Most of the E3 stuff won't be out until 2005, but the the lineup is still good. Just crappy for most of the summer, as usual.

Gamecube

June 7th: The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

July: Not one single game

August 30th: Pikmin 2

September 27th: Donkey Konga

October 11th: Paper Mario 2

November 15th: Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

November 29th: Star Fox

Q4 (my guess is December): Geist


Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Zelda, etc. are all 2005 releases. Still, it's a good lineup. I'll be getting Pikmin 2, Paper Mario 2, MP2, Star Fox, and possibly Geist and DK. So not bad at all.


Gameboy Advance

May 24th: Mario vs. Donkey Kong

June 7th: Classic NES series

June 21st: Mario Golf: Advance Tour

July 26th: Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Games

September 7th: Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen

September 14th: F-Zero GP Legend

October 4th: Mario Pinball

October 18th: Kirby & The Amazing Mirror

November 15th: Donkey Kong Country 2

December 6th: Mario Party Advance


The GBA lineup is pretty good, but with the absense of Zelda it's lacking that one killer app.

Then of course there is the DS stuff, but none of those games have been given solid release dates.

Wow, check out the videos Nintendo has up. The game looks insane, but the release date is 2005! Argh!

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/rpg/phantasy...index.html

For all consoles.

Just FMV, but if they fixed the combat and the monthly fee is low enough, perhaps I'll return to the online world of PS...

Well!!

What the hell? This looks like one of those crappy third-party Men in Black games for the GBA!

From GAF:

Quote:Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis Announced
Posted by Andrew McClure at 05:55:40 PM EST on 5.11.2004.

When rumors of a Final Fantasy VII sequal first surfaced (which was probably about five minutes after Final Fantasy VII was released) there was always talk of a game staring the Shinra G-men, The Turks. After Advent Children was announced most have given up on hopes for a game starring the Tarentino-esque hatchet men (and woman) but fear not for Square Enix has just announced Final Fantasy VII: Before Crisis.





The game is a cellphone exclusive and it takes place six years before the events of Final Fantasy VII. The game will be about the Turks rise in the Shinra company. It appears to be an Action RPG with some turn-based elements. Also up to three players can join in if they all have the game installed on their cell phones.

It is unknown at this time if and when US players will get a chance to play this title. The cellphone platform has yet to be announced but all the other Square Enix cellphone titles have been for the Japan exclusive NTT DoCoMo. But keep those hopes up: Square Enix has stated that they want to support the cellphone videogame market on both sides of the pacific.

Source: 1UP.com

GT4, a new Metal Gear... the PSP is going to kick so much ass. Just look at these gorgeous screeens!









YOWZA. NOW we can see what the PSP is capable of!



From 1up.com:

Quote:Metal Gear Acid is the name of the new 3D Tactical Espionage Action game for PSP, according to a brief announcement on Konami's E3 media disc. However, that's about all there is to say about the game as yet -- it's an "all-new stealth adventure game," development is headed up by Konami JPN's Hideo Kojima, and that's about it for now. A release date is not available as yet.

The first few screens are, however, looking for all the world rather like a card game of some kind. Peruse those and look forward to more details when Konami chooses to bring Acid out from the shadow of its older PlayStation 2 brothers.

"We won't refer to it as a console."

"It is not just a box connected to a TV."

From psp.ign.com:

Quote:
May 11, 2004 - To say that Sony's PlayStation Portable handheld system dominated the company's E3 2004 press conference would be an understatement. Officially unveiled approximately 20 minutes into the presentation, the new game system was a big hit with the crowd and finally answered several of questions that most of us have been asking in the year since the hardware was first announced.


Scheduled to be launched in Japan at the end of the year (North America and Europe get it in the spring of 2005), The PSP is available in PlayStation 2 black with a 16:9 widescreen TFT LCD display that boasts over 16.7 million colors and a resolution of 480x272. Dimensionally, its numbers are 170mm x 74mm x 23mm with a weight of 260 grams. Basic portable functions like built-in stereo speakers, exterior headphone connector, brightness control and sound mode selectors are among the lineup of features, and the buttons mirror that of a PlayStation 2 controller almost exactly (Square, Triangle, X, and Circle face buttons, a digital pad, start, select, and an analog thumb stick populate the face, with two shoulder buttons on the top).

Additionally, the new system comes standard with USB 2.0 and 802.11b Wi-Fi wireless LAN connectors that allow for multiple PSPs to be simultaneously connected to one another. Data and software can then be downloaded either by using the wireless LAN connections or through the use of a Memory Stick Pro Duo. The PSP also adopts the small high-capacity optical medium Universal Media Disc, the UMD. This format not only allows for 1.8 GB of space, it also provides an extremely versatile format for games, music, and video. The press conference demo showed off the trailer for Spider-Man 2 (the movie not the game) as well as Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children which is coming to both the DVD and UMD formats. To protect the content, a robust copyright protection system has been developed which utilizes a combination of a unique disc ID, a 128 bit AES encryption keys for the media, and individual ID for each PSP hardware unit.



Unfortunately, Sony did not announce a price point for the system so how much the unit will cost is still somewhat of a mystery. We expect officials to announce a more formal pricing structure at the upcoming ECTS or Tokyo Game show events; but we wouldn't mind if something a little meatier came down the pipeline before then. Click on our media page below to view the first official images from the system and stay tuned to IGNPSP for more throughout the day.

http://cube.gamespy.com/articles/513/513341p1.html

Didn't see these posted in the other threads anyway... (these are from Nintendo's webpage.)