"Christmas is cancelled." - Muppet Iwata
Nintendo's E3 had some amazing highlights; the return of the Nintendo World Championships, the always compelling Treehouse Live, the vicarious joy of people making and playing Super Mario Maker levels!, the tributes to different fighting series in the Smash Bros. Direct, Platinum Games taking on co-development of Star Fox, and let's not forget a fine line-up of Wii U and 3DS games still to be released.
Unfortunately for those looking
further ahead, the big surprise of the show was how few surprises there were. It yielded just ONE new retail console game, Mario Tennis, which looked like a quick HD port of its Gamecube predecessor, and a slew of low budget spin-offs for handhelds. This weird assortment of mutant franchises meant we have some big scoring predictions. Metroid is technically back, just as many guessed, but no-one could have guessed it'd arrive as a garish co-op game with no Samus. (Note to self: specify mainline games in the future.)
So how did your predictions shake out and who's on top?
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A) Expected : 2pts01) Mario Maker dated for this year
02) Star Fox trailer
03) Robot Chicken and Mega64 contribute to the Digital Event04) New DLC announced
05) New amiibo revealed
06) No Zelda trailer
07) Devil's Third 2015 release date08) Western name for Fire Emblem If
09) At least 2 new Wii U retail games from Nintendo10) At least 2 new 3DS retail games from Nintendo
B) Rumored : 4pts01) StarFox playable
02) Project Giant Robot and Project Guard are part of StarFox
03) A new NEW 3DS exclusive
04) Pokken Fighters coming to Wii U05) New Smash Bros. character/s announced
06) Xenoblade Chronicles X dated for this year
07) A screen or concept art for Zelda's new direction
08) More DLC for Mario Kart 8
09) Other Nintendo IP crossing into Splatoon
10) Amiibo-centric retail gameC) High risk: 6 pts01) HD Remaster of Zelda/Mario/Metroid
02) 3D Remaster of Zelda/Mario/Metroid
03) Retro Studios new game
04) A new project from the Nintendo Garage
05) New console RPG
06) Pokemon Z
07) Major new 3rd party game for Wii U
08) A new Wii brand game (Sports/Party etc.)09) Ryu or Bayonetta for Smash Bros.
10) Animal Crossing / Paper Mario / Pikmin 4 Wii U
D) MEGATON : 10 pts01) Brand new Metroid
02) Zelda trailer - psyche!
03) Tokyo EAD trailer
04) Mother 305) Next Level Games working on a different Nintendo IP
06) Pokemon amiibo series
07) E3 demos on the eShop08) A new type of amiibo
09) New Hardware (accessory/add-on/...)10) NX info slips out
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And now the results....
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We have a new winner of the Predict-A-Ton.
FIRST PLACE: Super_Conzo 88CLOSE SECOND: Shadowlink 82
JOINT THIRD: Triforce Bun & Stephen 76
TheBigG753 68
ludist210 66
Jargon 64
Sormon 60
Mr_Mustache 58
legendofalex 58
Pokefreak911 56
Hero_Of_Hyrule 52
DeputyVanHalen 50
mrbiggsly 50
DrFinkelstein 30
jacksrb 24
nate38 12
deathly_hallows 10
canonj 6
V_s 6
Mop it up 6
Abdooooo 4
Secret_Tunnel 4
Brick 4
Smerd 2
Octorockin -2
infinitywave -10
Dark Weres -14
anon_mastermind -34
gojira -42
Zero -46
sirmastersephiroth -56Lots of positive scores this year, mainly thanks to 'Metroid' and more correct 'MEGATONS'. Ahhhh air quotes. Mortal enemy of happiness.
E3 2016 will certainly be an interesting one by comparison as the news on Zelda, NX and other secret projects will come to light. That truly will be a challenge to predict. Until then, thanks everyone for playing!
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