No I'm not really I'm wondering how long Nintendo's going to wait before releasing its killer line-up. We all know Analysts say all three consoles will peak this Christmas with the console war decided in 2009. With major franchises like Donkey Kong and Animal Crossing supposed to be on their way Nintendo not giving us anything new untill E3 is weird.

Plus ESA has lost many of its members, only retaining 25 of the smaller publishers and Nintendo alike. It is not the same E3 we have been used to up until today. Though Nintendo's continued support for E3 makes it still a major press event. E3 was also moved it used to take place earlier in the year but now takes place in July. By that time most developers want their titles unvieled and shown off. 

Fact is the fall line-up starts in Sept, if Nintendo doesn't release any info on any of their games till July they won't have any time to hype them. Usually E3 is when Spring games are shown off and the Christmas games finalized not just unvieled.

That being said I think Nintendo will be waiting till E3, using it to blow the competition out of the water. Because the competition will have little to nothing new to show off at E3, E for All while Nintendo will dominate both media events with over whelming new information.

But then again until E3 were getting starved while the competition is providing their gamers with alot of new content. I wish Nintendo at least showed us some footage from the games we know are coming like Disaster:DayOfCrisis, AnimalCrossing and Donkey Kong! But I think their Blizcriag strategy will pay off in the short term. 

Joe, Nintendo announced a few weeks back that they will unveil Q3/Q4 line up at E3.

They rented out the Kodak Theater again for good reason.

True it just doesn't seem like they are giving the games any breathing room especially if they start launching them in September. At least they could have shown us a little more of one or two of the games prior to E3 as the competition brings everything to the floor now.

That being said I think Nintendo is going to blow us away again this year at E3. Nintendo is going to be the only hardware manufacturer to truly support E3 and it will take out the competition swiftly I mean the Kodak theater can only mean some very big games being announced. 

A wave of PR right before the fall could work in Nintendo's favour big time do to the lack of new information that Microsoft can provide. I'm guessing E For All will be Microsoft's biggest show this year with the new Viva Pinata and Banjo likely going to be playable on the show floor.

I wonder just what cards Nintendo is hiding? 

i can't wait till the games start coming out for PS3. the festivities start on June 12, but then theres nothing major till about mid-Sept with Confrontation.

This topic has a disturbing lack of spaces in game titles... Anyway, as noted, Nintendo's tactics are not the same as MS' and Sony's, even for unveiling game lineups. Fall is more than half a year away, far too soon by their new strategy of revealing info only a few months prior to release. So seeing nothing new from them isn't surprising at all.

And we can't simple erase Sony and Microsoft for E3's gaming surprises,not only by the 3rd party support,they could have some cards under the sleeve,(like the game already in development by the Team ICO)

For the Wii side many sources point the return of Kid Icarus. http://wii.kombo.com/article.php?artid=11895
We have to wait and see what happen in July at E3.

It only seems like little breathing room becaus we're used to getting game info a year, sometimes more, away.    If you really think about other entertainment mediams, Nintendo is following their methods.   You start hearing about movies 4-5 months before release.   Sometimes more, sometimes less.    New TV Fall shows are unveiled in the Spring.  You get the picture.

Agame doesn't need a year of hype to generate sales.  A few months is plenty while it lets gamers focus more on the games at hand....not what they don't have yet.

I loved the first two Banjo games but of what i have seen so far from the new game i am disappointed it seems to have lost all that I loved about them except for the actual charaters. Since when was racing/flying the focal point in Banjo games?

Err I remember someone saying Microsoft opting out of this E3, in fact they did a QA about and simply noted; they don't see how it could be beneficial for microsoft.

I think Sony said so also not sure, but one of them said they would continue to evaluate E3 to deterine if and when they would participate.

In other words maybe 2009?

 I doubt we'll see an E3 2009.

Too many other events taking their place.   GDC has gone from a developer conference to a trade exhibit, LGC has taken over Europe and E for Allis the TGS/LGC equivelant in the US.

With so many publishers cancelling their ESA membership and these other trade shows taking prevelence, E3 will likely end this year.