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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