Nintendo Brings Out the Big Guns

Nintendo isn't going to sit around like last E3 and toot their own horn, that's for sure. At Nintendo's E3 Press Conference, the Big N announced three new titles based off of two of their biggest franchises, Mario and Metroid.

There will be two Mario games coming to the Wii in the next two years, with the first coming later this year. Titled New Super Mario Bros! for Wii (the same title as the DS game from a few years ago), will be classic 2D Mario with up to 4 players, and will be released this holiday. The second is the sequel to 2007 game of the year winner Super Mario Galaxy. In the sequel, Bee Mario is back as well as Yoshi!

In what was easily the oddest of all announcements, Nintendo announced that they were partnering with Team Ninja (devlopers behind Ninja Gaiden) for a new Metroid game called Metroid: Other M. This was revealed as alongside other "harder" games previously announced like The Conduit and Darkside Chronicles.