{"id":5439,"date":"2012-06-09T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T14:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekitdown.com\/blog\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2012-06-09T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T14:05:06","slug":"nintendo-highlights-and-details-e3-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekitdown.com\/?p=5439","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Highlights And Details [E3 2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The third and final press conference of the big three consoles came from Nintendo. Based on past experience, it’s fair to say that many were expecting some sort of surprise from Nintendo. A surprise that would likely make the other two consoles look like they’re playing catchup. So did it happen again in 2012?<\/p>\n

No. Microsoft unveiled a great many Xbox 360 entertainment features<\/a>, Sony showed realistic game previews for Playstation and their ability to take a risk on hardware<\/a> and Nintendo brought much of the same with regards to hardware and aimed for a home run with software and entertainment announcements, but those big swings were a miss.<\/p>\n

WiiU<\/h4>\n
Hardware<\/span><\/h5>\n

Not much new here. The gamepad has changed slightly with the addition of more buttons and built-in features. The WiiU gamepad was shown in video demonstrations over and over again during the press conference. Images of families gathered around a television with gamepad in hand playing games, exercising and whatnot. The problem is we’ve seen all that before, some of it at last year’s E3. So what’s new? Well, it comes in black too.<\/p>\n

Now don’t get us wrong, we were intrigued by the WiiU last year<\/a> and continue to be fascinated by its usage possibilities. The issue with the E3 2012 presentation was the lack of live gameplay through the WiiU. Pre-recorded footage is fun to watch, but doesn’t fully depict real life usage.<\/p>\n

\"WiiU<\/p>\n

Completely outlining all the ins and outs of the WiiU could be an article in and of itself, so we’ve borrowed an infographic from Nintendo’s Facebook page<\/a> to define the buttons and included a video to detail their usage.<\/p>\n