E3: Nintendo Press Conference
Hello again! Once more, thanks to Current Gaming and Phil Kollar, we bring you the highlight reel from the Nintendo Press Conference at this year’s E3. I thought there were some nice things, but people seem to be a bit bitchy about the showing. Hardcore gamer angst over the Wii still? You be the judge:
New Super Mario Bros. Wii: Looks like a take off of Zelda: Four Swords with a lot of 2D, 4 player action. You play as Mario and Luigi along with a couple of colored Toads. You can pick each other up to save each other from enemies, reach new areas and the like. You can switch between co-op and single player at any point. Out Holiday 2009. I like.
Wii Fit Plus: Milking at the tit of fat fucks the world over, the game that “kinda” makes you more healthy gets another round. This time they brag that the new game gives you more freedom to find an exercise routine that works for you. Mine involves beer. Doubt that’ll make it in there. 15 new mini-games included as well. New software bundled with board and without.
Wii Motion Plus: You remember the shit they were talking about last year? Yeah. It’s that. Again. Only now, they demonstrated a bit more of Wii Sports Resort with a skydiving event, some archery system that’s sketchy and a basketball game that sort of looks fun. Color me uninterested.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour and Grand Slam Tennis: Again, more sports shit that takes advantage of the Wii Motion Plus.
Red Steel 2: This was shown at the Ubi Soft press event last night. Looks bad ass to me. Your characters is a gunslinger with a sword. Built for 1 to 1 Wii Motion Plus control. Looks to solve a ton of the problems I had with the first one. Graphic style is the “Wii Graphic Novel” style we’ve come to know and love. Works for me.
Final Fantasy Open World..Something: Unnamed game that will use the Final Fantasy name. Touting it as an open world game specifically designed for the Wii.
Kingdom Hearts DS: Game coming out later this year. Looks great and I’m sure fans of the game are already planning how to eek more hours out of their day. Kollar comments that “It doesn’t look much worse than the PS2 games. That’s got to be one of the best-looking DS titles ever.”
Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story: So, Mario and Luigi get shrunk, get swallowed by Bowser. You get to explore the arch-fiend from the inside. Gross. And dirty. I know Mario been getting shit on but this is too much.
Golden Sun DS: FUCK. YES! If you’ve played the GBA versions of this awesome RPG, then you should already be excited. If you’ve never played them, the what the fuck are you doing reading this?! Go get it.
James Petterson Women’s Murder Club: James Patterson’s name should already tell anyone reading this site that it’s not a game for you. Instead, this one hits the desperate housewives of the world. Plays like an interactive novel. Maybe it will include a vibrator function for the sex scenes. I’m gonna go puke at the thought of millions of grandma’s playing this now. Thanks Nintendo.
COP: The Recruit: Ubisoft game targeted to the jaded hardcore crowd. You play a cop unraveling a conspiracy. You get to race around cars and..do shit in a third person perspective.
Style Savvy: Fuck this game.
DSi Ware: Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Bad ass! Downloadable title for the DSi that has a level creator. Able to share creations with your friends. Out on Monday!! Nice job, Nintendo.
WarioWare DIY: Again, a DSi game that allows you to create your own WarioWare style challenges and share them. I’m beginning to see the potential of this DSi.
DSi Facebook Love: This summer, you can post your DSi pictures to Facebook. Guess that’s the new trend these days. You can’t escape it. Don’t try.
Flipnotes Studio: For the DSi. Simple movie maker. If I were 10, I would have bought the system for this. Could be all kinds of kid friendly awesome.
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks DS: Strangely, nothing shown, just mentioned. Oddly, you can play it on the show floor, so go searching for screens. They’ll be out there.
Wii Vitality Sensor: A peripheral that you wear on your finger like a ring that measures pressure in your body. Somehow, this will help you to relax? Not sure what this is about but there it is.
Super Mario Galaxy 2: The megaton announcement of the press event! A direct sequel to SMG and features the same look and feel. You get to ride on colored Yoshi’s this time and it includes some new power-ups and awesome environments. Coming out sometime in 2010, according to Reggie’s interview w/G4 after the conference. I can’t wait for this one!
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles: Latest RE Lightgun game. Rad.
Dead Space: Extraction: Wii prequel to last year’s horror game. Looks like another light gun game. Works for me. I love those damn things.
Metroid: Other M: Second bad ass announcement today! Looks like they gave Metroid to Team Ninja and it shows! All kinds of Ninja Gaiden influences here. Lots of action, looks bad ass and will hit in 2010. Nice!
So, there you have it. Personally, I’m pretty excited by a lot of this. Lots of games that make me giddy with Nintendo nerdy glee. Let us know what you think in the comment section and be sure to hit up Current Gaming for further awesome E3 coverage!
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:06 pm
if Team Ninja Can pull it off, Metroid: Other M will be my game of the year 2010
Ninja Gaiden + Metroid Prime + Prince of Persia + 2D Metroid
If this works, I will be able to believe in Nintendo again, now, a 2D metroid game for the DS would also be great
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Way better than last year, yo… The Wii has some excellent stuff ahead for it in the form of SMG2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Team Ninja Metroid…amongst all the other things… They’re going to be taking the bulk of my gaming $$$ this year, it seems!
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:37 pm
It was better than last year, no doubt, but still terribly underwhelming. There was Mario: The Four Swords (Our title), Golden Sun, Galaxy 2, and Metroid. Aside from that: Jack and shit. Sure, Wii Sports Resort will be cool, but I’m not jacked about it. I thought that conference was pretty fucking terrible, honestly. The games I mentioned were the only things remotely interesting as where both Microsoft and Sony were both pretty non-stop with the good shit.
My favorite part was when I made the joke in the chatroom about them going after geriatric quadriplegics and then they showed that Vitality thing. Yep. I nailed it.
Oh, and Cammie Dunaway sucks.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I hope they give a subtitle for the new Super Mario Galaxy. Retrofitting 1′s onto titles is lame.
Overall it sounds like a good lineup and way better than I thought it would be going on. I can’t wait for Golden Sun DS and new Mario and Luigi.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
And with Team Ninja doing a new Metroid I wonder what Retro is doing.
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I acctually hope retro can do a new IP, or “reboot” another Nintendo franchise. I would absolutely love it if Retro was able to get it’s hands on the next Zelda
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Metroid looks pretty hot…I’ll definitely be checking that out.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:25 am
I think one could measure the conferences by “what people saw coming a mile away” (the so-called “Megaton”). Microsoft’s conference was void of megatons except for L4D2 and Halo Reach (which consisted of a trailer that was completely non-informative). Sony had Final Fantasy XIV and Modnation Racers. But really…Nintendo pulled out SMG2, NSMB(Wii) and a Metroid (farmed out to Team Ninja)…not to mention the other notable games, of course. NONE of those three options were forecast this press conference: (almost) everyone was guessing a new Wii Zelda title. Most of Microsoft’s and Sony’s conferences were guessed by the major blogs and podcasts weeks ago.
Whether or not Nintendo’s was exciting or not, how exactly can’t it be the most surprising (i.e. exciting)? Microsoft and Sony were almost predictable in what the presented…apart from what I mentioned earlier…
Regardless, all three conferences presented all kinds of goodness for the gaming masses to fawn over. Believe you me, I’m trying to calculate where all my $$$ will be going in the coming months…and all of it is going to video games. Screw rent and water bills…
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:33 am
@iduce620
You make a valid argument, Hell, the PSP GO was completely revealed 2 days before E3 and people have known about sony’s and microsofts attempts at motion control (which in my opinion, is better than what nintendo is doing with the wii and the motion plus) but I don’t think any one predicted a Team Ninja metroid Game or NSMB but a few sites did guess SMG2 at last minuet.
I was totally expecting Nintendo to use Metroid Prime Trilogy as a crutch this year at E3
June 3rd, 2009 at 4:30 am
Not yet mentioned: Miyamoto has confirmed that a new Zelda for the Wii is in development.
So combined with the goodness from the Microsoft and Sony shows, this is pretty much the best year ever.
I think it’s interesting that Microsoft and Sony have followed suit with motion control (probably in response to the money printing power of the Wii), but took it in totally different directions than Nintendo. Red Steel 2 pretty much proves that Motion Plus isn’t bullshit (where normal waggle almost always is), leaving everyone on roughly equal ground for motion gameplay.
On the other hand, Nintendo is now at a disadvantage on pretty much every other front. I wouldn’t be surprised is they actually got their heads out of their asses for once and announced a Wii HD or something later this year.
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:08 am
I thought Jeremey Parrish had a good blog post over at 1up. He wrote that this has been Nintendo’s biggest support of the big name franchises since the NES days. I’m inclined to agree. While I was expecting a conference full of love to soccer mom’s and a slightly embarrassed nod to the hardcore, what I got was a firm commitment to some of the most loved Nintendo games.
Golden Sun?!? I never thought I’d see that incredible RPG get a revival. A new hardcore Metroid and a sequel to one of my favorite Mario games ever? Rad. Lots of love for old school 2D gaming and no sign of trying to jack them with shitty family friendly Wii bullshit.
I say bravo, Nintendo. I thought you didn’t care but it looks like I misjudged you.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm
I could point out the lack of F-Zero and Star Fox. Also no 1080 and Wave Race. Those last 2 aren’t big name franchises but they are good.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
I think this just about sums it up…