Official Nintendo Conference Thread

[Viper]

Event: Nintendo Presentation @ E3 2012

When: June 5th, 9:00am PT/ 12:00pm ET/ 4:00pm GMT

Viewing Options:
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[OmniStalgic]

Looking forward to seeing that Sick Zelda title, hopefully with a short gameplay session.

[Viper]

I'd be very surprised if we see a Zelda title or even an announcement of one since they just released Skyward Sword last November.

That demo shown at E3 last year was just a demo. Though we do know for certain they are working on a new title, just that the demo shown was not directly related to the actual new title.


I'm curious to see if they live up to their promise of reconnecting with 3rd parties. They've done a much better job so far than they did with GC and Wii but it's all multiplatform so far. Not a bad thing to be sure but I want to know what little nuggets of gold are hidden behind the strictest NDA's in video game history?

[Viper]

Further proof they are making E3 a very big deal.

Here is the West Hall layout and allocated floor space. Nintendo and Sony are in their usual neighborly configuration.




However, the big "available" spot to the right (5244) is also being taken up by Nintendo.

http://e312.mapyourshow.com/5_0/exhi...=alpha&alpha=N


This would make it not only the largest Nintendo booth ever but the largest booth for anyone at any E3 event ever.

EDIT:
Looks like Sony may be taking the corresponding booth just as Nintendo is. Booth 4144 look sot be going to Sony as well as their usual 4522 booth.

I don't see any extra booths for MS yet.



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Don't forget you are looking at an incomplete list. All that was shown last E3 was game already announced plus Killer Freaks. As you can see from the information above, they are going all out this E3.

As for it not being much more powerful than the current consoles, word is that Wii U will handle the UE4 engine which, according to Epic, is NOT coming to PS3 and X360.

[OmniStalgic]

I'm actually happy with a $150 PS3 with Sorcery and Move Bundled, Fall Bundle it with the Last of US, next year bundle it with The Last Guardian, etc...I think Sony, especially out of all three can really make there software do the talking for another year and half and release PS4 in 2015, unless sales for Wii-U (@Segitz ; why you u keeping saying Wuu lol?) amnd Xbox Next are astronomically good, no reason for Sony to not be the more powerful platform again, but this time without breaking the bank.

[Generosity of God]

while it's nice to read Viper's and Segitz's views on the hardware side of things, i think i'll stay away from that and say what games i'm looking forward to seeing at the conference and the rest of E3.

Looking forward to seeing
- Pikmin 3
- Mario Wii U
- New Super Mario Bros 2
- Killer Freaks from Outer Space
- if the developers have done anything differently for the Wii U versions of Aliens: Colonial Marines, Assassin's Creed III, Batman: Arkham City, Ghost Recon Online, etc

Hoping for
- Resident Evil 6 Wii U announcment
- Dead Space 3 Wii U announcement
- New Zelda for 3DS (or Majora's Mask remake)
- info on what some studios like Retro, Monolith Software, etc have been working on.
- addition of GBA to 3DS virtual console

i'm sure there's plenty of other things i could write but that would require more effort

[Segitz]

Hm... hoping for third party games^^ That's quite telling, imho (well, it's a similar hope from me to get games for PC, but RE6 and DS3 will surely come to PC, RE was already announced).

I am actually looking forward to Nintendos "blueprint" usage of the tablet in their "Wuu Sports" equivalent. It'll look horrid etc. but it will surely tell us what they had in mind when designing the device.

[Viper]

Thread cleaned up.

Debate on Wii U specs and 3rd party support PRIOR to the conference can be handled at the link below.
http://e-mpire.com/showthread.php/12...d?goto=newpost

[Viper]

E3 live stream.

http://e3.nintendo.com/

[solidsnakejej]

You can add SpikeTV and MTV2 to the viewing options
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/21/ni...-2012-press-c/

[Segitz]

That's at least one I can watch live... the Sony one is (again) in the middle of the night for us Europeans. Not sure if I want to, though...

[ocarinamask]

I hear rumors of Valve and Nintendo working together? Could any of this be true?

[Viper]

I hear rumors of Valve and Nintendo working together? Could any of this be true?

Nintendo stated last year at E3 that they wanted to utilize 3rd parties to help them with their online network.

Valve has openly stated they want Steam on Wii U.


That's about all we know. What will come of that is to be learned in 2 weeks.

[solidsnakejej]

Nintendo having a pre-E3 broadcast tomorrow
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nintendo_d.../en/index.html

[Incidentally Iwata, concrete information about the game of Wii U, rather than the Direct of tomorrow, so you tell in the E3 presentation of Wednesday from 1:00 am Japan time, thank you. ‬ ‪ # NintendoDirectJP ‬ ‪ # Iwata_E3

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http://translate.googleusercontent.c...jNQoZJI9Bcr6oQ

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Nintendo taking protecting from leaks to a new level
http://www.gamekyo.com/newsfr46956_l...s-angeles.html

[Viper]

Another round of rumored info, coming from a supposed European development house with several Wii U projects in the pipeline...

- achievement system also allows you to gain points
- a certain amount of points nets you access to additional features

“We have a lot of freedom with the Wii U points system, we can add “brackets” for players, e.g. if you amass X points you get promoted into a new bracket with awards such as new MP [multiplayer] skins. It’s basically what we’ve been asking Microsoft to do for years. Players who earn points by completing the game should be awarded. We can do that now.”

- cloud storage will be “a few hundred MB”
- this will be free to all players
- once again, due out 2013
- social networking features like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook in Wii U
- upload screenshots to Facebook accounts, auto-Tweet game progress and record/upload game videos to YouTube

"They’re working on a UI overlay for the OS to add Twitter and FB notifications, but so far we haven’t seen it. They’ve reserved a lot of system memory for stuff like that. There isn’t much documentation about it in the new SKD, but they’ve told us it’ll be available in the future.”

- Nintendo Network on Wii U includes new avatars with a lot more features than the original Miis
- use the Wii U controller’s built-in camera to take pictures of yourself
- use these pics to create digital avatars that resemble high-definition Miis
- Miis can then be imported into games

“There’s an API for the camera to scan faces and turn them into low-res 3D versions for games. But it’s still buggy as hell and it depends a lot on the kind of engine you’re running.”

- porting current gen games to the Wii U isn’t as easy as originally thought

“(Games made on 360 will be) much easier to port to Wii U than PS3 versions. A lot less headache involved because their architecture is similar. Technically, you can just recompile X360 to the Wii U and it’ll pretty much run, but PS3 to Wii U is much much trickier.”

- latest SDK hardware is final, but the software keeps updating

“We’ve spent a lot of time creating our own tools for the X360 this generation, and we’ve already tweaked a lot of the tools to work on the Wii U. But if you code on the Wii U from ground up and have to use middleware, it’s probably gonna be tougher than doing an X360 game from ground up.”

The Triforce.

[Unspoken]

I like the idea of a "tiers" kind of system for achievements, as it may actually convince me to 100% complete a game every now and then.

Of course, more rumor from nameless sources, so taking it with a grain of salt. But based on what Nintendo has tried to convey with the system and what we've been hearing of specs, this is probably the most vanilla and believable rumor I've heard.

[masteratt]

All of that seemed very credible to me. Granted they are pretty 'safe' features to leak so maybe that's why. Nice idea to give points for achievements. Though I am kinda annoyed points system remains.

I actually am not a fan of fiddling with Mii/character creation so picture to avatar feature works well hopefully. 3DS didn't get very close if I recall correctly.

I am 100% open to getting the WiiU so I genuinely hope the conference blows me away and gets me super excited about it.

[Segitz]

Hm... wonder why they think porting from PS3 will be so hard? I mean, isn't the Wuu supposed to be a million times faster, and thus could run even PS3 code emulated? (*troll*)

Good thing is the "free cloud" stuff. Sony should follow suite. Though I doubt it.

[solidsnakejej]

The Triforce.

under 4 hours till Nintendo Pre-E3 show

[solidsnakejej]

1 hour til pre-e3 show.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/nintendo_d.../en/index.html