Nintendo Event op 22 en 23 mei!

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Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007 16:29 schreef RaymanNL het volgende:

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Nee, Een PSP port :

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maar, komop! Ik wil nieuws!

Ohwja, Metroid Prime screens: http://www.wiigamer.nl/article/6623p1.html

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Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007 17:14 schreef Thomper het volgende:
En als het goed is, heeft UbiSoft vandaag ook een persconferentie, in Parijs. Geen NDA's, live verslag enzo dus.

BEYOND GOOD & EVIL 2 PLX

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Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime kicked off the company's media summit here in Seattle this morning with a speech that ran down the company's successes with Wii and DS in 2007 thus far.

"How are you guys doing? I'm doin' great," he began. Since this is the first major address that Nintendo has made to the assembled press since Wii's success, there was a lot for him to be happy about. He began by pointing out that in the history of video games in the US, only one company has ever been the #1 manufacturer of game hardware, portables, software, and the owner of the most popular game, and that was Nintendo in the 1980's -- and now they've done it again.

Some interesting facts, figures, and quotes after the jump.

In Japan, more than half of all games sold were for Nintendo DS.

Typically, about half of home consoles in Japan are placed in the living room -- with Wii that figure is 75%.

In France, 15 of the top 15 games recently were Nintendo.

In the US, Fils-Aime says they are seeing "early signs of significant market change."

The number of female purchasers of hardware are up 42%.

The number of people over age of 30 purchasing Nintendo DS is up 127%.

Tighten that age range to people over 35, and the number is up 212#.

40% of Wii owners have connected to the internet.

3.3 million plus Virtual Console downloads.

Nintendogs has been in the Top 25 games in the US for the 21 months since its launch. Brain Age is showing similar "legs." = top 25 for 21+ months

"Games that appeal to a wider audience can stay on best seller lists indefinitely," says Fils-Aime.

They are seeing a "change in the perennial post-holiday time period. Everyone knows that more than half of our revenues are generated in November and December, and software sales go in the doldrums in the next quarter after the holidays."

"We believe that as the market widens we shouldn't be so dependent on the holidays," Fils-Aime says.

For the last two Christmas seasons, sales of Nintendo DS in the three months after the holidays have been 35% of holiday sales. But this year, it's at 49% -- "and that's with DS being essentially out of stock in January," said Fils-Aime.

"We don't consider Sony and Microsoft as our only competitors. We're competing with other leisure time entertainment. If people stay at home and play wii bowling instead of going to the movies, we win."

"We're not for one group or the other -- we're for the expanded audience and the core. It's difficult when you launch a stellar game to differentiate between the two."

Third party development is "moving enthusiastically towards Wii." Third parties have sold more Wii games than Nintendo, "contrary to popular belief."

Metroid Prime 3 Corruption "will reinvent the control scheme for a first person shooter. It's the closest you can get to PC control in a [console] game."

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Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007 21:50 schreef BroesWillems het volgende:

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* BroesWillems duimt...

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Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007 21:55 schreef depax het volgende:

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blijkbaar is er ook vandaag een NDA en een grote er wordt zelfs gesproken dat er niets wordt vrijgelaten tot aan de nieuwe e3 :| op de kleinere dingen na.

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Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007 22:05 schreef King_of_cubes het volgende:

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Ja tering tyfus zeg.. heb ik voor niks in spanning gezeten.

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Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007 22:08 schreef Notorious_Roy het volgende:

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Je moet niets verwachten van deze events, dat weet je nu onderhand toch wel

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Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007 14:53 schreef depax het volgende:
krijg ik net een mail van ubisoft over ubi day en staat heel mooi paris time gmt +2
volgens mij is het nog altijd gmt +1

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Op dinsdag 22 mei 2007 22:52 schreef chibibo het volgende:

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Ehm... nee, dat is het niet. Het is zomertijd, dus de klok in Parijs is - net als in Nederland - een uur vooruit gezet. Daardoor is het verschil met Greenwich Mean Time ook een uur groter geworden; GMT kent namelijk geen zomer- en wintertijd.

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Word is flying around that Nintendo has put a lot of their media summit information under embargo. This comes as a surprise to the press as well. Below is a post from an official IGN team member over at their Wii boards…


It seems that there are more embargoes around this event than we previously thought. As soon as we are allowed to report something to you guys, we will. Don’t worry about that. - Dash-IGN

On top of that, reader Orlando was nice enough to put together a quick translation of a blurb at the Atomix.vg website. Atomix is a Mexican magazine that covers gaming among other things.

Atomix Staff is currently in Seattle Washington, covering the “Nintendo Media Summit”. The event will last 2 days and its said that Nintendo will finally show new games for the Wii and the DS, besides we’ll be able to play some Wii games demos.
All the information will begin to flow by the end of the week so mark your calendars and return to www.Atomix.vg the next Friday to find out everything that was shown in the event.

Looks like we might be holding out until Friday for the bulk of the information. Who knows, we may not see any of the big stuff until the new E3 rolls around (July 11-13th).

Now Kotaku is echoing the same statements…

Sorry, Wii fans, but it looks like you’ll have a to hold steady for a few days more for the majority of the Nintendo news, hands-on impressions and pictures…

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I think everybody’s well aware that Nintendo held a games event in Seattle this week. I got back late, late last night and have since then been playing Mario Party 8 and My Word Coach on Wii and DS so that I can prep future coverage. We were initially embargoed on everything we saw at the event, including third party titles, but Nintendo suddenly said we could publish write-ups and media for the third party stuff, which is why it all went up yesterday. We’re still waiting to roll with the first party stuff. It’s coming soon, but don’t get your hopes up for any megatons. Online press were, very unfortunately, not allowed access to the game you all really want to know about. I cried, but it didn’t help.

On Friday, we will have some good coverage of a non-first party game that you should probably start getting excited about, if you haven’t already. So stay tuned for that.

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However, those two high profile Nintendo titles mentioned in my previous post (Galaxy and Brawl)? You’re gonna have to wait for E3 or make do with some (now) old Metroid Prime 3: Corruption screens.

The embargo is up at 11 a.m. EST on Friday. The only thing is, I don’t know what the hell we are going to hear about! Thanks to everyone that sent this in.

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Op donderdag 24 mei 2007 10:00 schreef speknek het volgende:
Zonde dat ze geen extra knoppen op de zijkant ofzo hebben gedaan, dan zou je hem namelijk gelijk voor alle toekomstige FPS games gebruiken. Nu heb je te weinig knoppen tot je beschikking.

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Op donderdag 24 mei 2007 10:00 schreef speknek het volgende:
Zonde dat ze geen extra knoppen op de zijkant ofzo hebben gedaan, dan zou je hem namelijk gelijk voor alle toekomstige FPS games gebruiken. Nu heb je te weinig knoppen tot je beschikking.

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Op donderdag 24 mei 2007 10:02 schreef disjfa het volgende:
Hoe wil je bij de knoppen aan de zijkant komen als je je nunchuck vast hebt Lijkt mij alleen maar onhandiger.

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Op donderdag 24 mei 2007 10:02 schreef depax het volgende:
met nunchuck heb je wel de z en c en als de mote goed om ligt kan jij denk ik misschien herladen met de a net als een echt geweer die herlaad je meestal ook met de andere hand en dat moet dan wel.

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Op donderdag 24 mei 2007 10:14 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Met je duim, zeg net boven het handvat. Als je daar een of twee knopjes plaatst om van wapen te wisselen, kom je al een heel eind.
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Mja, het kan wel allemaal, maar het haalt toch allemaal wat van de speelbaarheid weg. Bijvoorbeeld als je herlaadt, zul je gauw geneigd zijn de wiimote wat te bewegen. Als je de wiimote ook gebruikt om te draaien, zwenk je zo weer alle kanten op.

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Op vrijdag 25 mei 2007 15:56 schreef Uzumaki_Naruto het volgende:
is er nog nieuws?