Every year, Nintendo fans are united for one event, on one day. Nintendo's Opening E3 Press Conference. This is the event the year revolves around, and really, the start of the gaming year for news and release announcements.

2008 was a massive failure for Nintendo, alienating a huge percentage of the Nintendo fanbase by showing a lot of casual games. This year we were hopeful of a change, and we got it. Massive announcements from the Mario and Metroid camps, but there was still an emphasis on casual games. We finished watching that conference still upset, but somewhat appeased by the big announcements. But these were still overshadowed by what felt like a very drawn-out, tiresome and dull conference.

Yesterday, Nintendo President spoke about the Conference;

"Honestly speaking, none of us at Nintendo thought that our presentation at E3 was as good as it could have been. It is apparent that we could not fully convey the charm of our products."

He went on to add that while the casual demos of Sports Resort and Fit Plus went well, the New Super Mario Bros. Wii didn't get the 'fun sentiment' over to the population.

"Now we strongly feel that we need to look into finding a better way to demonstrate the products' appeal better at E3 in these times where more people are watching it online via web cast not only in the U.S. but all around the world, than the number of audience who actually watch it in the theatre.

In that sense, we learned many lessons from this year's E3 show. After the media briefing, we had a domestic trade briefing in Japan. There we disclosed the black Wii console and red Nintendo DSi, which made a big buzz among game fans. It is also an important lesson for next year."

So is this an end to Nintendo's dismal shows? Hopefully. If we can go back to the shows of the mid-2000s, we will all be very happy.