Nintendo E3 Highlights

[mwgiii]

Wii launches in 4th Qtr. No price released.

Speaker in remote for 3D sound. Will have rumble (unlike the PS3).

27 Wii games playable on show floor.

Red Steel from UbiSoft demo. Guns & swords. Looks like a must have Wii game.

Nintendo DS - 100 new games between now and end of year including Diddy Kong Racing (with Wi-Fi), Starfox, Yoshi Island, & Final Fantasy 3.

Wii Connect24 is the name for the online service. Wii goes into standby when powered off but stays connected to the internet and updates games.

Virtual Console - will have old and new games for purchase.

The End.

Overall IMO a better conference than Sony but judge for yourself.

http://www.gamespot.com/e3/index.html Right-hand side, middle of page.

 

[mwgiii]

Nintendo also showed glimpses of several totally new games developed by Nintendo.

Must watch trailers here:
http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/projecthammer/media.html
Part 1 and Part 2.

 

[T2k]

Awesome. I must say I'm impressed - it's becoming more and more possible that first time ever Nintendo will be able to create the same if not better FPS/RTS/etc gameplay on console that was only available on PCs with keyboard+mouse combo..

I can fully understand they had to keep it secret until Sony haven't had a chance to steal it... great work. Now they only need at least a 360-like graphics...

 

[mwgiii]

List of playable Wii games on the E3 show floor.

Wii titles:

Remote Pointer Demo: Table Tennis
Remote Pointer Demo: Obstacle Course
Remote Pointer Demo: Shooting
Wii Sports: Tennis
Wii Sports: Golf
Wii Sports: Airplane
Wii Sports: Baseball
Wii Music: Orchestra
Wario Ware Smooth Move
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Mario Galaxy
Excite Truck
Project H.A.M.M.E.R.
Red Steel
(Activision) Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
(EA) Madden NFL 07
(Hudson) Bombermanland
(Konami) Elebits
(Namco) One Piece
(Namco) SD Gundam
(Namco) Final Furlong
(Namco) Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi Z
(Sega) Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
(Sega) Sonic Wild Fire
(Spike) Necro Nesia
(THQ) Spongebob Squarepants

Virtual console games:

Bonk
Super Mario World
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Bros
Sonic the Hedgehog

 

[korsjs]

thanks for your excellent updates.

 

[Bunkhouse]

Will will have a built-in Opera web browser: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/05/10/

 

[Stargazer]

Nintendo has done it again and has shown that you do not have to be the most advanced techwise in order to have a great system (or maybe even thebest system to some).

 

[mwgiii]

Super Smash Brothers Brawl with online was just announced:

May 10, 2006 - Nintendo just pulled a fast one on us. At an after-hours press briefing a mere minute ago, the company pulled another ace out of its sleeve: Smash Bros. Brawl -- the next installment in Nintendo's popular Super Smash Bros. series.

Details are just now rolling in, but we have confirmed the following playable characters:

# Pit (Kid Icarus)
# Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid)
# Zero Suit Samus (the blue "no-suit" Samus from Metroid: Zero Mission)
# Meta-Knight (Kirby)
# Wario (Wario)

The game also features a range of new nasty toys, such as the ability to unleash a puppy from Nintendogs that will run up to the screen, put its paws up and obscure the view of the action. Mario, Kirby, Pikachu and Link have been confirmed as returning characters.

More in the story:

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/707/707504p1.html

 

[Purogamer]

Wii is $249, is it not? I saw that somewhere...

 

[mwgiii]

Puro, hasn't officially been announced.

Rumors are $249 or $199.

 

[korsjs]

i am getting the wii vice the ps3.

 

[mwgiii]

Official Wii Game List:

Activision
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
Marvel: Ulatimate Alliance
Call of Duty 3 AQ Interactive
Boxing Action
Atari
Dragon Ball Z Budokai: Tenkaichi 2
Atlus
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
BANPRESTO
Family action game

Buena Vista Games
Disney's Chicken Little: Ace in Action Disney's Meet the Robinsons
Capcom
Resident Evil series

D3Publisher
SIMPLE series
Original Action Game
Eidos
Title TBD
Electronic Arts
Madden NFL '07
Medal of Honor Airborne
EPOCH
Title TBD
From Software
Action Game
Genki
Title TBD
Hudson
Bomberman
Flight game
JALECO
Title TBD
Koei
Sengoku Action
Konami
Elebits
'Soccer game
Majesco
Bust-a-Move Revolution

Marvelous Interactive / Natsume
Harvest Moon Heroes
Legend of the River King original simulation
Mastiff
Mr. D Goes to Town
Midway Games
The Ant Bully
Happy Feet

Milestone
New vertical scroll shooting game
New Action Game
MTO
Character Action game
SAN-X All-star Revolution
Namco Bandai
Final Furlong
Mobile Suite Gundam
Digimon
One Piece Ulimited Adventure
New action game
New RPG
Tamagotchi
Title TBD
Nintendo
Disaster: Day of Crisis
Excite Truck
Fire Emblem
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Project H.A.M.M.E.R.
Super Mario Galaxy
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Wii Sports
SEGA
Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz
Sonic Wild Fire

SNK Metal Slug Anthology
Spike
Necro-Nesia
Jawa

Square Enix
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
Taito
Turn it around!
Let's go by train!
Cooking Mama -Cooking with International Friends-
Tecmo
Super Swing Golf Pangya
The Game Factor
Title TBD
THQ
Avatar: The Last Airbender
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
Disney/Pixar Cars
TOMY
Action Game
Battle Action

Ubisoft
Open Season
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Red Steel

Vivendi Universal Games
Title TBD
Warner Bros. Interactive
Entertainment Title TBD




Also Hudson announced it will release over 100 games for the Virtual Console.

 

[T2k]

i am getting the wii vice the ps3.

I'm not a console guy whatsoever - I had PS2 for less than one day, Xbox for probably a weekend or less, both was a POS compared to my PC, I bought a GC for my wife which collects the dust somewhere - but this time I think I'll give N a try... I'll wait, of course but I have a feeling this Wii will might work for folks like me, avid FPS players, with these cool controllers.

In the meantime I just built a new, top-notch PC... I wonder how long does it take until I have to upgrade it...

 

[OoTLink]

Wii! I can hardly wait Especially at that price

 

[riffjim4069]

Note: VOOM has been providing three hours of E3 coverage the past couple nights on their GamePlay channels. I recorded last nights episode and will view it when I get time. Checkout GamePlay if you have DishHD.

 

[Neutron]

Even at $249 this is still the best price between the three.

I'm looking more and more into getting the Wii.

 

[mwgiii]

Good sneak peek at the launch games:

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/709/709258p1.html