Mark your calendars for November 16th gamers because that’s when the highly anticipated Animal Crossing City Folk will be released on Nintendo Wii. The title will boast a robust online component and looks to play like the titles of past.

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Ok here we go (Check often for up to the minute updates):
- An opening video showing everyone playing Wii and DS.
- Shawn White snowboarding showed…Utilizes Wii balance board. (Shawn White doing demo). Title looks really decent, almost like an updated 1080 title. no date was given for release (by year’s end)
- Iwata takes stage. “True paradigm shift has taken place in video game market”.
- Iwata is discussing what has changed in the video game industry. States that titles like Nintendogs and Mario Kart continue to sell well even after 2 years being released.
- Talks worldwide system sales for Wii and DS.- Iwata
- “People may become tired over new entertainment”. Wants to keep things fresh. “We need gamers to be engaged, enriched”.
- “Bringing creativity and community together”. Animal Crossing shown…….Are we going to hear an announcement????!!!!
- Animal Crossing on Wii 2008!! Looks exactly the same…. The town shown. Now introduces “The City”…Auction sites available, beauty salon,fashion stores etc….
- HEADSET FINALLY ANNOUNCED!!!!!!! “Wii Speak”
- Reggie takes stage. “Says Nintendo is pleased with where they are” 10 million systems sold worldwide (Wii) DS 20 million. “Not satisfied just yet”
- States that DS will sell over 100 million systems worldwide (WOW). DS sales 12% ahead of last years number.
- Talks more about sales….
- Wii software sales discussed. 3rd party titles doing pretty good on Wii.
- Reggie- “Wii will have every kind of title”. Wii library will continue to grow.
- 3 New titles shown- Star Wars Clone Wars…Awesome light saber duels!! Head to head light saber duels. Looks very promising and fun. Nice preview.
- Rayman Raving Rabbids TV being shown now. Fall 2008 release.
- Call of Duty World at War being shown. Looks INSANE! Crazy amounts of action. Awesome preview.

- DS Games now being discussed.
- A new Guitar Hero coming to DS, Also Spore.
- The next Pokemon title comes out November 10th.
- A version of Grand Theft Auto Coming to DS!!!!
- DS will be expanding into more multimedia functions. (Ordering food, Electronic cook book, Finding connecting flights etc.).

- Reggie takes stage again
- Reggie talks about Wii motion plus. Shows how it works! Wii Sports Resort Announced! Wii motion plus comes with Wii Sports.
- Wii motion plus being displayed. Extremely accurate and pretty amazing.
- Reggie displaying a Jet Ski portion of Wii Sports Resort. Looks very fun. Throttle uses actual hand gestures.

- Sword dueling now being displayed (Wii Sports Resort). Sword dueling looks fantastic.
- Wii Sports Resort next spring!

- Wii music being shown. Interactive drum set. Utilizes balance board (Kick petal) and Wii mote (Drum sticks). Sounds very realistic.
- Shiggy now playing a saxophone. A pleasant jazz tune being played.
- Wii Music can be enjoyed by everyone. Different experience than every other music title. Most music titles require gamers to press buttons at a precise moment…Not with Wii Music. Gestures automatically play the music.
- Over 50 instruments used. Piano, Sax, Drums, Violins, Guitars etc.
- Lessons mode that actually teaches you how to play the drums.
- Orchestra game included in Wii Music. Wii Music records videos of performances. Players can create music video’s.
- Nintendo Higher ups playing the Mario theme. Looks fun.
- Reggie takes stage again. “Wii and DS was never a fad”.

Done and done. Conference over.

Well gamers, it’s officially upon us; today is Nintendo day at E3 and I couldn’t be more excited! If you are a new reader that may have never seen Gameonnintendo, welcome. If you are an avid reader of this site, thanks for making us your E3 destination. Look for a ton of updates throughout the day including a massive update session around 12:00 pm EST (that’s when the Big N’s conference is).

What do you think Nintendo will show in a couple of hours?

I look forward to hearing all of your predictions so keep it here gamers, it’s going to be a great day. As a side note- I personally apologize for any misspellings today…I will be doing the updates fast and furious so that you all could receive the news you crave as soon as it breaks. Game On!