Title: Nintendo E3 Press Conference
borgster101 - May 3, 2006 08:49 AM (GMT)
UPDATE
Details on Nintendo's E3 showing are starting to emerge, of which will likely be present at the upcoming press conference, here is what has been recently announced.
The Console:
High-res pictures thanks to Vooks.net!
(click to enlarge)
The Games:
Wii First Party Titles:
Wii Third Party: (not all of these were announced in the confrence, but it's the best list I could find for 3rd party Wii games)
DS First Party Titles:
Below are the details of Nintendo's press conference at E3.
Miyamoto starts off, holding Wii controller, conducts the Zelda theme like a conductor.
New racing game, "Excite Truck"
Red Steel footage shown
Reggie comes on stage, states "this is not the next generation", emphaises Wii is about everyone
Simple games shown, drums, tennis etc..
Mario shown jumpting through space, looks similar to SMS.
Pilotwings, looking very good
Metroid Prime 3 footage is shown, looking similar to MP2.
Zelda TP (GCN) is shown using the Wii
Reggie basically says that Microsoft and Sony's focus on graphics and same-old gaming was fatal, and that history is littered with companies who fell because they did not advance.
Talking about Wii name. Says he would like to thank people who liked it the first day it was announced. "All two of you," he added. (laughter ensured)
More gameplay footage is shown; Metroid Prime 3. DBZ. New Fire Emlem! SpongeBob. Dragon Quest Sword. Super Mario Galaxy. Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam. Gengoku Action. ExciteTruck. Elebits. Red STEEL. Rayman 4. Sonic Wild Fire. "Project Hammer." Final Furlong. Madden. One Piece. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Zelda (Cube/Wii).
Nate and Bill from NOA take the stage. The world premier of Zelda being played on Wii. Movement with analog stick on nunchuck. Item select on D-Pad on Wii-remote. Targeting system mapped to Z button on nunchuck. Wii version has presence of a fairy. Indicates where you'll be pointing with the Wii-mote. B buton on bottom of Wii remote handles sword swing. Link's bow demonstrated, aimed with pointer on Wii-remote -- reticule appears, you shoot at enemies.
Wii remote announced. Has speaker. Built-in rumble feature on Wiiremote.
Reggie confirms Zelda TP will launch on two systems, Wii and GCN on the same day, when the Wii launches! Confirming that the game will in fact be a Wii title, but a GCN version will also exist.
Super Mario Galaxy. Some bump mapping and nice graphic tricks. Flying through space. Swing your hand to bat away objects, grb onto shooting stars with th epointer, swim through space and skip along the straosphere, Reggie says.
New franchises announced;
Project H.A.M.M.E.R. Swint giant hammer and destroy things
ExciteTruck
Disaster: Day of Crisis announced, a modern day catastrophe-rocking city environment.
Sonic -- new exclusively for Wii
27 playable Wii games confirmed
Red Steel is shown from Ubisoft, still looking nice like in the images.
George Harrison -- Wii is the future, but DS proves it right now. Compares DS sales to PSP, says PSP was for early adopters, but Nintendo's great games easily swept it away from there.
DS games; Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Team Rscue and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. Star Fox DS!Yoshi's Island. Diddy Kong Racing.
Zelda Phantom Hourglass. Picks up where Wind Waker left off. Use DS stylus to direct sailing and even the path of your boomerang.
DS montage. Mario Hoops 3 on 3 (touch-play driven, wireless play). Star Fox DS (Touch control flight path). New Super Mario Bros. Elite Beat Agents (new and US-bound Ouendin). Yoshi's Island 2 (Baby Mario is back, with Baby Peach and others as well). Diddy Kong Racing (total adventure racing). Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Zelda. Brain Age Academy. Mario Vs. DK: March of the Minis (create your own levels, touch-control mini-Marios.
Iwata explains Wii philosophy, breaks down barriers for non gamers to come to gaming, Opera Web browser confirmed! Wii Connect24, online all the time, things can happen while you're asleep (eg. Animal Crossing) Networking software is included in the hardware.
Wii Sports -- Includs tennis, baseball and golf in one package. Will be available on launch day.
Winner of AOL comp gets to play Wii sports on stage with Miyamoto (doubles), and then Reggie and Iwata play against them!
Source: IGN Wii
Square Enix Conference
Square Enix known for the Final Fantasy series held an pre-E3 conference where two games for the Wii were officially announced.
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors:
Square showed off a brief trailer of the game showing a person running through a forest with Wii controller in hand, they were soon attacked by a television screen showing what appeared to be a huge brick golem. The player quickly attacked it, and dropped the monster to the ground. The battles seem to take place in a first person perspective.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers
A short trailer was shown for this game as well, of which has been known about for quite some time, not much details had been shown but it seems the graphics are similar to the GCN game, with some noticeable increases in quality.
Source: IGN Wii
Twilight Princess Wii
The latest issue of Time magazine contains a section in where the reporter played the latest demo of the anticipated Zelda game (likely to be at E3), explained in the article is that the Wii controller controls Link's sword, bow and fishing. The fishing mode has the Wii controller act as a real fishing rod.
Tennis Wii
In the same Time magazine, it is revealed that Nintendo is developing a Tennis game, apparantly the reporter who played the game loved it so much that Nintendo had to force him to stop playing.
In this game the Wii controller acts as a tennis racket enabling the gamer to deliver forehand and backhand plays as well as lobs or spins.
WarioWare Wii
And yet again in the same issue of Time magazine, a Wii version of Watio Ware is discussed, which will make full use of the Wii controller. The Wii controller will be used for fly swatting, squat thrusting, turning keys into locks, catching fish, driving cars, sautéing vegetables, balancing brooms and coloring in circles.
Source: IGN Wii
Nintendo's E3 press conference is a little over 2 days to go, the company is expected to unveil their new generation console the Wii at the conference, one lucky gamer will go on stage and be the first to play the innovative console, which game will be played is unlikely to be known until the gamer gets on stage.
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Details on Nintendo's E3 showing are starting to emerge, of which will likely be present at the upcoming press conference, here is what has been recently announced.
The Console:
High-res pictures thanks to Vooks.net!
(click to enlarge)
The Games:
Wii First Party Titles:
- Disaster: Day of Crisis - Probably one of the nicest looking titles showed on Wii.
- Excite Truck - Think Excite Bike, only with trucks, better graphics, and a side-turned Wii remote.
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Will have two game versions; one for GC one for Wii. The Wii controls appeared to work well and drew a lot of excitement from the crowd.
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Looked like a GameCube version of Metroid Prime, only with Wii remote functionality.
- Project H.A.M.M.E.R. - Run around with a guy and a huge hammer. Didn't look way deep, but fun a la Destroy All Monsters
- Super Mario Galaxy (temporary name) - Graphics looked very artistic and slick. Looks like Mario has some new moves too.
- WarioWare: Smooth Moves - Wario Ware + Wiimote. Looked quick and fun.
- Wii Sports - Features golf, baseball, and tennis games. The tennis game looked extremely easy to pick up and fun to play.
Wii Third Party: (not all of these were announced in the confrence, but it's the best list I could find for 3rd party Wii games)
- Activision
- Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
- Call of Duty 3
AQ Interactive - Boxing Action (currently untitled)
Atari - Dragon Ball Z Budokai: Tenkaichi 2
Atlus - Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Banpresto - Family Action Game (currently untitled)
Buena Vista Games - Disney's Chicken Little: Ace in Action
- Disney's Meet the Robinsons
Capcom - Resident Evil game
D3Publisher - SIMPLE series
- Original Action Game (currently untitled)
Eidos - Title TBD
Electronic Arts - Madden NFL '07
- Medal of Honor Airborne
Epoch - Title TBD
From Software - Action game (currently untitled)
Genki - Title TBD
Hudson Soft - BOMBERMAN LAND
- Flight Game (currently untitled)
Jaleco - Title TBD
Koei - Sengoku Action
Konami Digital Entertainment - Elebits
- Soccer Game (currently untitled)
Majesco - Bust-A-Move Revolution
Marvelous Interactive - Bokujo Monogatari ("Ranch Story")
- Heroes
- Kawa no Nu****suri
- Original simulation game (currently untitled)
Mastiff - Mr. D. Goes to Town (working title)
Midway Games - The Ant Bully
- Happy Feet
- Blitz: The League
Milestone - New Vertical Scrolling Shooting Game
- New Action Game
MTO - Character Action Game (currently untitled)
- SAN-X All-Star Revolution
Namco Bandai Games - Final Furlong
- Mobile Suit Gundam
- SD Gundam G Breaker
- Digimon
- One Piece Unlimited Adventure
- New Action Game (currently untitled)
- New RPG (currently untitled)
- Tamagotchi
- Title TBD
Natsume (developed by Marvelous) - Harvest Moon
Sega - Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz
- Sonic Wild Fire
SNK - Metal Slug Anthology
Spike - Necro-Nesia
- Jawa
Square Enix - Codename: 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 Factory - Title TBD
THQ - Avatar: the Last Airbender
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
- Disney/Pixar Cars
Tomy - Action Game (currently untitled)
- Battle Action (currently untitled)
Ubisoft - Open Season
- Rayman Raving Rabbids
- Red Steel
Vivendi Universal Games - Title TBD
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment - Title TBD
DS First Party Titles:
- Big Brain Academy
- Chibi-Robo: Park Patrol
- Children of Mana
- Clubhouse Games
- Custom Robo Arena
- Diddy Kong Racing DS
- DK: King of Swing DS
- DS Air
- Elite Beat Agents
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215
- Kirby
- The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
- Magical Vacation (working title)
- Magnetica
- Mario Hoops 3-on-3
- Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2:March of the Minis
- New Super Mario Bros.
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
- Pokémon Ranger
- Star Fox DS
- Sudoku Gridmaster
- Tenchu: Dark Secret
- Yoshi's Island 2
Below are the details of Nintendo's press conference at E3.
Miyamoto starts off, holding Wii controller, conducts the Zelda theme like a conductor.
New racing game, "Excite Truck"
Red Steel footage shown
Reggie comes on stage, states "this is not the next generation", emphaises Wii is about everyone
Simple games shown, drums, tennis etc..
Mario shown jumpting through space, looks similar to SMS.
Pilotwings, looking very good
Metroid Prime 3 footage is shown, looking similar to MP2.
Zelda TP (GCN) is shown using the Wii
Reggie basically says that Microsoft and Sony's focus on graphics and same-old gaming was fatal, and that history is littered with companies who fell because they did not advance.
Talking about Wii name. Says he would like to thank people who liked it the first day it was announced. "All two of you," he added. (laughter ensured)
More gameplay footage is shown; Metroid Prime 3. DBZ. New Fire Emlem! SpongeBob. Dragon Quest Sword. Super Mario Galaxy. Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam. Gengoku Action. ExciteTruck. Elebits. Red STEEL. Rayman 4. Sonic Wild Fire. "Project Hammer." Final Furlong. Madden. One Piece. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Zelda (Cube/Wii).
Nate and Bill from NOA take the stage. The world premier of Zelda being played on Wii. Movement with analog stick on nunchuck. Item select on D-Pad on Wii-remote. Targeting system mapped to Z button on nunchuck. Wii version has presence of a fairy. Indicates where you'll be pointing with the Wii-mote. B buton on bottom of Wii remote handles sword swing. Link's bow demonstrated, aimed with pointer on Wii-remote -- reticule appears, you shoot at enemies.
Wii remote announced. Has speaker. Built-in rumble feature on Wiiremote.
Reggie confirms Zelda TP will launch on two systems, Wii and GCN on the same day, when the Wii launches! Confirming that the game will in fact be a Wii title, but a GCN version will also exist.
Super Mario Galaxy. Some bump mapping and nice graphic tricks. Flying through space. Swing your hand to bat away objects, grb onto shooting stars with th epointer, swim through space and skip along the straosphere, Reggie says.
New franchises announced;
Project H.A.M.M.E.R. Swint giant hammer and destroy things
ExciteTruck
Disaster: Day of Crisis announced, a modern day catastrophe-rocking city environment.
Sonic -- new exclusively for Wii
27 playable Wii games confirmed
Red Steel is shown from Ubisoft, still looking nice like in the images.
George Harrison -- Wii is the future, but DS proves it right now. Compares DS sales to PSP, says PSP was for early adopters, but Nintendo's great games easily swept it away from there.
DS games; Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Team Rscue and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team. Star Fox DS!Yoshi's Island. Diddy Kong Racing.
Zelda Phantom Hourglass. Picks up where Wind Waker left off. Use DS stylus to direct sailing and even the path of your boomerang.
DS montage. Mario Hoops 3 on 3 (touch-play driven, wireless play). Star Fox DS (Touch control flight path). New Super Mario Bros. Elite Beat Agents (new and US-bound Ouendin). Yoshi's Island 2 (Baby Mario is back, with Baby Peach and others as well). Diddy Kong Racing (total adventure racing). Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. Zelda. Brain Age Academy. Mario Vs. DK: March of the Minis (create your own levels, touch-control mini-Marios.
Iwata explains Wii philosophy, breaks down barriers for non gamers to come to gaming, Opera Web browser confirmed! Wii Connect24, online all the time, things can happen while you're asleep (eg. Animal Crossing) Networking software is included in the hardware.
Wii Sports -- Includs tennis, baseball and golf in one package. Will be available on launch day.
Winner of AOL comp gets to play Wii sports on stage with Miyamoto (doubles), and then Reggie and Iwata play against them!
Source: IGN Wii
Square Enix Conference
Square Enix known for the Final Fantasy series held an pre-E3 conference where two games for the Wii were officially announced.
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors:
Square showed off a brief trailer of the game showing a person running through a forest with Wii controller in hand, they were soon attacked by a television screen showing what appeared to be a huge brick golem. The player quickly attacked it, and dropped the monster to the ground. The battles seem to take place in a first person perspective.
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers
A short trailer was shown for this game as well, of which has been known about for quite some time, not much details had been shown but it seems the graphics are similar to the GCN game, with some noticeable increases in quality.
Source: IGN Wii
Twilight Princess Wii
The latest issue of Time magazine contains a section in where the reporter played the latest demo of the anticipated Zelda game (likely to be at E3), explained in the article is that the Wii controller controls Link's sword, bow and fishing. The fishing mode has the Wii controller act as a real fishing rod.
Tennis Wii
In the same Time magazine, it is revealed that Nintendo is developing a Tennis game, apparantly the reporter who played the game loved it so much that Nintendo had to force him to stop playing.
In this game the Wii controller acts as a tennis racket enabling the gamer to deliver forehand and backhand plays as well as lobs or spins.
WarioWare Wii
And yet again in the same issue of Time magazine, a Wii version of Watio Ware is discussed, which will make full use of the Wii controller. The Wii controller will be used for fly swatting, squat thrusting, turning keys into locks, catching fish, driving cars, sautéing vegetables, balancing brooms and coloring in circles.
Source: IGN Wii
Nintendo's E3 press conference is a little over 2 days to go, the company is expected to unveil their new generation console the Wii at the conference, one lucky gamer will go on stage and be the first to play the innovative console, which game will be played is unlikely to be known until the gamer gets on stage.
Remember, you can now reply to this topic by clicking Add Reply below.
Random Hero - May 9, 2006 02:12 PM (GMT)
not long to go now just over two hours and the wait will finally be over. im so excited i could wii :P :P
borgster101 - May 9, 2006 10:19 PM (GMT)
Some awesome announcments, Nintendo are going to have a great show :D Though there was no Smash Bros?