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hey guys jon rettinger here today is Tuesday June second the second day of the e3 electronic entertainment expo and Nintendo gave their keynote speech today sort of like Microsoft did yesterday and Sony is scheduled for later on in the day so let me jump right into it you recap all the cool stuff for that nintendo announced please leave your comments down below let me know what you think about these the conference just ended so I've had a chance to memorize everything yet so I am looking down at some notes here so please excuse me while I'm doing that so the first thing that nintendo announced so they jumped right in was a new super mario brothers game it's actually looked very cool it's a side-scrolling 3d game oh it's always a big fan of the side-scrolling obviously super mario games but this one kind of adds a new twist a little bit lets you have put in multiplayer so you can play as mario luigi toad or princess and you can play with your friends at the same time you can compete for coins a Goomba stomping Koopa killing it sounded very violent whatever it is now there's a little bit of competition within the game and you can switch characters while you're playing as well which is kind of cool it's a new mario game Nintendo's kind of resting on their laurels a little bit with what's been successful but if you haven't we odds are you're going to want to pick up the new mario game so the next thing that they went right into as we fit and actually they said we fit as a gaming platform which is a very interesting way to to announce it meaning there's going to be other add-ons to the wii fit so they should do something called Wii Fit Plus and Wii Fit Plus has improved aai that helps you find the best workout for you it also has 15 new balance board games it's got stuff like skateboarding and all kinds of other little mini wii games to help you get in shape I'll be out in the fall 2009 in both a bundled version with the balance board or just at a standalone game personally I never got wii fit if you want exercise and get in shape go outside or go to a gym but people do lovely fit I recognize that so if you're a fan of the franchise and you've been looking to sort of augment what you or even look into a getaway and jump into we fit least now you got something else to look forward to the next thing was they demoed the wii motionplus add-on which essentially what this is a plug-in plugs into the bottom of your wii remote i'm making a hand gesture if you guys can't see it plugs into the bottom of your wii remote and it has improved accuracy using the gyroscopic sensors in the remote so you move just a little bit to the left it'll actually move just a little bit to lack if you've ever used a Wii Remote you'll know it's not so accurate this is hopefully going to improve that and they showed it using wii sports resort the ton of resort games they show people jumping out of airplanes playing archery all kinds of other wii mini games that people have kind of known and loved the next thing to introduce was another new game this was Mario and Luigi bowser's Inside Story that's kind of a play on words the whole game actually takes place inside a Bowser digestive tract it's a little bit gross it is a side-scrolling RPG which is a role-playing game which is kind of cool so you can do different things you can set out to find tasks and rewards stinks sort of like Zelda except Mario and inside of a giant dinosaur stomach I mean to say it out loud sounds a little bit silly but I'm sure it's going to be a lot of fun than tendo's first party titles generally are a lot of fun and they know what they're doing so as if that wasn't enough on the software side they started talking about new dsi games via dsiware Mario vs. Donkey Kong for example so this dsiware is downloadable if you have a dsi so very cool look for more dsiware games coming very soon some of these games would even be available starting friday so friday look at the dsi store and see what is new the next thing they announced is this summer you're giving able to take photos with your DSi which obviously you can do now and upload that into facebook seems like the Facebook Twitter and social networking theme is really crossing over everything so be able to take friend photos of your friends stretch their faces and blow up their heads and upload to facebook if you like not the biggest feature in the world don't know why it's taking till summer to get that done but it'll be a month or so before you can actually do that so that next intento guy on stage instead they want to make the system more appealing to everyone I kind of thought isn't though we already sort of appealing to everyone and how are they going to give it more mass appeal without isolating sort of sort of the hardcore we gamers about making the games too easy and simple and here to introduce some things that kind of lost you on did you do something it's not a joke here called the wii vitality sensor you put your finger in it sort of like those little of blood pressure things you see at the drugstore is you put your finger in and i'll tell you how relaxed you are i'll take your pulse i assume it'll have other in-game uses but that's all it is it's got a little slip and you just put your finger in it a little bit weird i don't know who's going to use their we as a blood pressure or relaxation sensor but maybe they have more so than story they just haven't shared yet so the next thing that they announced it was a very packed conference with super mario galaxy 2 the original Super Mario Galaxy was actually one of the last week aims that I had before I sold my week and I really love that it was a lot of fun this looks to be just an evolution of the game same idea just new levels and the new missions so if you like the first super mario galaxy you are in luck next thing hey now it's actually the last thing they finally announced was a new metroid game coming 2010 and it's not a first-person shooter game like the Metroid Prime series well it's actually like the older Metroid you know the whole ball rolling around and it's not one percent side-scrolling but there's a lot of side-scrolling levels it's so kind of harken back to the old days like I said earlier it seems like Nintendo's really resting on what's been successful in the past maybe instead of innovating towards the future Microsoft yesterday focused on sort of new innovations with that project natal full motion sensing controls Nintendo is really sticking with a winning formula there's no doubt the wii it's been a huge success and it seems like Nintendo doesn't want to mess with that they are bringing back some of their biggest franchise name and Mario Metroid and really a donkey kong unit a whole bunch of others and I can't say I blame them I know a lot of people are going to match Nintendo for not innovating more but they've been so successful like the wii is out selling the xbox and ps3 but so much that i think they just don't want to risk it they're also limited by a horse power of do we as well if not the most powerful of consoles so it is interesting to see that intended to focus mostly on the software side where Microsoft focus a lot on hardware and sony's conference later today you know we have yet to see what they're going to do whether the focus on software hardware stay or tune though I will have a full review on stoniest press conference as well so what do you guys think about the nintendo announced that very excited about these games you think they should've done more any disagree with me or you don't really care one way or another what do you think about this vitality thing i really going to put your finger in a sensor connected to your game console i would have liked to have seen DVD DVD playback in the US shows and movies on demand would have been very nice features anyway this is jon rettinger for exclusive content be sure to follow me on twitter twitter com splash 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