14 DAY TRIAL // Nintendo is a very big company with a lot of high-grossing franchises like Mario or Metroid Prime, and, of course, it couldn’t have been missing from last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) conference held in Los Angeles, where many interesting games were announced.
Titles such as Super Mario Galaxy 2, Wii Fit Plus or Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story were presented, but other interesting franchises like The Legend of Zelda or Pikmin didn't receive any details or even hints from the company at its press conference.
Luckily, reputed video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto saw fit to tease the public at his own roundtable developer conference held at the large event, where he said that the Zelda team was hard at work creating a new game for the Wii, completely different from the DS-only Spirit Tracks project, which will be unveiled next year, either at E3 or during a Nintendo-only conference. He revealed that it would be very interesting and that technology such as the Wii MotionPlus might be implemented for swordplay or archery.
He then talked about Pikmin and how, although he teased the new project last year, he had nothing to show in 2009. “I'm sorry,” Miyamoto said when asked about the project. “Unfortunately we haven't been able to expand the team size very much, because we've been working on so many different games that we've shown off at the show. So the team is working very hard, but it's a bit of a small team. The basic work that they've been doing quite nicely. My basic idea is that the sense of the depth of the game and the simplicity of the control will all be there.”
So while it seems that only Mario received some Nintendo love at this E3, other franchise will see their fair share of attention from the Japanese company. Hopefully the projects will be worth the wait and their fans will have something to look forward to.