Expecting Big Surprises At Nintendo's E3 Conference? Well, Think Again...

I strongly believe that, for the first time ever, we already know most of what we're going to see at Nintendo's 2010 E3 Press Conference and how it's going to play out. Nintendo seems to have spilled the beans this year, with many titles already hinted at or even revealed.

I decided to make this thread to outline the most probable outcome of this year's conference, as well as add a bit of speculation, because you never know.

Enjoy!

• Talk about sales figures, mention the sucess of titles like NSMBWii, Galaxy 2, Wii Fit Plus, Wii Sports Resort, Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver, etc.

• Talk about expanding to new audiences, mention efforts like the recently released black Wii bundle, DSi XL, Netflix for Wii & Nintendo Zone

• Vitality Sensor unveiled, with at least 1 piece of software to go with it

• WiiWare + DSiWare montage

• Wii Party

• Pokemon Black & White

• Something with Mario in the title

• Zelda Wii

• Nintendo 3DS revealed, with at least 2 games to showcase the product

After watching Nintendo's previous E3 conferences and comparing how long they spend on each game/segment, I estimate that all of the above items would come close to filling up the hour-long time slot they have reserved, coming in at about the 50-minute mark. That leaves about 10 minutes of unknown material/speculation. Of course, with this being Nintendo, they could just stretch it all out and leave it as is. Regardless, here are some possible topics to fill that extra time:

• New Wii Channel

• Player's Choice lineup revealed for holiday 2010

• Retro's project

• Something on Span Smasher, The Last Story, Monado, Cosmic Walker, Pikmin 3, Sin & Punishment 2, Metroid Other M, Poke Park, and/or Golden Sun DS.

• A segment dedicated to third parties. Start off with how they are working more with third parties (Metroid Other M, Monster Hunter 3, Samurai Warriors 3, etc), then show a few third party games (Epic Mickey, Tales of Graces, Conduit 2, Dragon Quest, etc) in a montage clip.

Finally, just to crush any hopes you may have, the list of things that are just fanboy pipe dreams:

• Wii HD/New Wii System

• External Hard Drive

• The end of Friend Codes

• Headset

• Rare titles (Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, etc) available on the VC

• "Hardcore" M-rated, Nintendo-developed title

• Kirby, Star Fox, Donkey Kong, F-Zero, etc.

Well, that just about does it. What do you think?

Would this lineup upset you? Did I miss anything? Feel free to comment!

Well we thought we had a good grasp of what they were going to do last year and we came out with Galaxy 2, NSMB, Other M and the crazy Vitality Sensor. So I wouldn't jump the gun on what will and will not be there. But I completely understand why they aren't teasing anything because people let their hype get way out of control. Sepewrath

Obvious solution: don't expect anything at E3.

Problem solved.

Obvious solution: don't expect anything at E3.

Problem solved.

GabuEx

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Obvious solution: don't expect anything at E3.

Problem solved.

bob_newman

But you still listed things that were labeled likely to happen. :P

Obvious solution: don't expect anything at E3.

Problem solved.

GabuEx

[QUOTE="bob_newman"][QUOTE="GabuEx"]

Obvious solution: don't expect anything at E3.

Problem solved.

GabuEx

But you still listed things that were labeled likely to happen. :P

Eh... I still think they'll have something up their sleeve.

But I seriously hope it's not another Wii. We don't need Nintendo to start rehasing their home consoles as well. Especially since the Wii really was kind of lacking to begin with IMO. No way I'm going to pay for a Wii rehash.

No way will Nintendo ever produce a hardcore M-Rated title. Never going to happen. Ever.

Glad a new Kid Icarus title did not fall into your not likely to happen category though =D

• Nintendo 3DS revealed, with at least 2 games to showcase the product

bob_newman

I think we'll see a whole lot more than just 2!

Remember how many games we saw showcased at E3 with the DS when it was formely announced?

[QUOTE="bob_newman"]

• Nintendo 3DS revealed, with at least 2 games to showcase the product

kenakuma

I think we'll see a whole lot more than just 2!

Remember how many games we saw showcased at E3 with the DS when it was formely announced?

No way will Nintendo ever produce a hardcore M-Rated title. Never going to happen. Ever.

Glad a new Kid Icarus title did not fall into your not likely to happen category though =D

Euaggelistes

Eternal Darkness says "hi".

So does Geist.

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[QUOTE="bob_newman"]

• Nintendo 3DS revealed, with at least 2 games to showcase the product

bob_newman

I think we'll see a whole lot more than just 2!

Remember how many games we saw showcased at E3 with the DS when it was formely announced?

Ya I know, I'm just sayin...

I'm pretty excited for it even if most the games we see will be early demos/concepts like with the DS and may end up getting drastically changed/canned.

Wait wait...what did we expect last year? I only knew of like 2 things on the menu. This year though they've got about 50 minutes of material already pretty much confirmed. I think this is a different situation.bob_newman

NOT likely to happen this year:

• Kirby, Star Fox, Donkey Kong, F-Zero, etc.

bob_newman

This will be the one that gets many GameFAQer Nintendo fans angry. I see too many topics there complaining about the lack of traditional Nintendo titles that aren't Mario, Zelda, or Metroid.

All I want is Pikmin and Zelda!

Probably not many surprises. The 3DS, which was likely originally meant to be their big surprise, got announced already, so what's left? There will probably be a little something, but nothing too huge that everyone uniformly cares about.

[QUOTE="bob_newman"]Wait wait...what did we expect last year? I only knew of like 2 things on the menu. This year though they've got about 50 minutes of material already pretty much confirmed. I think this is a different situation.Sepewrath

heh, it'd be a successful E3 for me if they just announced Tales of Grace. :lol:

Freaking Namco...

Obvious solution: don't expect anything at E3.

Problem solved.

On every year, I never hype on E3. I'm always more on the Summit conferences like in last February with Super Mario Galaxy 2, Sin & Punishment 2, Metroid Other M, Cave Story,... The only thing I want to see is Zelda and it's confirmed to be there. Why should I hype? I'd like to see more Wiiware games like La Mulana or Super Meat Boy too.

People are still gonna cry in E3. Amazement from gameplay or crushed fans. :P ;)

Yeah that list looks good. I don't know about how realistic it is but there should be at least 1 'core' WM+ game announced, other than Zelda Wii

all i have to say is: YOU TOTALY NAILED NINTENDOS E3 PRESENTATION. i think you forgot to mentio how wii party will take up half the E3 presentation lol. anyway as long as i see some interesting news about Zelda WII im happy.

There's only one thing that will blow my Socks off this year is if Nintendo Announces Donkey Kong 64 to be released IMMEDIATELY AFTER Their Showcase.

No matter what you or me try to say there will still be plenty of people complaining after E3 about what they didn't see but all I need is Zelda Wii. Anything after that will exceed my expectations but if there is no info on Zelda I will be very disappointed. TheColbert

I would like a more mature title from Nintendo.

No, not in gore, violence or an M rating. I'm talking about a game like the first Metroid Prime or Ico or something similar. Xenoblade doesn't really hit that note for me, at least not yet.

• Vitality Sensor unveiled, with at least 1 piece of software to go with it

bob_newman

http://www.gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=123622

Looks like the vitality sensor and it's support will be announced this Monday, freeing up space for the conference (I hope).

[QUOTE="Euaggelistes"]

No way will Nintendo ever produce a hardcore M-Rated title. Never going to happen. Ever.

Glad a new Kid Icarus title did not fall into your not likely to happen category though =D

bob_newman

Eternal Darkness says "hi".

So does Geist.

Sounds about right. Zelda is enough to win the audience.

Expect to be underwhelmed. Well, then again thats what I did at E3 2008 and I still came away disappointed.....

They have pretty much spilled the beans with everything like 3DS,Pikmin and Zelda. I huess the only reason we are getting excited is because of Zelda which I find sad. I'd like to know what sort of line up they will have for the 3DS.

[QUOTE="bob_newman"]

NOT likely to happen this year:

• Kirby, Star Fox, Donkey Kong, F-Zero, etc.

Super-Mario-Fan

This will be the one that gets many GameFAQer Nintendo fans angry. I see too many topics there complaining about the lack of traditional Nintendo titles that aren't Mario, Zelda, or Metroid.