Nintendo's E3 press conference dated

Wii News | Will Iwata drop the bomb?

This year's E3 event is going to be a big one, with both Sony and Nintendo looking to blow the roof off the show floor with the respective hardware reveals. As always, both (along with Microsoft and others) will be holding separate press conferences, where they will reveal in-depth what we can expect from new hardware and software.

Now, thanks to VG247, we have a date Nintendo fans can mark on their calendar. According to a press release sent from Nintendo, the company will be holding their E3 press event again at the Nokia Theater, on 7 June at 9.00am PDT. For us humble Australians, that equates to approximately 8 June at 2am for Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, and the ACT, 1:30am for South Australia and the Northern Territory, and 12:00am for our readers in Western Australia. Those in New Zealand can look forward to the event at the early hours of 4am.

Last year Nintendo offered a live video feed of the event, and with this year's conference set to reveal the Wii's successor we can only assume we'll get the same treatment. For those who are busy sleeping, PALGN will as always live blog the event for those after a recap, and our attending staff we be sure to report on all footage and hands-on demos.

Now, how many sleeps are left?

Related Content

Nintendo to screen their E3 press event
03 Jun, 2010 Front row seats to the big show.

New Fire Emblem for DS
25 May, 2010 From one to three.

Nintendo reveal Connection Tour '08
30 May, 2008 Brawl, Mario Kart, and others coming to a shopping centre near you.

Page12 Next

28 Comments

Cerebral

2 years ago

Will probably be the first year I won't tune in for the conference live (and the IRC craziness, memories). Looking forward to blown minds/megaton Wednesday morning.

Unless I get fired between now and then. But I'd probably rather miss the conference and keep the job.

fupoisme

2 years ago

I'll consider staying up for this one if it's being live streamed again. I was hugely surprised and pleased by how well Nintendo presented themselves at last year's E3.

Benza

2 years ago

come on lets see a line up for the heart monitor thing!

Esposch

2 years ago

Benza wrote

come on lets see a line up for the heart monitor thing!

They have no plans on releasing it in the near future. It only works with 80% of people. Iwata isn't even considering it until it works with 99%.

Benza

2 years ago

but up to 12% of people are unable to see 3D effects propperly and they release a console based on it?

Also... they're still seriously considering that fucking heart monitor thing?

mikezilla2

2 years ago

Benza wrote

but up to 12% of people are unable to see 3D effects propperly and they release a console based on it?

Also... they're still seriously considering that **** heart monitor thing?

entertainment before medical/piratical use.

Esposch

2 years ago

Benza wrote

but up to 12% of people are unable to see 3D effects propperly and they release a console based on it?

Also... they're still seriously considering that **** heart monitor thing?

(apologies to those who read my last post. I am aware how little sense it made):
Nintendo implemented a 2D mode for the 3DS, meaning that (almost) everyone could play it, even though some could only use 2D mode.

There is no "compatibility mode" for the vitality sensor. If you are part of the 20% that can't use it, you can't play the game at all.

Benza

2 years ago

I'm honestly shocked that they're still wanting to go ahead with it. I thought it had ended up with them going "wow... that was a fucking stupid idea" and dropping it.

Also how does a heart rate monitor not work on 20% of people?

Esposch

2 years ago

Benza wrote

I'm honestly shocked that they're still wanting to go ahead with it. I thought it had ended up with them going "wow... that was a **** stupid idea" and dropping it.

Also how does a heart rate monitor not work on 20% of people?

20% of people don't have a strong enough pulse for it to work with a little finger sensor, maybe?

Furianshi

2 years ago

I'll be watching to see how much RAM Nintendo are putting into Project Cafe (hoping at least 2GB). Also to see if the measly 8GB of flash storage is upgradeable. Will be interesting to see some of the games running on the new console too.

It's bound top be a better conference for Nintendo than last years anyway.

el_supraman

2 years ago

Nintendo destroyed last year and will do even better this year. This is probably the most excited I have been. HD mario, zelda etc and the fect third parties will most probably release their games on nintendo and the whole touch screen controller. I have already started slowing down my game purchases cause I think the "stream" (please no wii 2) will be my console of choice.

Who cares about heart monitor nintendo will set the way for innovation yet again

Benza

2 years ago

el_supraman wrote

Nintendo destroyed last year and will do even better this year.

I thought last year was when the wii started lagging behind in sales compared to the 360 and PS3?

Quote

Who cares about heart monitor nintendo will set the way for innovation yet again

You mean like how they 'inovated' with this brilliant idea of motion controlled gaming aimed at a casual market (that sony had started doing years before)?

Nintendo don't inovate, they're like Disney, they take existing ideas and polish the absolute fuck out of them.

el_supraman

2 years ago

destroyed at e3 not in sales.

I disagree with your second comment. Ill leave it at that

Esposch

2 years ago

Benza wrote

Sony didn't have a controller for Eyetoy. And the games worked completely differently.
Plus, did you see the Balance Board? Touch Screen gaming? The D-pad? The Analog stick? The first game not to suck 20 years after it was made? The first 3D game to get it right? The first 3D game to reallyget it right? Glasses-free 3D tech? An analog nub that isn't shit? God damn Pikmin?

Regardless of whether or not they're a shit company, you gotta admit that they are pioneers.

Jarrod

2 years ago

Nintendo's E3 last year, even with its sloppy Zelda demo, was really good I thought. It broke the traditional Nintendo E3 cycle of craptacular graphs and long winded marketing spiels by having quite a few games show up, a new hardware reveal, and Iwata. And man, maybe it's the fanboy in my talking, but I just love hearing Iwata talk.

Im hoping Nintendo take notes of the positive feedback from those attending and keep this year similar.

Vervain

2 years ago

**** the Wii 2, I WANT YOU TO ANNOUNCE AND DATE SOME MORE 3DS GAMES!

el_supraman

2 years ago

I did not need to comment. Esposch and Jarrod did it for me lol

Benza

2 years ago

Esposch wrote

Plus, did you see the Balance Board? Touch Screen gaming? The D-pad? The Analog stick? The first game not to suck 20 years after it was made? The first 3D game to get it right? The first 3D game to reallyget it right? Glasses-free 3D tech? An analog nub that isn't ****? God damn Pikmin?

I'll give them the balance board. That's it.

Sega had a touch screen the sucessor to the game gear before it was shelved, the d-pad was polishing the design that had allready been used on many arcade machines and addapting it to a handheld controller, atari were using analog sticks way back in the 80's, wolfenstien and doom (Also even if that were true it counts as perfecting something that already existed) Glasses free 3D tech was developed by Sharpe and has been in phones and cameras for a while, an analoug nub that isn't shit is still perfecting someone elses idea. And I'm talking hardware not software.

Software wise they've undoubtedly been innovators (though if anyone mentions mario galaxy again I'm going to slap them) hardware wise though they're very good at taking other peoples ideas and perfecting them. That's not trying to take anything away from what they've done. They've deffintly perfected a lot of stuff (Though sony perfected the analogue stick on controllers, the 64's analogue stick was shit)

I just find it a little bit rich that people can sit there and say with a straight face that Nintendo were the first people to do a really good 3D game and an analogue stick when I was playing Mech Warrior 2 on my analogue Logitech stick 2 years before the 64 even came out.

pom013

2 years ago

^ I contest the fact that Sony's analog sticks are perfect. If they where perfect, they would have concave surfaces to stop your finger slipping around while your trying to execute a quicktime event in God of War.

Esposch wrote

Benza wrote

20% of people don't have a strong enough pulse for it to work with a little finger sensor, maybe?

I think the difficulty is that nintendo isn't just building a heart rate monitor, they want to read a persons heart rate and then deliver a software based outcome. My guess is that 20% of people don't fit into the average heart rate patterns nintendo has calculated and so the software response is inaccurate or unpredictable 20% of the time.

John Marston

2 years ago

You know i was thinking *insert shock horror gasp* but anyway what if there surprise is that controller they were showing off was portable and could run games purchased off there store.... I wonder if that will be the case and if so it would really be comfortable in the hand to play with *insert that's what she said joke*.

Jarrod

2 years ago

I think Nintendo will try and keep the price down by having as minimal tech in the controller as possible, so in terms of displaying games it will almost entirely be streaming the data from the main system itself. It would be pretty pricey to stick a lot of rendering tech in each controller.

However, with your line of thinking, I wouldn't be surprised if they used built some Cafe/3DS connectivity, allowing you to download some WiiWare or whatever to the 3DS system.

@Benza: SUPR MARO GARAXEEE. Galaxy, or more specifically Galaxy 2, isn't really 'innovative', but a pretty strong example of the kind of thinking you have there. I seriously consider Galaxy 2 to be the absolute apex of 3D platforming, better than every 3D platformer that came before it.

I really like Galaxy 2, in case you didnt notice.

Benza

2 years ago

Jarrod wrote

I seriously consider Galaxy 2 to be the absolute apex of 3D platforming, better than every 3D platformer that came before it.

I really like Galaxy 2, in case you didnt notice.

See that's what I mean, what they do they do extremely well. When they take an idea they pretty much do perfect it. I mean sure the whole planetoids with indvidual gravity as a platformer was done before Mario galaxy in Sonic Adventure 2, but it sucked in SA 2.

It's just not very original.

Quote

^ I contest the fact that Sony's analog sticks are perfect.

I more meant the mechanics of how they worked. The 64 ones always had that irritating chalky residue they left everywhere and got really loose after being used too much. The Wii one also always feels a little dodgy (the cube ones felt fine though) The Dual stick controls on the PS1 worked basically the same as they work on controllers today.

Nietzsche

2 years ago

Galaxy 2 is the best 3D platforming game. When played with a 360 controller through an emulator in 1080p. Seriously why would anyone want to play a 3D platformer with a remote?

Jarrod

2 years ago

Meh. There's nothing in Galaxy 2 I consider hindered by the remote. All the jumping and moving is digital/analogue anyway, and the only 'waggle' is the spin, plus the pointer, and I honestly feel both work wonderfully.

If the jumping were tied to the waggle then I might have a problem, but it's not so WINNING.

Page12 Next

View as forum topic

Add Comment