From the E3 Expo in Los Angeles today, Nintendo revealed their latest crop of motion-driven experiences for both their Wii and DS video game systems.

Wii Music will offer more than 60 different musical instruments which players can simulate using their hands and arms using the Wii remote, Nunchuck add-on, and in the case of the drums, the Balance Board. Designed to offer a non-competitive, non-judgmental experience, whole families can gather, pick up the controls, choose an instrument and play together. There are no notes to match or movements to get wrong, but merely the music is interpreted by the rhythm of your movements and buttons presses. From a saxophone, violin, piano, guitar, to many different types of percussion instruments, there's a instrument for everyone. Yes, a cowbell is included. The disc will also include a variety of mini-music games. This will be the big Wii game to have this holiday season where the push will be for families to get together and play, not just sing, carols for the festive season.

Wii Resort is a sequel to the popular Wii Sports and Wii Play collections, this one is designed around the activities available at a vacation resort. You can toss a Frisbee on the beach with your doggy companion, go jet skiing, even try your hand at some friendly fencing. Wii Resort will come packaged with a new accessory - the Wii MotionPlus which connects to the end of the Wii Remote in order to better track the movements of your wrist and forearm, needed for Frisbee tossing and sword fencing. Unfortunately the game won't be out until Spring of 2009.

Wii Speak is a new headset system designed to allow players connected online through their Nintendo Wii systems to talk with each other live during gameplay. It will be launching alongside a Wii version of Animal Crossing called "City Folk", a virtual town where players establish a home and spend their days fishing, gardening, and escalating fossils. Now they can do these share these tasks together while connected online. Both Animal Crossing: City Folk and the Wii Speak headset will be released in time for the holidays but sold separately, the Wii Speak headset will be $30.

Nintendo also showcased the previously announced Shaun White Snowboarding which uses the Wii Fit Balance Board to simulate gliding down mountains and leaping off of half pipes. The Balance Board will also be used in a new Party Game sequel to Rayman Ravving Rabbids where players can use the board for zany tasks such as flying through space on an ironing board.

Eager to show their titles for hard core gamers, Nintendo also showcased Star Wars Clone Wars where players can use their Wii Remotes as light sabers, Call of Duty World At War which will use the Zapper light gun for military campaigns, and a new version of Grand Theft Auto for the Nintendo DS called China Town Wars.

Sales of the Nintendo DS continue to be strong, the company expects to sell their 100 millionth one by end of this year and report that 48% of those buying the handheld system are female. This holiday season, Nintendo plans to release an interactive cookbook for the device alongside a new Pokemon game, a special version of the anticipated creature-building game Spore called Spore Creatures, and a new version of Guitar Hero On Tour called "Decades" for the DS that will allow players to swap songs with each other, from one version of the Guitar Hero game to another. The Wii, Nintendo was happy to point out, has sold more copies of Guitar Hero III than the competing video game systems.