Ok, this year at E3, we all believe that the first party linup from Nintendo will contain the most surprises, that's given.

Studios like Retro, and N-Keyoto have projects they are working on, obviously, and Reggie has said that this year we will have a "new Nintendo game" before Christmas.

So, its safe to say we'll get at least one new Nintendo game this year.(Lets hope that its not the Mario Baseball game but lets also hope that the Mario Baseball game comes out this year.)

Besides Nintendo's big surprise 1st party announcments, we also have several 3rd parties announcing things on the Wii at E3.

For sure we have Capcom

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=21168&start=-0

EA who has said they have new 8 games in the works for the Wii, yesterday on Kotaku(look it up yaself!)

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Square-Enix who is obviously working on a few new unannounced projects for the Wii, according to their words and the obvious inferment of the White Engines port to the system.

Then we have companies like Activision and Ubisoft who have pledged support to the Wii already, but will in all likelyhood cement that support at E3, given their games are far enough along.

Next, we have Factor 5 who is working on a new "secret" game for the Wii and we have no idea what it is.

Sega will, in all likelyhood debut a new Wii game, though this is speculation.

But I have some more broad assumptions here:

Big first party games from Sony and MS will amount to things we already highly suspect:

God of War 3, almost certainly from Sony.

Now, MS could surprise the show with Halo 4 footage, but this is highly unlikely, and its possible we won't see any big games from their first party showing this year.

3rd party support will be as wide ranging as always, but I expect the brunt of the impact will come from the appearance of the Wii as a much more considerable player amongst 3rd parties this year at E3. It will certainly be the Buzz on the showfloor, as this is the first year the Wii has "proven" itself with consistant hardware and software sales.

Therefore, by deduction, I believe that the majority of "new" announcments for games on consoles will be for the Wii, DS, and PSP, while the majority of big 3rd party games for other consoles will have been seen previously to the show(with several exceptions, of course).

Certainly we know the "big" games for 360 and PS3 that will be prominant at the show, from lots of developers, like Final Fantasy XIII will likely be prominantly on display in SE's PS3 section.

Therefore, I think the majority of "exciting" or should I say "newsworthy" announcments will include titles yet unannounced for the Wii console. While there is no sure way to predict this, and it is almost certain all consoles will have plenty of major announcments, currently, I can safely predict that if anything is gonna beat the Wii in "major announcments" from a software perspective, its gonna have to have one hell of an E3.

Thoughts?

Depends really

Its really between SONY & Ninty this year at E3

for me if a NEW Donkey Kong (a proper one, not that bongo kongo crap) gets announced Ninty will have WON E3

Soriku said: I agree But I'm not so sure GoW3 will be announced at E3. Also, they will show GeoW2 at E3.

Yeah, but at this point, GeoW2 is old news(though still exciting news) and will not be a "newsworthy" announcment, so I left it out.

Yep; Nintendo's going to clean up. I suspect we'll see a few exciting major franchise announcements for it, too, like that Mega Man game Capcom's been hinting at for a while.

FF XIII, is the only thing sony needs to take over the show. Seriously what does nintendo have that can top FF XIII?

You know, we've seen FFXIII for a long time now. A game that's been announced for years isn't gonna take over anything.

That said, I'm excited about FFXIII, but I also think that a lot of people have been getting progressively more turned off by the Final Fantasy series.

So, if Kingdom Hearts 3 is playable at E3 somehow, it will get far more attention from the press at the SE booth than will FFXIII, imo, no matter which system its on.

That sound fair? 

@Zenfolder

if they have a HUGE showing of FFXIII, with gameplay & new innovatiove unimaginable things..

basically ala FF7 back in the day, SONY could take over the show..

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But the mainstream media might like say Wii Music if Ninty gives us an insight into that

Also, any Zelda spinoff would pwn XIII in sales, and most likely hype, particularly a debut Zelda game at E3. That's just the nature of a Nintendo "big gun" don't act like suddenly Square Enix has a bigger franchise than Nintendo can muster. We've seen sales figures and reviews that tell us otherwise.

I think i agree with you Zen ... Wii has a lot of potentially great announcements for this E3 with lots of great third parties talking about how they will support Wii, and what i'm most eagerly awaiting is for a Monolith soft. RPG for the Wii
I think this is the first E3 where we'll be able to see some real support from third parties, since for the last ones comapnies still did'nt believe Wii was gonna be this big :P

I disagree with that, personally. I don't think any game that was at E3 last year has a chance of stealing the show. Just like when Twilight Princess debuted at E3 and it stole the show, then the next year it was playable and everyone absolutely loved it, but since it was at the previous E3, they gave all most of the hype to Okami. I remember it well.

I think what you say is possible, but in the realm of all possibilities, I feel it has only a minute chance of happening.