Nintendo - Tokyo Conference (Updated)

It's very early in the morning, but in Tokyo Nintendo is already trying to awake the world with their conference on the Nintendo DS. Head inside for further launch details and the price of the games... Update 12 titles now?

It's very early in the morning, but in Tokyo Nintendo is already trying to awake the world with their conference on the Nintendo DS. Read the article below for further launch details and the price of the games...

The Nintendo DS will launch with 8-10 different launch titles costing a measly $29. Rumours were that the Nintendo DS games would be cheaper in production compared to their GBA counterpart and obviously Nintendo decided to return this profit to the consumer (that's you).

"We're feeling quite good about the number of titles and, in particular, what the key titles are and what they represent," says Reginald Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America executive vice president of sales and marketing. He expects 20 to 25 titles to be available early next year.

"I expect to sell every single DS that I can get on my hands," Fils-Aime says. "Our company has publicly stated that by the end of March we expect to sell 4 million units. We're talking big numbers."

Six companies will launch at least a game at the NDS launch: Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Activison, Sega and THQ. The titles that are currently confirmed as being available at launch are: Super Mario 64 DS (yes, the DS name appears to be genuine), The URBZ: Sims in the City, Madden NFL, Spiderman 2 and Asphalt GT.

Nintendo continued the conference by giving some detailed information about some of their early titles.

Super Mario 64 DS Details: The best of the games that Nintendo demonstrated is an impressively updated version of the N64 best seller. Nintendo designers did not simply port this quintessential Mario adventure to DS; they also added familiar characters Wario, Luigi and Yoshi the dinosaur with unique abilities that bring new aspects to the game. Nintendo also has added a selection of impressive "mini-games." Using the stylus controller, players can easily navigate Mario 64's 3-D world. Also, many of the mini-games use the stylus controller; each character has his own set of games. The stylus is the perfect controller for Luigi's mini games, for example, which involve cards.

Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt Details: This playable demo, which will come packed with DS hardware, taps into DS' touch-sensitive screen and networking. First Hunt, a first-person action game in which players control a space bounty hunter, features both single-player levels and arenas in which as many as four players can stalk each other. The game will feature two control scheme; one involving the touchscreen. Players can choose which control scheme they want to use.

Spiderman 2 Details: Graphically remarkable though not nearly as innovative, Activision's new title uses the touch-sensitive screen to let players scroll through Spider-Man's abilities. Spider-Man 2's gameplay is a return to the two-dimensional style of the original Game Boy rather than the 3-D movement of the latest Spidey titles, but the speed and style are good, and the action is excellent.

Update The Japanese division of Bloomberg is reporting that 12 titles will be available at the launch in November (US launch). 5 of these titles are said to be Nintendo's first-party titles, and the remaining 7 by the various developers mentioned above.

More news as it breaks...

src: USA Today

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