p>Nintendo will be seeing this year's E3 as an opportunity to begin making up lost ground on the home console front.

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The official unveiling of their new hardware, codenamed Project Cafe, has been surrounded by a tempest of speculation over the systems specifications and, more particularly, the design of the controllers.

Can pull off another major coup with a new touch-screen motion sensing controller that may or may not be interchangeable with the 3DS? This week will be our chance to find out if the rumours are true.

The software support for Project Cafe is also looking interesting with rumours that the as yet unannounced V and 3 will be featuring on the machine with the Nintendo version of the latter being described as the definitive version of the game.

We should also expect a big fanfare for the arrival of the eStore for the and the imminent arrival of The Ocarina of Time as well. also promised that we'd see more of Mario's first outing on the 3DS which is in with the boys that brought is Super Galaxy. Again, this will be a busy one from Nintendo.

By Ewan Aiton