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Is that a ship date of Q4 06?

Yes.

Please explain!

Holy crap Zelda looks awesome.

Corruption? Hmm..

Zelda day and date with Wii

Zelda at launch!

9:50: "As for date and price, we think its best to keep those details quiet a little longer. You will play Wii in the fourth quarter of 2006." That was met with tepid applause; the crowd wanted more details.

9:50: About the name: "We want to thank all the people that wrote good things about it the first time they heard it...both of you." Audience laughs. Name chosen to stress inclusiveness--all of us, all gamers, around the world. Promises more news on third-party partners later in this event and on the E3 show floor.

9:51: A video is shown: Metroid again, then Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest (Sword game announced ysterday by Square Enix), Fire Emblem, here's Mario again in a platformer. A Tony Hawk game, Sengoku Action from Koei.

9:54: Disaster Day of Crisis. SongeBob. Cars. Super Mario Galaxy. SD Gundam Breaker. Tony Hawk Downhill Jam. Excite Truck (RC Pro Am look-alike) Red Steel. Rayman 4. Super Swing Golf Pangya. Sonic Wild Fire. Project Hammer. One Piece Limited Adventure. Madden. Just Madden. No 07. FF Crystal Chronicles.

Mario, Zelda and Metroid, oh my.

Mario 128, basically

Nate & Bill from NOA showcasing Wii-controlled Zelda now.

That's pretty cool with the sound. Never predicted that one.

Speaker & rumble in the wiimote. Bow *thwip* from your controller!

Link shooting an arrow, you hear the bow string and the flick of the arrow go from the controller to the tv. :eek: Very cool.

This sounds amazing and I'm actually excited to get this console. I haven't bought one since the original Xbox, and that just gathered dust on my shelf.

wait... the Zelda game is Easy or the Demo is easy?

1 motion sensor in each controller
sound in the remote
rumble built in

They said the E3 demo was toned down in difficulty.

2 versions of Z:TP - one GC, one Wii...

Guess I need to cancel my preorder...

MP3 talk now.

2 different zeldas. 1 for GC/1 for Wii. Goodbye GC

9:56: Twilight Princess--"It is by far the best Zelda game we have ever made, also the most beautiful." Zelda will launch alongside Wii. First look coming right now. Nate and Bill from NOA going to play Zelda on the Wii. Movement on Nunchuk. Weapons, items are mapped to d-pad on remote.

9:57: When you shoot an arrow, you'll hear the bowstring twang at your ear from the speaker in the remote. Other developers also have a lot of ideas for how to use this speaker. There's a built-in rumble feature. Sony gave this up for their six-axis motion detection.

9:59: Link's iron boots return too, this time used in combination with magnets. They show Link using the iron boots and a magnetic ceiling to travel around a room.

10:02: Reggie back on stage on elevated platform. Nintendo will launch two different versions of Zelda - one for Wii, one for GC.

Metroid 3 footage, Reggie calls it a FPS. :hscratch:

Super Mario Galaxy

3 new IPs.

Excite Truck. Hold the Wiimote sideways to control the "big damn truck".

Project H.A.M.M.E.R.

Disaster: Day of Crisis.

Sonic doesn't looks so fast in this choppy video. :lol:

Final Fantasy: CC footage

Madden, Tony Hawk & Rayman discussed. Not shown.

Zelda :drool:

Pilotwings :drool: :drool:

Mario Galaxy :banana:

Some "excellent 3rd party entries".

Hyper Sonic
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Madden '07
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
Rayman
Spongebob: Creature from the Krusty Krab (?)

27 different Wii games on the show floor!

27 playable games at E3. WOW.

Quick question, but I forgot. The wii will be backwards compatable with cube games, right? If so, I have to sell mine at a garage sale soon.

10:03:Metroid Prime 3: Corruption clip shown, it's dubbed the "most intuitive FPS ever." Then it's more Super Mario Galaxy.

10:04: "But can the system truly be new if all the names are the same? That's why we're working on new franchises," he says. ExciteTruck, Project H.A.M.M.E.R. (a beat-'em up), and Disaster, which looks like an action game.

10:05 Now Reggie seques into 3rd-party efforts, saying he'll introduce just a few of the games in development for Wii. Sonic! Gameplay footage of the hedgehog's Wii game. Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, as announced by Square Enix yesterday, is coming to Wii.

10:06: And Madden 07 is coming to Wii, as is Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam from Activision. And Rayman from Ubisoft. A Wii SpongeBob game is coming from THQ. Wii games are playable on the show floor. Of course, that doesn't include the games available for Virtual Console. Reggie introduces two Ubisoft executives, who will talk about Red Steel.

Extensive Red Steel demo and footage shown. Looks like an Xbox game, graphic-wise.

No pricing info. I'm wondering if that had anything to do with Sony's press conference yesterday? Maybe they had planned on announcing a $199 price but when Sony announced the price of the PS3 they probably figured they can raise the price of the Wii to $249 and still be successful with it. Either way, I'm sold.

10:08 They are Xavier Poix and Roman Campos. The stage has now taken a nice red color. Player is doing something on screen, but we can't see the game footage. Ah there it is finally. They describe Red Steel as a "first-person action game set in both the US and Japan." It takes "full advantage of the Wii controller."

10:10: They're showing actual gameplay, though it's not clear what the game is running on--an actual console or development hardware. AI on enemies seems a bit dim. Player flicks nunchuck to reload. Levels incliude city streets full of neon and a pachinko arcade.

10:13: Z-button on Wiimote fires gun. "Freestyle mode" allows player to target enemies in slow motion, opting to shoot them fatally or disable them.

10:14: Now they're showing some swordplay. They describe swordfighting as "intuitive." You block with your left hand and slash with the right. In the game, the player is fighting a tatooed Yakuza member on a rooftop. Now Reggie is back. He wants to turn the focus to the DS, and introduces George Harrison.

I'm pretty sure they've said before that it will have backwards compatibility for GC games. Not sure if that's going to be all GC games or only certain ones.

Here it comes... (DS talk)

Nintendo DS talk now. C'mon Metroid!

New Nintendo IPs = Excellent.

Bring on the DS goodness!

Yoshi's Island 2

Starfox DS!

when is the microsoft conference?