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I like Bacon on 07 June 2009

This is Ninetndo's best E3 since 2006. What the hell? 07 and 08 were awful.

I thought Nintendo did amazingly well.

However, they should have at least announced that Pikmin 3 was still in developement at the conference, instead of at the roundtable with Miyamoto.

Is Nintendo going to have an event in October like last year? If so, I would expect Pikmin 3, Mario Party 9 to be unveiled there. Plus more info on other games too. Galaxy 2, NSMB Wii, Pokemon HG & SS etc...



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Squilliam on 07 June 2009
NJ5 said:

@theprof00: He has a point though, most FPS games are quite casual. A while ago I used to play a few rounds of Quake 3 with a bunch of friends who weren't big gamers...

Most modern games are what PC gamers of 10-20 years ago would call casual. The definition is just shifting.

 

Since I was a PC gamer 20 years ago, does that make me hardcore?



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Smashchu2 on 07 June 2009
I like Bacon said:
This is Ninetndo's best E3 since 2006. What the hell? 07 and 08 were awful.

I thought Nintendo did amazingly well.

However, they should have at least announced that Pikmin 3 was still in developement at the conference, instead of at the roundtable with Miyamoto.

Is Nintendo going to have an event in October like last year? If so, I would expect Pikmin 3, Mario Party 9 to be unveiled there. Plus more info on other games too. Galaxy 2, NSMB Wii, Pokemon HG & SS etc...

Nintendo has a policy now to not talk much about games until they are close top their release date. The longest span of time we have is typically E3 which shows games a few months in advance. Nintendo is trying to avoid long periods of knowing games to prevent people getting bored and to not confuse consumers as to when the game is coming out (the pipeline of information is closer to launch so when people hear about it, they can go to the store and buy it).

Nintendo will show some games in October, so Pikmin 3 may end up there. Don't expect Zelda until E32010.



Squilliam on 07 June 2009
Smashchu2 said:
dahuman said:

Natal won't be useful until MS releases a new console, whenever that is, that's just how it's gonna work, it's the same with the PS3 motion control, they have to include all that as a standard package for the next console, they are way too late for this gen. Just think about it and it's clear, Nintendo's research and patent started back in 2001, Sony's was 2004(or 2005, can't remember,) and MS is a full year at best, it just goes off to show you that perfecting a tech and making it into full use is no easy task, maybe next gen.

It's also the softyware. When Nintendo launched the Wii, there were a ton of Wii Remote games. They even made Zelda one. I don't think Sony and Microsoft have the  software either. They just showed tech demos. There is no third party games either. Plus, the consoles are too expensive, and people don't want to spend that much for a game console. They are just too little too late, and they don't have the backing to be succesful.

When Nintendo released the Wii they essentially just rebranded the Gamecube. So obviously the software would quickly follow. Microsoft/Sony could very well do the same.



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misterd on 07 June 2009
saicho said:
^

why you have to diss Spielberg like that? Boom Blox is awesome!


What I loved was Speilerg saying that even the SF writers hadn't thought up stuff like the Natal and Milo.

?

Didn't he direct Minority Report? Had he never heard of Max Headroom? The holodeck episodes of TNG?



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misterd on 07 June 2009
Squilliam said:
Smashchu2 said:
dahuman said:

Natal won't be useful until MS releases a new console, whenever that is, that's just how it's gonna work, it's the same with the PS3 motion control, they have to include all that as a standard package for the next console, they are way too late for this gen. Just think about it and it's clear, Nintendo's research and patent started back in 2001, Sony's was 2004(or 2005, can't remember,) and MS is a full year at best, it just goes off to show you that perfecting a tech and making it into full use is no easy task, maybe next gen.

It's also the softyware. When Nintendo launched the Wii, there were a ton of Wii Remote games. They even made Zelda one. I don't think Sony and Microsoft have the  software either. They just showed tech demos. There is no third party games either. Plus, the consoles are too expensive, and people don't want to spend that much for a game console. They are just too little too late, and they don't have the backing to be succesful.

When Nintendo released the Wii they essentially just rebranded the Gamecube. So obviously the software would quickly follow. Microsoft/Sony could very well do the same.

Nintendo's always renamed their consoles because Nintendo is the brand. Nintendo= gaming.

Sony and Microsoft, however, have many fingers in many pies. They have invested a great deal in the Playstation and XBox names as their gaming brand, and I don't know that they will be willing to ditch those names.



Squilliam on 07 June 2009
misterd said:
Squilliam said:

When Nintendo released the Wii they essentially just rebranded the Gamecube. So obviously the software would quickly follow. Microsoft/Sony could very well do the same.

Nintendo's always renamed their consoles because Nintendo is the brand. Nintendo= gaming.

Sony and Microsoft, however, have many fingers in many pies. They have invested a great deal in the Playstation and XBox names as their gaming brand, and I don't know that they will be willing to ditch those names.

What I was meaning was, Gamecube = Wii. Wiimote = potential Gamecube accessory. They also have a history of releasing many iterations of the same console.



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ksv on 07 June 2009

The games are pretty boring, too. The "new" Mario game for this year is all but a port of the New Super Mario Bros. released for the Nintendo DS in 2006.  The new Zelda game?  Semi-announced at a developer event after the keynote.  Super Mario Galaxy 2 is next year; what's noteworthy is that Nintendo has only had one successful Mario game per platform since the breakthrough success of Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES -- follow ups like Mario Sunshine have been relative flops.

 

WHAT? First of all, Sunshine wasn't a follow-up, it was the only main Mario game on the cube. Second, it sold 6.28 million copies?! That's a relative flop? It's sold more than the top seller on PS3, and only 3 games on 360 have topped that.

I don't understand why you would post something from a source that obviously has no idea what he is talking about?



woopah on 07 June 2009

guys stopped being hyped for pikmin 3 itll probably come out after zelda



 nintendo fanboy, but the good kind

proud soldier of nintopia

 

I like Bacon on 07 June 2009
Smashchu2 said:
I like Bacon said:
This is Ninetndo's best E3 since 2006. What the hell? 07 and 08 were awful.

I thought Nintendo did amazingly well.

However, they should have at least announced that Pikmin 3 was still in developement at the conference, instead of at the roundtable with Miyamoto.

Is Nintendo going to have an event in October like last year? If so, I would expect Pikmin 3, Mario Party 9 to be unveiled there. Plus more info on other games too. Galaxy 2, NSMB Wii, Pokemon HG & SS etc...

Nintendo has a policy now to not talk much about games until they are close top their release date. The longest span of time we have is typically E3 which shows games a few months in advance. Nintendo is trying to avoid long periods of knowing games to prevent people getting bored and to not confuse consumers as to when the game is coming out (the pipeline of information is closer to launch so when people hear about it, they can go to the store and buy it).

Nintendo will show some games in October, so Pikmin 3 may end up there. Don't expect Zelda until E32010.


All I said was for them to mention it. To announce it. That's all. lol

You kind of wasted your time quoting my post then.

Miyamoto said Zelda Wii will be shown at E3 next year. or did he say "maybe"? I forget. Anyway, I know all of that stuff. But then why did they announce Mario Galaxy 2 way ahead of time?