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11:13 AM on 10.02.2008, Nick Chester

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Following Nintendo of Japan's revealing press conference last night (or this morning, depending on where you are), Nintendo of America is holding their own media event in cloudy San Francisco, California.

We're here live, sitting in a tightly packed conference room with -- surprise! -- complimentary Wi-fi! You know what that means: live blog time. While we don't anticipate that Nintendo of America will surprise us with any "new" announcements, we should get some North American-specific news for you to chew on.

Hit the jump for our live blog, which should be shortly ...

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Debeo Laurus at 10/02/2008 11:24

I'm going to have to side with avatar-less byrc on this one.

byrc at 10/02/2008 11:25

DSI release well into 2009?

WTF

Japan is still selling DS like crazy (not as much as before, but still a large amount), and their getting it in November 1, 2008.

Doesn't Nintendo of America know that the DS is region free, and that other people will just import the thing?

I sure will. I'm not waiting till "well into" 2009 to get the new DSI. Fuck you Nintendo of America, for taking so long to release shit.

Seriously, wouldn't the DSI benefit from being sold for the holiday season?

PEICanada7 at 10/02/2008 11:25

Punch Out 2 in the first half of 2009 is cool. At least we don't have to wait all that long for it!

Chicken008 at 10/02/2008 11:26

Hmm, I doubt she has ever killed a zombie..

Askherserenity at 10/02/2008 11:30

Nintendo is publishing The Conduit o.o That's good news.

RoninZero at 10/02/2008 11:43

DSi sounds lame. Only thing exciting is MadWorld and The Conduit.

Come on Nintendo, less Wii Music, more bad-ass titles and "the one everyone is waiting for"...getting tired of this Wii Music crap.

F Whipple at 10/02/2008 11:45

ummmm....I'm getting moonspeak. WTF?

Tron Knotts at 10/02/2008 11:49

So, I guess if you tell NoA how to stop sucking, then they stop sucking.

Nice.

Holyetheline at 10/02/2008 11:55

I want a new Zelda and I am losing hope that one will ever show up...

DynamicSheep at 10/02/2008 11:56

Rhythm Heaven! Woohoo!

Danzflor at 10/02/2008 12:01

Why they didn't show all this stuff on the E3?

DynamicSheep at 10/02/2008 12:04

DLC that you can buy using your in-game earnings? GENIUS!

Mirax at 10/02/2008 12:07

Cool, Sin & Punishment 2 confirmed for American release, The Conduit being published by Nintendo, Madworld is still awesome and a think the "Play for Wii" thing will be cool if the graphics are also updated.
Nice, Nintendo, very nice.

Askherserenity at 10/02/2008 12:07

omg Club Nintendo!

DarkTower06 at 10/02/2008 12:08

It's about damn time they brought Club Nintendo stateside! I hope they make the rewards retroactive...

The-Excel at 10/02/2008 12:08

So it would seem that everything in this summit is what everyone wanted from E3. Perhaps Nintendo is trying to send everyone a message about the latter?

PEICanada7 at 10/02/2008 12:09

"Club Nintendo is finally coming to North America!"

OMG! That is like the best news of the whole day so far!

Tron Knotts at 10/02/2008 12:09

Club Nintendo comes to America?

And with that, NoA has finally regained my respect.

CelicaCrazed at 10/02/2008 12:10

I think Nintendo just earned back my love. Well, more like they're showing me the love again <3

Necros at 10/02/2008 12:10

Club Nintendo, fuck yes! About time we get silly collectibles for free.

Cyberxion at 10/02/2008 12:11

Fantastic. Now if they had only had this presence at E-3 this year.

catsithx at 10/02/2008 12:16

Well now more of a reason for me to love nintendo again.Whoo hoo.

RoninZero at 10/02/2008 12:16

Club Nintendo, Mad World, and The Conduit have me hooked. DLC bought with in-game earnings...I think if Nintendo keeps that up, they'll completely redefine DLC, which would be great for games of the future. Too bad MM9 didn't have this system.

Still waiting for some better games, but at least this is a damn good start. They don't have my complete respect yet, but they are going in the right direction.

PEICanada7 at 10/02/2008 12:17

"Fantastic. Now if they had only had this presence at E-3 this year."

E3 was over two months ago. So get over it, and move on with your life already. Almost everyone else has LOL!

Danmartigan at 10/02/2008 12:27

ack, why is Nintendo so boring lately? Make more videogames dammit. We like to play them FYI.

Dexter345 at 10/02/2008 12:30

Nintendo publishing The Conduit? Awesome.

Still no word about Mother 3 in the US? AAAACCCCKKK WHY DO I GET MY HOPES UP?!

Ashley Davis at 10/02/2008 12:32

Club Nintendo?! That one came wayyy out of left field. I'm excited!

Chicken008 at 10/02/2008 12:35

Good, club Nintendo.

WutDaHeckMan at 10/02/2008 12:50

look it wasn't amazing - but ninty did redeem themselves.

good job ninty, im looking forward to all you have announced

A New Challenger at 10/02/2008 13:25

Nooooo Rhythm Heaven's not out til next year!!!

Cyberxion at 10/02/2008 13:33

@ PEICanada7

Look, my statement might have been ambiguous, but you're sort of a cock for not asking what I meant and just assuming the worst. Lol. And shit.

What I meant was that if Nintendo had this sort of presence at E-3, maybe people wouldn't have spent the last few months bitching about how the company had allegely forgotten them. This wasn't a perfect showing, but I think that it made it clear that Nintendo hasn't forgotten the so-called "hardcore" crowd at all.

Cool?

DanGale at 10/02/2008 15:17

I just knew Nintendo would end up publishing The Conduit. It seemed their bag.

Cyberxion at 10/03/2008 16:40

@ byrc

Could be a supply issue. The thing releases really soon in Japan, so maybe they're trying to avoid a shortage by concentrating their upcoming stock on that territory before expanding to others.

Or maybe we're just getting the short end of the stick.

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