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@Demonic Yep, like practically all the third-party games last year, it was PS3, 360 or PC footage.

@PikminMonster You're in the UK, right? Microsoft is 5pm Monday, Sony is 2am Tuesday morning.

@rjejr I wonder too, as surely tech specs will just lead to price speculation? Will be interesting to see though.

@Hank_Chien I thought 1.5m was optimistic! Congrats on breaking the record again though — planning to take a break and let the other guys catch up?

@Nin-freak Good spot! Rectified now

Make sure you bookmark that Ubisoft link too

Congratulations if you found this post before it appears on the main page. You get a lollipop.

@zenarium Not this again!

Europe wants this very much, but Natsume doesn't publish games over here. Hopefully Rising Star will bring this over but at the moment Europe's looking at A Tale of Two Towns as its next HM game

"We're very excited to be announcing Harvest Moon: A New Beginning for the Nintendo 3DS! HM: ANB will be making its debut during E3, June 5th to 7th, where first screens and game play details will be revealed."

@PixelatedPixie Must be honest and say I haven't noticed those particular physics quirks! The water was a bit funky but other than that things seemed okay to me, apart from objects not bouncing of course.

Pushmo set the 3DS puzzle game bar pretty high. This is more expensive and doesn't have quite as much content, but it's still a damn good puzzle game, hence the 8.

@famestephy09 Wii U is a brand new console. No Wii is required

Just gave away the fact I wrote this last week

I expect it'll be Harvest Moon: First Earth — in Japan Marvelous AQL is releasing a commemorative artbook with pictures from the series' history, so this is (probably) definitely the game. Book would be nice too, please.

Plus we always tag articles with the relevant region — the Order Up!! article is also tagged North America

@Tate24 Which demo were we promised exactly..?

@Volmun Rumour is it's a button to switch display output from TV to controller

@MariosLoveChild Post of the day.

Considering the amount I write, three titles in three weeks isn't so bad

Like everyone I'm human and sometimes I'll make mistakes. This isn't one of those times though

Kickstarter makes Marmite look like our best bet for unifying all the world's people.

@rjejr How did I know it'd be my fault?

@wing0black You betcha

For me, Wii Remote + Nunchuk is the best combination. Incredibly comfortable — I can play with my arms crossed! — and wireless too. Second best is GameCube, I suppose.

@Mercury9 If they didn't before, they do now

@pastasauce the eShop updates in about 2 1/2 hours so it's not available just yet

@Mercury9 Not at all! You're entitled to your opinion, though thinking less of me for mine is a little disappointing. I get that you're not a fan of the Kickstarter concept, but it's a shame you look down on those who want to support projects they're interested in. Remember these people get something back in return — a game. It's not like Pwnee is taking their money and using it to buy a giant coffee machine or something. All Kickstarter does is take the "customer pays for product" part of the sales transaction and move it earlier in the process — nobody loses anything. Game gets made, people who backed the project get the game, people who didn't back it get to buy the game. Seems a square deal to me!

@Mercury9 Of course. If they were willing, what's the problem? People can do what they want with their own money.

@Mercury9 Comparing game making to famine? Stay classy.

Kickstarter might not be for you, but I imagine if you wanted to raise $20,000 to make a dream come true it might look a little more appetising!

@Mercury9 But if you were making food for others, you might expect them to chip in, right? You wouldn't spend your money on making food for everyone else and give it away entirely free.

Anyway, in my eyes all this does is move the "customer pays money" part of the transaction a bit nearer the beginning instead of at the end of a game's development. S'all good.

@Mercury9 Please explain how you're paying for it twice if you get a copy when you make a donation.

@WiiLovePeace Nope, the running order is almost always Microsoft -> Sony -> Nintendo.

Whoops, seems my time-changing hamsters did their sums wrong. I've had them shot and made into a coat.

@InternetBowser I love your username. That is all.

@Sony_70 No, that's not right.

Monday is Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Sony (in that order iirc)
Tuesday is Nintendo

Then there are no more press conferences because the actual show floor is open.

@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!

Another satisfied customer!

@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