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[uzumakishade]

i knwo this is late considering the microsoft conference was today but what do you predict will be on the nintendo and sony conferences this e3?

[Ghostly_One]

For Nintendo I hope there'll be more information of Animal Crossing for the Wii and more information on this MotionPlus input that was recently announced (http://au.wii.ign.com/articles/888/888837p1.html).
I've heard rumours of a new DS design with a built in accelerometer and that makes sense considering Nintendo patented a motion-sensitive handheld device not too long ago. Also I'm hoping there'll be a couple of surprises for games to look forward to; new Zelda game anyone?

I'm looking forward to some PS3 details, I'm thinking about getting one and I hope they'll announce something that'll make up my mind for me.

13 hours, 42 minutes and 10 seconds till Nintendo's conference!

[tennisgy]

 Nin. Conference (DS) predictions/hopes
New DS version sub-$100 like the rumors say   
FF5 dated for DS 
Tilt functionality
DQ9 Dated for U.S.

[fexo]

Well, if you want to keep up with it, Nintendo is doing live streams to (at least) the UK website according to an e-mail that we received yesterday.

http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/e3_2008_8846.html

They have mentioned a Wiimote add-on to more accurately reflect movements.

[Ghostly_One]

WiiSpeak, oh my god, YES! Animal Crossing by the end of 2008, oh my god, YES!
And only half an hour in!
Sorry for this uninformative post, I'm so excited though!

Edit 9:45am:
GTA for DS? Now that is one hell of a surprise.

Edit 9:53am:
Wii Sports Resort, sword duelling; that's awesome.

Edit 10:10am:
Well, I'm happy with Nintendo's announcements, all my hopes were confirmed and I got a couple of surprises like I wanted.
Especially happy to hear that Zelda's makers are "hard at work" on a new title for Wii, Animal Crossing surprised me with WiiSpeak; that's very new ground for Nintendo, hopefully we'll see more titles with improved online communication following Animal Crossing: City Folk.
Glad to see that Wii MotionPlus will come bundled with Wii Sports Resort and a larger jacket but I'm also wondering where the Nunchuk will go for other games using MotionPlus.
By far the biggest surprise was Grand Theft Auto: China Town Wars for DS, I never in a million years saw a GTA title coming to DS. I'm not to sure the DS is powerful enough to cope with a GTA title, at least not in 3D, we'll see how it plays out though.
Wii Music looks pretty entertaining, Shigeru Miyamoto really gave it to that cowbell haha, just what the Mario theme needed; more cowbell! (You won't get what I mean unless you saw it, it should be viewable via IGN, Gamespot, etc. soon and you will see )
I'm off to bed now, it's almost 3:30am.

What did you guys think of Nintendo's conference and their announcements?

[uzumakishade]

greatest conference ever!
motionplus is win cant wait to see new games take adavantage of that
also cant wait for animal crossing wii as well, wii music looks pretty cool
man i cant wait to get my wii now!

[Ghostly_One]

If you didn't catch the conference it's now viewable 24/7 via: http://livewire.ign.com/2008/e3/index.html
Just download the plugin (if you haven't already) and click "Press Conferences" at the right side of the player.

Oh dear, I just realised that the Sony conference is on in an hour, looks like it's no sleep tonight for me.

[DeVS]

Nintendo's conference was weak as hell. Sony actually stole the show this year. I mean N said they are working on a Mario and Zelda game but didn't say a word else about it. No mention of estimated release, just said during the Wii's life cycle which could mean 3 to 4 years from now. Not a pic, video, nothing. No new Kid Icarus,ect. The little Wii motion add on looks great, but the new Star Wars Clone Wars wont be taking advantage of it so no bad ass light saber action. Nintendo hasn't had an E3 this weak since the one before they announced the Wii. Microsoft is doing their best to make the XboX360 look like a Wii now with the "channels" and "avatars",lol, sad shit from M$.

[socket]

The good stuff was good, like Animal Crossing... but overall I wasn't impressed.  I liked Sony's better, but still not THAT much there either.  Sony is at least seeming going to make a real effort to try to catch up to 360's stuff... But like you said MS's Wiiifying is ridiculous.  Oh well.  We'll see what happens with all of this stuff.

Still waiting for Home.

[DeVS]

MTV's Multiplayer blog asked Shigeru Miyamoto at E3 today if he could talk about the new projects Nintendo’s internal “Mario” & “Zelda” teams are hard at work and when will we hear more about them? Miyamoto replied: “What I can say is that typically games like that take anywhere from two to three years to finish those up,” said Miyamoto. “We do have the teams together and the teams are all working. The other thing that I can say is that in the past we haven’t really had much opportunity to release two Mario titles or two Zelda titles on a single hardware system. Our plan is to try to do that with Wii. With that in mind, the teams are working hard at this point.”

Damn see what I mean! Seriously though, they should have been working on a Wii Zelda 2 years ago. Twilight Princes is AMAZING and my all time favorite game, but it was a GameCube game they ported to the Wii. They should have started developing a true Wii Zelda game when they began working on Mario Galaxy. Shit I would have loved if they would have thrown us a new Pikmin game which is a franchise that is just crying out for some Wii controls to it, it would be a perfect game to use the Wiimote with. If M$ can get 2 Halo games and Sony can get 2 to 3 GTA games on it's consoles, then surely Nintendo can throw us 2 Zelda or Mario games sooner then ever 6 to 8 years. And im sorry, but WiiMusic looks like a turd!!!!!

Ohh and I just read that the Wiimotion dongle thing wont come out for almost a whole year, Spring of 2009. 

[DeVS]

Ok I can't stop thinking about the press conference and being more pissed,lol. Everyone keeps pegging the Wii as a console with nothing more then 500 mini games, and Nintendo did nothing to make that statement untrue. Look at the games they talked about the most, WiiSports, WiiPlay, WiiFit, and then their "major" announcements were Animal Crossing, WiiMusic, WiiSports: Resort. "Party" game after party game. I know they want the Wii to be a pick up and easily play console so they can attract the "non" gamers, but what about US gamers? There wasn't not 1 game announced that was of epic story telling, not a SINGLE one. M$ announced Gears of War 2, Fable 2 and Final Fantasy 13, Sony announced Kill Zone 2, God of War III, DC Universe,ect. Hell the Wii isn't even getting Resident Evil 5 or the new Sonic game like Sony and M$. Nintendo is starting to slide big time now.

[uzumakishade]

if your talking about sonic unleashed it is for wii as well

[socket]

It was a sad day when I parted with my Wii.  I'm still considering picking up another... but I really don't feel like I'm missing out on all that much.  I still hang with my brother once or twice a week who has his Wii, and that's good enough for me.

[tennisgy]

There was a new vid for Conduit which was the absolutely best part lol

May make me get a wii.

[DeVS]

Pikmin Wii was confirmed to be in the making so im happy as hell right now!

Holy hell look at this new footage of Mad World for the Wii:

[gametrailers=420,360]http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36714.html[/gametrailers]

That game is looking great!!

Here is some The Conduit footage, it too looks bad ass:

[gametrailers=420,360]http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36548.html[/gametrailers]

Here is a look at Wario Land: Shake It (Im a total sucker for 2D platformers):

[gametrailers=420,360]http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36539.html[/gametrailers]