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After Nintendo’s incredibly disappointing E3 2008 conference, the company rebounded somewhat in 2009.

Thankfully, Cammie Dunaway said nothing about smiling or breaking her wrist snowboarding. This was, mostly, all about the games.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii started things off. An on-stage demo was held so that the game could be demonstrated for the first time.

Nintendo followed with Wii Sports Resort and Wii Fit Plus.

Time was also taken to highlight RPGs for the Wii and DS – Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story localization, and one brand new title: Golden Sun: Dark Dawn.

Nintendo closed out its conference with three big reveals: the Wii Vitality Sensor (which never made it to market), Super Mario Galaxy 2, and the surprising Metroid: Other M.

Overall, not bad at all considering how horrendous E3 2009 was!

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Mighty Switch Force! 2 is just a few days away from launching on the 3DS eShop. But WayForward isn’t stopping the series with this new release – creative director Matt Bozon has confirmed that the next Mighty game is already in the pipeline.

Bozon told Nintendo Life that the team is “in the early stages of the next Mighty game now, which will not be a sequel.” WayForward is also mulling over a possible title with Patricia Wagon.

Bozon said:

“We’re in the early stages of the next Mighty game now, which will not be a sequel. We’re also considering another Patricia Wagon game too. I could see her moving in the direction of a high-octane action game. I’m wondering what players think about that?”

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For the past couple of years, the gaming community has taken interest in… Nintendo boxes that have been sent to the E3 convention center. E3 preparation are well underway, and they have been detected for a third year. You can find a few photos of the boxes and E3 site in the gallery above.

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Despite the fact that Nintendo labeled GameStop’s “recall” of the Wii U Basic Set a “rebalance” a few days ago, further evidence points to the discontinuation of the system. An internal Best Buy flyer obtained by Kotaku suggests that the retailer will be getting rid of its Basic stock next week.

According to the flyer, “stores should pull all new in box units and send them back” on June 10-11. “Stores should expect to see more Wii U deluxe units arriving in the coming weeks.”

Is this just a simple “rebalance”, as Nintendo claims? Or is there something more to the situation?

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Update: Here’s a photo…

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EA’s future support support has been somewhat unclear as of late. The company first indicated that it had no games in development for the system whatsoever, but additional comments seemed to contradict that.

EA president of labels Frank Gibeau has now given some specifics on the publisher’s Wii U stance.

No games coming from EA will be hitting Wii U this fall – ruling out the likes of Need for Speed: Rivals, among others. However, Gibeau did note: “We have guys that our looking at the Wii U in the studio system right now as an opportunity for the future”.

“We have a good partnership with Nintendo. We released four games on the platform over the last year and we’re pretty proud of Need For Speed, and Madden, and FIFA and Mass Effect. We have guys that our looking at the Wii U in the studio system right now as an opportunity for the future, but we have no publicly announced Wii U games that we’re going to release this fall.”

“We’re really excited about the Xbox One and the PS4 and that’s a pretty big endeavor in and of itself. We have four titles out on the Wii U that are active right now, so looking at how things unfold, that’s where our focus is right now.”

Gibeau later said that EA as a whole thinks of Wii U as a next-gen console, which is grouped together with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. When asked why the publisher has no projects in the works for Wii U though, Gibeau said that there’s “no more context for me to add.”

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Nintendo did something rather neat with the first Animal Crossing. Copies came with a number of classic NES titles that could be played directly in-game.

We haven’t seen something like that with future entries. And as far as series creator Katsuya Eguchi is concerned, this isn’t something that will be returning.

Eguchi told Kotaku:

“Please consider it’s not happening ever again. At the time, we didn’t have a Virtual Console system. We thought that playing games inside of a game is kind of funny, and we wanted to do it. But now there’s a Virtual Console where you can play classic games, so we don’t think we will be doing that in future titles.”

Kotaku later asked if he would consider letting people play the old Animal Crossing in the new Animal Crossing games. His response? “That might be interesting.”

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