Nintendo Press Conference Liveblog

12:02 - Gotta love when streams are being stabbed by a thousand users going to it at once.

12:14 - Found a workable stream. Finally. Reggie's yakking about games being satellites, and... numbers.

12:15 - We know. Yes, we know, #1 worldwide in probably August. Now how about increasing shipments?

12:16 - How many of those 140 are going to be crap, and how many of those extra 60 are going to be shovelware, Reggie?

12:16 - Not "everyone is a gamer". A bunch of people playing Wii Sports and not buying another game are not players.

12:17 - This video package is fucked up.

12:18 - Wii Zapper? Awesome. Hey, you hold it like a Super Scope!

12:20 - "Zap a zombie." Somewhere, Mina's exploding.

12:20 - 32 soldiers?! Damn.

12:21 - Wii Zapper with... what? What? Oh. It'll be $20. Good deal.

12:21 - Sword attachment? No sword attachment? :-(

12:22 - "Maybe you're 'deep'." What the hell does that mean?

12:23 - How can Mario run that fast?

12:23 - BRAWL. BRAWL. BRAWL. BRAWL.

12:24 - Introduce someone new... trailer... roll 'em! Now! Release date? ... SMASH BROS BRAWL December 3rd!

12:25 - Nintendo = blue-balling bastards.

12:26 - Can't we just say "I like this game because it kicks ass?"

12:26 - Mike's Mii has lady-lips. Please tell me it's going to be something interest... ooh, Phantom Hourglass! This Nintendo rep sounds like Jimmy Fallon.

12:27 - That's pretty damn cool. I might have to buy a DS.

12:28 - Damn you, Japan! Having that game already, you! I shake my fist in anger.

12:29 - It's a Nintendo game. Of course the hardcore love it, because it's good.

12:30 - Metroid Prime 3!

12:31 - Lock-on free-aiming. Odd name for it. Go into Hyper Mode? Oh, I get it. How the term "Corruption" comes into play.

12:33 - Oh boy, online. I think the guy you were talking to, Reggie, was talking about a good online multiplayer setup. Not Friend Codes. Friend Codes suck.

12:35 - Dammit, now I've got "I've Got The Whole World in My Hands" stuck in my head.

12:35 - Another Mii Channel - "Check Me Out" Channel. "Am I Hot/Not?" for Miis.

12:36 - If you like Pokemon, Reggie. What if you don't? Does that make you not a complete Wii player?

12:37 - Man, Level 5 really got the look down right on the DS for Dragon Quest, didn't they?

12:38 - Did they really have to add the "Legends" to the Guitar Hero III name?

12:39 - Mario Kart Wii! MARIO KART WII!! Actual online multiplayer! Battle mode! ... Wii Wheel? They're really going to throw crazy gimmick crap on the Wii-mote for a couple of years. At least unlike Scene-It on 360, the games will be good.

12:41 - Can we got to the Smash trailer now, Reggie? Please? Oh, dammit. AARP card members like Wii Bowling and Wii Golf. We know. Now get them to play something else.

12:43 - Dammit, the feed died! Come back, Nintendo!

12:45 - I come back to bizarre cookbook software for DS. Oh, Nintendo.

12:46 - My first day as a gamer? It was on Atari. And I was born the year the original Nintendo came out. Think about that.

12:47 - I've seen more announcements and interesting things in the last fifteen minutes than I did at last night's Microsoft conference in its entirety.

12:50 - Miyamoto in the house! Did they say he's bringing a new game with him?

12:51 - Hold on, some family in Texas got to play Galaxy? DAMN YOU.

12:52 - Huh? Deliberately lose at Rock, Paper, Scissors?

12:54 - Galaxy... November 12th, 2007! Woop.

12:55 - Picross for DS. Meh. MySims. Meh.

12:55 - Oh no, High School Musical! AHHHHH!

12:56 - Raving Rabbids 2! Score.

12:57 - My Life Coach? Huh?

12:58 - Wii Sports 2 announcement, maybe? I'm getting kind of sick of the constant videos about their media coverage.

12:59 - Wii Fit? A steppad? What is this nonsense? If they end it on this note... boo.

1:01 - "It's so real, I got a concussion from a nonexistant soccer ball!"

1:02 - That balancing game looks cool.

1:03 - MIYAMOTO! He's so happy.

1:03 - Like all the time.

1:03 - He's showing off Wii Fit? -_-

1:04 - Aw, I want to watch Miyamoto exercise.

1:05 - "So you can actually enjoy your exercise." Heh.

1:07 - Of course they chose the chick with a bust to do the bending over exercise. Naughty, Nintendo. Naughty.

1:09 - Reggie getting some exercise.

1:10 - Ho ho. I love it when they do things like this.

1:11 - This is a nice setup, I admit.

1:13 - Shigeru's word in English for the day? "excuse." At Reggie. Awesome.

1:14 - Do not fuck with Reggie. That looked great.

1:16 - Nintendo: Time Thiefs!

1:18 - Well, final thoughts: Nintendo continued a solid run, but the concentration on the casual market kind of bothers me. And no third-party announcements? Just games we already knew about. Oh well. The big question: um, Smash trailer? Where was it? I wants it. I wants it now.

-K