Nintendo press conference Bingo ends in epic failure

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jun 3rd 2009 3:45PM

The Nintendo press conference had a little bit of excitement this year with the announcement of a more mature Metroid title, but let's find out how we all did with our Bingo card...

Blargh! We all lost, again! Actually, this time around we lost big. Check out the final results after the break.

Wii HD revealed: Lawlz.
Miyamoto reveals new IP: No hobbies this year.
DSi specific 2D Metroid: So close, got a 3D.
New Wii colors: Not unless the new color is white.
Friend codes are no more: Christmas miracle denied.
Pokemon Stadium Wii: Sorry, Pikachu.
Earthbound (VC) dated: Mother!
Wii Player's Choice: Not unless that choice is "no."
Metal Gear Solid Touch: Negative, Snake.
Twilight Princess Redux: Nope, but a new Link was announced later.
Executive Shanigans: Not as bad as last year, but there was still awkwardness to be had.
Mario parties again: We're sure, but not here.
New Mario Title
Cammie Dunaway talks about her kid: If she did, it wasn't awkward enough for us to notice.
MotionPlus talk of the town
Merging Wii & DSi points: Nope
New Zelda for Wii: Not at the press conference.
GameBoy/Color on virtual console: Nah.
Kid Icarus: Boo, no.
DSi gets its own Virtual Console: Not yet.
MotionPlus lightsaber title: Keep dreamin'
Wii Fit Plus
VC to DSi transfer: Not.
Wii gets a price cut: Hahahahahahahahahah (deep breath) hahahahahaahah

Tags: bingo, DS, e3-2009, Nintendo, nintendo-press-conference, press-conference, Wii

Reader Comments (103)

We should have all arranged our own boards and submitted them to joystiq in an attempt to win swag from the joystiq boys.

Thats what i was thinking, they'd all have to be approved 'rumors' by joystiq but if we could pick from the list and arrange them....

a lot of work to verify winners though.

everyone would pick the 4 most common (or leaked) around the free space anyway...

I still suggest a simple, printable flash-driven BINGO card series for next year. At least then someone could have one off of MS (most of it happened, just poor positioning)

I knew the Nintendo card wasn't going to resemble the conference at all. But not even i had any inkling of what they actually showed.

khan, sony would have been the easiest. their board was one away from bingo. just rearrange a little...

That board was slightly too ambitious, especially considering last years conference, now we know last year wasn't a fluke...

I think 'New Mario Title' should've counted for more considering FOUR OF EM were announced

NSMBW... SMG2... umm... that one mini-game in Wii Fit Plus... I can't find 4...

+2 for DS

New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Super Mario Galaxy 2
March of the Minis 3
Bowser's Inside Story (which wasn't announced but this is the first time we've gotten details over here in English speaking regions)

Wii Hd ,not announced was a suprise ,bad e3 for them on the whole

That was a *surprise*?

Is 'surprise' the new 'obvious'?

would people drop the wii HD thing. that's what the whole SDHC is for, whats the top card... 32gig? hard drives are a dying breed, flash is the new kid. I hate the wii as much as the next guy, but I hate all these gamers clinging to their hard drives more. the thing is, if you have a hard drive IT WILL DIE. there's no doubting that. flash memory however, wont, unless you do evil things to it. as long as you use it once every ten years IT STAYS THERE.

Uh, Sam (Luigi one) - Wii HD means high def, not hard drive.

I guess it's better than last year, where the *actual conference* was an epic failure.

Yeah, they upgraded to just "failure" this year.

Is this new Metroid really more "mature" than the Prime series?

God I hope so. And it looks like it. The action that was going on in that trailer looked carazy.

So now sci-fi FPS's aren't even mature? I'm really falling behind the times.

People keep calling it more mature, but what exactly does that entail I wonder? Prime wasn't exactly a pastel coloured adventure to save the Gumdrop Queen from the nasty Gruzzlegumps

It looks like we're finally going to get a proper explanation of Samus's full backstory. Whether or not that counts towards being more 'mature' is up to you, but it's still something to be excited for if you're a fan of good games (which every Metroid game that wasn't for DS was).

Well, I don't enjoy Team Ninja games, so I don't hold out hope I'm going to think it's good.

Jumblies will make it mature.

Mature means realistic bald space marines... anything but that is considered not only kiddie but also casual, didn't you know?

Yeah. Bullshit aside, Prime 1 and 2 were very mature in the actual sense of the word (not in the usual gamer sense of the word which really means "immature"). You actually had to read, and actively seek out the storyline if you wanted to get the full picture.

3 was kind of a disappointment in many aspects including story.

Samus strips and performs a pole dance everytime you kill an enemy ¬¬

"Nintendo press conference ends in epic failure" /fixed

If you didn't watch the actual conference it was actually pretty damn good.

i did watch the conference, I should have know from the poor looking conference room it was going to be a lame fest

The presentation was pretty poor, but the end results? Excellent.

12 games for Wii Sports Resort, a new Mario vs DK to release this monday, Golden Sun DS, confirmation of FFCC for North America, Platforming for Wii Fit Plus, NSMBWii, Mario Galaxy 2, and Other M

They just made that *seem* boring. Somehow.

The pacing. The pacing sucked. But the actual content was great. Mario Galaxy 2? God yes.

It was boring all up until the end.

I was like meh

and then they announced Galaxy 2 and I was like YEAH

and then they announced Metroid Other M and I was like YEEEEEEEEEAH

What kind of Bingo players are you? You didn't even mark the free space!

lol

I'm still wondering why a Price cut is even on the card.

"Cammie Dunaway talks about her kid"

I had all my money on this one...

I think one of them should of been...

"Will the conference suck?"

God you guys suck at Bingo.

Although I think the Metroid one should be marked, I think it's in 2.5D like NSMB.

Nope. Did you even see the video trailer? It's a fully 3D shooter/brawler from the looks of it. Camera angle of GOW, shooting mechanics of DMC, etc.

Saw the trailer..and it had some mixtures of 2.5Dish.

But I suppose 3-D is fine.

It looks like a mixture of all three perspectives (1st 3rd and 2.5)

I think that was just a coincidence.

Either that or it will incorporate 2.5 D parts, just like Galaxy did.

I'm not buying a DSi until I can download VC games onto it.

I definitely think Microsoft won the show this year, but seriously guys... this was a decent showing for Nintendo... MUCH better than last year. They announce more than one new Mario and a brand new take on Metroid and everyone's complaining... gotta love it.

Although they showed a couple of good things, it hardly compares to Sony and Microsoft who showed wall to wall awesome games and very impressive new technology. Motion plus seemed very primitive in comparasion.

There was also a LOT of sales and PR talked which Sony had very little of and Microsoft had none of.. And they talked about a lot of crap that nobody at the show cares about. Wii Fit Plus, that pulse thing (I seriously almost went into a coma during that part).

I'm not saying Microsoft and Sony didn't have stellar showings, but that's kinda the point... they had STELLAR showings. Just because this wasn't Nintendo's "show all our prototypes" year doesn't mean they had a bad show.

You've gotta remember two things.

1. Nintendo's core market isn't the E3 market anymore, I'm not going to fault them for catering to casuals. In fact, they had more titles featured for the "hardcore" than I expected from them. I guess I just don't expect the same calibur shows from them anymore.

2. While Microsoft and Sony showed off some VERY impressive mo-cap tech, they were all still prototypes. They didn't show us any real games on them. Nintendo, on the other hand is showing technology they launched going on 3 years ago... so while it does seem primitive in comparison, it is available now, not 2 years down the road.

See, i think the Motion Plus thing actually put them out ahead. While the other companies are talking about their motion solutions that will come out sometime in the future, Nintendo is showing what they have for consumers *now*

And most of what Sony and Microsoft showed wasn't new. Though the same is true for Nintendo, too. All three spent too much time on stuff we already knew about

I was annoyed by more stuff in Sony's press conference than actually pleased. I was going to get a PSP Go, but not for $250.

*sigh*

Where are you at third party Wii devs?

Look harder.

Don't expect third party games to fly to you.

Besides Nintendo forgot to mention FF IV Sequel for a weird reason.

Or Tansuko vs Capcom. Orrrr the new Sega Project after the Conduit.

They're still programming for us gamers thank god.

Not "us gamers".

It's just those who don't see why Nintendo did what they did.

They wanted a new install base, waited and then provide "hardcore" games.

Remember the PS2? It took one year from 2000 to 2001 to become the giant it has become to this date.

Third Party developers are going to figuring out how to work with the Wii like Ubisoft, Capcom, EA and etc.

You have too look through the pile of trash and find the gems.

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