Lets wrap this all up then. Nintendo’s press conference was a mix of hits and misses, but a massive improvement on last year’s show. The news of a new Super Mario Galaxy game and a very hardcore-looking Metroid title will definitely go down as the highlights, while the likes of Golden Sun, Wii Sports Resort and Miyamoto’s roundtable Zelda reveal also provided strong headlines for the day after.
Was their room for improvement? Absolutely. Nintendo don’t seem to have grasped the fact that those who will play Women’s Murder Club and …

It wasn’t all hardcore fan service and technology from Nintendo, however. The company still have to reach out to their casual audience, and for us more core players those segments of the conference can be a giant snoozefest.
In my opinion, there have been some top notch point-and-click adventure titles on both Wii and DS: the Ace Attorney series, Another Code and Professor Layton immediately spring to mind. New entries for all three of these franchises are on the way and would have been heartily welcomed by myself in Nintendo’s presentation.
Sadly, …

Games are always a big deal at conferences like E3 but in recent years, especially with Nintendo, a new peripheral (or two) will be brought to the audience’s attention with wild promises of a deeper and more immersive experience. This year, peripherals were very much making their presence felt in Nintendo’s conference.

The big focus was on periperhals we already knew fairly well about. The release of Wii Motion Plus is just around the corner while the Wii Balance Board is seen as one of the biggest ingredients in Nintendo’s casual …

Alongside the big Mario announcements, Nintendo had another major player lined up for the rest of this year and the beginning of next. Non-Mario conference highlights for 2009 included Wario Ware DIY, Wii Sports Resort (more on that tomorrow) and Wii Fit Plus. But next year looks even better.
Though Cammie Dunaway deserves a bit of a slap for glossing over Spirit Tracks on DS like it was old news (okay, it was – but there was a trailer they could’ve shown to keep wild fanboys happy), adventure lovers were given …

With memories of last year’s car crash conference still in people’s minds, Nintendo needed something special from their E3 conference for 2009 and for the most part they delivered.
Over the next few days I’ll be commenting on the big reveals from Nintendo’s LA conference, Shigeru Miyamoto’s roundtable discussion and the E3 show floor.
At the heart of Tuesday’s revelations was Mario, who was the star of four new games on both Wii and DS. The sort-of leaked New Super Mario Bros Wii opened the show as the first Mario game to …

I could open this post by looking back at the disappointing display Nintendo put on at last year’s E3. I could rant about the lack of solid first part content, the lackluster showing from third parties and Cammie bloody Dunaway, but the fact is we know what went wrong.
Fortunately, Nintendo know that they messed up too. Fingers crossed as E3 builds itself back up to the all singing, all dancing mega conference it once was the Big N will be leading the way with some hot announcements that will restore …

I handed in my last degree assignments yesterday, took part in my final exam and have just one more portfolio of work to print off before I officially bring three years of University living to a close. Expect a blogging burst in the next few days, as well as a liveblog Twitterfest on Tuesday to mark Nintendo’s E3 press conference.
Coming shortly, my predictions for that conference.

Who says GDC is just for the developers, huh? Ever year, whoever is speaking at the annual conference, one group of gaming fans will be on the edge of their seats for the big announcements from their camp. For Nintendo fans, Iwata’s first GDC keynote since 2006 was a reason to get a little bit excited.
Of course, not too excited, what with the Big N’s E3 slip-up back in July causing many fans to be that bit more wary of these events. Thankfully GDC didn’t disappoint. Although Mario remained tucked …