Eh, i think the mass exodus has already happened. I don't think Nintendo can dig themselves in any deeper when it comes to the opinion of the "core gamer." They crossed the line last year for that crowd, and that's the end of it. If they did the exact same thing this year, by just showing a heavily casual-ized Pikmin 3 and revealing Wii Fit Plus as their big game, i guarantee that the response won't be as bad as it was last year

Basically, everyone's already set their opinion about the Wii. The people who are saying "they damn well better unveil X or i'm selling my Wii" have more or less already made up their mind, and are just letting wishful thinking fill out the rest.

Nintendo has a few luxuries to guarantee that a large number of core gamers pretty much have to buy their system, and the "normal" (middle of the road) gamers who buy their system seem to be purchasing the bulk of the software, with the pure casuals filling things out nicely. They clearly have their core, the people who populate this board, for instance, who are perfectly satisfied with Wii as their preferred/only system, and it'll be hard for them to disappoint these people too severely.

At this point in the generation, everything's already in motion.

I'm going to be happy with 1 core game, casuel games aren't that bad tbh. Excitebots and punch out!! are core games? They look pretty cool.

IF Nintendo would announce a new 3d wii metroid(not a prime) at this years E3 with online then I would be extremely happy lol. We all know that something like that won't happen though.

I'm 75% sure that Nintendo will announce zelda wii and another core game(could be everything tbh). All other stuff will be "meh"

Remember every single E3 to date.

Nintendo knows they have to step uo this years E3, but come on people, last year was bad but teh fall conference more then made up for it, and GDC was huge too

Sony's E3 sucked as well in 2006 and that was a far more important one then this years :) Sony stepped up the next year, so why can't Nintendo? Sony is looking very promising this year by the way.

I think that the exodus happened with the Gamecube.

2006 says HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-LLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

for some reason people seem to think nintendo should always be able to deliver. this is not always going to happen they have siad this e3 will be good how good, lets just wait and see.

I was talking in general, 2006 was the year of the Giant Enemy Crab from real Japanese history

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2w2l1JTs4

A lot of people will say that Nintendo's show was disappointing regardless of what they show.