On Wednesday 22 August, Nintendo held a press event at the Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, Germany, to highlight some of the current and upcoming games that European players will be seeing on shop shelves.
Bernd Fakesch, General Manager of Nintendo of Germany, and Patrick Ensign, Marketing Assistant Manager, presented a vast number of games that will satisfy hardcore gamers and casual gamers alike. Instead of a standard press conference, the two led members of the media through Nintendo’s booth and showed them demonstrations of games in addition to videos of the newest Nintendo products.
Before taking the press through the booth, the members of the media were shown a hands-on demonstration of Super Mario Galaxy, which will be released in Europe on 16 November (click here for a batch of brand new screenshots!). They were also shown clips of some of the many other core Nintendo titles for Wii such as Pokémon Battle Revolution, Metroid Prime 3 Corruption, and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the Nintendo DS (check out the new trailer here).
From there, the guided press tour moved to the Nintendo DS area of the booth, featuring Touch! Generations games. Bernd spoke of what Touch! Generations means to the gaming and non-gaming community and gave some interesting facts about Nintendo’s breakthrough with mature audiences. ‘Silver gamers’, he said, are the fastest-growing target group and Nintendo is really seeing results in its push to capture the imagination of non-traditional gamers.
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