I can't help but be very disappointed with what was shown.  Really, everybody was screaming for loads and loads of software, and all they gave us was more of what we already knew, in some cases even the same footage...  The new Mario also looks very mundane when compared to SMG, something I predicted long ago.  I like what they're doing with MK8 though.  Reminds me of F-zero.

It's hard to admit, being a longtime Nintendo loyalist, but they have turned into the Mario company after all.  Where's the love for their arcade racers?  No F-Zero, ExciteSomething, WaveRace?

I'll pick up Pikmin 3 though.  And MK8, the Viewtifull 101 and Bayonetta 2.  Mario World will depend on how heavily it's focused on multiplayer.  Definitely getting X, but that's still way off...

Also, I do not like being here.  Phantom_Leo only managed to lure me in by telling me GamingGeek was here  

edgecrusher said:

I still can't believe Nintendo has no Metroid to show from ANYONE....either Retro or another Team Ninja game.

Other M kind of got trashed by a lot of people. Not RE6 trashed, but it got a lot of 7's and I think it was the first big Nintendo title to score under an 8 on Metacritic for quite some time. It was also a turd saleswise for Nintendo. They may be giving the franchise a little time to breathe, and they're definitely not letting Team Ninja touch it again.

Randolph said:

Other M can be found for five bucks new, Mario Galaxy is STILL at least twenty. (I actually enjoyed it myself)

You know the same thing happened during the GC era. Metroid Prime could be found in bargain bins for $5 a pop while Mario Sunshine was still going for at least $30 assuming you could even find a copy of it years after both had been released.

According to Retro Studios president and CEO Michael Kelbaugh, the developer chose to work on a sequel to Donkey Kong Country Returns rather than Metroid as its first Wii U title. Kelbaugh stated that the team made the tough decision after realising that it had "unfinished business" with Nintendo's number one gorilla.

I call bullshit! They know which one made them more money, the end.

Kotaku Editor describing the Villager from Smash Bros. Wii U:

"The m.o. of the Villager from Animal Crossing. He can "collect" anyone's ranged attack and hurl it right back at them—including Samus' charge shot. So don't take him lightly. The Villager looks like he will beat you over the head, burn your house down and rob your corpse."

That pic is clever, sick, funny and disturbing all at the same time...

travo said:

Geez, with the Wii's Smash, we got Snake and Sonic.  With the U we get...The Villager!

Yodariquo said:

I'm confused by vader's reaction.  This is what I expected from everyone pretty much -- a really boring, uninspired show.  Microsoft showed nothing interesting; I've already pretty much forgotten the entire thing.  Sony had the best showing, but is FFXV having the best trailer of the night really that big?  Destiny looked like the gaming equivalent of watching Ubisoft's conference.



Nintendo's wasn't terrible, it was just too little.  Their video was much shorter than the other's and it was felt, as there was less shown.  I find it hard to be excited by another Mario Kart, a Mario game with the gimmick of being a cat (?) thrown in, and to some extent another Smash Bros. (please no tripping!), but I was hyped a bit by the Mega-man showing, particularly as I had hoped to see him in Brawl, plus the iconic Dr. Wily's Castle music.

Lets say I didnt expect anything except what Nintendo announced they would show, even then I would say Nintendo's showing was garbage. Forget the lack of surprises, it is how boring and uninspired the major games they were supposed to show looked. I though we were getting a new groundbreaking Mario game. A game that defines a console, an entire generation. No matter what Nintendo did at E3 I knew I would at least get a Mario so it would be ok. But what happend we got THAT. That is not the Mario we wanted, that is just another form of NSMB, uninspired sequel pumping Nintendo.By far the biggest disappointment of the show.

Then there was the Retro game. Again whatever they would show it would be amazing cause its RETRO! Whether it be a new Metroid or Star Tropics or any other big nintendo franchise we knew it would be stunning. Instead we get the last thing anyone ever wanted, a direct cash in sequel to DKCR that still looks like a Wii game.

Its not that they failed to deliver a bunch of games, it is that nintendo failed to deliver on the core games their entire history is based on. I bought a Wii U not for third parties, not for a giant great library. I got it only for Mario, metroid and Zelda. Everything else is a perk. Well Mario just failed me. Zelda WWHD was a total lie. And there is no Metroid yet. This is horribly disappointing. Sorry but I expect not just great games from Nintendo but greatest game of all time level games from Nintendo and if they are not going to deliver than then this system is not worth it.

Mario 3D World looks like it's built on Mario 3D Land, and that was a stellar game, and a fair bit different than the NSMB's.

I kind of agree with Dvader on this one.  The WW is a step back from it's innitial showing, and it's not even an original game.  It's like they said to themselves "we can't rework all the assets in time for a timely release, so screw that, we'll just keep everything the same".  Mario 3D world will not sport tightly designed levels, as it's both a 3D game and a multiplayer game, 2 aspects that are not beneficiary to level design, and Retro insists on creating another game featuring that crappy Diddy Kong.  Now I get that nothing could have stomped the concept that were the Galaxy games, but it doesn't seem to me that they tried much to begin with.

I did like the other showings though, especially MK8.  However, it was much too little.  They better have a kick-ass direct scheduled for the next couple of months, because here they were only preaching to the converted, and even those aren't reaffirmed in their beliefs.