People were really disappointed with Nintendo's conference last year. Unfortunately this year was no different, Ninty served up another veritable snooze fest. In fact it was so predictable that I was able to guess most of the stuff before hand. I remember reading a comment on Gamespot's live blog about how little has leaked from Nintendo's line up before E3 - well it turned out to be prophetic in a twisted way.
They started off with some boring statistics and promised a lot of surprises. The first new game displayed was another Mario game with 4 player Co-Op. Hardly anything new or exciting here but things got worse as they started praising Wii Fit next followed and up by showing off the imaginatively titled Wii Fit Plus.
Reggie then took the stage and revealed the Wii Motion you-guessed-it Plus and demoed some games. All this would have been slightly interesting if Natal hadn't been announced a day back. Then we're shown some new DS games which seem okay but nothing surprising here either.
The next segment was a really long speech about casual gamers from Iwata that could put he Road Runner on a six pack of Red Bull to sleep. He then continues on to introduce Wii Vitality Sensor which should go on to become the best selling video game accessory in rest homes and hospitals.
The next segment was about actual gaming the next Resident Evil and Metroid games were revealed and they looked pretty good leaving the graphics aside. Even more interesting is the fact that Metroid Other M (yes that's the name of the game) is a collaboration with Team Ninja. It was a decent finishing touch, throwing a bone to the hard core gamers.
I wasn't expecting much from Nintendo being a hard core gamer rather than a casual one but the conference managed to underwhelm my meager expectations.Image from Gamespot.
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