Nintendo’s Press Conference Step-by-Step

July 12, 2007

-Nintendo begins the conference with a video showing the success of the Wii and DS in the mainstream media, including; South Park, The Colbert Report, and numerous talk shows and news shows.

-Reggie presents the sales figures and touts the expanding market of the Wii and Nintendo DS. All your charts are belong to Nintendo.

-Women and old people are buying video games.

-Nintendo shows off it’s new controller: the Wii Zapper, a lightgun shell that the Wii Remote and Nunchuk fit into to form a gun for FPS games.

-Ninja Gaiden is coming to the Nintendo DS. As is Dragon Quest: Swords, both coming next year. Mario and Sonic at the Olympics will also be coming to the Wii and DS.

-Super Smash Bros. Brawl time. Launching on Deember third. That’s all for now, apparently. Time for more videos about how Nintendo has changed people’s lives.

-Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is being shown off. Touch sensitive features are bein shown off. The touch screen controls where Link runs and also is used with items like the boomerang and to solve puzzles. Phantom Hourglass is apparently the best Zelda game ever.

-Another person comes on stage to show-off Metroid Prime 3. Wii controls are shown off, with lock-on features for strafing and motion controls to aim and gesture between different visor modes.

-Time for Nintendo online. And more videos of new shows.

-WiiWare: starting next year, new, original user developed content coming to the Wii Shop.

-Mario Strikers Charged is the next big online title. Madden 08, Fifa 08, and other EA Sports titles are also going online. Another, Dragon Quest will also be online enabled. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is also going online. Reggie is serious about showing your stuff online.

-Mario Kart Wii is coming early next year and will be online enabled. Will also debut alongside the Wii Wheel, a steering wheel controller for racing games on Wii.

-MORE new stories about the Wii’s success.

-Iwata takes the stage. Complete with a Mii in the background. Addresses the appeal of games like Nintendogs and the Brain games while also assuring that the hardcore will be pleased with the Wii and DS as well. Recaps on some of what we’ve seen, like the Wii Zapper.

-Miamoto will be out soon with a new game. For now, we get another video.

-Reggie is back. Brain Age 2 will be coming on August 20th.

-Super Mario Galaxy, “the first worthy successor to Super Mario 64.” Galaxy’s coming on November 12th.

-Picross DS will allow you to create your own puzzles and share them with friends. EA is bringing customization to MySims on both Wii and DS. Reggie invokes High School Musical 2, and the audience goes buck-wild. Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.

-Ubisoft is bringing MyLifeCoach and MyWordCoach, word and spelling based training.

-More videos. This time Wii Sports.

-Last game time. Wii Fit trailer. Looks to be a sort of aerobics-based game with a floor-based controller, similar to those plastic step…things. Also has mini-games like soccer goalie and marble balancing.

-Miamoto takes the stage. He wants to ask us if we’ve been sweating it up.

-Miamoto talks about Wii Fit. A couple people takes the stage to showcase some of the exercises for the game. One is a leg pumping, balancing game while another is a game where you step on the controller pad to the beat of the music. Another has you pretending to be an airplane. The controller is called the Wii Balance Board, and it measures your weight and balance shifts. Reggie is going to get a body check. Reggie and Miamoto battle it out over a soccer mini-game. Reggie wins.

-Reggie closes with, yep, another video.