Round-up of Nintendo Media Summit news

Todays was day one of Nintendo's NA event and soon will be day two of their Japan event and you may be flooded with news from sites like GoNintendo, IGN, and various blogs across the web. It's a like a mini-E3! So I've rounded up some of what I felt was the most important info (mostly from GoNintendo). Enjoy!


Nintendo Media Summit (Japan) live blog - GoNintendo

Nintendo Media Summit (North America) live blog - GoNintendo

Nintendo DS game montage - GameTrailers

Nintendo Wii game montage - GameTrailers

October Nintendo Game Conference (Japan) News and Information - SuperPhillip Central

Trailers: Punch Out!!, Mario & Luigi RPG 3, The Conduit, Sin & Punishment 2, Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia - GoNintendo

Wii, DS North American Release Dates - GoNintendo

Nintendo’s Holiday 2008: Wii Speak Channel, Club Nintendo, More Surprises - GoNintendo

If anything else comes up throughout the night I'll edit it.

Release date, IGN review, DLC, and more for Mega Man 9

From Capcom official blog:

"The wait is finally over: Mega Man 9 hits North America next week!

The game will be released for download on the September 22 for the Wii. Playstation Network gets it September 25th, and XBLA will have it October 1!

These dates are for North America ONLY."

It cool that WiiWare getting it first. And I'll definitely be downloading it. OK, onto next bit of news...

From Games Radar:


- hits October 6th for 200 Wii Points
- has the ability to slide, and charge shots
- some bullets can be deflected with shield
- contact with bullets pushes Proto Man back twice as far as Mega Man
- charge shot is interrupted when Proto Man is hit
- no Rush adapters, they are Proto adapters (sled, coil, more)

He's pretty much an alternative for those who liked Mega Man's skills and controls after Mega Man 2 (and onward). DLC sounds pretty cool. Wonder what other kind of downloads there'll be? New bosses? Bass as a playable character? I can only hope.


And finally, to round out my little bit of Mega Man 9 news, is the first review for the game: IGN's Mega Man 9 review by Mark Bozon. Enjoy!


PS. Look forward to next week, because I'll have quite a few posts and maybe a couple of reviews having to do with Mega Man!

Club Nintendo interview with Reggie and Miyamoto (summary)

A Latin America Nintendo magazine, Club Nintendo, recently had an interview with Reggie Fils-Aimé and Shigeru Miyamoto. Two GoNintendo readers, Demian Chrisanti and worrybomb, translated the most important parts, which I have posted below.

• Miyamota confirms they're working on Zelda and Pikmin but says nothing about Wii Motion Plus.
• The Zelda team is working on a special version for the Wii as opposed to Twilight Princess since it started out on the Gamecube.
• Shigeru says that the Wii Remote will fit very well with a title like Pikmin.
• When asked about a new Zelda DS title, Shigeru said nothing since Eiji Aonuma is a very busy man (he last oversaw Link’s Crossbow Training).
• Club Nintendo says that Wario Land: Shake It! plays just like the past versions. When asked if Mario and Metroid will follow suit one day, Shigeru says he can’t say anything now but that Nintendo always makes top notch products and that they will have to see them (Nintendo) in the future to know more.
• Miyamota says there won't be a lot more (first-party) peripherals, they have enough already.
• When asked about hard drive solution, Miyamota says to expect an announcement in the future since they're working on possible technologies. Reggie says they’re not making a “hard drive” but will come up with a better solution.
• Reggie says Animal Crossing is not casual and that they’re gonna have GTA on the DS for the hardcore gamers.
• When asked if Animal Crossing will be the new beginning point on how you play a game online on the Wii, Reggie says Mario Kart functions very well through the Wi-Fi connection with no problems and that Animal Crossing will be a fantastic experience on Wi-Fi with the Wii Speak being a great addition.
• When asked about Microsoft's avatars, Reggie says "imitating is a way of flattering, so we're very flattered."
• When asked about DS redesign, Reggie says a console redesign will happen when the sales go down, not up.

Quite a bit of information in there. Hopefully the hard drive solution is the holographic storage solution that Nintendo looked into a little while ago. Or more likely it's just SD Card or USB support.