E3 2009: Nintendo Pre-Show Conference Notes

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 07:25am 03/06/09 | 0 Comments

We've managed to find a moment to regale some of the news that was thrown about this morning as yours truly sat through both Nintendo and Sony's pre-show press conferences. Both events gave away some pretty interesting pieces of news, but Nintendo was first in line, so here are a few points gleamed from their press conference.

Nintendo revealed New Super Mario Bros Wii a four-player co-op/competitive side-scroller based on the successful DS outing, New Super Mario Bros.
Wii Fit Plus was announced which adds even more to your fitness regime as well as 15 new balance mini games
Red Steel 2 from Ubisoft can only be played with Wii Motion Plus
Square-Enix will be releasing Final Fantasy Crystal Bearers exclusively for Wii, and a new Kingdom Hearts exclusively for DS (which actually looks pretty good, from a visual stand-point)
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story will arrive for DS later this year
Golden Sun DS was finally revealed after years of speculation and prayers from gamers (me being one of them)
The DS is going to be used with new innovation in the form of interactive novels. The first being James Patterson's Woman's Murder Club: Games of Passion
A DS-exclusive open-world action title from Ubisoft was unveiled called C.O.P. The Recruit, and looks like it will seriously give GTA's DS outing a run for its money
A DSiWare download only version of Mario Vs Donkey Kong was shown, which will offer complete level design for user-generated content to then be shared and rated with other players
WarioWare DYI is another user-generated DS title that encourages players to craft their own unique and whacky 3-second mini games
It was also revealed a deal with Facebook has been struck where DSi owners can use the system's camera to take photos, edit them (on the DSi) and then upload them to Facebook
Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, unveiled the Wii Vitality Sensor, a Wii Remote add-on much like a pulse monitor, which he says may be used in future for relaxation software, not too dissimilar in focus to the likes of the Brain Age games
For the more hardcore gamers Nintendo then showed Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles (another on-rails shooter), Dead Space Extraction (which we've revealed already is an on-rails shooter), as well as the aforementioned Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M

There wasn't a great deal more thrown out in the way of announcements, but I'll be posting my actual impressions of their pre-show event later on today, so stay tuned.

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