Next Nintendo conference is on Thursday, but will anything come of it?

October 4th, 2009 Posted in General Nintendo, News, Written by Valay

The word on the street is that Nintendo is set to hold a retailer briefing/conference this coming Thursday. But will there any significant revelations from the event?

The thing is, these types of conferences are fairly standard for Nintendo. Just about every month, the Big N participates in retailer meetings so that upcoming first and third-party games can be displayed. Most recently, the release dates for a few games (including Sin and Punishment 2) were announced at one of the conferences, but other than that, there was nothing too noteworthy shared.

Also, it was made publicly known in 2008 that there would be a “Fall Conference.” But unlike this year, that information was published about a month before the event took place.

Taking all of that into consideration, in addition to the fact that Nintendo’s Denise Kaigler told IGN that the company is “not planning to do another big summit for all media this year,” the possibility of a big conference on Thursday doesn’t seem entirely likely. However, Kaigler’s statement was somewhat ambiguous, therefore one has to wonder whether or not that includes Nintendo’s annual conference in Japan.

Right now, no one can say for sure what will happen on Thursday. Will this just be another simple retail meeting, or will it shape up to be an event filled to the brim with announcements? Well, we’ll find out for sure in just a matter of days.

Source 1, Source 2, Source 3, Source 4

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Do you think they could announce anything

Do companies announce things at "retailer" briefings?

All I can remember is at one such conference I think ninty said a Mario game was coming this fall so "keep shelf space ready", that happened near the beginning of the year.

Maybe we may get such hints from them!

Thanks for the update darth

what do u think will be announced any ideas i think the fall game that u said abt earlier ^^^ was NSMBWii they were probably talking about NSMBWii

I thought they informed retailers of price cuts and such at retailer meetings, or maybe things like how they can sell more Wii's etc. Set up demo stations, maybe talk them into devoting larger sections to Wii and DS, giving them their software line up and prices, promotions. (of course this is just what I am guessing).

I don't think they would have huge game announcements, heh.

I hope ninty show some surprise

They will just announce the release date of Zelda Spirit Tracks and NSMBWii for Japan. Move on.

BTW guys, neogaf is not a source that I would call a legitimate reference. Either quote who they are quoting or simply go for one of the main gaming sites, magazines, or prominent blogs (ie gonintendo).

Anyways, probably not too much will come out of this unless they are going to announce some marketing strategies for a few of their games and the Wii/DSi. I really wouldn't expect too much out of it but hey Ninty is talking so obviously something important must be going on. Just got to see how relevant that is to us.

Nintendo themselves hasn't hyped it at all, but you never know. Could possibly yield some Galaxy 2, at least, since that one isn't far around the corner.

not expecting any big annocment.

bundles, NSMB Wii bundles

meh, nothing really big is coming out of this.