Nintendo News Thread. Update: E3 Nintendo Direct 6/11/13 - Smash Bros, 3D Mario, Mario Kart U... - Page 15

I have a feeling that they might be announcing new colors today, none of the other Directs (Europe, Japan) are going to be talking about 3DS so maybe they'll release those. One of the main reasons I haven't upgraded to the XL is because I have hope that they'll release a black or white version.

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Nintendo revealed that it will be joining SEGA in a worldwide partnership for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and the next installment of Sonic will be exclusive to Wii U & 3DS.

These are the highlights of the Direct.

Wii U News

Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games: The game includes a variety of events from the Winter Games, including curling, skiing, figure skating pairs and snowboard slopestyle – which will make its Olympic debut in Sochi, Russia. Different events might use the Wii Remote Plus controller, Wii U GamePad controller or both. In addition to realistic events, the game also includes those set in the worlds of Sonic and Mario that let players perform moves not possible in real life. Launch details and timing will be announced at a later date.

Experience Games from Nintendo’s E3 Booth at Best Buy: Exclusively at participating Best Buy locations in the United States and Canada, consumers will be able to play some of the unreleased Wii U games featured at E3 while the event is occurring in Los Angeles. Details about locations and which games will be featured will be revealed in the coming weeks

New Super Luigi U: The Year of Luigi-themed downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. U offers players 82 updated courses. But it also includes a new playable character in multiplayer mode: Nabbit, who steals items from Toad Houses. Nabbit can’t power up, but also won’t take damage when he touches enemies. New Super Luigi U will be released as downloadable content for New Super Mario Bros. U in the Nintendo eShop on June 20 for $19.99. But in honor of the Year of Luigi, Nintendo is also offering a standalone packaged version of New Super Luigi U that doesn’t require New Super Mario Bros. U on Aug. 25 at a suggested retail price of $29.99.

The Wonderful 101: The mass-action adventure from Platinum Games launches Sept. 15. Additional details will be announced after E3.

Pikmin 3: New playable characters Alph, Brittany and Charlie recruit the Pikmin creatures to help them gather fruit so that they can return with the seeds to save their home, Planet Koppai. Players can divide activities among the different characters, and explore separate areas in the same map with different groups of Pikmin. Using the GamePad (known as the KopPad in the game), players can view the overall map and grasp what each character and Pikmin are up to. Players also can choose their preferred control option: GamePad in conjunction with the TV, Wii Remote Plus and Nunchuk combo or GamePad only in off-TV mode. Players can also use the Wii Remote Plus and Nunchuk with the GamePad as a second-screen monitor. Pikmin 3 launches Aug. 4.

GAME & WARIO: The game launches in stores and in the Nintendo eShop June 23 at a suggested retail price of $39.99, and includes a number of games from WarioWare, Inc., that use the GamePad in different ways. Newly revealed games include: Island, which lets two to five people launch little creatures called Fronks onto islands in the sea to score points; Patchwork, a puzzle game that tests players’ pattern-recognition skills; and Kung-Fu, which challenges players to help Young Cricket navigate a course safely using the forward-looking view on the TV and the top-down view on the GamePad. A new Iwata Asks feature offers more details about the game at http://iwataasks.nintendo.com.

Resident Evil Revelastion: Capcom’s horror-survival game is launching in stores and in the Nintendo eShop on May 21. The game originally released for Nintendo 3DS, and the Wii U version offers players updated HD graphics, GamePad controls and new game content. Players can use the GamePad to view the map and change items using the touch screen without pausing their progress. Or they can play the full game on the GamePad in off-TV mode, or play with the Wii U Pro Controller. The game is Miiverse-compatible, and a demo version is currently available in the Nintendo eShop.

Nintendo 3DS News

SEGA Game Gear: Games from the classic hand-held system are headed to the Virtual Console service. These include:

Columns
Crystal Warriors
Defenders of Oasis
Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
G-LOC: Air Battles
Shining Force II: The Sword of Hajya
Sonic Blast
Sonic Drift 2
Sonic Labyrinth
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Tails Adventure
Vampire: Master of Darkness

Inside the Treehouse with Animal Crossing: New Leaf: Because of the vast amount of content in the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Leaf game, Nintendo’s Treehouse localization team is hosting an ongoing video series to talk about the franchise and many of the fun features of the new game. The videos will be available on Nintendo’s YouTube channel and in the Nintendo eShop on a regular basis leading up to the game’s June 9 launch. Additionally, a new Animal Crossing panel for Puzzle Swap is now available for StreetPass Mii Plaza, and fans also might find a special Animal Crossing-themed message on Swapnote.

Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D: This game launches in stores and in the Nintendo eShop on May 24 and includes all the fun of the original Wii game, now optimized for portable play. It also includes eight new unlockable levels that are each based on one of the eight worlds from the original game. These levels will challenge players with new elements like platforms that force them to move at a faster pace, large drops of tar falling from the ceiling and giant rotating stone gears that can alter the level itself.

A Legendary Sale: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons arrive on the Virtual Console service for Nintendo 3DS on May 30. Because playing the games together unlocks so much additional content, Nintendo is offering them for just $4.99 each for the first three weeks after launch. After this promotion expires, the games will be available for $5.99 each.

Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move: The game, which launched May 9 exclusively in the Nintendo eShop, challenges players to place tiles on the bottom screen to guide the Minis to their goal on the top screen. The game includes more than 180 stages, but also dramatically extends the fun of the game by letting players create their own stages and share them with others. Players can opt to try a random user-created level or one created by their friends. They can also select from the most popular levels overall or search the top levels of the week.

Nintendo announced via Twitter that they are holding a Nintendo Direct during E3 on June 11, 2013.
This is the Nintendo Direct all the fans are waiting for, where they will show off the new Mario 3D, Mario Kart, and Super Smash Bros. games along with other games.

This is do or die for Nintendo in my eyes, they have alot riding on this Direct, I expect to see everything that was announced in the Direct back in January (?) that had X, SMTxFE, Yoshi, etc.
We'll probably learn more about SEGA and Nintendo's partnership and what they 3rd game is.

There's also another firmware update that is coming this Summer so maybe they'll give some details about that, I remember reading about an insider say that owning a 3DS and Wii U will be beneficial in the near future leading people to believe that Nintendo will be converting to an account system instead of tying all your purchases to your system and be able to crossplay your VC purchases between both systems.

Nintendo has said that with this Nintendo Direct and the second half of the year they hope to reignite the Wii U and hopefully start pushing it more to make sure people know what the benefits of the Wii U are, and for their sake I hope they can achieve it cause I don't wanna see Nintendo fail.
After the XBone reveal I feel better about the Wii U, I was gonna give the Xbox a chance since I never owned any of the previous ones but after the reveal I don't care for it, I'll stick to my Wii U and get a PS4 years down the line.

For a company that isn't gonna be holding a big press event they sure are doing alot of big things this year @ E3.

Looks like Xbox did a better job at promoting the Wii U than Nintendo did

http://playeressence.com/amazon-uk-wii-u-sales-rank-jumps-by-875-following-microsofts-xbox-one-reveal/?fb_source=pubv1

Some rumors from a NeoGaf poster, dude is determined to prove he is correct on these assumptions.

Then he posted this

Haven't read anything about those 2 games, but with SEGA and Nintendo recently partnering up to release exclusive Sonic games on Wii U & 3DS I wouldn't count out the possibility of them bringing more SEGA titles to their Virtual Console.

Just recently Nintendo announced that they were going to release 13 Game Gear games on the 3DS VC , maybe if the fans show interest in certain titles it could work out, like what happened with Earthbound.