Nintendo Press Conference… boring

I can sum up the Nintendo press conference in one word… BORING! Nothing was said that was even remotely close to interesting.

[taz8080]

Nothing worth while to talk about. No hardcore games or titles. Still very cutesy.

[callahan09]

Yeah. And that whole Wii Music presentation was grating on my precious nerves. It didn't sound very musical, mostly just disjointed noise. Ugh!

[Veryangryxbot]

You were expecting anything spectacular than?
Im sorry but anyone who expected Nintendos game to be mindblowing was in it for disappointment.

Just like MSs conference which was ultra boring and the only thing that made people snap was a PS3 game being announced for the 360. Bro, the facts dont lie. PS3 is still the hottest piece of gaming.

Think about it for a minute. If there was no FF13 announcement for 360 yesterday and it would have been showed in Sonys conference, it would have been "just another PS3 trailer". But now its shown for 360 and every major site went offline because millions of fans were either joying or speaking their disgrace.

This proves what exactly? That PS3 games are still the hottest and biggest franchises around even though certains fanboys will always deny it.

And in an hour or so, Sony is going to proof once again why they are the leading gaming console.

The only question remains however. Its Square Enix's moment of truth then. Will they redeem their selves or will they forever lose millions of fans with their betrayal.

[ChampIDC]

Way to wave around your fanboy colors. I'll laugh when Sony's press conference is no better than Microsoft's.

Also, PS3 is clearly not the hottest thing right now since it's being outsold like mad by the Wii and just mildly outselling the 360. Plus, Wii is the only console that prints money. Come on!

A weak press conference doesn't mean the system is dead.

[dachiefsman]

nice spin there angryxbot. to bad square betrayed nintendo before they did sony and technically you were not betrayed since you are going to be able to play the game. Go get your box of tissues and cry your eyes out.

on topic = nintendo conference was boring but i expected that.

[Bubble Buddy]

Problem with Wii, is what happens next generation? Who's going to buy a casual gaming machine next gen when they already have one? And as much as I love Metroid, Super Smash bros and Pokemon etc, CAN WE PLEASE GET SOME NEW IPS.

[Homicide]

I agree. Very boring. I almost fell asleep. All they mostly talked about was sales. Wii music was lame.

[chasuk08]

I would honestly say it was one of the funniest e3 conferences ever ! I cant stop laughing at the guy playing drums.

1. He looked like a complete fool
2. The drums were highly inaccurate and out of sync. You cant just shake your hands in the air and play drums. Its ridiculous
3. He thought he was really good
4. It was so embarresing, very cringe worthy

LOL

[lessthanmarcus]

and still be first in video game sales.

[ECKOo9]

that women was so annoying. She talked twice as loud as what she had too.

She mad incredibly stupid facial expressions whenever she mad a cheese emphasis on anything. Which was about every 3 seconds.

Reggie was alright but overconfident and sucked at the the games presented.

[taz8080]

MS conference waas much better.

[Ps3Fanboy777]

Take away that 1 announcement and that would have been one of the worst conferences ever...

[DavidMacDougall]

What hes saying is that the "Conference" was **** until something from the ps3 was brought up , which is now a former shadow of itself .

[Veryangryxbot]

that Sonys games are still the biggest and hottest franchises around that everyone wants, including xbots.

How ironic is it that the biggest show for MS yesterday, was a PS3 game being announced on their platform? A PS3 GAME! HA!

In about an hour or so, the moment of truth guys. Will SE abandon millions of their fans or will they redeem themselves?

Edit@delusional guy below.
If Nintendo is winning, than how come people are so DISAPPOINTED about Nintendo and Nintendos E3 so far? Hmm? If thats what you define as WINNING this console, you have to start asking yourself if thats actually what you want rofl.
Because I rather have Tekken, FF, real GTA games and not spin offs, REAL resident evil games and not spin offs, Shadow 2, God of war 3, LBP, HOME and more. If thats what you call LOSING, then I rather have Sony lose, you idiot.

You need to get your facts straight. Nintendo might be selling the most at the moment, but as for redefining gaming, they have severely abandoned the not so casual gamer.

[jeffaustin90]

No, not everyone wants Sony games. YOU, and maybe a few million people, want Sony games. 20 million people though, they want Nintendo games. They're just not vocal about it on the Internet because they're casual, it doesn't matter to them whether or not their voice is heard.

SPOILERS

Nintendo is winning, and they've been beating PS3 since day 1.

[nintendojunkie28]

It was better..but not by much...although I'm stoked about not having to purchase another console just to play ff13.

[SSCOOLCHEA]

but i do have the 8 bit nes and a ps3 . just to defend nintendo i dont think they give to craps what you think . you thinks kids pay attention to this e3 stuff. to us its great but to them they could care less .. all they want is there mario , swing those fukn controllers and for fat lazy to people to do fake excercise on the wii fit and bi... about not losing weight. i swear am going to take that controllers and shoved it up somebody arshs...

[decapitator]

Agree...seriously..WTF ? ....JEBUS

[PoSTedUP]

you think wii fit sold good? watch how everything they announced sells like crack, juts cause its the wii.

[taz8080]

Sad but true. Their take on lame games sells like hot cakes for seem reason. No new games were announced. everything was cutesy.

[ChampIDC]

Yeah, personally, I can't justify buying the system still. Still not enough strong games for my liking. I am a hardcore gamer, though, so the majority of Wii games just don't interest me. I'd love to play Zelda, Mario Galaxy, Brawl, Metroid, but 4 games won't sell a system for me.

[Fototherapist]

I bought my Wii specifically so I could play Metroid Prime, but now that I have it I'm trying to justify keeping my Wii. Nothing is coming out that tickles my fancy. I'm strongly considering selling it.

[pizzas]

Both conferences were boring.

Microsoft got XIII. Big deal. It's still coming out on PS3 first and it's still exclusive in Japan. Exclusive DLC announcement after exclusive DLC announcement. Where are their new exclusive games? Do they even have any? Where was Alan Wake?

Nintendo announces GTA DS... LOL!!

[taz8080]

LOL @ GTA DS, that was the higlight of the conference.

Reggie says they arent a fad but everyhting they showed was based on fads.

[PoSTedUP]

GTA DS was pretty cool : )

[kevnb]

So getting FFXIII isn't a big deal? Yes the ps3 still gets it, but the world doesn't revolve around the ps3.

[titntin]

@kevnb
I'm sure its great if you only own one machine, but its a multi plat game not exclusive - and those of us with all the machines will likely still buy it on the one disc.

Its not like a new game for most of us - I want something new god damn it!!!:) I've an inkling they will announce a halo title tonight after the Sony conference though - as a spoiler tactic. They need to, as thers no new core game announcements at all..

[ChampIDC]

Yeah, Microsoft's conference wasn't anything amazing, though I wouldn't say it was bad. Bungie's announcement tomorrow is probably going to be the biggest thing for 360...if they don't change to multiplatform that is o_O

[nintendojunkie28]

It's funny hearing ps3 fanboys claim it's not a big deal that ms got ff13....when it clearly is ..considering the massive hits the message boards got after the announcement.Look this topic up on n4g ...all of the articles contributed are littered with comments ..full of disappointment and anger towards squareenix's decision...callin' them sellouts and every other name in the book.

[Kaneda]

Not all PS3 owners got angry over FF announcement. Not all PS3 owners are FF fans. I was a little dissappointed.. but life move on! :)

[Mc187]

Wii Boring

[taz8080]

Waiting for first set of parents to complain because they heard profanities in their game. lol

[Silogon]

Knowing Nintendo they'll have a 3 second delay and add a beep to all cuss words. I'd laugh.

[Wildarmsjecht]

Ay...this E3 is actually turning out to be pretty stale.

[infinate]

GTA DS looks great, but that's it

[Altis1]

I had more enjoyment flushing my toilet.

[ChampIDC]

Are you implying that flushing a toilet is boring?!?!?!? How dare you!

Sorry, I enjoyed your comment a little too much...it inspired me to be stupid =)

[Aclay]

To be honest, I wasn't surprised that Nintendo didn't have that much exciting stuff because there was little to no hype at all surrounding Nintendo's E3.

If it wasn't for FFXIII Microsoft's press conference would have been pretty "meh", but the new additions to Live were O.k.

Sorry but, Sony is going to steal the show.

[RadientFlux]

I'm hoping "Heavy Rain" is announced for this holiday season. As the existing PS3 exclusives this Fall while not bad, don't really interest me.

[KobeT24]

WHAT? It wasnt boring. The graphs and charts were boring, but what did you expect? Of course the Wii was going to show off their first place sales.

I loved the new Wii music theme and watching everyone play it. I hope theres some sort of online function for that where I can hit up music with my distant relatives who also have a Wii.

[RadientFlux]

Boring but "Wii Music" is going to sell like hot cakes this holiday season. It was smart for Nintendo to combine the popularity of it's Wii console and music based video games.

[Smacktard]

It was awfully boring. There was nothing new or interesting I learned outside of Voice Chat, which was cool, and the new Wii Sports game, which doesn't sound interesting at all to me. Disc throwing? Come on. They seriously missed big opportunities not showing any hardcore titles or some sort of external hard drive. It was lamer than the 360 conference, which is REALLY saying something.

No wonder nothing about their conference was leaked. There was nothing interesting TO leak.

[nintendojunkie28]

They missed a big opportunity with this years conference...(aside from animal crossing)..out of all the great games they could of shown they show 3 mediocre titles.Where's my mh3 or fatal frame 4....I mean ..I guess some don't realize it,but there is a slew of great titles on the way.Sadly none were shown at the press conference...they could have really made an impact.Nintendo really frustrates me sometimes ...arrrgggh.

[darkside]

IF THE GAMING INDUSTY IS GOING WHERE NINTENDO IS GOING THEN THE GAMING INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE CAN GO THERE WITH OUT ME!

[tojfs7931]

That your computers keyboard does NOT stay locked in CAPSLOCK all the time?

[ape007]

seriously

no hardcore games

what a let down

I just wanna see star fox wii,mario tennis or a new F-zero

it wasn't even like a gaming party

it's like a casual party

huge,huge letdown

[tojfs7931]

Call of Duty 4 wasn't hard core enough for you.

[ape007]

I've played cod 4 on 360

even got 1000 out 1000 achievments points

so you are talking about cod 4 now

on the underpowerd,the crappy,the crippled wii???

it will be a downgraded cod4

it will suck

crappy online service

TBH
wii without nintendo game is (am sorry)

A PURE PIECE OF TRASH

[SnakeShady]

out of any ideas. they are able to make games only for pussi (ehm, sorry, i mean "casual gamer")

[Schmitty07]

I kept wanting it to be over. I'm glad sony will be on soon

[bleachrulez]

the entire show was about how the Wii was selling so much and how the ds has become so popular and sells as much as the wii...hopefully sony will bring something goood...if not i declare this E3 as a complete waste of my time

[Mausenheimmer]

It's a shame that the only surprise was a new Animal Crossing. I had called that one back at the start of June. And for all of Nintendo's talk about reaching hardcore gamers, they really didn't put much up there that isn't going to be available elsewhere.

P.S. It's also a shame how the gamer zone has become "Sony will be more awesomer than Nintendo and M$ put together". Open Comments is the other tab.

[kazuma]

here we go, 2 boring conferences. only one left. damn this year e3 was really weak.

[Cingman]

we cant be expected to be dazzled EVERY year like every time E3 comes along is Christmas, we can expect everything to evolve and grow in the gaming industry, but its Nintendo what did you people really expect from a kids console

[turbidDwarf]

they were meeting the needs of both casual and hardcore gamers alike. I failed to see what they meant by that, because what they showed were more Wii-"Who cares what its called, I'll only play it with my friends like 3 times, and when they leave, I'll place it back underneath my bed and go online with my Xbox 360/Playstation 3 for the rest of the evening!" Seriously, I though Wii music would have been better than what they showed. You can't even play a true song with those giant "balls" they call "hands." Nintendo I have a feeling has come in last place this E3. But I give them props for continuing to outsell the other platforms. Kudos!

[djt23]

GTA for DS

[Product]

Theres still more to come.

[--Onilink--]

i wont deny that the conference was probably one of the most boring hours of my life, but we should have seen this coming, most major sites were saying it prior to the conference, Nintendo was going all out on the mainstream crowd during the conference, but hopefully they will show the good stuff on the show floor and private rooms(once all the newspapers are gone), kind of what they did last year with smash.

I really hope this happens because people who actually have a wii and have been with nintendo know there are many great games coming and we are expecting to SEE them and not just hear that nintendo teams is working on games(what a shocker...)

Overall, worst CONFERENCE ever, hopefully the show overall will be at least decent.

BTW, biggest dissapointment other than no games showed was the fact that they showed no storage solution for the wii

[jeffaustin90]

Hardcore gamers suck anyway. That's not where the money is. I'd rather make money than pretend I'm interested some little game that a minority of the population is interested in. Yes on the Internet hardcore gamers are the majority, but in the real world, no, you don't matter that much.

[nintendojunkie28]

Some bold words coming from a non-gamer....why are you even on this site if your part of the casual crowd.This is not the place for you trust me...your gonna get slaughtered on these message boards.

[Mausenheimmer]

You realize that the Wii's problem is that low software sales, right? And as for hardcore being a minority, I point to the 10 million or so sales Call of Duty 4 and GTA 4 made on the 360 and PS3. This demographic is not abstract.

[jeffaustin90]

Mausenheimmer, you do realize that not every one of those 10-million people who bought GTA or CoD were hardcore gamers. Word of mouth is spreading to the casuals about those games too, since video games are becoming more and more mainstream. Plenty of casuals picked that game up because "so many people are talking about it". People are weak, and they're stupid. They can't think for themselves, so if they hear that "so and so is gonna sell great and it's gonna be awesome", they'll start to think that and they'll buy it themselves.

So you can't judge how big the 'hardcore market' is by counting the total sales of any one video game, because those sales will definitely include purchases by casuals.

[Mausenheimmer]

So are you calling Casual Gamers, of which you claim to be, a bunch of simple minded sheep who will buy whatever reviewers tell them?

Or are you willing to acknowledge that while people have varied gaming libraries, most of the people who bought Call of Duty 4 or GTA, games not available on the Wii, were of the so-called hardcore demographic (read: the kind not necessarily interested in Animal Crossing)?

[AlphaTrion187]

and yes hardcore gaming is important to anyone that pays real doe and are true fans of GAMES say it with me games. and for the record ur not important.

[AlphaTrion187]

also word of mouth has been used for about forever my dude. How do u think we evaluate things by discussion evaluation aka word of mouth. u think everyone buys shi$ cause of mags , and web sites its called the flow of information for a reason jerky smurf

[Product]

i will say that wiispeak is a good idea for voice chat.

[n00bzRtehgey]

M$ wins E3. What else is new.

[JustinSaneV2]

"Nintendo Press Conference... boring" aka "zomg FANBOY WAR!! ENTERZ HERE!"

[zhuk is god]

I said: maybe SONY must go to the jail. LOL

[Allowen]

Did they say any thing about an incoming new Zelda,Mario Galaxy or Metroid game for this year or 2009 ?

[jeffaustin90]

Yes, they mentioned that the teams responsible for Mario and Zelda were (separately) working on new titles. Since they didn't have anything concrete to announce about these titles at this time, they just glanced over them. I think it was early in the presentation, if you want to check it out for yourself.

[Mausenheimmer]

All they really said was they were being developed. Big surprise. You can probably bet that a new Pokemon game is being developed too. The more pressing issue is what is around the corner for the Wii.

[Product]

they were all boring except the ff annoucement

[ape007]

gta for ds now that's just lame

we already have two it on the psp

plus,how the hell can a gta game run on a ds

the ds can't handle an open huge city with cars,cops,peds,rain,fog,etc...

and gta was always known for its huge song list and lots of voice overS

HOW THE HELL CAN YOU SQUEEZE ALL THIS ON A DS CARD?????????????????????????? ???????????????????

THIS IS THE WORST PRESS CONFERENCE I HAVE EVER SEEN

IT'S SUCH A SHAME THAT MR.MYAMOTTO IS STANDING THERE IN THE MEDDLE OF A CASUAL UNIVERSE AFTER BIENG THE GREATEST GAME DEVELOPER OF ALL TIME

THIS IS E3 RIGHT THE BIGGEST GAMING EVENG OF THE YEAR

THAT EXPLAINS A LOT NINTENDO

[jeffaustin90]

Wow there's just so many things wrong with what you just said. So many incorrect/inconsistent facts.

[ape007]

he talks about the wii being the best GAMING system

and everything shown today was super casual

sony and ms sh@ted on nintendo with strong hardcore games like

resistance 2,mirror's edgr,killzone 2,god of war 3,resi 5,gears 2,fallout 3,ff13,geometry wars 2,infamous,fable 2,little big planet,saints row 2,project origin,rage,banjo,new xbox live,new psn futures,bioshock,cod 5

see riggie that list is for you

I was hoping for a star fox game,a worthy successor to the legendary n64 game or f-zero or mario tennis or a new zelda,pikmin

if nintendo truly think that this is the future of gaming with its e3 conference,the are taking gaming to hell

so reggie don't always talk like wii is the best gaming system

you can say this to the casuals(kids,women)

but for us hardcore gamers,A BIG NO RIGHT ON YOUR MUSHROOM LIKE FACE

[jeffaustin90]

You do realize that he's talking to more people when he's talking to casuals, right? When he talks to casuals, he's potentially talking to everyone who owns a TV, which is plenty more than the 'hardcore' crowd. And no, casuals are not just kids and women. There are plenty of adult males who are casuals, plenty of people who don't have to go online and self-hype up games for other gamers to make themselves feel better.

I can't wait for the day when people look down their nose at hardcore gamers, and see that it's funny because these people are way too dedicated to any one console/game.

[ape007]

boring as hell

total waste of time and electricity

I was waiting for a big boom at the end but ...........

that's it ,it's over??????

nintendo,what a failure

CAN'T BELIEVE IT

[Product]

yea i was disappointed just because there were only like 6 games shown.wtf....and to pizzaz about the ps3 getting the ff first...your wrong they come out the same time.......IGN has that story.

[Snipes20]

because I had turned down the volume to mute out cammie I-like-to-talk-down-on-the-aud ience and looked away to avoid that fake smile... thank goodness IGN had an article about it.

[NowGen]

ninty's press confrence just proves once again that nintendo is not trying to compete with the other two gaming systems. they are happy with their target gamers and are making loads of dough. why would you think they where going to show something different? this is what nintendo is. live with it.

[linkmaster95]

Nintendo has to show something freakin' huge on wednesday or thursday to live up to it's claim that core gamers would be satisfied with e3. Maybe like a...umm...I don't know, A NEW ZELDA!

[miles-prower]

xbox stolled mii's stolled home stolled singstar and even ffxiii

[nintendojunkie28]

stolled ????.....stole works just fine.......

[AWBrawler]

Boring as a gamer, but entertaining as a TV viewer, because cammie snowboarding and Reggie jet skiing was funny
plus all the Big N going casual is bull, cause this is for the Hardcore:
Voice chat
Motion plus

Fatal Frame 4
Disaster day of crisis
madworld
Spyborgs
Castlevania Judgement
FFCC: Crystal bearers
Tos: Dawn of the new world
Wario Land shake it!
need I go on? yes?
try:
Monster hunter wii
Tenchu 4
Tomb Raider Underworld

and so much more....

[nintendojunkie28]

I just wish they would have shown some of these titles :(

...dk about wario land shake it..being hardcore though.............

[Snipes20]

I am not sure if they are just biding their time or if they are sticking to close to a "business" conference with intermittent trailers and clever wording to keep bloggers awake?

Even if Reggie held up that list of games and a camera zoomed in on them I would have been a little happier. It's just disappointing for Nintendo to not even acknowledge these games.

[nintendojunkie28]

I hear ya...that's exactly how I feel..I would have been fine if they would have just mentioned those titles.Alot of people don't realize the rather large list of serious games on the way for the wii.I assumed ninty would have at least shown some teaser trailers...even if it was ones we've already seen just to reassure us..that these core titles are on the way.I don't get nintendo ..sometimes...ok alot of times...it's really frustrating...cuz I know what they could of ..and should of done to make this years press conference have a bigger impact.The three.. third party titles they showed off were nowhere near the best outta what's to come.I mean come on nintendo ..rayman:raving rabids 2.....what were you thinking!

[AWBrawler]

If you ever played the old ones, you wouldn't dare call it casual.

[brawlmaniac]

The only thing that I thought was remotely exciting is the WiiSpeak accessory coming out with Animal Crossing. I'm hoping that it will be incorporated into other games as well. Why couldn't this have been released earlier?? We could have had a way to talk while playing Super smash bros. brawl or Mario Kart Wii!

[flappo]

i don't care which console 'wins' as i've got all 3

but imo the wii is utter UTTER crap

deadend system with deadend games , gamecube mk 1.5 at best

except the gamecube was actually a miles better console imo

[taz8080]

Gotta agree, THe GC had better games and I used it alot more. Many people I speak to use the Wii for the VC mostly or party games. If it is ina party atmosphere t works well, but aside form that you feel dumb playing it alone.

[Ballistic Jay]

for the lady. She creeped me out with constant smiling

[why do droids cry]

hahahahahhahhaha take a look all u droidekas

[JasonX43]

that Nintendo has given me very good reason to stick with my PS3 and 360! I said the Wii was a fad and the slow painful death has begun!

[tojfs7931]

is a system that is leading the pack be dying a slow painful death?

[tojfs7931]

Because they wanted developers to know they could go for the cutesy as in Animal Crossing City Folk or the hard core with Call of Duty 4 ... get it??

[Zulwarn]

MS conference >>>>phony/nintendo nts

i highly doubt phony can top "FF"

all they do is show killzone2 this yr, the next yr and when bs4 launches

bs3 hype beyound

[G4drake]

well at least there will be a GTA to ds

but it could come to wii

[CAPT IRISH]

I doesn't matter anymore. I don't expect anything from Nintendo

[Jay Bomb]

I love Nintendo...for the childhood memories, but ever since 64 they failed over and over again, which is why Square Soft ditched them back in the day, They did not want to use the cartridge format, and their games were like 60 a pop back then too.

Further more Nintendo will always sell out, that's a proven fact. Nintendo to games is like Disney to movies. Kids are amused easily, no matter what CGI movie comes out there is a flock of kids even if its bad, No matter what Nintendo do, the kids will come lol. Great concept you gotta love them for strategy.

I think I'd still buy one today if they made a Pokemon online that doesn't suck.

[AlphaTrion187]

nintendo blows donkey balls at this point we i speak for GAMERS are the ones who got nintendo here to this point and there is no love for us at all love u miyamotobut ur breaking my heart man.

[daveman3]

i think it's time i had my wii funeral

[bcash23]

Nintendo did exactly what they needed to do and did exactly what there customers want. They focused on there market and told there market were they are headed and I think the games and motion plus are not being looked at for what they are. They are A) great if you have kids work, with kids, or anything kids. This device keeps kids at certain age level engaged with great healthy material. B) It reaches beyond that and includes mom, grandma, grandpa and me in to a experience with the kids we can all connect to quickly and have fun with. As far as the neg comments go lol. Get a grip I mean even the term Hardcore Gamer is a joke. Unless you play games for money or earn money for playing games nothing hardcore about it.