire to own them. The vitality sensor and the 3DS (or whatever they will show this E3) will take up the majority of the show because Nintendo needs these products to dominate the mainstream press coverage after the show.

Brian Miggels, Editor: "I consider myself a Nintendo fan, but their last E3 press conference really left me disappointed....."

LOLOLLOL they got stealth-trolling and backhanded compliments down to a science.

You clearly haven't seen their comments about Nintendo being lazy, and them claiming a game selling with HD graphics was the cause of those sales, not a correlation.

And making a strawman of my comments (I'm calling them wrong, not idiots) does not make my comments invalid. It just makes you someone who twists words.

Ahhh... Being paid to throw mud at Nintendo... Thousands of "hardcores" wet dream.

I guess all in all I'm hoping that since Nintendo went way too casual in '08, and they had a decent balance in '09, that this will be the year the Wii sheds the image of it created by Wii Sports etc (like the ds did with brain age and Nintendogs over the latter years of its reign), and that we get a few mentions of things like Wii Sports, etc, to appease that crowd, but that 80 to 90 % of Nintendo's conference is dedicated to outstanding new games in traditional genres.

yeah, I know the Wii isn't regarded as being as powerful as the other consoles, but with the other consoles wanting to show their more casual friendly games this year, the Wii could really raise its standing with the core this year.

And you oftentimes here people say with Wii it's the gameplay. Well, if that's true why demonstrate that gameplay in Wii Sports, etc? Why not show that they have the best games in traditional genres? If they're truely the best, they will get the sales and accolades they deserve.

Wii traditional games never get based on their own merit, rather they are compared to a similar thing on the PS3/360. For example, take this excerpt from the recent Monster Hunter 3 review from GameDaily:

"Even though its visuals and audio come up short, Monster Hunter Tri is one of Capcom's best. The gameplay grows on you after the first few monster kills, and teaming up with friends on epic quests never get old. Let's hope that Capcom has more Hunter adventures lined up in the future, perhaps for higher-end consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3."

With these quirky Wii games to demonstrate the gameplay, reviewers have to take much more of the product in at face value; they cannot find a similar experience anywhere else that matches the quality.

Bullshit.

If you weren't excited by last year's E3, then you are not even close to being a Nintendo fan.

Someone tell me, is it even worth reading the rest of the article?  The only other thing I read was the guy right above that put two silly conditions on Zelda, both of which have nothing to do with the game being fun.

I just read over it.

Don't bother.

Thanks!

Now I can just close this thread and never open it again.