Nintendo:E3 2008 Center



Major E3 Games


 * de Blob - Wii
 * Facebreaker - Wii
 * Kirby Super Star Ultra - Nintendo DS
 * Lego Batman - Wii, Nintendo DS
 * Madden 09 - Wii, Nintendo DS
 * Mario Super Sluggers - Wii
 * Tomb Raider: Underworld - Wii, Nintendo DS
 * Skate It - Wii, Nintendo DS
 * Spyborgs - Wii
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Wii, Nintendo DS
 * Wario Land: Shake It! - Wii

Predictions

Almost every site on the internet makes predictions about E3 a couple weeks before the actual event starts, so I thought “we’re a website, so why don’t we do it?”. So, here are MY predictions for E3 2008, or rather things that I really hope occur.


 * Kid Icarus - This is pretty obvious. Pit, the protagonist, was one of the major character announcements for Super Smash Bros. Brawl and the heavy amount of supposed concept art that has been released on the internet, not to mention the requests by many fans tells me, and probably you, something.


 * A redesigned DS - The Game Boy had three designs, so I’m expecting the same for DS. What it would include is beyond me, though a Shop Channel similar to the Wii’s would be pretty cool, though of course it would need a hard drive of some sort, and those things are cheap! Who knows, maybe the sequel to the DS will be announced here altogether! It’s about four years, hasn’t it?


 * More info on Wii Music - Something that will obviously be here. Miyamoto recently said in an interview that Wii Music is coming together nicely, so some sort of announcement will probably be at E3. Of all the Wii series games (Sports, Play and Fit), Wii Music is actually the one I’m looking most forward to - as long as it doesn’t have any Guitar Hero like accessories (I’ve enough of those games in my collection!). Besides, Nintendo is all about innovation and this would contradict the message they’ve been spreading to all their fans if they were to announce a game similar to Guitar Hero.





What is E3?

E3 is the place where all of the big name video game companies show off their games for the following year (or even farther). Nintendo will likely show off their holiday titles, and in the end of the conference will, as usual, probably announce a surprise game such as Kid Icarus or a new Zelda. After all of the big three have their conferences, then it's off to the showroom, where the critics will be able to play 100's of demos of games they've never played before anyone else gets the chance. Afterwards, they'll write about their experience through magazines or their website for everyone else to enjoy. While I'll obviously not be there, I'll keep a close eye on everything going on and will report it all on this page or on one of the sub pages. I'm very devoted to this event - in 2005 I stayed up for 4 days in a row without any sleep whatsoever. Eventually I was sitting in a chair and actually collapsed out of it and fell to sleep. I'll know about everything that goes on - every big game announcement, every minor detail about a game you've never heard of, and anything else that happens to occur at this wondrous event!

Big announcements that have occurred in the past -


 * The Nintendo 64 and of course Super Mario 64
 * The Nintendo DS and all of its hit games
 * The Game Boy Micro
 * The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (and Miyamoto dressed up as Link!)
 * The Wii (then known as Revolution) and its Virtual Console
 * Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Metroid Prime 3
 * Mario Kart Wii, the Wii Wheel, the Wii Zapper and Wii Fit

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