E3 07: Nintendo Press Conference

I really wanted to hear more about games that were unannounced. I mean honestly, besides Mario Kart and WiiFit I already knew about every last one of these games. Wheres the "holy shit!!" type of hype from E3 of old? Not to say I don't look forward to these games, but christ.....why even host an E3 conference when everything is just rehashed news?

wow thats extremely disappointing the new miyamoto game is a fitness game :(

That was disappointing. No major game announcements besides Mario Kart Wii. Good to see confirmed SMG and SSBM dates, although still no definite online mulitplayer confirmation for the latter. No sign of the Nintendo titles that were shown E3 2006, like Disaster: Day of Crisis and Project H.A.M.M.E.R. A multitude of peripherals that will support one or two games. Online functionality looking up a little with EA sports online multiplayer and Mario Strikers Charged this year, and WiiWare next year.

smash december 3rd

"we care about online"......"we have 5 whole games!"....."did you hear that? 5!"......."see we care about online gaming."

Wii Fit is great, I love the board, and it's gonna sell gazillions of copies.
There were many okay/inoffensive/nice announcements made. I'll probably end up playing some of them.

But altogether it's still a huge dissapointment because to the way they framed this conference. They kept referring to the hardcore and that they were out to prove how the hardcore will still be excited, but that's not where the focus of this conference was at all. Hinting at a new miyamoto IP and then revealing it to be Wii Fit is super lame.

The FPS lightgun thing is the only major announcement for the 'hardcore'. It'll mean a LOT for FPSes on the Wii. But that's it.

Microsoft is still too traditional hardcore, at least based on its conference (where are more colorful and casual games, besides the Arcade ones?) and Nintendo is almost the opposite. I'd like more games that occupy the middle ground, if that makes any sense.

Wait...how are these people playing Mario Galaxy?!?

Call me crazy, but Wii Fit looks really cool.

I really don't care for Wii Fit. I wasn't a fan of Brain Age or Wii Sports either. I enjoyed Wii Sports as a way to try out the potential of the system, but without depth I couldn't play it for long. Nintendo seems to have done what they wanted and attracted the non-gamers with these types of games, which is fantastic. They are now catering to both crowds, the non-gamers who bought a Wii due to its simplicity and want more of these types of games, as well as the crowd that clamors for new Mario Kart games, and Brawl. It just sucks that this keynote focused more on the games I didn't care about. I want Brawl multiplayer details damnit!@!

9:51: [...] New Miyamoto game to be announced in a few minutes, hoping to bridge audiences.
:D :D :D

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9:59: Miyamoto's game: Wii Fit, fitness game with a small floor pad.
:[ :[ :[

mario kart wii comfermed

mario kart wii - first of next year - online (battlemode too)

http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/20070711_Nintendo.x

Is the correct link, it seems

live feed at http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/20070711_nintendo.x gives 404 x_x

metroid on stage :)

Mario beat sonic, ahaha

wii zapper! looks strange, combine the remote plus the nunchuck, re: uc works with it.

AWESOME, Nintendo is releasing a Halo 3 themed xbox 360 !!!

change the link Chris :(

"now that;s alot of sccoer moms"

lol reggie burn.

Wrong liiiiiiiiiiink!

nice intro....but now lots of sales talk, hope its not too long.

Link is currently going to the MS press conference page