Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Nintendo E3 invite may hint at Wii successor

Nintendo has sent out invites for their E3 press conference. The invites contain an image of three warp pipes from Super Mario Bros. in black and white. Thanks to my good friend Michi-Hiro for the image.




Could this be a clue of sorts? The image could hint at a linear progression, perhaps to leap higher and higher with the possibility to be sucked deeper and deeper in to the tubes. Height and depth could be the ideas conveyed here. Also, the number three may play a role. Obviously, there are three dimensions. But the first two tubes could also stand for the Nintendo DS family and Wii console - the current consoles and cornerstones of Nintendo's success - with the promise of the next hardware surpassing them. I believe that the ideas of progression and extension are quite obviously evident here. What do you come up with?

EDIT Here is the image within the context of the mail invite.


EDIT Reader Kevin noted that this image was already part of last year's invite and has kindly uploaded an image. He also asserts that it was used before then. I have to admit that I did not remember. But now, I think we can safely assume that the image contains no hidden meaning with regard to Nintendo's next home console.

22 comments:

Kevin said...

Uh, this was on last year's Nintendo invite. And the one before that. Keep dreaming.

Falafelkid said...

Hi Kevin.

Uh, this was on last year's Nintendo invite. And the one before that.

Was it? I haven't seen this image before. Have you got last year's invite yourself?

Anonymous said...

gr8 image...if only nintendos games were as cool as that image..

RGB said...

@Anonymous above:

Or as good graphics ROFL (joking)

Kevin said...

2010:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1270484/Ninty2010.jpg

Anonymous said...

Maybe it foreshadows that the Wii 2's success is a pipe dream.

Falafelkid said...

Thanks ever so much Kevin. You must be a very tidy person if you kept that email. I cannot even remember it.

Spazer said...

First ingame project café screens ?

http://gameolosophy.com/consoles/rumor-screenshots-of-project-cafe-games/

Sounds fake, though Endless ocean 3 looks pretty good.

A video is supposed to come soon...

Anonymous said...

nice pics...seem like the real deal

RGB said...

ROFL no way. They look fake as. They look like photos with some game elements added over the top.

Anonymous said...

"What do you come up with?"


Maybe the console itself is some kind of pipe, and when you jump into it you get teleported to mushroom kingdom.

What do you think?

RGB said...

I think you've been there already while smoking some magic mushrooms :)

Anonymous said...

wow, since when does grandmaster b have a sense of humour?? its quite a revelation lol ;)

RGB said...

Removed comments?

TheKnow said...

Ninty will show off a new console in af few weeks, sit back and relaxe, we will get our info soon.

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