Nintendo announced an unexpected Japanese press event yesterday for Sept 13, two day before the Tokyo Game Show.

Following the news, the company’s stock priced jump, as investors expect Nintendo to unveil a revamped 3DS that day, reportedly one with a head-scratching second analog stick and a de-emphasis on 3D. (!)

Not sure if that would excite the masses. But who knows, Nintendo has surprised us before.

Either way, what would Nintendo have to show on that day to get you to buy a 3DS?

Here is the first look at the very stylized, and very short trailer for Ghost Trick.

The word is that the game is actually a unique puzzle game. Where you use your ghost powers to posses a variety of different objects that lie around your body. You can use the touch screen to move your core, a ball of bluish glowing light, into different objects. To try and distract people from trying to kill the girl who is in the trailer. Which is a pretty unique Idea for a game.

Anyone excited for Ghost Trick?

Nintendo is notorious for being a stubborn no-show at the Tokyo Game Show. For reasons unknown to me, the company has made it a point not to display any first party games at the huge Japanese show. Sure we get impressive autumn press events like the one last week, but TGS has remained a hole in Nintendo’s PR line up that they’re all too happy to ignore.

Turns out, this may be the most brilliant PR move ever. As you know, TGS 2008 is in full swing this week. It’s already being labeled a huge game fest, with new announcements, hands-on demoes, and noteworthy sequels. All of that would seem to indicate that players like Microsoft and Sony, which had keynotes or other big press announcements, would dominate the show in Nintendo’s absence.

Wrong. (more…)