The nintendo press conference has come and gone. Every year with Nintendo, they trot out Reggie to talk and every year, he comes off like a pompous jackass. He’s like the richest kid in school that rubs your face in it at his weekly pool parties. Well guess what Reggie…
I’m not impressed. More thoughts about the Nintendo Press Conference, after the jump.
One word describes my thoughts on the Nintendo Press Conference:
Lame.
It was just lame. Half of the time was spent talking about sales figures. Seriously? Who in the world isn’t aware of the Wii and DS sales dominance? Pie charts? Graphs? Long term sales projections? Those are fine for a shareholders meeting, but for a Video Game Press Conference full of Entertainment journalists?
I don’t think so.
I was thoroughly unimpressed with the press conference. As a Wii owner starving for good content, the announcements of Call of Duty World At War and Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party hardly got me excited.
Star Wars Clone Wars? Eh…
The new Wiimote add on that will enhance motion controls looks interesting, but honestly, how long will it take developers to capitalize on this? A year? Two years? Three years?
I’m guessing that they’ll bundle Wii Sports Resort with the new MotionPlus perhipheral, but that’s just pure idol speculation. It does make sense, but who knows.
The only thing that really looked okay was the sword fighting in Wii Sports Resort, but, again, who knows.
Finally… Wii Music? I could see my three year old loving it, but honestly, it just looks gimmicky. It’s not even a game, as far as I could tell. It also looked completely broken. The amazing Drum guy, appropriately nicknamed Ravi DRUMS, I kid you not, had a hell of a time hitting the right drums. It was a terrible demo. One neat feature was that up to six people could play together. Seems cool, but I’m sure that in reality, it’s gonna sound like crap when you get grandma, grandpa and the kids together for a jam…
In all, the Nintendo press conference was completely underwhelming.
Stop with the pie charts…
Spare us Reggie.
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23 responses so far ↓
1 NecrisJ1MM // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Only one word describes my feelings for today’s Nintendo press conference…
FAIL
…what a let down.
WII MUSIC? SERIOUSLY?
IT PLAYS THE DAMN INSTRUMENTS FOR YOULOL
2 zzz711 // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:35 pm
too much missing from the conference
3 PlayingtheDream2612 // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:35 pm
yeah i agree 100% and I guess I have no reason to be playing my wii for a while. I just hope and pray that sony pulls through in the end!!
4 Glasspaper // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:36 pm
The whole system is rather “gimmicky” with the exeption of a couple of titles.
It was exactly as I expected it would be. Reggie coming out like a freshly horned debutant spouting something I couldn’t quite make out over his overall appearance and general demeanor.
Lackluster is putting it very nicely I think.
5 balaamsafe // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:40 pm
after that carcrash, it realy is sony’s time to shine
6 Glasspaper // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I just hope they got a big gun somewhere, I would hate to see MS take this conference with taking a PS3 exclusive.
Just seems like dirty pool to me.
7 Fishbag // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Load of rubbish. Only thing that might be any good is star wars, and I haven’t even seen what that’s like yet. More sports. Crappy music game. B@@@@@ks. All nintendo is now a days is a greedy bunch of Japanese suits trying to make even more money, not giving a damn about real gamers. Everything announced here is either more casual crap or feeding of other ideas (GTA, COD etc). F@@k Nintendo. F@@k them up their stupid asses
8 Kiltman67 // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:46 pm
The conference was everything I feared it might be. I can see that the Wii Speak will be interesting to some, but otherwise the only big deal there was the GTA DS game.
When it came to Wii Music, it seems pretty bad unless you’re playing percussion. The Mario theme worked well but whenever Miyamoto tried to play anything it just seemed to be a random stream of notes. Unless they’re going to market it to the Glitch community I don’t see who’s going to buy it.
My favourite graph moment was the 12 month/19 month bar chart which revealed that all the consoles had sold twice as many units by 19 months as they had sold at 12 months. Apparently the Wii sold slightly more than twice, though Reggie had to tell us this as it wasn’t visible from the graph.
Graphs where it’s not apparent one is performing better then the rest FTW!!!
Sitting through that has drained any hope I had that the Sony conference will be special
9 The Ploogle // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Some of us SG members got on MSN to chat during the conference, and none of us were impressed. Animal Crossing was the best part, IMO, because of us FINALLY getting voice chat.
The 1:1 deal was really good, but I can’t say that a game of fetch is a great way to demonstrate it. The sword fighting looked like it was the only good thing shown!
I’ll probably get World at War, since that looks really good.
10 Bumblebear // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I dont own a wii, but i still wanted them to unviel some kind of good “core” games for the wii.
Even if only to try and show the world that they aren’t just going after caual and thats the end of it.
I saw inovation there the wii is doing something different, but its not really in a good way, and definately not an appealing way to gamers who want to play proper “core” games
People are right that wii music is enjoyable for little kids, but i really dont how people above the age of 12 can enjoy that as a good game.
Im sure ill be proven wrong and it’ll be the next wii sports/fit and sell faaar more copies than it deserves to.
11 Grantly // Jul 15, 2008 at 12:57 pm
It was a let down. Where was my 2-D Metroid? Where was F-Zero Wii? Where was a new Star Fox? Where was the memory expansion? The only thing that I was really excited about was Animal Crossing. I’m a huge AC fan, but other than that and WiiSpeak, I was thoroughly unimpressed.
12 Glasspaper // Jul 15, 2008 at 1:19 pm
The sad part is, they could have gotten up on stage, crapped in a bag, strapped Nintedo on the label, and people would have bought it for their kids.
Nintendo just isn’t marketing to me I suppose. But they didn’t need a strong E3, because no matter what try, sheople buy it.
13 Tom Sawyer PhD // Jul 15, 2008 at 1:20 pm
The Nintendo press conference sucked ! Just one more reason why the Wii is not for hardcore gamers. So far, Microsoft is taking first unless Sony shows something amazing, like sexy beach 4 using the rumble shock.
14 SWSilentkiller // Jul 15, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I was seriously disappointed with the Nintendo press conference, I kept expecting a big announcement, maybe a new Kid Icarus game, maybe a new Zelda game, but no, they gave us nothing but sales figures and Wii music (which the presentation of took way to long ). I can only hope that they unveil something good at the TGS but still. This was a very disappointing press conference.
15 HeavenlyYeti // Jul 15, 2008 at 2:09 pm
:/
Guess the Wii is staying in my little sister’s room for another year after all.
16 Zari // Jul 15, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Yeah, as a Wii owner I was really hoping for something worthwhile, I’ve played through Okami, Zelda, half way through Mario Galaxy before getting bored and partially through Lego Star Wars (among other things). But I was REALLY hoping for something big, and when they dimmed the lights and did that
“OH LOOK WHAT WE MADE” thing….
I was expecting something…I dunno, fun?
WiiMusic?
Lame.
I don’t want something to play with my Mii, I don’t want some crappy kid game that’ll entertain you for a few hours before you get bored.
I want a real game.
17 Shane86 // Jul 15, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Where the HELL was Kid Icarus?
18 Wolf26pack // Jul 15, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I haven’t seen the whole conference on;y the part with the Wii Music. The way I see it is Wii Music has it’s potential but it seems like it has a lot of problems and needs a lot more work.
As for the Hardcore games it’s not like Nintendo hasn’t delivered already. In fact with all the whining I’m hearing it seems like they should have held a lot of the currently released games back so they could release them now and a little later. You alread have…
Hardcore games
- The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
- Metroid Prime 3
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Super Paper Mario
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Mario Kart Wii
Casual Games
- Wii Sports
- Wii Play
- Big Brain Academy
- Wii Fit
So lets see that is 6 Hardcore games and 4 Casual games for the Wii released by Nintendo in the past 2 yrs. Isn’t that a lot in the time provided?
Let’s also not forget the several different Mario Sports Titles and Mario Party 8.
I think it is time that we demand that 3rd parties step up in the Hardcore arena. Although most won’t because there afraid they won’t make any money. It is too bad Zack & Wiki didn’t get better sales because that was a really good game that made good use of the Wiimote. There was also a Donkey Kong Game that got released but got no support from Nintendo so it must have not been a very good game. All in All though I think Nintendo is doing fine they may have just played all their card to early.
Who here agrees?
19 Jarrett // Jul 15, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I thought the same thing, Wii Sports Resort and MotionPlus bundle. They put the controller with Wii Play. I could also see hearing your family’s horrible ‘music’ for hours giving owners a heck of a migrane. No Pikmen game, no Kid Icarus game, no Zelda game, no Mario game. WOW…. Wait to piss- no drench us Nintendo.
Although, I being REALLY and playing lots of instruments. Thought Wii Music would be pretty cool. Animal Crossing City Folk, can’t wait, I’m a HUGE Animal Crossing fanboy. Plus voice chat. FINALLY.
Heh, nice caption on the pic by the way!
20 Dan // Jul 15, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Maybe they just wanted to hold their really good cards, and just try to surprise people when (____) releases, after-all with MS trying to bite everyone else’s piece of pie (the mii-like avatars, the newton wii-mote like controller). I’m not saying to have faith or anything, or disagreeing, just merely trying to present another point of view. I did enjoy the 1:1, and can only imagine the applications it may bring.
21 Lono // Jul 16, 2008 at 12:14 am
@Wolf26Pack: Your answer: No. 6 titles in 2 years is not enough… that’s 3 a year…
Oh and by the way, while we’re at it… Those supposed “hardcore” games are about as “hardcore” as an episode of Sesame Street.
22 Wolf26pack // Jul 16, 2008 at 3:27 pm
@ Lono
Well I’m just talking about 1st Party titles. Those titles are the Hardest Core you will ever get from Nintendo. We all know that. If you expect them to ever make a CoD 4 like game well I don’t think it will ever happen.
I have compared what games came out on the gamecube to what has come out on the Wii and it seems like we are getting the same amount of games per year that we did for the gamecube which is about 3 to 4 per year not counting the Mario Party’s or Sports titles. I personally don’t think that is too bad unless I only had a Wii.
Should they be making more? Personally I think that there philosphy of Quaility of Quantity is a good one and I am happy with what they have brought out so far.
BTW: Remember the Year hasn’t ended yet so they could have an ace up their sleeve. Here’s to hoping.
23 BoxOfFun // Jul 19, 2008 at 7:42 am
Nintendo don’t need a good E3 conference, as they are an amazing developer and publisher anyway, but yes, it was disappointing. They focused far too much on Wii Music, to be honest.
Animal Crossing, Wiispeak and WiimotionPlus look awesome, although I wanted to see some Kid Icarus action more than anything else.
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