In my opinion, Nintendo had the best E3 showing. I'm sure the majority will disagree with me, but this is the same Nintendo that has been shoving kiddy nonsense and trying to appeal to masses that we're talking about here. So you "core" gamers have to look at this and be somewhat impressed.

Nintendo started out with the announcement of New Super Mario Bros. for the Wii. You can play it with 4 people at a time, and it looked pretty fun. The DS version was awesome, so I imagine this will be good too.

Then Wii-Fit something or another was talked about, and then the Reginator came out onto the floor to talk about the new advanced wii-mote or some nonsense along with some new tech demos of it. Yay.

Then surprisingly Reggie went on a RPG rant, which I didn't expect at all. A bunch of RPG-Spingoffs were talked about such as the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles series. A new Kingdom Hearts, a new Golden Sun, and a new Mario & Luigi RPG. Overall it was some RPG Goodness for both the DS & Wii. And about time too.

More pre-teen game stuff was talked about. What really surprises me is they didn't spend most of their time on all the non-gamer fluff they usually talk about. And then some vitality sensor was talked about.

And then Mario Galaxy 2 was announced. Sweet. 2 main stream Mario games on a Nintendo system has been unheard of lately.

The best part of Nintendo's showing was the end of the show. I think it's a good sign when Reggie said he's reading blogs and looking at the feedback about Nintendo and how they're losing (if not completely lost) the "core" gamer crowd. I'll get back to this in a second. He then showcased 3 upcoming "mature crowd" games. The Conduit, Resident Evil The Darkside Chronices (shooter like Umbrella Chronicles), and the best of the three, a Dead Space game from EA's new universe called: Dead Space Extraction.

Finally you wouldn't think Nintendo would talk about anything else. I mean shit 3 hardcore "mature" games, a New Super Mario Bros. for Wii, a ton of RPGs, and a new Mario Galaxy game. Yeah well we got one more for ya. They announced a combined project involving Team Ninja and Nintendo. Yeah, Team Ninja, those Ninja Gaiden & Dead or Alive guys, combined with Nintendo, to make a new Metroid game! If you ask me, that's pretty awesome. Remember, this is NINTENDO that displayed all of these new, "core gamer" games. I think their showing was great, and I couldn't care less about Nintendo lately.

Truth be told, Nintendo's E3 conference was all nice n good, but what it really did was give me high hopes for their next system, and the things they're going to be able to do with it. Sony and Microsoft are just now trying to get some form of motion technology. Nintendo already did it. Imagine Nintendo with a High Definition system, 2nd generation motion technology (if not something else), and a vast lineup of developers not even including Nintendo itself. That's what I'm talking about. I want Nintendo to keep listening to the gamers, and not letting crap get pumped out for their systems. All in all, good show Nintendo. Maybe the Wii can do more than collect dust after all!