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Nintendo To Hold Another Wii And 3DS Online Presentation This Week

By Ishaan . December 25, 2011 . 10:30am

Nintendo To Hold Another Wii And 3DS Online Presentation This Week

In October, Nintendo held a “Nintendo Direct” online presentation, with company president, Satoru Iwata, providing an update on existing Nintendo 3DS games like Mario Kart and Rune Factory 4, as well as revealing new games like Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword. A similar presentation was hosted for American viewers by Nintendo of America president, Reggie Fils-Aime.

 

Nintendo plan to air another of these presentations in the near future. Game Jouhou report that another Nintendo Direct presentation will be streamed at 12:00 (noon, Japan time) on December 27th, and will focus on both 3DS and Wii games.

 

No further details have been announced by Nintendo yet, including whether or not there will be a similar conference streamed in English. You’ll be able to watch it here.


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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3ITUZUKPZYUV2VUCVXUW3DVO6Y AJ

    I’m personally holding out for a “The Silver Case 3DS”.  I would get the 3DS if that game were on it and brought to America.

    • PrinceHeir

      oh this please!!!!

      the hell happened to that game Suda 51!!!!

  • Soma

    Perhaps Nintendo will also be announcing a new, slimmer model of the 3DS. :P

    But, seriously, I’m hoping for some good new games. I need more than just Devil Survivor as an excuse to buy a 3DS.

    • James Beatty

      If anything it would be a bigger 3DS. The 3DS is already pretty slim. But, i wouldn’t expect it to be out until after the first anniversary of the 3DS so maybe it would be best for them to release it after e3 so they can show it to the world. I’m kind of mad at nintendo at the moment. They have given me too many games to play on my 3DS and i don’t have time to play them all. The 10 GBA games, mighty switch force, pushmo, sonic generations, cave story, nano assault, ace combat, mario kart, bit trip, etc. and i got most of those today! D:

    • http://gloopyeegra.wordpress.com/ Arla

      There;s already a ton. The actual release and localization of them is what we need.

      • Soma

        Yes, this exactly. There are only a couple of titles that have been released in North America that actually interest me. Two or three games isn’t enough motivation for me to spend the money on a 3DS.

        Also, for all of those commenting on my slimmer 3DS comment, it was a joke, obviously. :P

        • Joanna

          Give it time. The good stuff is only now releasing in Japan and you know it takes a few months to get the stuff here. Mid-2012 should see more software.

  • http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=2704923 Buntar0

    Announce some new Wii games, will you? The successor is too far away and as promising as the next Wii (localized) games look, they are too few and far inbetween.

    • Soma

      I’m still holding out for The Last Story.

      Plus, Xenoblade is on the way. However, I haven’t seen it show up to pre-order from Gamestop yet. =(

      • WizardoftheBlueOrder

        It’s already available for pre-order on Gamestop.com and Nintendo.com.

        And as the current belief is that they’re only printing to number of pre-orders, I’d get on that if I were you.

        • Soma

          What the-! Is this going to be released in the US only? I check the pre-order database on a nearly daily basis. It has been crazy busy lately, so it’s possible that it slipped by me, but I checked this past week and didn’t see it show up anywhere.

          Maybe I’m just getting old. x_x

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eddie-Dominguez/1078890439 Eddie Dominguez

        i pre-ordered my copy yesterday afternoon woot!

  • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

    Oh wow my prediction of a swift announcing, revealing, and releasing of a 3DS model with the second circle pad built into the unit may be swiftly coming to fruition and realization. This will be good.

    I hope this means we also get announcements of new IPs from Nintendo instead of the tired and true series. Golden Sun 4 as well would be nice. I also hope for more portable Mario Sports games, and revealing that Pokemon Mystery Dungeon will be coming out.

    I also hope for a Baten Kaitos 3DS to be shown, Advance Wars (though with a new direction, collaboration with Bioware for the story and presentation).

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000301072427 Mark Shaver

      So you ask for new Ips, then list a bunch of old ips. Seems legit.

      • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

        Well, I was just listing stuff from least expected to most expected. Nintendo doing new IPs would be awesome but they wouldnt as long as the dream team trio are in charge (Iwatar, Miyamotor, and Regiee). I would still be interested in Nintendo games if the old ips experienced additional entries in the vein of my proposals.

    • James Beatty

      A new 3DS re-model will not be announced on tuesday. It’s too early for that.  

      • http://tristsantithesis.tumblr.com/ Tsunayoshi Sawada

        Im of the belief thats its never too early for new hardware. Nintendo must keep the momentum to avoid losing ground to the Sony handhelds and the smartphone market. A new handheld is the only way to combat and thwart the competition.

        • Michael Vincent

          I don’t know the general consensus but, wouldn’t that anger the ambassadors and everyone who bought the Nintendo 3DS up to this point? 

    • XypherCode

      Thinking that the next 3DS will be announced is a bit too early considering they just released the Circle Pad Pro and current 3DS sales seems to be sky rocketing because of MH3G and the Mario games.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Colin-Tosh/1662494377 Colin Tosh

    Hey hopefully they will show that Ninja Gaiden on 3DS. I have my fingers crossed. I’m guessing a Pokemon is coming.

    • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

      NG3DS won’t be officially announced for a while. We asked Hayashi about this once this year, and they’re pretty busy with Ninja Gaiden 3 and DOA5 at the moment. From what he said, they’re still thinking about how to do Ninja Gaiden on 3DS.

      update: Just checked. We asked him about it twice. The first time was me, and the second time was Spencer. He gave us both the same answer– that it’s at a very early stage.

  • riceisnice

    Animal Crossing! Paper Mario! Paper Crossing! Animal Mario!

  • haqua

    I hope they touch on RF4 a bit more. ;_; /tired of waiting

  • http://twitter.com/Shadowmen19 Shadowmen #19

    I’ll be there.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/jodecideion?feature=mhum TheWon and Only

    This will cover the current state of system sales. Then talk about upcoming games like Resident Evil, Love Plus, Kingdom Hearts, and Tekken. From there give out release dates or estimate release dates for Nintendo 3DS games. So maybe more information on Animal Crossing, and other games. Next I’m expecting at least more 3DS news, from new E Shop stuff, Apps, and games. Finally at least one announcement of a new game we didn’t know about. On the Wii side more Dragon Quest news. 
    People the 3DS is about to hit it’s 4 million mark in Japan. There will not be a new model for the system anytime soon. If anything they may do something way after E3. The current model is doing what they hoped it would. To release or talk about a new version now would kill the new momentum. This is not a 360 where you need a new model because the old one RROD. This is also not the PS3 where Sony need to make a cheaper version. The 3DS is fine as it’s currently is, and now it’s selling like it should. If you waiting for a new version you will be waiting for a while.

  • Guest

    Hopefully they’ll announce some release dates post Kid Icarus as the last thing the 3DS needs is another spring/summer drought. Some new games wouldn’t go amiss either:)

  • Luzzy Fool

    More information on Fire Emblem 3DS, please!

  • XypherCode

    I’m really hoping for a F-Zero 3DS :D

  • poisui

    I hope I remember to watch this. I can’t wait.

    • haqua

      Irrelevant, but you have Shinjuurou as your icon.
      This makes me happier than you know.

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