Mario Sunshine
"I'd rather not explain about the new Mario, as I've said. I deliberately chose images that will not reveal a lot about the game so that you will not know its secrets. But because we have limited these things, I think you are wondering what is so interesting about the game. One thing for sure is that it's called Mario Sunshine -- and it having that name, we really have to sell it during the summer time [laughs[.

"Mario is shouldering on his back some mysterious gadget -- some machine. Of course, it contains a secret. We are going to make the right progress for the game and please look forward to it."

100 Marios
"So many projects and so many experiments are being carried out at Nintendo. For example, the 100 Marios or 128 Marios -- some of the technology there has already been integrated into Pikmin. And having said that, some other experiments are still going on because we are always looking two or three years in advance, so maybe sometime later we will show some part of 100 Marios."

Marionette
"And as for Marionette, it is still under development. It is not a Mario game, but an actual Marionette game utilizing a puppet. I am hoping to make something both complicated and simple at the same time [with this game], which is kind of a contradiction. But already we are experimenting. And once again, sometime in the future we may be able to show you something on it."

We'll have more on the above projects as the information becomes available -- which isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
 

"Nintendo is very skeptical about the business side of online gaming. Many people who have been saying online gaming is the wave of the future are now starting to wonder as we have been wondering about the business and profit side of it all. As a game creator, I cannot say I am not interested in online gaming. Rather, I feel some attraction to the future of it. But looking at the situation of it, I have to say that many of the people touting online games are only doing so because they are stuck without new ideas. They cannot find out any new way of creating games so by saying that they will have online in the future, even though it's not coming, they are trying to make some excuse already I think.

"Having said all of that, of course Nintendo is always ready to expand into the online business and we are making preparations for that all the time. But once again, we cannot say there is an established business model for it yet. For me as a creator, the communication aspect of gaming is more interesting. I believe online is just a part of the communication, which is much larger."

"Our main focus of today was the international software to be introduced by this year. That's why we didn't include Pokemon and several other projects," said Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto. "But in the future we are going to show something on GameCube Pokemon. Of course, we have shown it once or twice and today we didn't show, so in that case please suspect there is something about it that isn't decided and something not yet ready to be shown. When it's ready, we will show it."

Seems Miyamoto is preparing us for change. Indeed, other Nintendo officials have gone on record to note that GameCube Pokemon is "not a small project," and that it's going to take quite a long time to realize. And so the wait is on.

"Our main focus of today was the international software to be introduced by this year. That's why we didn't include Pokemon and several other projects," said Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto. "But in the future we are going to show something on GameCube Pokemon. Of course, we have shown it once or twice and today we didn't show, so in that case please suspect there is something about it that isn't decided and something not yet ready to be shown. When it's ready, we will show it."

Seems Miyamoto is preparing us for change. Indeed, other Nintendo officials have gone on record to note that GameCube Pokemon is "not a small project," and that it's going to take quite a long time to realize. And so the wait is on.