E3: This Year 'Mario Kart', 'Luigi's Mansion' More Franchises Coming To 3DS

At their pre-E3 press conference today, Nintendo demonstrated off unique 3DS forms of the Mario Kart and Luigi's Mansion establishments for the first time, additionally highlighting alternate major establishments approaching the portable. Luigi's Mansion 2 "is not a simple revision," of the Gamecube launch title, said Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime. "It's an entirely new game making extraordinairy use of 3D and featuring not just one but several new mansions." A gameplay video showed the popular Mario brother using a vacuum to suck up ghosts in environments including an Egyptian tomb.

Mario Kart 3DS will also be coming to the system by the end of the year. A gameplay video showed new racing submarines as well as flying gliders, as well as standard karts and familiar characters from the long-running series. The association in addition uncovered late portions about awhile ago uncovered establishments for the framework. Star Fox 3DS will come to North American stores this September, and include both traditional button controls and tilt-based controls that mimic a flight yoke. The game will consider voice correspondence and utilize the picture clicker for player photographs at the same time as within the web based world multiplayer.

Super Mario 3D was shown on video for the first time after being announced with screenshots at this year's GDC. The title, which Fils-Aime said would be available "before the year is over," features Mario wearing the Tanooki suit first seen in Super Mario Bros. 3, and knocking over cardboard goombas in environments reminiscent of an isometric game. Nintendo confirmed reports that the eShop would have demo downloads, and that eShop users that update their firmware would get a free copy of Excitebike 3DS and a 3D pokedex.