Please do not refresh this liveblog, it automatically updates every couple of seconds to save you time! See the full liveblog after the jump. Nintendo had a couple surprises from core IPs this year, but nothing mind-blowing:
- 12:59 AM gameusagi - This liveblog will start on June 2nd at 8:00 AM CST.
- 9:39 AM gameusagi - Got our times wrong… It will be 10:00 AM CST, sorry for the confusion.
- 9:53 AM gameusagi - Here we go! About 7 minutes left
- 9:57 AM gameusagi - Nintendo implicitly reminding us that their logo isn’t red anymore <_<
- 9:58 AM gameusagi - Big white Nintendo logo up on the TVs
- 9:58 AM gameusagi - It’s starting!!
- 10:00 AM gameusagi - Just a “turn your Bluetooth junk off” warning
- 10:03 AM gameusagi - Hello cheesy Wii experience video reel
- 10:04 AM gameusagi - Blar, Cammie is back <_<
- 10:04 AM gameusagi - She looks more serious this time, we’ll see…
- 10:05 AM gameusagi - She’s like 80-times more serious looking…. Talking pure numbers right now
- 10:06 AM gameusagi - She hasn’t even smiled once, feels like a Sony conference
- 10:07 AM gameusagi - She promises surprises!
- 10:07 AM gameusagi - Now intimating a Mario surprise
- 10:07 AM gameusagi - Old Mario game reel
- 10:08 AM gameusagi - OH NO! She said 4th dimension…
- 10:08 AM gameusagi - SONY SONY SONY
- 10:08 AM gameusagi - New Super Mario Bros. for Wii!
- 10:08 AM gameusagi - Going to get a demo now
- 10:09 AM gameusagi - No one’s really smiling… feels like Microsoft had more heart almost
- 10:09 AM gameusagi - Blue & Yellow Toads are playable
- 10:09 AM gameusagi - Looks like New Super Mario Bros.
- 10:09 AM gameusagi - Pretty much exactly, actually
- 10:10 AM gameusagi - 4-player co-op New Super Mario Bros.
- 10:11 AM gameusagi - Real-time switch between co-op and single player
- 10:11 AM gameusagi - New item – propeller suit
- 10:11 AM gameusagi - Shoots you up in a tornado
- 10:11 AM gameusagi - With a shake from the wiimore
- 10:12 AM gameusagi - (wiimote*) They’re having microphone issues -_-
- 10:12 AM gameusagi - Basically New Super Mario Bros. ported to Wii with 4-player co-op *sigh*
- 10:12 AM gameusagi - Cammie lost, naturally
- 10:12 AM gameusagi - Frito-Lay is still in her blood
- 10:13 AM gameusagi - Launches Worldwide this Chirstmas
- 10:13 AM gameusagi - New Super Mario Bros. Wii
- 10:13 AM gameusagi - Still kind of meh, unfortunately, already played New Super Mario Bros.
- 10:14 AM gameusagi - Now talking Wii Fit, implying that it’s like a system onto itself
- 10:14 AM gameusagi - Talking about making Wii Fit Plus
- 10:15 AM gameusagi - Finds a specific workout routine that’s right for you
- 10:15 AM gameusagi - Ooo, 6 new strength & yoga activities
- 10:15 AM gameusagi - Nintendo’s repackaging its old games…. -_-
- 10:15 AM gameusagi - Looks exactly the same
- 10:16 AM gameusagi - Cammie still being grumpy pants, preferable that way
- 10:16 AM gameusagi - Humping numbers is one new minigame, “Brain Age for your backside”
- 10:17 AM gameusagi - 16 new minigames, available apart or with a balance board – coming Christmas-ish
- 10:17 AM gameusagi - Now a Wii trailer with old games
- 10:17 AM gameusagi - YAY REGGIE!
- 10:17 AM gameusagi - There better be some asses kicked
- 10:18 AM gameusagi - Reggie talking about how cool the Wii is, nothing much
- 10:19 AM gameusagi - “Next advance in game control” — Wii MotionPlus
- 10:19 AM gameusagi - They may have forgotten that we heard about this last year
- 10:20 AM gameusagi - Just saying things about Wii MotionPlus that we already know
- 10:21 AM gameusagi - Film reel now trying to be mildly hardcore showing ping-pong, basketball, and samurai-ness with the MotionPlus
- 10:22 AM gameusagi - Basically a teaser for WiiSports Resort, which we’ve already seen
- 10:22 AM gameusagi - Ping-pong, kayak, archery, frisbee, basketball, swordfighting, and improved golf
- 10:23 AM gameusagi - Let’s show you Wii MotionPlus in action! Again!
- 10:23 AM gameusagi - Live demo of WiiSports Resort, which we should have had already
- 10:24 AM gameusagi - You start off by sky-diving into the Resort
- 10:25 AM gameusagi - Works basically how one would imagine
- 10:25 AM gameusagi - Archery demo going very slowly now -_-
- 10:26 AM gameusagi - Have to compensate for distance and wind like regular archery.
- 10:27 AM gameusagi - It’ll be fun, but just simple Wii-Noun/Adjective fun
- 10:27 AM gameusagi - Says that it’s challenging enough for core gamers
- 10:27 AM gameusagi - Reggie laying down some smack-talk
- 10:28 AM gameusagi - Going to play against the demo guy in WiiSports Resort basketball
- 10:29 AM gameusagi - Oh, snap, Reggie – much insulting of poor little Bill demo man
- 10:29 AM gameusagi - Reggie’s being a bricklayer
- 10:29 AM gameusagi - Having his butt handed to him by Bill
- 10:30 AM gameusagi - He could still take it, though
- 10:30 AM gameusagi - YES
- 10:30 AM gameusagi - Reggie wins at the last second as the timer goes
- 10:30 AM gameusagi - Fun times, but we’ve still seen this already
- 10:30 AM gameusagi - Launches July 26th, probably because they wanted to have it at E3 again
- 10:31 AM gameusagi - Tiger Woods 10, Grand Slam Tennis, and Virtua Tennis 2009 all using MotionPlus
- 10:31 AM gameusagi - All available in “a matter of weeks”
- 10:32 AM gameusagi - Red Steel 2 only playable with Wii MotionPlus
- 10:32 AM gameusagi - Wii sold the most 3rd-party games of any system last year, DS was in second (mostly the Imagine games, I’d assume -_-)
- 10:32 AM gameusagi - Now talking RPGs
- 10:33 AM gameusagi - Showing FFCC Crystal Bearers trailer
- 10:33 AM gameusagi - Graphics look about like FFXII
- 10:34 AM gameusagi - Kingdom Hearts DS coming North America-side Sept. 29th
- 10:35 AM gameusagi - Can’t remember the number ratio used in the title, you know what I mean
- 10:35 AM gameusagi - Mario & Luigi 3: Bowser’s Inside Story
- 10:36 AM gameusagi - Going to be fantastic, apparently you’re shrunk down to microbe size and ingested by Bowser
- 10:36 AM gameusagi - This game outsold SF IV on both PS3 and 360 combined in its first week, you know it’ll be sweet
- 10:37 AM gameusagi - Due out in NA and America this Fall
- 10:37 AM gameusagi - Golden Sun DS announced
- 10:37 AM gameusagi - Tears of joy from Golden Sun fans
- 10:38 AM gameusagi - Nice FFCC-like 3D environments and enemies with 2D sprite characters
- 10:38 AM gameusagi - Kind of like the early Tales RPGs
- 10:39 AM gameusagi - James Patterson interactive novels coming to DS
- 10:39 AM gameusagi - Subtitled “Women’s Murder Club: Games of Passion”
- 10:39 AM gameusagi - Mostly like Another Code/Trace Memory
- 10:40 AM gameusagi - New DS game called C.O.P. from Ubisoft
- 10:41 AM gameusagi - Driver-like free-roaming game
- 10:41 AM gameusagi - Graphics like original Spyphon Filter, not great
- 10:41 AM gameusagi - But full “gritty” sandbox game for DS
- 10:42 AM gameusagi - Female preteen fashion-design game called “Style Savvy”
- 10:42 AM gameusagi - Blarf*
- 10:42 AM gameusagi - Looks like an Imagine game with better graphics
- 10:42 AM gameusagi - “Compete in Runway contests!”
- 10:43 AM gameusagi - You can tell Cammie likes Style Savvy <_<
- 10:44 AM gameusagi - DSi reel now — goodness, we already know what’s out there
- 10:44 AM gameusagi - Interviews with Nintendo fan-persons talking about how much they love DSi
- 10:45 AM gameusagi - 1 Million DSi’s sold in NA already
- 10:46 AM gameusagi - The company in the #1 position always has boring E3s
- 10:46 AM gameusagi - Moving Memo pad (called Flipnote Studio) coming out this summer for DSiware
- 10:46 AM gameusagi - Mario Vs. Donkey Kong 3 coming to DS
- 10:46 AM gameusagi - Full level builder and online submission of built levels
- 10:47 AM gameusagi - Subtitle: “Minis March Again” – playable on show floor – DSiWare exclusive coming June 8th (Monday)
- 10:48 AM gameusagi - Warioware DIY (Do It Yourself) (Made in Ore in Japan) announced for NA
- 10:48 AM gameusagi - Features the build-your-own-minigame already well known
- 10:49 AM gameusagi - Image-sharing to facebook from DSi
- 10:49 AM gameusagi - facebook just raking in the awesomeness from the game companies
- 10:49 AM gameusagi - facebook-ness coming this summer
- 10:50 AM gameusagi - Zelda: Spirit Tracks on the showfloor at E3
- 10:50 AM gameusagi - Sad that Zelda got such a small mention thus far
- 10:51 AM gameusagi - Reel showing off Nintendo’s past successes again, starting to feel like SONY with the PS2
- 10:51 AM gameusagi - Satoru Iwata takes the stage!
- 10:51 AM gameusagi - Yay~, hello Engrish, I like Iwata
- 10:51 AM gameusagi - Awesome floppy hand-genstures as always
- 10:52 AM gameusagi - Says that some believe the audience expansion movement is beginning to fade
- 10:52 AM gameusagi - Says that there are three kinds of people: Active Gamers, Maybe Gamers, and Never Gamers
- 10:53 AM gameusagi - 295 million gamers in the countries surveyed
- 10:53 AM gameusagi - Which is why he should give us Wii Zelda <_< (not mentioned yet, of course)
- 10:53 AM gameusagi - Wants to increase gamers population by 50%
- 10:54 AM gameusagi - Instead of making me F-Zero or Star Fox <_<
- 10:54 AM gameusagi - (again, not actually said, just implied)
- 10:54 AM gameusagi - Talking more about the pros of casual games
- 10:55 AM gameusagi - Might as well just be holding a bowling ball over the crowd ready to let go of it
- 10:55 AM gameusagi - “No one was born an expert gamer”
- 10:56 AM gameusagi - Mentions Mario Kart Wii as a positive step in the right direction blurring the line between casual and hardcore gamers
- 10:57 AM gameusagi - While my multiplayer mode was skinned and gutted for that unfortunate game
- 10:57 AM gameusagi - Proper balloon battles are too much to ask for these days
- 10:58 AM gameusagi - Sneak peek of some new casual game apparently coming
- 10:58 AM gameusagi - Wii Vitality Sensor attachment
- 10:59 AM gameusagi - Hospital heart monitor that clips to finger that clips into the Wiimote
- 10:59 AM gameusagi - NOW YOU MUST CLIP YOUR FINGERS INTO STUFF SO YOU CAN’T PRESS BUTTONS TO PLAY PROPER GAMES — apparently
- 11:00 AM gameusagi - Kind of hard to play with a huge thing clipped to your index finger
- 11:00 AM gameusagi - Iwata’s out
- 11:00 AM gameusagi - Should stop killing the old Nintendo
- 11:00 AM gameusagi - but not the Yamauchi Nintendo which was too crazy in the other direction
- 11:01 AM gameusagi - Aaaaand some more Mario games
- 11:01 AM gameusagi - Mario Galaxy 2 announcement trailer
- 11:01 AM gameusagi - With Yoshi~
- 11:02 AM gameusagi - Tee hee, Yoshi is awesome
- 11:02 AM gameusagi - But again, a new game would have been better
- 11:02 AM gameusagi - Lots of new stuff, huge ice planets
- 11:02 AM gameusagi - Drill item that… drills stuff
- 11:03 AM gameusagi - Stop time switches that turn everything black and white
- 11:03 AM gameusagi - Planet shaped like Mario’s head
- 11:03 AM gameusagi - First decent announcement so far
- 11:04 AM gameusagi - Minus Golden Sun for those Golden Sun types, I suppose
- 11:04 AM gameusagi - Reggie’s saying that he knows precisely how much we hate him at the moment
- 11:04 AM gameusagi - And how we all have other systems to play decent games on
- 11:05 AM gameusagi - Hi-light The Conduit
- 11:05 AM gameusagi - Good thing that Nintendo recognizes that it’s a good game for once
- 11:05 AM gameusagi - Comes out at the end of June
- 11:06 AM gameusagi - Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles trailer
- 11:06 AM gameusagi - New on-rails shooter that we already know about
- 11:06 AM gameusagi - Graphics are somewhere around Resident Evil 4′s with perhaps some nicer shaders
- 11:07 AM gameusagi - Aaaand, Dead Space: Extraction
- 11:07 AM gameusagi - Prequel to Dead Space, again mostly an on-rails shooter
- 11:07 AM gameusagi - Already seen trailers, etc. Need some new stuff, Reggie
- 11:08 AM gameusagi - Still, should be pretty decent
- 11:08 AM gameusagi - Graphics are nice
- 11:09 AM gameusagi - Says they have a new, edgier game
- 11:09 AM gameusagi - 1st-party-style
- 11:09 AM gameusagi - Trailer: Stormy ocean
- 11:09 AM gameusagi - Made by Team Ninja and Nintendo
\ - 11:10 AM gameusagi - Crazy-good prerendered graphics
- 11:10 AM gameusagi - MEtroid: Other M
- 11:10 AM gameusagi - First and 3rd person Metroid
- 11:10 AM gameusagi - WHOA
- 11:11 AM gameusagi - Kind of a prequel Metroid
- 11:11 AM gameusagi - Could be side-scrolling or not
- 11:11 AM gameusagi - Hard to tell from the trailer
- 11:11 AM gameusagi - Graphics and enemy design reminiscent of Final Fantasy and Ninja Gaiden
- 11:12 AM gameusagi - Sweeeeeeeeeeet
- 11:12 AM gameusagi - Still, we have a hundred Metroids already
- 11:12 AM gameusagi - Zelda, Zelda, Zelda (wishing, come on Reggie)
- 11:12 AM gameusagi - Coming out 2010 — looks amazing
- 11:12 AM gameusagi - Blar
- 11:12 AM gameusagi - No Zelda
- 11:13 AM gameusagi - Metroid: Other M, Mario Galaxy 2, Golden Sun DS, and Mario & Luigi 3 are the cooler ones from today’s presentation
- 11:13 AM gameusagi - Definitely check out the Metroid Trailer, has to be seen to be believed
- 11:19 AM gameusagi - And, that’s it. Check out our liveblog of SONY’s conference starting in less than an hour
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