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This year the Big N has revealed one new device and a number of upcoming titles for both the Wii and DS.
Click on through for a summary, transcript and show floor pictures of all the happenings in the E3 09 Nintendo Press Conference!
The Nintendo Press Conference began with NOA Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Cammie Dunaway, delivering a short speech about people’s connection to videogames. Shortly after this, Dunaway announced New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii. Bill Trinnen from Treehouse then came out on stage to play and talk about the upcoming Wii title. The footage Trinnen showed of the game seemed very similar to its DS counter-part. The game will feature a single player mode and a multiplayer mode. After Trinnen had discussed the basics of New Super Mario Bros. for Wii, three Nintendo staff members came out and took on Cammie in a game. Cammie ended up losing and stated, “this is why I make my living selling games, rather than developing them”. After this, Trinnen and company walked off stage and Dunaway announced Wii Fit Plus. Cammie then ended her first segment of the show with a few Mario puns and walked off the stage.
One of the upcoming new functions of the DSi camera.
After this, NOA President Reggie Fils-Aime came out and discussed Wii MotionPlus and Wii Sports Resort. Trailers of the accessory and title were played in the background during his speech, with some of the footage revealing new sports in the Wii Sports Resort such as Kayaking, Sky Diving and Archery. Bill Trinnen then came back out on stage to demo Archery. After this, Bill and Reggie went head to head in another of the game’s minigames, Basketball. Reggie won and Bill left the stage in embarrassment. The Regginator then went on to announce that Tiger Woods PGA 10 and Sega’s Virtua Tennis would come bundled with the Wii MotionPlus, also mentioning that Red Steel 2 won’t be playable without it.
Bowser footage from Mario & Luigi RPG
The first real highlight of the show was when Reggie announced and showed footage of two upcoming RPG games for the Wii and DS. The first title announced was Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers for the Wii and the second title announced was Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days for the DS. After this Reggie showed footage of Mario and Luigi RPG – Bowser’s Inside Story, and then the crowd were given a surprise with the announcement of Golden Sun DS.
Golden Sun DS
After he’d finished with the RPG announcements, Dunaway made a return to centre stage and announced Banjo Patterson Women’s Murder Club: Games of Passion for DS, C.O.P. The Recruit for DS, Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again for DSiWare and Style Savvy for DS. Shortly after these announcements, Dunaway spoke about a number of Nintendo games and a new image feature coming to DSi to conclude her second segment of the show.
Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again! coming to DSiWare.
Next up on stage was the President of Nintendo Co, Ltd. Mr Satoru Iwata. Mr Iwata spoke about game players and those who may have never played games in their life before. Iwata mentioned how Nintendo wanted to expand videogame audiences and then revealed the Vitality Sensor, the latest accessory for the Wii.
The Wii Vitality Sensor - to make sure you don't die while playing games.
Iwata unfortunately left the stage after these announcements. Dunaway then came back out and announced Super Mario Galaxy 2. A trailer of the title was shown and revealed that Yoshi will make an appearance in Mario’s next galaxy outing. After Cammie concluded her third segment of the show and moved off the stage.
Super Mario Galaxy 2! Now with added Yoshi.
The conference ended with a bang. Reggie Fils-Aime came back out on stage and admitted how he and Nintendo were well aware that their hardcore fanbase was not happy with some of their more recent titles. In retaliation, Reggie showed off trailers of The Conduit, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, Dead Space Extraction and lastly revealed the Team Ninja and Nintendo made title, Metroid: Other M. The announcement of a new Metroid title shocked the crowd and concluded the 2009 Nintendo E3 Press Conference.
By Liam Doolan
- Feature coming soon that will take a deeper look into everything mentioned above, and also give you an idea of what we here at TNB think of all the individual announcements!
Photos: Big thanks to Pixelated Geek.
