Dante Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 Nintendo will be a major participate in this year's Tokyo Game Show, Kotaku has learned. This will be the first time since the show's inception in 1996 that Nintendo will participate with a booth at the show. Traditionally, Nintendo has sat the Tokyo Game Show out. Sure, company prez. Satoru Iwata gave the 2005 TGS keynote in which he unveiled the Wii-mote, but the company has never had an actual booth. Rather, it has focused on its own events like Space World and Nintendo World. But this TGS is going to be different: Nintendo will have an actual booth. A big booth at that. Multiple, highly placed insiders confirm that the company will be in appearance, which is one of the reasons why TGS this year is four days this year instead of three. Why Nintendo's sudden appearance? Square-Enix's Dragon Quest IX. Every time a Dragon Quest game has been shown at TGS, the event belongs to DQ. With Nintendo landing a major coup and getting DQIX on the DS (and it's gonna sell a gazillion copies), the company has decided to put in face time. What does this mean? Madness. Long lines. And more madness. Rest easy, the DQIX demo will apparently be available via DS download. That means no waiting for three hours plus! An official announcement is expected in the next couple of weeks. kotaku.com
Atomic Boo Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 Major participate? But it sounds cool. http://www.jeux-france.com/news19996_nintendo-au-tokyo-game-show-.html
ShadowV7 Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 Hmm same gap between the last NiGHTs game and the last time Nintendo had a booth at TGS, Soon as NiGHTS got announced,they're going back to it. Very Interesting...
Zechs Merquise Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 I think this is a very good thing, Nintendo shouldn't miss any of the big gaming shows, it's all a chance to grab more headlines and keep the Wii rolling.
DCK Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 That makes sense, as E for All probably won't be anything special.
David_nyh Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 What will be the first show Nintendo will appear this year?
ShadowV7 Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 What will be the first show Nintendo will appear this year? The new E3 is first,though it won't be like older ones It's on from 11th July to the 13th,then there's the Tokyo Games Show in September,then Entertainment for All in October from October 18th to the 21st.
David_nyh Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 The new E3 is first,though it won't be like older ones It's on from 11th July to the 13th,then there's the Tokyo Games Show in September,then Entertainment for All in October from October 18th to the 21st. Thank you.
ShadowV7 Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 Thank you. Not a problem. Wonder how Nintendo will handle all their announcements since there isn't a very big gap between the 3 shows,especially the last two.I'd guess there would be nothing announced at the TGS,just people playing the games,maybe some announcements at E for All and the bigger ones for E3. Eill be interesting to see what they do.
Cube Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 E3 will just be the conferences and behind-the-scenes playttests (selected websites/magazines), and just be missing the massive show-floors, right?
Noku Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 What about the Leipzig Games Convention? Isn't that one sometime during the summer as well?
ZeldaFreak Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 E3 will just be the conferences and behind-the-scenes playttests (selected websites/magazines), and just be missing the massive show-floors, right? Imagine E3 of all but if you remove all the strobe lighting, booth bakes massive gaming structures -eg the one for nintendo. And just have the machines and tvs to try the demos on. And all the meeting rooms, private demos and the ususal press and media conferences. Hope that helps
Atomic Boo Posted April 23, 2007 Posted April 23, 2007 What about the Leipzig Games Convention? Isn't that one sometime during the summer as well? I was wondering about that. One year it was the first showing of footage and gameplay from metroid echoes i think.
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