I’m excited for this year’s E3; the return to the spectacle of the traditional E3 means that publishers have a lot more impetus to show off their goods and drop megatons upon megatons.  So let’s get started, eh?

Nintendo

• Pikmin 3 will be displayed and demoed for the first time.
• Earthbound finally to the Virtual Console, marking a refocus on the Virtual Console because Nintendo likes money!  Right!  Right?
• New Super Mario Bros. 2 on the DS…it’s about time!
• Nintendo will finally show off different colored Wii consoles, in light of the slipping Wii sales.  And it will be monstrous because consumers are stupid!
• Nintendo will announce either a new Mario or Zelda game on the Wii.  Not both.  If it’s a Zelda game, it will have Motion Plus and/or DS integration.  If it’s Mario, it won’t make it out this console cycle – Nintendo hasn’t put out multiple games to a franchise the last couple of hardware cycles.  Doh!

Microsoft

• The Motion/Camera thing that’s been rumored for XB360 will be announced, and unfortunately will flop.
• Alan Wake and Huxley will emerge from the mire of development, since we have heard next to nothing about upcoming 360 software aside from Halo 3 ODST, which will be demoed and dated for this Fall.
• Valve will make an announcement of Half Life 2: Episode 3 at the Microsoft Press Conference.  The game will be available for PC/XB360 only and will be primarily be digitally distributed, marking the beginning of more substantive games for XBox Live.
• A new iteration of the 360, akin to a slim model or perhaps even in different colors. Because consumers are stupid!

Sony

• The Motion/Camera thing that’s been rumored for PS3 will be announced, and unfortunately will flop.
• The PSP Go!, despite being leaked on Qore yesterday, will be announced and kick off the “Year of the PSP” – a reinvogorated focus on the PSP.
• Gran Turismo 5, God of War 3, MAG, Heavy Rain, and Uncharted 2 all demoed and dated for later this year, marking a star-studded Holiday ’09.  Project TRICO?  Next year.
• Sony will either announce a moderate pricecut of at most $50 (from $399 to $349), or a new value bundle at 399 bundled with both Uncharted:Drake’s Fortune and LittleBigPlanet.  Leaning toward the latter for now.
• PS3 Slim will not be announced, despite all the leaked, atrocious, and probably doctored screenshots.  Why?  They still have way too many PS3 units still in stock.
• The oft-mentioned Sony “Megaton”?  I’m not really feeling a Final Fantasy VII remake anymore, so I’m going to say it’s a non-game related service.  What’s something that’s used by everyone and not on the PS3?  How about Facebook?

Other

• Kojima Productions will announce 2 games, a PSP and a simultaneous PS3/XB360 title.  Everyone by now has seen the ad with Big Boss, Raiden, and the mysterious porcelain mask – it makes sense for the next Metal Gear game to be a Raiden game, perhaps his side of the story during the events of MGS4.  As for Big Boss?  I vote the PSP sequel to MGS: Portable Ops.

How spot-on will I be?  I guess we’ll see tomorrow with the Microsoft press conference.  Let the games begin!