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So Nintendo has just finished there first press conference of the new E3 so what did they talk about, well below is just some of the main points that Nintendo talked about this year.

Three new peripherals were shown off, firstly there is the new Wii zapper that will play home to the Wiimote and Nunchuck and will change it into a light gun for the upcoming Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles from Capcom, Ghost Squad from SEGA, Medal of Honor from EA and many more games to come.
Secondly there was a steering wheel from Nintendo themselves that will come packaged with Mario Kart Wii and will see the light of day early next year.
Finally there was the most interesting controller in the form of a balance board that will come with the game WiiFit and will see people taking exercise to a whole new level by using pressure pads that are encased in the controller itself measuring how much weigh you put on it as well as detecting the movements that you make.

Nintendo also lined out that they plan to make more of an effort when it comes to online gaming with games like Fifa, Madden, Dragon Quest Joker, Guitar Heroes 3 and many more games have some form of online play attached to them.

Two important release dates were also announced for to of the biggest games this year, Mario Galaxy will be hitting American shores on November 12th with Super Smash Bros Brawl out on the 2nd of December again for American stores with no word on when we in the UK will see them.

Shown off for the first time was a new Wii channel that will be for your Mii’s, entitled Check Mii Out the channel will see people being able to swap there Mii’s with a lot more ease and also be able to enter them into special competitions and tournaments.

Finally Nintendo stated that they expect the gaming industry to eclipse TV, music, DVD etc across the globe with sales and the amount of time people spend with games.
Highlighted in this was Nintendo stating that the gaming industry has grow a lot in the last few years and that’s mostly down to how successful the Nintendo DS has done with it contributing 69% of the growth and it looks like this number will rise considering how well the DS is doing across the world.
Nintendo also said that they plan to have another 100 Wii games and 140 DS games out by the end of the year in America.

Overall Nintendo press conference wasn’t all about showing us just trailers of new games they wanted to tell us how gaming is affecting people and how well the DS and Wii has done to get more than just the hardcore gamer playing video games.
Yes people are going to be a little disappointed on the lack of new games announcement but Nintendo are taking a different prospective on the gaming industry and did want to just make there press conference like there two rivals.