Nintendo Ditches its E3 Press Conference

[weirdee]

Yeah. Case in point: last year, Watch Dogs, one of the FEW games with an actual gameplay trailer, and a long one, and the game looked FANTASTIC in both graphics and demonstration of gameplay, went largely ignored and was not even mentioned in the so called "awards" they give for the industry to pat itself on the back for barfing out half hearted sequels.

Huh, I remember Watch Dogs being the one game all of my friends and most people on the internet got really hyped about, I can't remember it ever being ignored.

I meant as far as the publicity went AT THE EVENT.

 

[Shuu]

At the same time I feel like Nintendo pushing themselves further out of the sub cultural spotlight, but also, I kinda wish more companies would rely less on standup up on a stage with a big stupid grin saying "this game... is the greatest thing ever made... and we... are the greatest people who have ever lived, for making it"

 

[Atmos Duality]

E3 has been falling apart in recent years anyway.
As difficult as it's been for me to like or agree with Nintendo lately, this decision, I am surprisingly comfortable with.

 

[VanQ]

E3 has consistently become more and more Spike TV tier bullshit over the last decade anyway. If anything, Nintendo really doesn't fit in there with their lack of grey and brown, dubstep First Person Shooter titles anyway.

Hell, if I were running a company like Nintendo then I'd want to distance myself from the likes of E3 as well. I remember when I was a kid in around 2002 that thought going to E3 would be the highest point of any gamer's life. I think I might book flights to go to the next Tokyo Game Show instead.

 

[Crazie_Guy]

Their latest console and handheld are both out, all the cool 3DS stuff has been announced elsewhere and the first party titles to save the Wii-U are probably too far out to talk about yet. Not much point in making a whole event based around assuring "No really, we're going to have lots of Wii-U games someday, just you wait!"

 

[Yopaz]

Nintendo Direct usually does the same thing as E3 only a lot better anyway. Nintendo direct is also more for the consumer than the media which is a huge bonus for all those of us who aren't working in journalism (I assume that's quite a few).

This way they manage to cut costs and not lose anything. The past few years I haven't seen anything but complaints about the event so I see no downside to this.

 

[MysticSlayer]

Well, who really talks about Nintendo after E3 press conferences anyways? Most of the discussion value regarding the WiiU last year came from Nintendo Direct, with E3 really just serving to further the advertising. Besides, E3 is so ingrained in Shooty McShootshoot action games that it hardly is a fit for Nintendo, but, then again, their lack of traditional shooter franchises might be just what the conference needs. Still, even when they brought something other than shooters last year, no one seemed to care. Not to mention, E3 hasn't been too popular among gamers lately. If Nintendo can announce things in a much more enjoyable fashion for gamers, then I'd say that is a good thing.

Also, am I the only one who doesn't even watch E3 anymore? I just look up any announcements and then use YouTube to watch what I'm actually interested in. If something I missed becomes popular, then I look it up as well.

 

[Colt47]

Sounds like everyone is sort of going in the same direction with E3 being a rather big mess. Nintendo has not benefited much from going there ever since 2009, even if they were the golden egg in the E3 basket. Kind of makes one wonder what it's going to be like for Sony and Microsoft.

As for those two, it looks like Microsoft is going to be the one hurting the most trying to recover from the negative public image generated by their own Xbox 360. Sony just has some confusing design decisions on the PS4. The one thing people will probably do this coming generation is wait for the game library to actually manifest given what happened with the 3ds launch and Vita launch.