Following on from the surprising, and somewhat depressing news this morning of the 3DS's new analogue stick attachment, comes word from a Japanese gaming blog of some other announcements Nintendo may be about to make. We don't often report on rumours, unless we consider they have some substance to them - and seeing as this is the site that first broke the news of Monster Hunter 3G (detailed in the 3DS analogue stick story), there may be some truth in the rest of what they have to say.
What the site claims to have is a list of games that Nintendo are set to announce at their pre-Tokyo Games Show conference, which is set to be held next Thursday. The Tokyo Game Show tends to be the biggest event of the year for Japanese publishers and developers, so we should be expecting Nintendo to come out in full force - especially in light of the recent embarrassment about the 3DS's price drop.
Imagine this, but with a green dinosaur instead of Kirby, and you shouldn't be too far off from the rumoured Yoshi game, made by Kirby's Epic Yarn developer, Good Feel.
As translated by Gematsu, the blog suggests that Nintendo are about the wheel about the big guns in support of the 3DS. Not only is a new game in the Ace Attorney series, starring Miles Edgworth set to be announced for the 3DS, but also a new game starring Mario's strange dinosaur pal, Yoshi, as a side-scrolling platformer, developed by the team that bought us Kirby's Epic Yarn, Good Feel.
Also rumoured is a new WarioWare game; a 3DS RPG, and sequel to a Gamecube game, Baten Kaitos: Silence of a Mechanised Son; a racing game, which is a sequel to a little remembered NES game, Mach Rider Unchained; a new game in the crazy beat 'em up series God Hand from Namco; and a follow up to DS RPG, Etrian Odyssey.
Also rumoured, and perhaps of more interest for players across the sea, is that the 3DS store will apparently allow you to download demos of 3DS games from it, starting with a demo of Super Mario 3D Land. Guaranteed to help drive sales of 3DS game, this is an incredible idea, and something we've been wanting Nintendo support for a long, long time.
So, although the announcement of the analogue stick may be a bad thing, there still could be a lot of good from next week's press conference. As they say, though, only time will tell how much of the above is true, and how much is simply wishful speculation.
