SPOnG E3 Live Blog
02-Jun-2009 18:16:21
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config: Thanks to everyone that's joined us here on the SPOnG E3 liveblog
02-Jun-2009 18:15:34
tyrion: Lots of stuff I didn't want to know about with a few nuggets of fun02-Jun-2009 18:15:23
config: Reggie says bye with "Committed to making Nintendo Everyone's Game"
02-Jun-2009 18:15:20
TimSpong: Phew, eh readers?02-Jun-2009 18:15:02
tyrion: And we're out!02-Jun-2009 18:14:29
TimSpong: Sorry, Samus's Story02-Jun-2009 18:14:24
tyrion: Heh, helmet action02-Jun-2009 18:14:22
config: heh. I said "action"02-Jun-2009 18:14:20
TimSpong: Deeper into Samus...02-Jun-2009 18:14:07
config: Like it wants to be the 2D platformer of old, a bit of "over the shoulder" 3rd person and some 1st person helmet action.02-Jun-2009 18:14:02
TimSpong: Metroid 'Other M'02-Jun-2009 18:13:36
TimSpong: 2010 release for Team Ninja and Ninty's Metroid.02-Jun-2009 18:13:36
tyrion: 2010, Metroid: Other M02-Jun-2009 18:13:23
config: Video leads me to feel a bit disorientated02-Jun-2009 18:13:10
config: Not sure of about the PoV here with Metroid02-Jun-2009 18:12:57
TimSpong: Egad! "YES! Third person action Metroid"02-Jun-2009 18:12:47
tyrion: Metroid Gaiden02-Jun-2009 18:12:36
tyrion: Metroid02-Jun-2009 18:12:25
TimSpong: I wonder if there will be hacking or slashing?02-Jun-2009 18:12:18
config: Cue trailer, comprising off with lots of prerender02-Jun-2009 18:11:52
TimSpong: Collaboration with Team Ninja and Ninty for 'edgy game'...02-Jun-2009 18:11:46
tyrion: Edgy game from Ninty? Nope, it's from Team Ninja working with Ninty02-Jun-2009 18:11:23
config: Nint gets edgy? "absolutely", apparently02-Jun-2009 18:10:37
config: DEad Space Wii - what will Mom & Pop gamers think. Oh the depravity02-Jun-2009 18:10:34
tyrion: Cool new games; a shooter and two on rails shooters02-Jun-2009 18:09:59
TimSpong: From inside the hall.... New Team Ninja collaboration!02-Jun-2009 18:09:22
config: wonder if you can run and shoot? heh02-Jun-2009 18:09:11
tyrion: Didn't house of the dead just do that?02-Jun-2009 18:08:59
tyrion: Yep on rails shooter02-Jun-2009 18:08:52
TimSpong: RezEv, does look good though... on Wii.02-Jun-2009 18:08:20
TimSpong: RessieEvil - "Looks like an on rails Plus a la Dead Space And Dead Space Extraction."02-Jun-2009 18:08:16
tyrion: Yay! Explosions! That's hardcore02-Jun-2009 18:08:06
config: Conduit does really look interesting but FPS controls frequently always let down with genre on Wii, IMO02-Jun-2009 18:07:26
tyrion: Conduit02-Jun-2009 18:07:21
tyrion: New IP you've heard about before02-Jun-2009 18:07:05
TimSpong: Says Joe, "the Conduit, Resident Evil the Dark Side Chronicles"02-Jun-2009 18:06:40
tyrion: Reggie reads blogs!02-Jun-2009 18:06:23
TimSpong: Synth Orchestra FTW! Comforting, comforting, nostalgia... saaaaafe, saaaaafe.02-Jun-2009 18:06:22
tyrion: Innovation and surprise - new experiences02-Jun-2009 18:05:53
TimSpong: A 3rd party game with 'Edge' apparently.02-Jun-2009 18:05:44
tyrion: Hope so, they need a big finish02-Jun-2009 18:05:27
TimSpong: Reggie may have a smidge more in store says Joe02-Jun-2009 18:04:39
tyrion: Same composer with same instruments, he's actually been locked in a room for years02-Jun-2009 18:04:28
config: Synth Orchestra, ick02-Jun-2009 18:04:09
config: how/why does all Ninty music sound the same?02-Jun-2009 18:04:04
TimSpong: The new new 3D Mario game.02-Jun-2009 18:03:34
TimSpong: Galaxy 2 from the look of it02-Jun-2009 18:02:18
TimSpong: More Mario... I hope Joe doesn't complain to Miyamoto when he meets him later.02-Jun-2009 18:01:37
config: skin conductance measurement?02-Jun-2009 18:01:34
TimSpong: Joe says. "Oh thank god. Some other games!"02-Jun-2009 18:01:18
tyrion: New ways to play involve sticking your finger into something02-Jun-2009 18:01:06
config: looks more like a fingerprint scanner02-Jun-2009 18:00:49
config: a "vitality sensor", eh?"when you insert you finger" Hmmmm
02-Jun-2009 17:59:44
TimSpong: Heart rate monitor "Looks like the finger clip they use at the hospital. Wow... Um..."02-Jun-2009 17:59:14
TimSpong: Joe also says, "Heart rate monitor wtf?" eheheh02-Jun-2009 17:58:58
tyrion: Mario Kart Wii and Wii Wheel have helped to narrow the gap02-Jun-2009 17:58:58
TimSpong: yay - Joe says we've got "Wii vitality sensor"02-Jun-2009 17:58:46
config: waiting for something interesting/non obv to be said...02-Jun-2009 17:58:38
TimSpong: Want to make games new players and experts can play together. Mario kart with wheel for example02-Jun-2009 17:58:22
TimSpong: Wake up Config!02-Jun-2009 17:58:07
TimSpong: Joe says Iwata building to a big announcement. I hope so.02-Jun-2009 17:57:56
tyrion: Iwata-san is troubled by the gap between hardcore and noob02-Jun-2009 17:57:41
TimSpong: Side issue: Tweet from Major Nelson... "Just got back meeting the winner of the Kia Contest, no watching the Nintendo briefing." I think he meant, "Now"...02-Jun-2009 17:56:46
tyrion: Certainly on entertainment, MS > Ninty02-Jun-2009 17:56:19
TimSpong: This is calling to shareholders alright. Ninty not dropping the ball here. Microsoft winning so far at E3 09 methinks02-Jun-2009 17:55:43
tyrion: 149 M potential players02-Jun-2009 17:55:37
config: ah, a pyramid of gamers "maybe", "never" & "active"02-Jun-2009 17:55:31
tyrion: 295 mill active players in JP, US and EU02-Jun-2009 17:55:13
TimSpong: Gripping! Stats... Microsoft did know... hence "No boring graphs" comment from Schappert yesterday.02-Jun-2009 17:54:56
tyrion: Nintendo does research worldwide to prove they'd expanded the gaming market02-Jun-2009 17:54:38
TimSpong: Iwata: Statistics, growing the business etc.02-Jun-2009 17:54:20
TimSpong: Calm down... s'only Iwata.02-Jun-2009 17:53:58
config: Iwata! Iwata! Iwata!02-Jun-2009 17:53:48
tyrion: Iwata-san on the stage02-Jun-2009 17:53:39
config: Cammie says "In Our World, Everyone's Game"02-Jun-2009 17:53:07
tyrion: Montage!02-Jun-2009 17:52:42
tyrion: Playable on the show floor02-Jun-2009 17:52:35
config: Not ignoring traditional DS gamers, Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks....02-Jun-2009 17:52:23
tyrion: Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks02-Jun-2009 17:51:40
config: upload photo from DSi to Facebork!02-Jun-2009 17:51:29
tyrion: DSi to Facebook!02-Jun-2009 17:50:59
config: WWDIY : "this is as close to essential games design as any game has come"02-Jun-2009 17:50:48
tyrion: LittleBigWario!02-Jun-2009 17:50:10
TimSpong: Warioware DIY - make your own games and share. Genius!02-Jun-2009 17:50:08
tyrion: Wario ware DIY02-Jun-2009 17:49:54
tyrion: Mario vs Donkey Kong02-Jun-2009 17:49:45
config: Mini March Again - is that Mario Lemmings?02-Jun-2009 17:49:26
TimSpong: Except when Twitter dies! :-(02-Jun-2009 17:49:26
tyrion: UGC for SMB02-Jun-2009 17:49:13
TimSpong: Just to explain, I'm also relaying Joe's tweets (twitter.com/spongdotcom) as well as my own comments. Joe's comments are ahead of any video stream.02-Jun-2009 17:48:59
tyrion: You too can let the world see your sketchy animations02-Jun-2009 17:48:56
config: Anim sharing with Flipnote Studio available for DSi this Summer02-Jun-2009 17:47:37
tyrion: stats but no charts, MS started a trend02-Jun-2009 17:47:36
TimSpong: Flip Note Studio, animation program coming to DSI in US.02-Jun-2009 17:47:17
TimSpong: The vox pop is awwwwwwwwesome... (count for awwwwwwsome = 131 times so far in vox pop)02-Jun-2009 17:46:59
tyrion: "music player is even cooler than the internet" says young person02-Jun-2009 17:46:56
config: DS ... "you can pop it open and then pop it closed"02-Jun-2009 17:46:45
TimSpong: Figures time! DSI doesn't interfere with ds sales. 1 million DSI and 400 thousand ds since DSI launch... we knew that.02-Jun-2009 17:46:37
config: wow., you gotta love this pop vox crap02-Jun-2009 17:46:02
config: DSi - "delivering surprise" apparently02-Jun-2009 17:46:00
tyrion: passion of players captured by DSi02-Jun-2009 17:45:38
TimSpong: DSI time now!02-Jun-2009 17:45:31
config: DS = diversity!02-Jun-2009 17:45:28
TimSpong: "Nintendo ds = diversity" - Cammie...02-Jun-2009 17:45:18
config: Looking very similar to other DS fashion games already out there02-Jun-2009 17:45:15
TimSpong: Style savvy for DS. Girls play virtual dress up... right. What about boys!02-Jun-2009 17:45:15
tyrion: virtual shopping on your DS!02-Jun-2009 17:44:34
config: Ah Girl Gamers love fashion gamelets ... it's Style Savvy for DS!02-Jun-2009 17:44:24
tyrion: Style savvy for making your own costumes and stuff - girl gamers beware02-Jun-2009 17:43:48
TimSpong: Cop the Recruit = DS by the way.02-Jun-2009 17:42:42
config: Analyse scientific evidence - with a 2d puzzle!02-Jun-2009 17:42:34
tyrion: through the medium and majhong and bejeweled02-Jun-2009 17:42:12
TimSpong: Phew ... Ubisoft. Cop: the Recruit is GTA meets the Fast and the Furious.02-Jun-2009 17:42:11
tyrion: Murder she played02-Jun-2009 17:41:37
TimSpong: Seriously 'Women's Murder Club' for DS...02-Jun-2009 17:41:22
tyrion: DS is Lucrative says Cammie02-Jun-2009 17:41:00
TimSpong: Kind of no detail on Golden Sun02-Jun-2009 17:40:43
TimSpong: Talking about James Paterson. Mystery writer. Womens murder club : games of passion02-Jun-2009 17:40:19
TimSpong: 2010 Golden Sun DS02-Jun-2009 17:39:59
tyrion: Golden Sun for DS02-Jun-2009 17:39:50
tyrion: Legendery francise back to ninty portables02-Jun-2009 17:39:13
tyrion: Mario and Luigi fighting their way through his bowels02-Jun-2009 17:39:06
config: Flaming pipes too! Must have been last night's Chicken Vindaloo02-Jun-2009 17:38:42
tyrion: Now we're inside bowser02-Jun-2009 17:38:00
tyrion: Nice restrained set by the way, not over the top like Microsoft's02-Jun-2009 17:37:50
TimSpong: Mario & Luigi Bowser's Story RPG now. "Mario & Luigi are checking out Bowser's internal pipes" Really Reggie?02-Jun-2009 17:35:55
tyrion: Yay! Squenix cutscene gold!02-Jun-2009 17:34:49
TimSpong: The Crystal Bearers. Exclusive version Kingdom Hearts on September 2902-Jun-2009 17:34:07
TimSpong: Now we're talking about rpgs ... Square Enix. Final Fantasy... Crystal something02-Jun-2009 17:33:42
tyrion: Comes to something when EA has a launch game before Nintendo does02-Jun-2009 17:32:34
tyrion: Are they drawing this out too much?02-Jun-2009 17:32:14
TimSpong: Virtua tennis with wii motion plus now02-Jun-2009 17:32:05
tyrion: People who don't like exercise aren't going to like a lot of these games02-Jun-2009 17:32:03
config: A bit of shooting hoops with the Wii Remote02-Jun-2009 17:31:23
TimSpong: Come on guys... just shoot some of those basket thingies02-Jun-2009 17:31:21
tyrion: Too much banter, get on with it02-Jun-2009 17:29:56
TimSpong: Bad planned jabs at each other. Reggie is winning. .. Now he's down by one. .. But a come back!02-Jun-2009 17:29:24
TimSpong: Who needs the outside world!! Archery, sky-diving...02-Jun-2009 17:28:23
TimSpong: One more sport... Reggie comes back. Basketball shoot off.02-Jun-2009 17:28:06
TimSpong: Archery is up next. Play like real life. Requires a a lot of skill.02-Jun-2009 17:25:52
TimSpong: Showing a live demo of sky diving...02-Jun-2009 17:24:42
TimSpong: Crikey this trailer's going on and on and on...02-Jun-2009 17:23:33
TimSpong: Mm... well... gotta wonder if they're going to respond to Natal.02-Jun-2009 17:23:04
TimSpong: Trailer time...02-Jun-2009 17:22:53
config: Reggie says about the Wii Motion Plus offers "a new sense of realism in gameplay ... that make it feel and play more real"02-Jun-2009 17:21:50
TimSpong: Now -- Ridiculous montage of athelets with Wii motes instead of raquets and balls and such02-Jun-2009 17:21:43
tyrion: Motion plus02-Jun-2009 17:21:05
TimSpong: Wii Motion Plus talk from Reggie.02-Jun-2009 17:20:07
tyrion: Reggie!02-Jun-2009 17:20:01
TimSpong: CorproQuotes from Cammy: "Top of mind" FTW02-Jun-2009 17:19:54
tyrion: Montage!02-Jun-2009 17:19:45
TimSpong: 02-Jun-2009 17:19:45
TimSpong: Here comes Reggie!02-Jun-2009 17:19:41
tyrion: Now you can find out what it's like to be Mario02-Jun-2009 17:19:26
TimSpong: Wii Fit Plus - doing battle with Ubisoft then. Competition yeah!02-Jun-2009 17:19:09
tyrion: Wii Fit Plus02-Jun-2009 17:19:07
TimSpong: Wii fit plus - Tracks calories. Not just about fitness but also fun. 15 new mini games02-Jun-2009 17:18:10
tyrion: Now more Wii fit02-Jun-2009 17:17:52
TimSpong: Playable this week lauches this holiday02-Jun-2009 17:17:39
TimSpong: Clasicc 2d Mario. Seems to play like the multi in new super Mario for DS02-Jun-2009 17:16:09
tyrion: 4 player SMB game02-Jun-2009 17:11:11
TimSpong: Throw other players. Be helpful of a jerk02-Jun-2009 17:10:23
TimSpong: 02-Jun-2009 17:10:22
TimSpong: New super Mario brothers for Wii official!02-Jun-2009 17:07:34
TimSpong: Cammy "We expanded the market... Bla Bla"... Promising some surprises... Mario?
02-Jun-2009 17:05:19
TimSpong: And were off... Camie is talking about trending.02-Jun-2009 16:56:49
TimSpong: Waiting for Ninty to kick off...