@Slapshot Vita isn't doing that well in the UK — it's at around 100,000 sales, about one-third of PSP's sales at this point in its lifespan. Of course the two launched at totally different times — PSP landed in September, Vita in February — but still, there it is.

@Mercury9 Depends where you go. I went to Manchester at the weekend during the Bupa Great Manchester Run and got two StreetPass hits — one of whom was @Mason when we met for Mario Tennis! — but can get half a dozen at Gamestation.

Hey @famestephy09, allow me to help!

You can watch it on TV on either Spike or MTV 2. You can also watch it live online via http://e3.nintendo.com or Nintendo's official Facebook page.

You're in New York so that's Eastern time — for you, the press conference will start at 12 midday on Tuesday 5th June.

E3 will be lots of news about Wii U but there'll be plenty of 3DS games and announcements made too. Should be fun!

@theword777 I would expect so!

Thanks for your amazing comments everyone — loved reading them.

As you know, we like to ask interesting questions here and let you guys talk it out in the comments. We rarely say "this must happen!" but we like to say "well, how about this?" to kick-start discussion. You never let us down when it comes to the comments, so you have my honest thanks!

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@Kinioka In what ways does Nintendo treat UK as the 'favourite' market?

@EmpireIndustries Yep, live text is back and better than ever this year — watch this space

@Applejacklove Let hype be your energy! I also recommend chocolate flapjacks and fizzy drinks: Fuelling E3 Since 2010®

@Applejacklove Yes, we'll be doing a live text of the conference as well as uploading new screens, videos and announcements as news articles as we get them. It's going to be a great show

RE: Australian time — duly noted! Appended time sheet coming soon.

@rjejr There are certainly big 3DS games to be announced at E3, both from Nintendo and third parties.

Très bien, everyone.

Updated article with time of press conference, so it's all here.

@kyuubikid123 I really appreciate that! Was getting worried everyone would be busy watching it off-site and not actually coming here to talk about it. Hope that's not the case!

@3dbrains Canberra is the capital of Australia.

Australians — what's a better city for me to use to represent time zones?

Life to date 3DS sales up until 31st March:

Japan: 5,850,000
The Americas: 5,990,000
Rest of World: 5,290,000
Total: 17,130,000

@Zephren Correct. 9am PDT = midday Eastern.

You guys will all be on here keeping me company, right? We have some very cool stuff planned.

@Djrr-ific We're not comparing sales figures, but sales trends — 3DS has outsold DS in America, but not in the UK. Those comparisons are fair.

Nintendo breaks sales down into three territories: Japan, The Americas and Others, so it's hard to get precise sales figures for Europe. Will investigate though.

@Aviator Because it's the only city in Australia anyone outside of Australia knows.

@Ducutzu The press release says the Wii U release date will be announced at a later date. There are rumours it'll have a period of exclusivity on Wii U, but we'll see

@Jamix012 Nope, our original review stands. The fact you're getting more of the game for free is a bonus really

Also (and I hate to say this) I agree with lz — create a folder for completed games and hide them in there instead of deleting them

Yummy yummy. Just makes me want it more.

Clickable analogue sticks are a must if Wii U is going to offer the core games we all claim to want.

@OldBoy Come out and say hi on Sunday if you like!

What Jon hasn't told you is Diddy Kong's serve animation is amazing.

@L4DYK0M1C It's just a drawing for the purposes of patent applications — DS patents use drawings of prototype consoles, for instance:

Don't read too much into it, unless it's a patent for a new kind of 3DS of course

@3dbrains "The wii remote can NOT tell what sensor bar it looks at."

Seems it works by calculating spacial differences between two reference points — i.e. it's using the Wii Remote Plus's motion sensing doo-hicky.

@3DS_Supporter Looks like 5th June to me.

Different infra red frequencies perhaps, or based on distance between Wii Remote and sensor bar?

@Randomname19 Yes, it says so in the article

I think there's great potential for this in co-op — imagine using Remote and Nunchuk on the TV while your buddy uses the controller. Want to give him/her an item? Just grab it and point it at their screen. Genius.

Also Wii U will almost certainly come with a charging cradle you can use to stand up your controller.

Oh, and anyone who can't see the potential for this — Metroid and Zelda could both use it in incredible ways.

@Fuzzy Sounds like you need to put your Wii in interlace mode. Post 7 should help!

@zenarium Hey I had no idea you'd played it already! That's literally incredible.

@metafaniel Nintendo is basically talking up KI's online functions here — you do not need to be online to participate in this event, Nintendo's just saying that KI has online play. I would assume Nintendo is using Meetup Everywhere to see how many people are attending

Kingdom Hearts AR cards information.

@GamerZack Atta boy.

Make it like PES on Wii but with touch screen controls please. Or Konami needs to make PES Wii U. I'm easy either way.

@Jamouse Kinda young to qualify, don'tcha think?

@hendie001 I know GameStop was supposed to have a new shipment in recently but it kept getting delayed. Hope you find one soon!

@RadioShadow Sorry you didn't find the review that informative. Cheers for the feedback though!

@Kirk The patent specifically pertains to the Circle Pad's "ornamental design" , but of course it's possible Nintendo patented this before launch and simply decided on another design. We may never know! Looks nice though.

I expect a snap-on attachment to be revealed at E3. It'll retail for $20 and GameStop will never have it in stock.

@Gustoff We have a great thread in the forums dedicated to 3DS friend codes Mine is in the first page somewhere. I won't have time to play online this week but I'd like to join up for some races next week!

@BenAV About an hour ago

@TinyMario If you want people to add you to your 3DS use the Online Gaming forum which has dedicated topics for 3DS friend codes and Mario Kart 7. Please stop posting your friend code in news stories.

@Travis1984 I think it refers to recording video in-game, like the replays in other Pokémon games

@ChristopherM No you're right, it's not foosball, my mistake! My mind is boggled by how many possible variations there could be of tables + football.

Oh, they're only in the US iTunes store, not the European one.

This is payback for all the 3DS Virtual Consoles games we have, isn't it?

BUY ALL THE SOUNDTRACKS.

I am not playing the new Animal Crossing. God, I wish. I am playing games that are already announced but I cannot say what they are for a week. Sorry.

@GamerZack It's total rubbish and you know it.

@Knuckles Of course!

@squirrelguys But you get Kirby's Brick Ball on Thursday!

@kyuubikid213 Thanks for that.

@McHaggis You'd be surprised!

I'll be interested to see the feedback on this one from those who've played it on other consoles.

@hydeks Where have you been for the last three years?