N+: E3 2009

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Ready for E3? IT'S HERE! - Well it starts at 9:AM PT

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6:55 - Getting things triple checked and prepped, stay put! cool

7:27 - Ook! Just so everyone knows, purple times represent basic news updates, pink will represent DS/DSi/Lite news, and Blue will be for Wii news cheers

7:33 - Leaving for a minute to get all washed up. Be back towards the start of the show.

7:48 - about 1 hour and 10 minutes left, be ready!

7:50 - Testing colors...

7:50 - Great!

8:22 - About half hour of waiting left until scheduled start

8:37 - Mmmm Donuts

8:54 - Getting Antsy

8:56 - CRAP! Live box technical difficulties! text blog still go.

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9:01 - Stage effects are on, still dark

9:05 - Cammie Dunnaway is on stage. talking about a connection to games in our lives.

9:08 - "4 is the key to Marios next suprise ("New Super Mario Brothers for Wii") Multiplayer! Sidescroller style, proppeler suit is a new item for mario. Mario flys into air and drifts back down.

9:12 - When one player reaches the end (flag pole) 3 seconds are left for other players to grab the flag, give you tallies for all stats achieved. Cammie looses tells crappy joke.

9:14 - Wii fit being told as best selling game around the world. 15 million sold, some analysts call it it's own system. Wii Fit+ announced

9:16 - Keeps track of calories burned, helps give you a routine. Alot of fun, 15 new balance game: juggling, skateboarding, swing hips "perfect ten", obstacle course

9:18 - Fall release - bundled with board, and one without board. Reggie shows up

9:20 - Talking About Wii remote, nunchuck, BBoard, and talks about WiiMotion+

9:21 - "Precision Control" - shows boating, frisbe, golf, bow/arrows in Sports Resort.

9:23 - Sports Resort starts by you skydiving out of a plane, you use the motion+ to spin your guy and float to other divers, dive straight down, flatten out, looks pretty fun! chutes open!

9:26 - Archery, hold wii remote in front like the bow, nunchuck like the arrow! looks so cool! 3 shots per target, must arch a shot if targets are further, wind plays a role.

9:28 - Basketball being showed off. Just Wii remote. Reggie takes a name... and kicks an ass! - July 26th release date. Tiger woods uses Motion+ - also has its own bundle, Virtua Tennis on Wii using Motion+

9:32 - Red Steel 2 ONLY can be used with M+. Wii had more 3rd party games than anyone else, DS was second.

9:34 - Final Fantasy:Crystal Barers announced - Wii. Kingdom Herats on 29th for DS

9:35 - Mario and Luigi: Bowser Inside Story for DS (supersaga style) Fall in North America and Europe.

9:37 - Golden Sun: DS - looks SO good!

9:39 - Goofy Cammie is back announcing "Womans Murder Club" (october launch) "Games of Passion" - Mystery Novels as Games by James Patterson

9:41 - COP: New Recruit - looks like GTA3 but as a cop.

9:42 - Style Savvy - Run your own boutique, more than 10,00 fashions to sell. Dance in rose petals, customise a shop, compete in runway walkoffs, etc...

9:43 - DSi sold more than a million units in 2 months. DSi is personalized.

9:47 - FlipNote Studio (DSiWare) - a video making game announced! NEED TO GET THIS!

9:48 - WarioWare DIY: design your own games from scratch, characters, action, all of it made by you!

9:49 - Summer activation of DSi photo upload straight to facebook.

9:50 - LOZ: Spirit Tracks re-announced, nothing new here.

9:52 - Satoru Iwata shows up! - says 3 types of people "those who play, those who say they will never, some who say one day maybe i will play games". Talks gaming expansion data.

9:59 - Wii Vitality Sensor! haha, put you finger in the WiiRemote!

10:00 - Mario and Yoshi (playable!) appear in a new galaxy looking game! AH! "Super Mario Galaxy 2"

10:04 - Reggie talks about exclusive wii games to launch before years end: Conduit by Sega. Capcoms Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles. DeadSpace Extraction.

10:08 - Reggie talks about publisher Nintendo making new edgier games?! Nintendo in cahoots with Team Ninja make: Metroid "Other M" for 2010 - Holy Hell! it looks so rad! Deeper into Samus' story, looks darker and grittier than Primes. Looks like both 3rd person view, and 1st. Show Ends

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Comments

SpookSpook81 Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:44:10 PM

Personally, I'm hoping they will come out with a RED Wii (like they promised with their initial images :'( ). Or that the 'new' Zelda and the whatever tracks was just a prolonged joke and that the actual Zelda is Wii-exclusive and 50 hour long... yeaaaah...

AntonCaptainSeagull Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:14:04 PM

first of all "concept colors" are not promises, second of all, they need to have to lucious purple one, and third, zelda whatever tracks looks fun.

SpookSpook81 Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:31:51 PM

It looks EXACTLY like Phantom Hourglass!! But now you're on a train instead of a boat ¬.¬ And I'm not saying it won't be fun, but we need a designed-for-Wii Zelda, as promised... wink
And now that motion+ is nearly out, they're running out of excuses to come up with something good...

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:59:15 PM

Have any dates yet?

.edDotEd Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:26:17 PM

I'm saying this right now. I need Mii pets, and I want them to announce it so I can go back to sleep.

Ever since they showed off frisbee toss for Wii Sports 2 I've been saying they're gonna let you customize that dog, and in Personal Trainer: Walking for DS and DSi you can create a dog and import Mii's from a Wii - and you can customize your dog. That's TWO Mii games that have animals in them, and one lets you customize it.

Mii pets, you're overdue.

Pikachu Electronkawaiipikachu Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:32:41 PM

While there are many things we want Nintendo revale but the thing that they should really revale here is the DS successor that they are in th middle of developing .

.edDotEd Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:34:42 PM

I fixed the width of the live blog frame so it fit a little better. still cant see why it needs to have a vertical scroll within a vertical scrolling frame though.

anyway, it's better.

Charles SchlossChas4 Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:50:23 PM

thanks for the date

joseGOOFYSTAR Friday, May 29, 2009 12:54:45 AM

They need to make Pikmin 3

joseGOOFYSTAR Friday, May 29, 2009 1:11:05 AM

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joseGOOFYSTAR Friday, May 29, 2009 1:19:59 AM

Robbiemoirob Friday, May 29, 2009 11:31:02 AM

Wait! You can really get twitter hashtags to show up in that chat window? Thats pretty sweet!

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, May 29, 2009 3:01:48 PM

The chat window starts to scroll If I start to scroll the mouse wheel

Duaneborri Friday, May 29, 2009 3:12:32 PM

They need to announce MP9 (Mario Party 9) o and they need to lunch MP 1,2, and 3 for the wii shop happy

AntonCaptainSeagull Friday, May 29, 2009 5:34:33 PM

Chas4: that should do that, IF your pointer is hovered on the chat box, if your pointer is outside of it it shouldnt

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, May 29, 2009 5:46:43 PM

it does on the outside of the chat box

AntonCaptainSeagull Friday, May 29, 2009 8:04:06 PM

hmm. for me its good i wonder whats up

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, May 29, 2009 8:07:50 PM

Opera 9.64 Intel build on 10.4.11 here

MatthewHallucin0gen Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:55:45 AM

Maybe videos for the DSi?

and erm.. Ive been having Opera troubles on my DSi.. everytime I view a new page it logs me out..and I cant comment from it

Duaneborri Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:55:35 PM

Hallucin
u have trouble with ur DSi....Opera?

.edDotEd Monday, June 1, 2009 3:29:26 AM

Hoping for word from Nintendo about this, too: http://my.opera.com/Nplus/blog/opera-for-wii-2-0-revealed

Charles SchlossChas4 Monday, June 1, 2009 3:34:59 AM

Hoping for word from Nintendo about this

maybe they are now able to go from flash player 7 to flash player 9

Tony G. Martinez MoraNewTonyIc Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:12:16 AM

i so want megavideo and others players to work on my wii.....questions,will the second Wii(its next version) have the shop channel,and if possibles the latest internet channel version,also will it read dvds,cds,does anybody know if the graphics proccesor would be that of a 360 or higher,and have longivity of gameplay(like 50 to 60 hours)?
now a dsi question,is there gonna be a dsi message board channel(as downloadable app) for the dsi?

SpookSpook81 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:31:12 AM

NewTonylc... we don't know (well, I don't think we know)... according to Nintendo, they don't have any plans for a 2nd generation Wii just yet... nor an HD-Wii as it was speculated...

Charles SchlossChas4 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:24:26 AM

One issue is that the Wii only has Flash Player 7

SpookSpook81 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 5:41:25 AM

That, unfortunately, it's not just to do with Nintendo... Adobe has A LOT of responsibility on that, too... (just as in the iPod/iPhone not supporting Flash, either)

AntonCaptainSeagull Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:40:16 PM

at one point a nintendo rep did say that whatever next system comes out will be HD. of course things can change by then. The real question is will the next gen machine be a Wii 2 or a whole new thing...

SpookSpook81 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 4:04:40 PM

yeah, but next-gen systems are not slated until after 2013! HD will be on Nintendo while other systems would have moved on to 3D... Ninty REALLY needs to keep up!

AntonCaptainSeagull Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:42:12 PM

Ninty moved to 3D on the Snes dude...

SpookSpook81 Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:50:18 PM

Not that kind of 3D p 3D TV, which is 'the next TV' already on the making...

AntonCaptainSeagull Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:11:58 PM

heres the history lesson though. someon else invents the tech, no body thinks to use it for gaming. Ninty tailors the tech into gaming, they do amazing job at it, rivals imitate, life goes on.

When it comes to graphics, ninty gives the correct base, rivals enhance and best the look - but prices go higher, stability is lower, and then when the time is right for the tech to be used cheaply and effectively ninty jumps in, while rivals are on the next sharpest image.

Pilgrims found Jesus, triceratops eats from the knowledge tree, and lincoln shot jfk.

Lesson over.

SpookSpook81 Wednesday, June 24, 2009 2:16:01 PM

lincoln shot jfk

Wow, that was one slow bullet!

AntonCaptainSeagull Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:33:00 PM

two words.... "time bullets"

Duaneborri Thursday, June 25, 2009 6:17:49 PM

I will have my DSi next month bigsmile

Haavardhaavard Friday, June 26, 2009 11:08:14 AM

Originally posted by Spook81:

yeah, but next-gen systems are not slated until after 2013!


Nintendo's next-gen system? Has this been confirmed?

SpookSpook81 Friday, June 26, 2009 1:40:17 PM

Anyone's next-gen system... when asked about the next generation, all major manufacturers agreed they were not coming before 2013... remember, they're giving this generation a 10-year life span!

Haavardhaavard Friday, June 26, 2009 2:52:31 PM

I heard Sony said 10 years. I never heard Nintendo agree to that. In fact, they said that it could be longer or shorter than traditional cycles depending on when current technology starts being too limited for game developers (Miyamoto I guess).

By the way, I found this funny thing while trying to find out exactly what Iwata said:

[Wii] will certainly not just be a more powerful version of the GameCube

bigsmile

Duaneborri Sunday, June 28, 2009 6:08:15 PM

Agree up yes