At 4am this morning Nintendo hosted another of their Nintendo Direct streams, in which they revealed New Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo 3DS, showed off more gameplay footage of other Nintendo DS and 3DS titles, and told Japanese gamers how to adjust their controls in Kid Icarus: Uprising.

We were (somehow) wide awake, live-tweeting the event as it happened; so for all you sensible people out there, here’s a summary of our tweets from when the event was happening:

• Good morning, world! How many of you are crazy enough to be awake at 4am?
• Here we go! Introduction from Iwata himself. No subtitles, though.
• Kirby 20th Anniversary logo revealed; mentions a 3D Classics Kirby game. Not sure which.
• Six Just Dance boxes shown off.
• Four-player Just Dance gameplay…
• Pokémon Black & White 2 gameplay footage! This is more like it!
• Mentions 3DS in the same sentence as Pokémon Black and White 2…
• Pokémon AR shooting game coming to the Nintendo eShop.
• Another Pokémon app for the Nintendo eShop… seems to connect to Black & White 2?
• ‘Pokémon *insert Japanese name here* Pro.’
• Guild 01 from Level 5 for the Nintendo 3DS footage is being shown.
• Dragon Quest 3DS gameplay footage is looking pretty impressive. Uses Mii characters.
• A 3D ‘Dungeon RPG’ from Atlus with gameplay. It all looks very… Japanese. [Etrian Odyssey IV]
• Another Level 5 game…
• A rhythm game from Namco Bandai! Looks very Rhythm Paradise-y. Also, very Japanese.
• Rune Factory 4 is being shown off. Finally, a game with a title we can read!
• Sega, Namco and Capcom’s game, Project X Zone gets its first trailer showing off characters from each of the three companies.
• Mario Tennis Open gameplay is looking very impressive… for a tennis game. Customisation looks pretty in-depth.
• A turn-based strategy game with Download Play being its main feature…?
• More collectible AR cards in the style of Kid Icarus: Uprising for said strategy game.
• Wow, Download Play, AR cards and… Twitter integration!?
• Cartoony football game for 3DS that we’ve seen before looks… the same as before.
• … Seems to emphasise three-player versus.
• New Nintendo 3DS firmware update adds folders!
• Now we can finally sort our NES Ambassador games from our GBA Ambassador games!
• Is he talking about Mario Kart 7 DLC? He seemed to say ‘Mario Kart 7,’ then ‘Nintendo eShop.’ [It was actually a patch for the Wuhu Island track glitch!]
• What’s this!? A Kid Icarus: Uprising… sequel? DLC? What is this!? [Turns out it was the first of two rather long videos teaching you how to adjust the controls in Uprising.]
• Kid Icarus: Uprising CD available for either 400 or 250… somethings. Club Nintendo points?
• Fire Emblem: Awakening‘s graphics are looking very nice indeed.
• Monster Hunter Tri G menu screen. [Possibly showing DLC quests?]
• And now, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy gameplay.
• Animal Crossing 3DS screens – a confirmed 2012 release for the game in Japan.
• 2D Super Mario game for Nintendo 3DS screens shown!! Called New Super Mario Bros. 2!
• Another Etrian Odyssey IV trailer now.
• Etrian Odyssey IV has ‘Casual’ difficulty mode, for you n00bs out there.
• Is this a Wii U game? What’s that tablet this presenter woman’s using?
• Not a Wii U controller, it seems.
• More Kid Icarus gameplay? Um, Nintendo, you released this game already.
• It seems to be focusing on the controls a lot, and they did mention the eShop earlier. Are they releasing a patch? [No, they were telling us in more detail how to adjust the controls.]
• New Super Mario Bros. 2 releasing in August in America! Might we get the game earlier?! We hope so!
• Aaand, that’s it?

That was indeed ‘it’. What do you make of the announcements? More importantly, did you wake up at 4am to watch?

Of course, this was the Japanese Nintendo Direct stream; Nintendo of Europe shall be hosting their own at mid-day today. If you’d like to keep up-to-date with that, follow our Twitter account as we’ll be doing yet another live tweet-along. Until then, back to sleep!