Personally, I enjoyed watching the Digital Event...until it was over, at which point I was left feeling kinda 'meh' about it. Don't get me wrong, the tone was all about fun and color and experiences and it got me excited, but it also felt very, very short (especially compared to the Microsoft & Sony conferences). So how would I have improved the Digital Event?

1) Nintendo showed plenty of games, but we know that there are more coming...specifically for the eShop from indie developers. Nintendo keeps talking about how important the indie games are, and how great they are for the eShop, etc., etc. - well then turn the spotlight on them! They released a sizzle reel of upcoming eShop games, which is great, but why not include it in the main presentation? It adds a little extra run time to the presentation, shines the light on some very promising upcoming games, and it's a boost for Nintendo in the eyes of the small developer community. Win-win!

2) As feared, several games that had been believed/thought/hoped to be coming in 2014 have been unceremoniously pushed back to 2015. "X", Yarn Yoshi, etc. It seems to me that Nintendo was saying 'hey, NEXT year for Wii U will be great!', leaving me wondering, what the hell is coming still for 2014? Which leads me to #3...

3) Nintendo has a small but precious window of time here. They are riding high on the momentum that Mario Kart 8 has given to the Wii U. There's hype, there's excitement, there's actual movement of hardware units...Nintendo should have finished out the Digital Event by clearly, cleanly explaining why I need to own a Wii U now, and doing so by very simply listing, in chronological order, the rest of their 2014 line-up (as it currently stands). Bam! Screen shot of Hyrule Warriors (release Sept). Bam! Screen shot Bayonetta 2 (October), Bam! Captain Toad screen shot (nebulous 'holiday 2014'' window), etc. including  the precious few 3rd party games (Watch Dogs, Just Dance 2015, Sonic Boom, CoD?) as well. Make me want a Wii U NOW and not in 2015.

4) V-I-R-T-U-A-L C-O-N-S-O-L-E. Come on, Nintendo!!! A sizzle real of upcoming eShop games and another sizzle reel of upcoming virtual console games. Tease me! Tantalize me!

Overall I liked the presentation. The production values were solid and it had an immense amount of charm. The couple new games I saw looked promising (the more I saw of Splatoon the more I smiled - looks pretty awesome). But I feel like the back half of 2014 is looking kind of barren, which is distressing.

What do you think?

smt x fire emblem was the only bad thing for me this year.

They should have included the Pac-Man reveal trailer too, that was cool.

SMT X FE
3rd party exclusives (more than just Devil's Third)
Pay some devs to get some big 3rd party exclusive on board
Scratch Mario Party 10 for Paper Mario U
Starfox trailer/ small snippet of Starfox at the end
Maybe increase length of the conference to include some 3DS games, like Persona Q, that Level 5 game, more Pokemon Omega/Alpha gameplay.
I'd still give them a 9/10 (A-) for what they did!

I agree with OP.

I loved it as it was on, but it felt a tad lacking afterwards.

Maybe it was the lack of title for Zelda, or lack of 3rd parties (where was Devils' Third, Fatal Frame, Sonic Boom).

I really wanted to see SMTxFE as well, but then, considering we got Zelda U, Bayonetta, X, and Smash as 'core' titles, contrasted with Yoshi Wooly World, Splatoon (which looks GREAT, btw) and a handful of what appear to be download titles, maybe they didn't want to crowd out the family friendly stuff.

Out of the 3 conferences I've seen so far (Sony and Ubi tonight), Nintendo definitely won, but I'd only give an 8.5/10, it should have been a 10.

Also, I loved HOW they presented everything. Does anybody know if it was Robot Chicken who did those little vignettes?

I'm incredibly positive of the threehouse stream.. In depth playsessions with the games and not 45 sec trailer is waaay better and creates a lot of insights to a game

That's very true NiKKoM: I love how they've done that, and I would be very surprised if Microsoft and/or Sony don't do the same themselves next year.

That stream of the first 30 minutes or so of Xenoblade was epic, as was the Hyrule Warriors stream that followed it. Can't wait to see what they show off tonight. (I'm still hopeful that we'll get an announce or two via Treehouse).

What surprised me the most was that the event ended so soon and yet they still had so much to show. Persona Q, Devil's Thirds, Star Fox, etc. There was a lot of good content that should have made an appearance in the actual show. If they had included more then I think Nintendo's event would have been hands down the best of the show.

Replace Paluntena reveal with Pacman reveal and replace Kirby announcement with Star Fox annoucement.