The Nintendo Conference Begins...

[Joust Williams]

Well, I can sum up the TNL channel discussion:

Helpful people relaying the cool stuff, with Slip interjecting about how crappy Nintendo is every 5 seconds.

[evil ways]

Now they're stuck in the overly boring graphs and sales numbers phase.

[Shapermc]

[more c&p]

- George said their price point [of the cube] is helping a lot
- Says they can't ignore casual gamers
- Talks about the wireless adapter for the pokemon games, and says a dozen more titles are coming for the adapter
- Says Gameboy owns the Handheld market
- Talks about GBA video [boring]
- Classic NES line up are going to bump up the age demographics
- Talks about the PSP; says it will have initial appeal, but the large installed GBA base owns it
- Compares GBA systems to PS2 systems sold; GBA has sold more units in America
- Compares Sony to Nokia, says they need mass appeal [a big franchise]

- Advance Wars for the cube is a THIRD PERSON SHOOTER where it appears you can take over a variety of vehicles for air assaults, tank assaults, etc etc. Yada yada.
- Mario Pinballl is announced
- Donkey Kong Jungle Beat looks amazing...especially sinces its played with the DK Konga drums
- New GBA Zelda game looks like a mix between the new 2D graphics of Four Swords and the classic Link to the Past Zelda
- Viewtiful Joe 2 looked like more of the same fun

[GameFreak]

The DS is small.

[Shapermc]

- Reggies back and excited as ever.
- Here comes the DS...
- Shows interviews with average [fat] gamers from EB and their excitement about the DS
- Reggie Pulls the DS out of his pocket
- its indeed the USA today DS posted in this thread [! ]

- Says in creating the DS, they created a "developers system"
- "DS changes nintendo and changes our industry"
- [Note: The DS actually looks really tiny. Reggie is a big guy, but he can hold the DS, long ways, in one hand]
- Namco talks about how cool the DS looks
- SquareEnix talks about how cool the platform change is
- Atari frog blabs about the DS innovation
- Konami seem to enjoy it at as well

[GameFreak]

Metroid looks awesome!

Super Mario too!!!

[Shapermc]

- up to now, the world only knows two screens
- each screen is programmable in 2d or 3d
- 3d quality is "simply beautiful"
- shows mario 64 running on a the DS----Mario and wario flying around a 3D world with P-Wings on their hats, as the bottom screen looks like a sort of map of the area
- OMG NEW METROID GAME LOOKS AS GOOD AS PRIME
DO YO UHEAR ME!??!!? LOOKS AS GOOD AS PRIME
AND ITS PLAYABLE AT THE SHOW??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[evil ways]

Looks like a multiview Mario 64.

[Zerodash]

Interest +1

[Shapermc]

[Just a reminder I am only cutting and pasting this.]

- TAP THE SCREEN WHERE YOU WANT TO FIRE IN METROID DS
[holy shit, i am dying]
- the system has two media bays, one for DS software [1 gb of data]
- the other plays all GBA games
- two new forms of player control; touch screen responding to a stylus or your fingertip
- VOICE RECOGNITION SOFTWARE, BUILT IN MICROPHONE can control the play!