Surprise

Seriously. Just this morning, i sat down to my laptop and, in the beginning of the liveblog thread on joystiq, typed up my predictions calling for Wii Fit Plus, a Factor 5 game, a Retro Studios game, and Pikmin 3. Of those, only one of them occurred. But instead, we get stuff that few people predicted. We had heard Nintendo speaking of a possible sequel to Mario Galaxy, but i don't think anyone saw it coming so quick.

Everyone, pretty much everyone figured Pikmin 3 was a slam-dunk, practically guaranteed safe bet. And now there's nothing. Retro Studios' game has been deflected. But then there's NSMB Wii, and especially Metroid: Other M. That one really came out of left field. Golden Sun 3 was a big question mark.

Anyone think similarly? Everything from the conference was either old news (Wii Sports Resort, The Conduit, Crystal Bearers, Dead Space, RE:DC), or was a total surprise.

Sounds about right.

I had expected Zelda, Pikmin and Retro's game.

I'm not disappointed in the slightest, just it wasn't what I'd expected.

Yeah, I didn't expect any of those games. Especially Metroid.

This is exactly what each company wants to do, too. While great announcements are definitely a good thing, great announcements theat no one sees coming are better. They generate much more talk, hype, press, etc. The story of E3 last year was FF XIII going to X360 despite equally impressive games being shown because that move specifically wasn't expected.

I was very surprised. I suspected Mario Galaxy 2, but NSMB Wii is way different than I expected. A 4 player co-op mario is badass though. The best part was the mind blowing metroid trailer.

Agreed. Surprise is the best word to summarize it with.

Metroid and SMB4 were very unexpected, but SMG2 was as good as confirmed. I certainly wasn't surprised to see it.

SWEET

not exactly a summary but a reaction.

I thought New Super Mario Bros. Wii was the new Mario so I was slightly dissapointed, then Galaxy 2 was announced and I cried tears of joy.

Surprise is probably the most accurate way to describe Nintendo's conference.

Wasnt expecting anying but the new mario. i thought it was going to be like last years except without an allways smiling hyper cammie who which IMO did a not so bad presentation. I never expected a new metroid title which was the only anouncement that blew me away. IMO i thought this was going suck til the metroid and mario came.