The E3 Expo, opening in Los Angeles Conference Center tomorrow, is the annual grand gathering of the video game industries for new hardware and software.
This year, it appears that all the big game companies are playing hard on sequels of the games. But among them, a video game giant is introducing a new console in 2012. Nintendo, the oldest gaming company, is to unveil the new game console, Wii U.
Nintendo had already announced Wii U in E3 convention of 2011. In order to continually promote its eighth generation console, the company Tuesday revealed a number of first- and third-party video games designed for the device.
The game giant captured audiences’ attention at the E3 press conference, with its iconic characters centered at the stage of the E3 press conference, promoting “Nintendo Land”, “Super Mario Bros. U”, and “Pikmin 3”.
Wii U will be released in the fourth quarter of this year during the holiday season as Nintendo attempts for the second time to bring the users into a new age of game playing. The massive lineup of video games Nintendo showed in the conference is the company’s effort of cultivating gamers’ interests of purchasing a Wii U console.
Nintendo wants to redefine how people interacts their games as entertainment and how people communicate during games. It showed off its accomplishment of this goal by offering Wii U GamePad, a controller with a 6.2-inch touch screen and multimedia functionalities and Miiverse, an online social network enabling players to team up for games and communicate through their Miis.
Among all the wide array of games, what’s worthy of mention is the brand new game Nintendo Land, a game set in a virtual theme park with a dozen attractions inspired by its most powerful friends — Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, and Luigi. The entirely new dynamic of asymmetric game play is aimed to gain mass popularity like Wii Sports which amused endless gamers through motion controls. See for yourself below!
