Nintendo's Best E3 Ever, just not the E3 part

Of course a new mario and Zelda are "in the works", they would stop the franchise out of nowhere! Same goes for pikmin and Animal Crossing....at least they showed something about AC. Where's the information about them? Nintendo's E3 was a joke.Junior_AIN

info about which games?

Best E3? No. Far from it.

Nearly all of the stuff you mentioned was either highly expected or previously confirmed. There were no surprises at all.

I'll admit that the Wii Motion Plus looks cool, but I'll only end up buying it if a really good game supports it (namely Zelda) and even then I doubt I would buy one for all 4 of my Wiimotes.

I can't really say I was TOO disappointed though considering I expected a flood of casual games...

Of course a new mario and Zelda are "in the works", they would stop the franchise out of nowhere! Same goes for pikmin and Animal Crossing....at least they showed something about AC. Where's the information about them? Nintendo's E3 was a joke.Junior_AIN

Those are pretty much my feelings. All those "confirmations" mean absolutely nothing unless something is shown. We already knew these games were in the works.

So that leaves us with Animal Crossing, Wii Sports 2, and Wii Music. Animal Crossing looks fun and promising. No complaints there. Wii Sports 2 looks alright I guess, but the fact that they are bundling Wii Motion Plus in with it tells you that the game will be extremely shallow just like Wii Play. Wii Music is a lot worse than I was hoping for. Hopefully it looks a lot more promising upon reading some hands on previews.

In conclusion, the only highly positive aspect of the conference from Nintendo was Animal Crossing which is a third tier franchise, if that.

Thank god there are some great third party games on the horizon otherwise Wii owners would be screwed for the rest of 2008 and ealy 2009.

Nintendo's worse E3 ever. Why do people keep acting as if every Nintendo fan is an Animal Crossing fan? There are at least 3 non-fans for every fan when it comes to people who own a Wii. And Wii Music was very dissapointing, hands-on impressions only validated that point.

This Fall's line-up from Nintendo is so sparse, it's really quite sad. Animal Crossing and Wii Music, that is all we're getting. Wow, truly sad.

This Fall's line-up from Nintendo is so sparse, it's really quite sad. Animal Crossing and Wii Music, that is all we're getting. Wow, truly sad.

-Despacio-

They are also releasing Mario Super Sluggers and Wario Land Shake, but those are more summer titles...

Still there were alot of problems.
1. they did not really adress the problem with the lack of third party support. Instead they sugar coated it with a heavy quantity of games ignoring the actual quality most of them lack.

2. They did not adress storage issues. Yes some games will be using SD cards now for DLC and such but nothing deffinitive and nothing as appropriate as a HDD.

3. They did not really show all the more interesting games except AC. Pikmin, Zelda, Kid Icarus, and some third party games were not even showcased at the conference.

4. AC Wii is already showing some major flaws(while still holdings lots of promise). They wont use the weather channel because some people have extreme weather conditions and just like everyone is saying why dont you have the option to choose to use the weather system or not. ALso only 4 people allowed in the town at one time and the connection for all 4 is lost if 1 is d/c. You cant play your VC games from AC. There seems to be really cool ideas sprouting from this game but then they fall short from qeird decisions Nintendo is making. I hear there is DS connection but how far will they go(im guessing very vague).

5. Why did they not showcase better third party games at their main conference. The Conduit, de Blob, Deadly Creatures, Mad World, Moon, Chrono Trigger and so many more for both systems. Nintendo shoul;d be helping the developers that are sticking their necks out not the games that are assured success.

6. The WiiSpeack is intersting but it will fall short if I cant just plug a headset in.(shouldnt it be the same principle) Imagine playing The Conduit with the WiiSpeak as opposed to a headset.

7. Motion 1:1 looks awsome but it will also fall short if they dont release a Wiimote that has it all included without attachments.

8. WHeres the Wii/DS connection? Thats kinda important and a big sales driver and all I saw was a small part of AC use it.

Look, Nintendo's E3 wasnt that great but that does not mean it was not alot better than the horrid crap that Sony and MS had. ALot of ideas and games look awsome but Nintendo has weird decisions surrounding them that dampens the experience or the success of the product. Like I said basically hiding all the games that matter(The Conduit), all the problems with a still very good game(Animal Crossing), and so on.

Nothing about Kid Icarus was confirmed, was it? Or is that just based on Miyamoto's answer to the questions about it?meinink2y

nah, 2004 was the best, why?

- Awesome beginning, showed off great games such as metroid prime 2

- announced and showed nintendo ds

- the nintendo ds had awesome technology

- Showed Super Mario 64 DS

- announced that they are indeed working on a new console that will be revolutionary

- oh yea, "my name is reggie, im about kicking ass, im about taking names, and WE'RE about making games!"

- Great 3rd party games were showcased, such as re4

- o sweet,sweet zelda~

and tons more!

E3 2006 was the best because thats when they annouced the Wii and showed alot of Wii games. musicman748

well, technically no. They first announced they were working on a new "revolutionary" system in 2004. Then they show cased the Nintendo Revolution in 2005. And in 2006, they renamed it to what we all know as "Wii".

2004 was certainly the best E3 is the GC/Wii era. Anyone remember this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lg89rUwdAJc

Why can't Nintendo make us that happy again. Compare that crowd reaction to E3 2008.