E3 2012: Nintendo showcase wrapup
Our wrap-up of Nintendo's E3 press briefing, along with a few announcements that trailed out directly after the show.
Nintendo has wrapped up its own E3 press briefing, rounding out the three with the final one before the show starts properly. Nintendo is spreading out its announcements this year, starting with a set of announcements like the Miiverse on Sunday, and extending into a developer roundtable tonight and a 3DS showcase tomorrow. But as the coming out party for the Wii U, with some 3DS sprinkled in for good measure, we've compiled a handy list of announcements that you might have missed.
- Nintendo kicked off the show with our first look at Pikmin 3, as Shigeru Miyamoto showed off some of the control features using the tablet controller.
- Stamping out one common criticism of the Wii U, the console will support two GamePads. Nintendo says that games that use two of the tablets are in development.
- The console will also support YouTube and Amazon Video, in addition to Netflix and Hulu.
- New Super Mario Bros U was announced, showing off new suits and Mario running in HD.
- Moving into third-parties, Nintendo showcased Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Lego City Undercover, and Mass Effect 3 and Trine 2 for the system.
- A new fitness game is on the way: Wii Fit U, which uses the GamePad for exercises or to serve as a remote screen so you can watch TV.
- In a brief foray into the 3DS, the company showed off Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, and New Super Mario Bros 2.
- Nintendo closed out its conference with NintendoLand, a theme park game showcasing various mini-games to highlight the strengths of the control mechanism. It's promised for launch day.
- Not mentioned at the conference, but rather on Nintendo's press site immediately afterwards, was Project P-100 from Platinum, and Game & Wario from Nintendo.
- Nintendo's Japanese site revealed a 3-5 hour battery life for the GamePad, and it's not much of a mystery why that was left out of the show.
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Our wrap-up of Nintendo's E3 press briefing, along with a few announcements that trailed out directly after the show.-
Nintendo's making mostly the right moves. The graphics quality will be enough to please most customers, as was the case back in 2006 with the wii. They made enough novel use of the tablet to make it not seem like a complete gimmick. They've integrated all the major video streaming services.
Honestly, I don't see the next generation stuff from Sony and Microsoft being able to compete. The only they will have going for them is increased graphical power. Honestly, though, it won't be a drastic enough difference to sway consumers. And porting to Wii U won't be much of an issue either. Look at how easy it is for developers to downgrade their PC graphical engines for Xbox and PS3 (ex: Skyrim).
So Nintendo may have found the sweet spot again in this coming cycle. My main fear is that marketing could also be as important as it's ever been this time around. In which case, Nintendo could see a repeat of the Gamecube, because their ability to build hype (through traditional marketing) for their devices has always been weak. The novelty of their hardware and games seems to be what has always driven their success.-
You're not that enhanced for a interrogator..
I'm a big fan boy of the big N, didn't see the press briefing, but comments all around aren't looking that hopeful.
2 tablets per U is nice and all, as much as I want to see original games on the platform, I think Sony will just dump a boatload of money into the vita/ps3/ps4 interaction(games) to make it seem like its the same (i.e Move)
Price hasn't been disclosed yet so that should be a big worry : \
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How did they show anything? The only thing remotely interesting was Pikmin. Mario is great, ut there was nothing new there. A lot of the third party stuff is stuff that's already out.
I'll probaboly buy one because...well...Mario. I think it does a great job of competing...with the 360 and PS3. Microsoft and Sony have a real opportunity to destroy with their next gen systems next year.
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