LOS ANGELES, June 2, 2009 – For decades, Nintendo has endeavored to provide the most creative and immersive experiences in the world of video games and to lead the industry in new directions. At its media briefing in advance of the E3 Expo, the video game industry's premier trade show, Nintendo announced products for social entertainment that stretch far beyond the current notion of what a video game can be, all while continuing to provide avid gaming fans with the challenges and thrills they desire.
"Nintendo continues to challenge how both new and longtime players perceive – and play – video games," said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. "From modern updates of our most iconic franchises to the introduction of inventive devices, we are continuing to add entirely new dimensions to the video game experience."
A summary of Nintendo's major announcements:
Wii™
• Wii MotionPlus™: Nintendo's Wii MotionPlus accessory offers motion-controlled precision when combined with specially designed games. When connected to the Wii Remote™ controller, it delivers on Nintendo's promise to provide even more immersive physical reality in its games. The device senses subtle motion and can locate where and how players hold the Wii Remote controller in 3-D space. It pushes active gaming to new levels of immersion and a new standard of control. Wii MotionPlus will complement a host of third-party games launching in the next few weeks.
• Wii Sports Resort™: Nintendo showcased the versatility of the Wii MotionPlus accessory in demos of some of the activities included in Wii Sports Resort, an immersive, expansive active-play game. Wii Sports Resort includes a dozen fun resort-themed activities that maintain the wide-ranging appeal that attracted millions to the original Wii Sports. Wii Sports Resort is easy to pick up and play, but comes coupled with deeper levels of play that are sure to challenge even the most experienced gamers with precise controls. The Wii MotionPlus accessory will help players come much closer to the physical reality of engaging in the actual sports. The Wii MotionPlus accessory launches June 8 at a suggested retail price of $19.99, and comes bundled with Wii Sports Resort on July 26 at a suggested retail price of $49.99.
• Wii Fit™ Plus: Wii Fit™ attracted millions of new players to the world of video games, and now Wii Fit Plus offers a range of new features and enhancements, along with exercises and balance games designed to keep workouts fun. Players will find an additional dimension to the Wii Fit experience as they easily set their own customized daily workout routines or choose 20-, 30- or 40-minute workouts based on how much time they have available. Users will also be able to choose from specialized workout routines that help players strive toward specific objectives, like toning tummies, tightening arms or even reducing stress. Workouts combine the original Wii Fit activities and selections from 15 new balance games and six new strength training and yoga activities. Wii Fit Plus will come packed with the Wii Balance Board™ accessory, and also will be sold separately as software for people who already have a Wii Balance Board at home. Both will be available in fall 2009.
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii™: Developers at Nintendo have dreamed of creating a simultaneous multiplayer Super Mario Bros. game for decades. The Wii console finally makes that dream come true for everyone this holiday season. Now players can navigate the side-scrolling worlds alone as before or invite up to three others to join them at the same time on the same level at any point in the game for competitive and cooperative multiplayer fun inNew Super Mario Bros. Wii. With the multiplayer mode, the newest installment of the most popular video game franchise is designed to bring yet another type of family entertainment into living rooms and engage groups of friends in fast-paced Super Mario Bros. Fun.
• Super Mario Galaxy™ 2: This upcoming adventure for the Wii console marks the first time a second 3-D Mario game has arrived in the same console generation. In the game, Mario rides his trusty dinosaur companion, Yoshi™, to new stars and the fantastic worlds found there. This 3-D platforming adventure provides longtime video game fans with a fresh round of out-of-this-world challenges in the style introduced in the critically acclaimed original. The game is planned for 2010.
• Metroid™: Other M: Nintendo showcased a trailer for a new installment in its acclaimed Metroid franchise for the Wii console. Metroid: Other M marks an unprecedented collaboration with world-renowned developers Team Ninja, and provides fans with high-energy, action-packed game play as it delves deeper into the back story of famed deep-space bounty hunter Samus Aran. This game is scheduled for release in 2010.
• Wii Vitality Sensor: Nintendo's newest groundbreaking product, the Wii Vitality Sensor, expands the appeal of video games. It will initially sense the user's pulse and a number of other signals being transmitted by their bodies, and will then provide information to the users about the body's inner world.
Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong™: Minis March Again!: This game marks the third installment of this franchise and, more importantly, the first Nintendo DSiWare™ game to let players design levels from the ground up. Mario will need to dodge obstacles to confront his longtime nemesis Donkey Kong™, but this time the players will have full control over where to set traps, enemies and a host of power-ups in the construction zone. Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! will be available in the Nintendo DSi Shop beginning Monday, June 8, for 800 Nintendo DSi Points™.
• Integrating Photos with Facebook: For its Nintendo DSi™ system, Nintendo announced the ability for users to upload pictures taken with the system's built-in camera and interactive lenses directly to Facebook. Using Facebook Connect, the integration will be available this summer with a Nintendo DSi system update, making it even easier for people to personalize and share their photos with friends and family on Facebook.
• Mario & Luigi™: Bowser's Inside Story: Nintendo revealed Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, a new chapter to the popular role-playing franchise that places players into the belly of the beast – literally. Players will get to enjoy trademark hilarious dialogue in the fall of 2009 as they juggle two concurrent storylines. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story is playable on the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems.
• Golden Sun™ DS: After going dark six years ago, 2010 will see a new dawn. Golden Sun DSupdates the popular portable Golden Sun role-playing series with an impressive graphical style. This installment follows the story of the previous heroes' descendants and immerses players into the magic of its adventure by pushing the boundaries of intuitive touch-screen controls. Golden Sun DS is playable on the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems.
• WarioWare D.I.Y.™: This game, which puts the concept of user-generated content on center stage, allows players to design their own micro-games from scratch. Every element, such as the characters, the environment, the actions and even the purpose of the micro-game itself, is controlled entirely by the player. Players will then be able to share their completed micro-games with other WarioWare D.I.Y. owners. The latest game in the WarioWare™ series is playable on the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems.
Nintendo-published games available to play on the show floor:
Wii:
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii™
• Wii Fit™ Plus
• Wii Sports Resort™
• Sin and Punishment™ 2
• Endless Ocean™ 2
• Line Attack Heroes™
• Span Smasher™
WiiWare:
• PictureBook Games™: Pop-Up Pursuit
• You, Me & the Cubes™
• Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
• BIT.TRIP.CORE
• Icarian: Kindred Spirits
• Sword & Soldiers
• Military Madness: Nectaris
• Cave Story
Nintendo DS:
• The Legendary Starfy™
• The Legend of Zelda™: Spirit Tracks
• Fossil Fighters™
• Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box™
• Mario & Luigi™: Bowser's Inside Story
• Pokémon™ Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
• Style Savvy™
• Glory of Heracles™
•Golden Sun™ DS
• Picross 3D™
Nintendo DSiWare:
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong™: Minis March Again!
• Flipnote Studio™
• Animal Crossing™ Clock
• Animal Crossing™ Calculator
• Photo Clock
• Mario™ Clock
• Mario™ Calculator
• Six in One Translator (working title)
• Crash-Course Domo™
• White-Water Domo™
• Hard-Hat Domo™
• Rock-n-Roll Domo™
• Pro-Putt Domo™
Remember that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visitWii.com orNintendoDSi.com.
About Nintendo: The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo DSi™ systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 2.9 billion video games and more than 496 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™ and Nintendo GameCube™. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site at www.nintendo.com.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Nintendo - What they have at E3
Sega - Mario & Sonic At The Winter Olympics screens
Sony E3 Press Event As It Was Twittered
- all sorts of mini gameplay cliips being played from various games
all from the Playsation family
jokes about the release of pspgo information early and that people still turned up, lol
264 games coming out on playstation this year! (or was it 164)
might've been 364, lol
some statisitcs being mentioned. moving on to the PS2
it's in it's 9th year and still can outsell the current gen. they are commited to it whilst people buy/play it
ps2 will have 100 titles this year
ps3 install base grew 40% over 2008
24 million PSN accounts
35 exclusive titles only on playstation this year
Uncharted 2 now up.
tonight , a beta goes online (i think us only). today they'll show single player
looks stuning, amazing backgrounds just like the first. witty banter, climbing....backgrounds are very impressive (crowd cherring!)
being attacked by heklicopter and they run across window roofs and shoot bad guys. very action packed
the envoirnment is being effected by the helicopter blades.... explosions are big. can topple tables to create cover
environment blows up really good.
that was a crazy action sequence, much like a movie. big crowd appluse for its end
MAG next up
live gamplay time. 256 players against each other live. just showed wall of all players. it'll be a assult on a depo. it's a huge map
graphics are good for the type of game. commander is giving out instructions to other players. bullets being fired everywhere
they are assulting the bunkerm now move forward into the base. take out anti aircraft guns, creates a spawn place
all 4 platoons are attacking different parts of the base at the same time...and to finsih it off they join up together
set for fall 2009 release
PSP time
lylac psp gets a huge whoop from crowd, lol
Kaz Hrai now up to talk
spent a couple of years to go round looking how they can make the psp better....the next step, for those with a more digital lifestyle...is
PSPgo(his was white)
worst kept secret of e3, lol...he said
it won'te replace the umd or psp 3000. they will market toegther
16gb memory, wifi, download game/movies and other content from psn. bluetooth, M2 port (memory stick)
new app released for PC psn store....Media Go replaces media station. simpliar, more intuative
SenseMe anaylses your music and picks the music in your collection to fit your mood.
lower price of psp dev kits....80% reduction in the costs of the tools!
all designed to bring new content to the psp. all psp titles now will be digital and UMD released toegther
its out usa/eu at $249 249eu, ocotober 1st
video service now. today it's natvily avaliabe on the PSP
more content is going to be added to the PSN. content coming from a whole host of producers
Gran Tourismo Time
(PSN Store on PS3 has been changed. new look and sounds)
gran tourismo on the psp go being shown. it's a full scale game, 60 frames per second
800 cars, 35 tracks, 68 layout variances of those tracks. has time trials and modes to improve driving
features unique to the PSP also, adhoc with 4 players. trade and share cars with other players amkes it easier to complete your collection
many of them will be on display...now time for a trailer.
cgi trailer mostly, looks good tho. loads of cars and different type of tracks.
october 1st could be it's release
yep, beign released along side the PSPgo
MGS stuff now. Kojima being bought on stage now.
snake is comign to the PSP. MGS Peace Walker. settign 10 years after MGS 3, 1970's, TRUE sequel to MGS franchise
he's deeply involved, writing and directing. MGS4 team also involved. this is NO SPINOFF
trailer time
(huge cheer) no cgi or gamplay yet. here we go. MGS style for sure. set in costa rica. looks really good
sneaking aplently, looks really good in game.attacht ballons to bad guys to make them fly. 4 player co-op might have been shown
lol, box fun with two snakes (hard to explain). it's coming 2010
resident evil comign to PSP next year
trailer now being shown of whats coming in2009
interesting, i think a game showing the Gocam being used in a way simular to the ps3 card game....but the monters were attacking the player
Fat Princess PSP may've just been shown
PSN time
50 PS1 games coming. FFVII coming today (us i reckon)
Home, 85% of users return back to it...out of 6.5 million people who have tried it
100,000 units of street figther stuff in two months sold. new content for buzz, infamous as well as loads of publishers getting involved
trailer of homes evolution now
new trailer for whats coming to Ps3 this year
nothing announced that i could see from the trailer
its a very long trailer...theres loads coming
lost planet just annoucned for PS3...2010 release
thats lost planet 2
Agent coming exclusive to PS3 from Rockstar!
assasins creed 2 now being shown for the PS3
starts like ubisofts demo last night
looks good and detailed. you don't start of as a assasin at first, but learn with help from da vinci (who also give you gadets)
using a flying machine to go from one part of the city to another, diving up and down takling out peopple whilst avoiding fire
even more assasin techniques in this game. cool two kill with his hidden blades. Ai can go look when they hear things
assians creed conectivity with PSP game to unlock new weapons
looked cool. used a smoke bomb to hide his escape. out this holiday (same as psp game)
Square Enix Time
FFXIII video, in english and new
all cgi....and looks amazing as ever
and new game play battles....smooth action and cool effects....odin summom, shiver summon
some exploration in game. looked good, a bit sparse tho.
FFXIV explsive to PS3 in 2010
looks epic, different style to any XIII game...hint of FFXI perhaps. stunning character design. Chocobo!, nice logo...ONLINE FOLKS1
jokes that it didn't leak out....FF XIV Online!#
motion controlling stuff now...talking about the cameras
sounds like a controller now....on stage demo with ps3 time
controller is a tick with a ball on the end (prototype). has motion sensor. works with the Playstation eye
tech demos. the ball's light changes to represent different things. first demo is a tele with remote. playstation eyes video is now on it
it follows 1-1. a racket just attatchet virtually to the remote....now a baseball bat. it tracks really fast. the tele shows him with items
cool mace shown. used a idea that you control ratchets weapons. full 3d tracking
want to create hardcore games. first person mode has gun facing forward and you controll and move the gun....now a limp light sabre, lol
new demo....reach into the scene to grab stuff. he's using two controllers to reach, grab and move things away from him
writing now, really good at it (haivng fun with ti). tracks very accuratly. using analgule stick, can change amount the paint used in art
showing dominos being layed outusing the stick
also showing selection, using real time stragey game as example
goes into one of the tanks to control it using remote
character controll now. he's moving a knight, sheild in one had...sword in the other....(tickles enime bones and plays aorund)
now throwing stuff with a trohwing motion....and now archaerly. reaches behing back pulls them like a proper bow....can measure tension
as long as camera can see you, it'll follow. he bent down on one knee to fire arrows
Little big planet time....Disney packs coming fall.
Play create share genre (little big planet demo) ....new IP. Mod Nation Racers announced.
kart racer game. huge amounts of customization. you can create nearly everything on your character and karts. you upload them for others
and download other peoples creation (like Mii's) ....and do the same with Karts
nice stylised cute graphics. very physics based. circuits are very diverse. simple controls.
weapon pick ups, thins to watch out for on track. and create your own tracks with track studio. doing it in 5 minuites on stage
use driving controls to create track. automatical creates overpasses when you go over track. once it's connected you instantly test it out
can change backgrounds by creating mountains....lakes and more simply.
cool effects when things when things are being made...can be done very fast by qucikly moving the "brush". add weapon pick ups and mroe
lol, loads of sheep just added to it. can change the time of day, where it hits the track
now they're playing it instantly
looks like alot of fun
2010 release
another sneak peak ps3 exclusive....Trico time!
THE LAST GUARDIAN is it's name
cgi is very good, nice and detailed. the grffin thing from before is there. so is the boy whos much more deatiled
its playing like the released video....but soo much more deatield
still has a feel of both shadow and ico to it in gameplay...the art is spot on, effects are much improved and it looks stunning
a quick look at GT5 now, all CGI. Showing tons of cars from NASCAR, rally, GT, and tons more. Tracks look great. No gamplay
God Of War 3 now, this is the last game in the series. Looks stunning, loads of eniemeis and cool ways to kill them
uses eneiemes to reach higher levels by killing them like steps
the sound give everything a kinda weight to it. Very clear, slow mo to show good kills, and up close for super kills
they face off against a centuer and it's a epic battle. But they win and the crowd sheers.