PAX East takes place in Boston from the 6th to 8th of March, and Nintendo has confirmed that it will be attending the event along with a host of new titles - including Splatoon, Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. and Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition.
The E3 2014 build of Splatoon will be playable, allowing up to eight players to fight it out in a world packed with shape-shifting squids. The New Nintendo 3DS XL - which launched in the region this month - will also be playable, as will recent hits like The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D and Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
Here's what Scott Moffitt, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of Sales & Marketing, had to say about the news:
We love giving our fans an opportunity to check out our latest products at PAX events. The newly released New Nintendo 3DS XL is sure to be popular with the many show-goers looking for StreetPass tags, and Splatoon will let attendees get their first hands-on experience with one of the year's most creative games.
Are you going to attend PAX East? Are you excited about getting your hands on these new Nintendo titles? Post a comment below to let us all know.
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I will be first in life for Splatoon. Nuffsaid.
@ajr12388 And I see you are the first comment too. You must always be first at everything.
SPLATOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
Sucks that I couldn't possibly make it there. Not only would I have a chance to play this masterpiece, I could meet some very cool people who plan on showing up there! Dammit!
NOOOOOOOOOOO!
I have to play this soon!
I truly hope that there is going to be something other than just Splatoon on WiiU. I'm looking forward to the game as much as the next guy (assuming he does), but I am in desperate need of new WiiU titles being announced and released. Our patience is to be rewarded.
I AM SO EXCITED TO PLAY SPLATOON!!!
well... that's great but.... it seems like Spaltoon has been the only thing they really ever takes to these now.... Something new please?
@Captain_Gonru
The rest of the country? More like the rest of the world.
Anyway, good to see Nintendo pushing both STEAM and Splatoon, as they both look like great, new IP.
Yeah, Splatoon looks really fun indeed but uuuhm....more Zelda U info/screens/vids maybe ?!?!
@DarthNocturnal
That's very strange, as you don't have to leave the planet to attend PAX.
I can't wait for Splatoon, hopefully those "other games" people are complaining about get shown during a Direct in the next month or so, I'd like to see some concrete release dates for certain Wii U games, and I'm intentionally not saying 3DS, btw.
@Shirma_Akayaku Well can you blame him?He's just too fast for you and this site.
Splatoon? Who want's to play that broken garbage?
Hope they get dug out from under their 90" of snow by then.
And as much as I'm looking forward to Splatoon, and it's good that a new IP is getting some coverage, I wish somebody at Ninteod would acknowledge Mario Maker and Yoshi's Wooly World as they are both supposed to release w/in the next 4 months but we've heard nothing about them for quite some time now. Yoshi, first shown in Jan 2013, over 2 years ago, is bordering on Nintneod's version of Half -Life 3 or The Last Guardian at this point. How long does it take to make a 2D sidescolling platformer? Kirby's Rainbow Curse took 7 months from E3 announcement to release.
Too bad I won't be there...sad face. Also, yeah, I'd have to agree with some of the people here: It would be nice for them to show Mario Maker and Yoshi's Wooly World given how close to release we're getting.
@midnafanboy
Splatoon is broken? Nobody told me that Ubisoft was in charge of it.
@Shirma_Akayaku lol. I was actually browsing the site and saw the good news.
Darn. Of course all the good conferences are either in the northeast US or California. I think they should show some love to the southeast US. I can't travel 12+ hours to Boston like that.
MOAR SPLATOOON!!!!
Is splatoon the Wii-U's savior? I think Xenoblade X fits that Role much better. I wish someone would do a Shogo remake with the online play for 3DS! Game would be an instant hit even if they didn't change a thing. Shogo was the bomb! Good story! And great online play. How about you @jools
@Captain_Gonru
Simultaneous eShop demo release in all regions! And it would be amazing if the online mp was working too!
Let us all watch as the mighty soothsayer @rjejr makes his predictions. He told us that Smash for Wii U would not make 2014 and that Watch_Dogs would be quietly cancelled for Wii U as well, both of which came to pass. Please provide us with your wisdom, Nostradamus!
@IronMan28 - Technically when it was announced I said SSBU woudln't make winter 2014, and it didn't, it came out in the fall - Nov 2014 - winter begins Dec 21 in the northern hemisphere You got me on W_D, though I'm guessing sales were so low it might as well have been canceled.
For the record, I didn't actually make a single prediction in my post on this article, I simply asked where the games were. I didn't predict a delay, cancellation, release date or anything, my post is compeltely prediction free.
@Captain_Gonru - I'm not making any more release date predictions, apparently I'm always wrong (see above if you care)
Problem w/ April is thats the XCX release date in Japan, not sure Nintndo would want to release either of those there at the same time. Well maybe Mario Maker, then Yoshi in May. Guess we'll find out in the next Nintneod Direct, whenever that is.
i keep forgetting about this one but every time it pops back up i'm more excited for it
Really hope they have Yoshi's Wooly World and Mario Maker there too!
@JD1000 I with you on that. I really hope a new 2d & 3d metroid are coming soon given that Retro has had a secret project in the works for a while.
Splatoon looks really fun and something a bit different can't wait to try this
@Captain_Gonru - "Some kind of info directly from Nintendo "
As w/ all things Nintendo news oriented, I won't hold my breath, but it will come. Eventually.
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