Nintendo Press Conference schedule grid

[PassTheWiimote]

Megaton Times

Times For Nintendo Events In Europe, Asia, North America - Thanks to Xavi3n@boards.ign.com

its around 36 hours to go, not 13 or whatever.

Right now according to The World Clock - Time Zones in Japan its 12:07AM (read 00:07) on a WEDNESDAY, this means the Japanese event is on a Thursday for Japan, which is some 36 hours (a day and a 1/2) away.

Lets take EDT and PDT as a points of reference (with GMT/UTC times in brackets)

The Japanese Event will be the first, it will begin around 10:00 on Thursday in Japan, this is 9+5 = 14 (because Japan is +9 GMT/UTC and also EDT is -5 from GMT/UTC), which means the Japanese event will start at:

* 8:00PM EDT / 5:00PM PDT on a Wednesday and 1:00AM GMT/UTC on a Thursday (or 2:00AM for BST (British Summer Time))

The US Event, will begin at 9:00AM on Thurday in the US which means:

* 9:00AM EDT / 7:00AM PDT on a Thursday and 2:00PM GMT/UTC on a Thursday (or 3:00PM BST) and 11:00PM on Thurday in Japan.

The European event, will begin at 12:00PM BST on Friday (15th) in the UK which means:

* 8:00AM EDT / 5:00AM PDT on a Firday and 10:00PM in Japan on Friday.

Japan Event first:

* 8:00PM (Wednesday) - 2:00AM (Thursday) EDT
* 5:00PM (Wednesday) - 11:00PM (Wednesday) PDT
* 1:00AM (Thursday) - 7:00AM (Thursday) GMT/UTC
* 2:00AM (Thursday) - 8:00AM (Thursday) BST
* 10:00AM (Thursday) - 4:00PM (Thursday) Japan Time

US Event comes second:

* 9:00AM (Thursday) - 3:00PM (Thursday) EDT
* 6:00AM (Thursday) - 12:00PM (Thursday) PDT
* 2:00PM (Thursday) - 8:00PM (Thursday) GMT/UTC
* 3:00PM (Thursday) - 9:00PM (Thursday) BST
* 11:00PM (Thursday) - 5:00AM (Friday) Japan Time

Finally the Europe event comes third:

* 7:00AM (Friday) - 1:00PM (Friday) EDT
* 4:00AM (Friday) - 10:00AM (Friday) PDT
* 11:00AM (Friday) - 5:00PM (Friday) GMT/UTC
* 12:00PM (Friday) - 6:00PM (Friday) BST
* 8:00PM (Friday) - 2:00AM (Saturday) Japan Time

US times updated - they were off by an hour - 09/12/2006@17:07 EDT
European times updated - they were off by an hour - 09/12/2006@13:09 EDT

[lllCo2lll]

wow good find, too bad on thursday I'm going to a meeting. So I won't be able to find out till I come home

[Go_Wii_Go11]

nice find passthewiimote!!!

welcome 2 the forum lllCo2lll.

[hello123]

i cant wait to get out of school on thursday.

[Abomb12321]

so does this mean they are anouncing the release date on thursday?

[Abomb12321]

School is gonna take forver on thursday.. i wont be able to get my mind of the wii

[Go_Wii_Go11]

Originally Posted by hello123

i cant wait to get out of school on thursday.

same here. only 2 more days. almost 1 day.

Originally Posted by Abomb12321

so does this mean they are anouncing the release date on thursday?

yes it does.

Originally Posted by Abomb12321

School is gonna take forver on thursday.. i wont be able to get my mind of the wii

dont double post please. use the edit button. welcome 2 the forum!!!

[Oakdale FireFighter]

so are they anouncing the japan releease info at japan then like 10 hours later the us info in the us and then the otherpeans info later?

Or they saying it al at once and just throughing some partys so we can all get drunk and be somebody?

[komquat]

Where will be the best place to get the info the fastest in the US?

[Oakdale FireFighter]

Originally Posted by komquat

Where will be the best place to get the info the fastest in the US?

your best bet.. like mine would be just come to the forum and it will be posted by a few people. just becarfule for the first few hours til the wrong dates, times, prices get weeded out.