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I've tidied up the list, with some of your suggestions (Thanks @Dcubed ) Predictions/wish list: Miyamoto (he's pretty much an entire group all by himself) - Original IP, small concept, possibly digital format. Retro - I think Retro have had two development teams since they started Metroid Prime Trilogy, with one focussing on that and the other working on DKCR. I think we'll see the return of RavenBlade, and possibly Starfox. Monster Games F-Zero for 3DS, and Excite Trucks 2 for Wii U NST - They're either working on Metroid Prime 4, or a new FPS IP. Or Mach Rider! Good Feel - I wonder if they're involved in NSMB U somehow, just a feeling! I'd love a 2D, hand-drawn Yoshi's Island next from them. Arika - They better be making Endless Ocean 3. Can't decide if I want a 3DS or Wii U version more though. Grezzo - Either MM or LttP remake. Or they could be in charge of the new 3DS Zelda

I'm looking forward to seeing what Good Feel are up to, really hoping for a Yoshi's Island on 3ds, completely drawn with chunky crayons! Also intruiged as to what AlphaDream are doing with themselves since Nintendo have Paper Mario on 3ds it doesn't really leave room for another Mario & Luigi RPG.

I put together a list of Nintendo's various teams and partners and what they're currently working on, thought I'd share it. I'll update as and when more information is available. Feel free to add any more you can think of. I think the first/second party status is right but open to corrections! I’ve listed internal teams as first-party; studios part-owned by Nintendo as second-party; and studios Nintendo is developing with, or has commissioned work by, as third-party. First Party Nintendo EAD (Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka) – Super Mario 3D World (Wii U) Nintendo EAD Group 1 (Hideki Konno) – Mariokart 8 (Wii U) Nintendo EAD Group 2 (Katsuya Eguchi) – Animal Crossing New Leaf (3DS) Nintendo EAD Group 3 (Eiji Aonuma) – Zelda Wind Waker HD (Wii U), Original Zelda title (Wii U), Zelda Link between worlds (3DS) Nintendo EAD Group 4 (Hiroyuki Kimura) – Pikmin 3 (Wii U) Nintendo EAD Group 5 (Tadashi Sugiyama) – Wii Fit U (Wii U) Nintendo EAD Tokyo 1 (Takao Shimizu) – Flipnote Studio 3D (3DS eShop) Mario AR Photo App (3DS eShop) Nintendo EAD Tokyo 2 (Yoshiaki Koizumi) – New Super Luigi U (Wii U eShop) Nintendo SPD 1 (Yoshio Sakamoto) – Game & Wario (Wii U) Nintendo SPD 2 (Hitoshi Yamagami) – Tomodachi Collection: New Life (3DS) Nintendo SPD 3 (Kensuke Tanabe) – Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS) Nintendo SPD 4 (Hiroshi Sato) – Nintendo SPD 5 (Masaru Nishita) - Devilish Brain Training (3DS) NST - Mario & DK Minis on the move (3DS eShop) Retro Studios – Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (Wii U) Monolith Soft – Project X Zone (3DS), Action RPG 'X' (Wii U), Unannounced title from Kyoto studio (3DS), Animal Crossing New Leaf (3DS) Brownie Brown – Fantasy Life (3DS) Intelligent Systems – Game & Wario (Wii U), Fire Emblem X Shin MegaTen (Wii U), Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS) Project Sora –Smash Bros (3DS & Wii U) Nd Cube – Wii Party U (Wii U) Second Party Asobism - AlphaDream – Mario & Luigi Dream Team Bros (3DS) Creatures Inc. – Camelot Software Planning – Mario Golf: World Tour (3DS) Game Freak - Harmo Knight (3DS eShop), Pokemon X/Y (3DS) Genius Sonority – Denpa Men 2 (3DS eShop) Good-Feel – Yarn Yoshi (Wii U), StreetPass Squad (3DS) Grezzo – StreetPass Garden (3DS) HAL Laboratory - Face Raiders (3DS) Monster Games – DKC Returns 3D (3DS) Next Level Games – Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS) Noise – Skip Ltd. – syn Sophia – New Style Boutique (3DS) Third Party Ambrella - Pokemon Rumble U (Wii U eShop) Arika – Arzest - Yoshi's New Island (3DS) Chunsoft - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity (3DS), StreetPass Battle (3DS) Curve - Hydroventure: Spin Cycle (3DS eShop) Eighting – Freestyle Games – SiNG Party (Wii U) Ganbarion - Pandora's Tower (Wii) Hatena - Flipnote Studio 3D (3DS eShop) Headstrong Games – Art Academy (Wii U) Mitchell - Tokyo Crash Mobs (3DS eShop) NamcoBandai - Smash Bros (3DS & Wii U) nD Cube - Mario Party 3DS (3DS) n-Space – Paon – Platinum – Wonderful 101 (Wii U), Bayonetta 2 (Wii U) Prope - StreetPass Mansion (3DS) Q-Games - Sandlot - Suzak – Team Ninja – Tecmo Koei – Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 (Wii U) Tose – Traveller’s Tales – Lego City Undercover: The Chase Begins (3DS) Lego City Undercover (Wii U) Treasure - Unannounced action game (3DS) Vanpool – Dillon's Rolling Western: The Last Ranger (3DS eShop) Vitei – Steel Diver (3DS) Titles in development by unknown studio: Yoshi's Island 3DS (3DS)

Give me a Varia suit for Fem-Shep and I'll be happy! So how do people want the GamePad to be used? I've had a few thoughts, after 30+ hours playtime on the 360 version. Codex entries popping up on the Pad when you unlock them - I'm thinking this could be quite useful for any new players, and those who had a long gap between playing the 2nd and 3rd game. I watched some of the Lost recaps Sky had running just before the last series aired, there were little info boxes popping up all the time explaining character backgrounds, where they fitted in to the story, relationships etc. I found it a good way to refresh my memory on the characters and story, and spotted links I'd never registered before. I think this would be pretty cool in ME3 on Wii U. Quick access to Maps, Journal etc. - It may seem like a lazy way to use the screen but this is something I'd personally find useful. I'm always losing track of all the side quests I've taken on, or where I need to go next. Shepards Emails - Why bother having to go back to particular terminals to check communications from team members or NPCs, send them straight to the GamePad instead. Planet scanning - This is probably my only gripe with ME3, scanning all the planets and navigation of the galaxy in general is pretty clunky with the 360 pad. It's definitely and area I'd like to see improved on Wii U. I'd like EA to use the Wii weather channel as an example and let us spin the planets, zoom etc with the screen and double-tap to scan for treasure.

Hey, you look like you could do with losing a few pounds, did you know Nintendo is bringing out a brand new Wii Fit machine?

One of the best things about online gaming on the wii was that it wasn't spoilt by 12-year old American kids talking shit and acting like knobs. I can see Miiverse being an open invitation for these twats so i'm glad Nintendo has some moderation in place. Who wants their Zelda experience ruined by someone posting a spoiler?

More importantly, where the hell was ANimal Crossing and Pokemon Black/White 2???

I hope this can pave the way to Nintendo releasing Lego sets based off their franchises

Going back to the very early days of E3 it was ALWAYS about showing off the games you were selling by Xmas - it's come full circle for most companies. Nintendo has at least one smaller conference every quarter anyway, and always have one just before Xmas that shows off the Q1 titles for the next year.

And next up...Animal Crossing inspired by Warhol

My Xbox 360 controller never keeps it's charge for 40 hours, i've had to plug it in twice today during a six hour Mass Effect 3 sesh. All I had to do was get up out of my seat (scary I know), get the wire from my gaming kit bag, untangle it from the other wires I neatly placed in there, plug the wire into the console, try and stop the cat from chewing on it, nearly trip up on it on my way back to my seat a whole 1.5 meters away, and then realise I'd plugged in the PS3 USB charger wire. But seriously, it's not the end of the world if the tablet needs tethering every few hours surely? Nyko will release a cheap battery-charger/life extender anyway. There are wars and famine going on and you're moaning the battery charge in your Wii U lasts three hours... #firstworldproblems

They said they would have more opportunities to talk about upcoming games in the near future, so they've obviously got some more Nintendo Direct and Shareholder meetings coming up in which to talk about online, digital content, and release info. I wouldn't panic about Nintendo not delivering great content over the life span of the console, it WILL come. On the lack of big franchise news: Nintendo have finite resources, despite bringing in teams like Monolith and Retro, and HD graphics take large resources. Mario and Zelda games take three to four years to craft and (most importantly) perfect in SD, yet alone HD so I'm not expecting Mario until next Christmas, and Zelda a year later. In fact, I don't want Nintendo to rush them just because some fanboys are impatient. We know Smash Bros is only just being worked on and is three years away. Metroid may not see a Prime game this gen if Retro have moved on. Christ they had to work on four Metroid Prime titles in a row before DKC Returns so let the team have a break from FPS/FPA for a while, they've earnt it. I'd like a return to 2D on 3DS anyway, but that's just my personal opinion. I am gutted Retro's new project wasn't on show but the conference is over now, I have to move on and carry on with my life. As for thinking Nintendo could possibly push Retro onto a Wii Play clone...seriously? On fringe franchises: Again, I'm disappointed Nintendo didn't announce an F-Zero, Starfox, Pilotwings, 1080 or Excitebike, but the truth is I'm not surprised as they DON'T SELL. Certainly not in the volumes needed to warrant big HD-heavy budgets. I do however expect/want some smaller digital releases for these franchises either on 3DS or Wii U. The digital platform is so important to Wii U. It's potentially a place where smaller teams can work on more titles simultaneously and give us two or three iterations of fringe franchises this generation (if they have the ideas to sustain that many). I've loved Nintendo's small eSHop titles so far, Pullblox is my favourite 3DS title by a mile, and one of my all-time fave puzzle games. It's not just the 3D graphics that made the game possible, it's also down to the digital platform. This E3 conference was far from perfect, but not Nintendo's worst.

Hope they pack this in (like the wii 'channels') my Mum would love this!

I thought it was Birdo! Actually scratch that idea, it's DEFINITELY the Octopus from the Game & Watch game of the same name...

I marked it down as a Day 1 purchase anyway, because I know I'll personally get a lot of use out of it. My family still play Wii Play after all. I'm interested to know what the other games are, pleased to see an F-Zero icon among the pack (I'm guessing it's there to show off using the GamePad as a steering wheel).

Why wasn't this shown at the conference instead?

Nope! I regularly have gaming evenings with my girlfriend and her mates and this will fit in perfectly. Just Dance 4 looks like a winner too. We've always had to switch to SingStar if we wanted to play a karaoke game. Hope Nintendo can launch it with a decent library of songs. Why are people on here whinging so much about this? It's made by a very good studio, they're bound to be adding more innovative features than we saw here (and I like the idea of having lyrics on the tablet), and so what if it appeals to casual gamers. It's not taking resources away from Nintendo's core titles, so stop acting like this is the final nail on Nintendo's coffin or whatever.

This screams Earth Defence Force to me, and that's a good thing! Make it a £10 download Namco and you have yourself a deal.

I would actually kill for a Majora's Mask HD reimagining.

And three years spent on a 'core' game that doesn't break even is worth it? The core gamer market isn't big enough to sustain the budgets that go into core franchises. You only have to look at the number of of good dev studios closing down because one game didn't sell well enough. Studios have to diversify to survive, just like every other creative industry making great content is costly and doesn't guarantee an income. But chasing casual dollars can keep you in business while you work on core ideas (look at Wayforward for an example of a studio that funds core games with the moolah brought in by casual, license-heavy titles). Aaaaanyway...I'm quite happy with that line-up to be honest. Pikmin 3, Mario Bros U, Wii Fit U and Nintendoland are top of my list of early purchases. I'd like to see more of Game & Wario and Project P-100 too, they look quite intresting. Lego City was a bit of a nice surprise too - looked genuinely funny!

The backgrounds had an almost Skyward Sword feel about them. Very painterly. I like the look of it so far. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a level editor.

A new entry in the Warioware series by the looks of it... Footage found on the e3.nintendo.com site. Shows off a skiiing game, and a shooting mini-game. I really hope Nintendo give us the chance to make our own micro-games again. The GamePad is just perfect for this, and Iwata-San mentioned sharing player-created content in the Nintendo Direct video the other night...

Happy to see this being announced but I just literally started playing this yesterday. Dammit! If it launches with Wii U and has all the DLC free on the disc I think I could be tempted with a second FemShep play-through Anyone else double-dipping?

Plus Puggsy, Leander, Toy Story, Mickey Mania amongst others. I used to hang out with the cousins of the heads of the company (Jon & Dave Burton) when I was at school. I've still got the Puggsy t-shirt they gave me, and their 'review' of a homemade c64 game I tried to pitch to them.

And brilliantly titled 1080p Snowboarding