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Cloudman on 11 May 2017

That is rather concerning. Unless they have a lot of surprises for the 2nd half of the year, or sneak in a few surprise games for 2018, this could end up being just a good show. I am hyped for Mario Odyssey, but... that game was revealed a few months ago. The surprise is gone. They'll need to show more than just more of what we know.



 

              

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VGPolyglot on 11 May 2017

I don't mind if they focus on games releasing in 2017, as long as it means that there's games for 2017 that haven't been announced yet!



p0isonparadise on 11 May 2017
Kai_Mao said:
Remember everyone, "focus" does NOT mean "only."

The fact that you have to clarify this is worrisome.



Areym on 11 May 2017

Damn, it's during work hours, gonna have to leave a tiny tab open to catch the presentation. Since they are gonna focus on 2017 titles, they probably won't be dropping any bombas but I doubt they need to it. They just need to re-affirm some hot titles for the Fall and holiday and wow everybody with SMO.



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bigtakilla on 11 May 2017

I hope we at least see Xenoblade 2. Dispite me not owning a Switch, I'm still the most interested in Nintendo's presentation. Maybe it will get me to buy one.



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ktay95 on 11 May 2017

Why do people want to hear about games that are like a year plus away?? Remember Nintendo do directs all through out the year, they have all the time to tell us about 2018.
As cool as Shenmue 3, FFVII and TLG was waiting for them isnt. Would much prefer if Nintendo just pulled a Fallout 4 as often as possible... and no i dont mean by ruining a beloved franchise :P



ARamdomGamer on 11 May 2017
ktay95 said:
Why do people want to hear about games that are like a year plus away?? Remember Nintendo do directs all through out the year, they have all the time to tell us about 2018.
As cool as Shenmue 3, FFVII and TLG was waiting for them isnt. Would much prefer if Nintendo just pulled a Fallout 4 as often as possible... and no i dont mean by ruining a beloved franchise :P

I was hoping for some 2019, 2020 game teasers, but now I will go burn my Switch in protest.



bigtakilla on 11 May 2017
ktay95 said:
Why do people want to hear about games that are like a year plus away?? Remember Nintendo do directs all through out the year, they have all the time to tell us about 2018.
As cool as Shenmue 3, FFVII and TLG was waiting for them isnt. Would much prefer if Nintendo just pulled a Fallout 4 as often as possible... and no i dont mean by ruining a beloved franchise :P

Because games typically released the same year have already been announced. Mario, XC2, Arms, Splatoon 2, Mario Kart Deluxe were already announced, so what's for E3? Based on the last 2 years, nothing really.



DélioPT on 11 May 2017
Einsam_Delphin said:

So name change from Digital Event to Nintendo Spotlight, probably just to get Nintendo in the name. Also only Switch during it is good sauce and should be pretty telling to the few who still believe that Switch isn't also a successor to 3DS.

DélioPT said:

why make a presentation that focus in 2017?

 

Because it's 2017 and not 2018. There will of course be 2018 announcements, so your fear of an E3 2015 repeat is needless.

Compare E3 2014 and E3 2015.

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DélioPT said:

They said focus on games releasing this year when they could have said focus on games coming out this year and games to come in 2018.
And that makes all the difference.

You can say that part of my reasoning is based on a rumor, but it barely changes what i'm trying to say.

I know about those 20 games, but then again, if they are coming in 2018, and Nintendo has also a lot for 2018, why make a presentation that focus in 2017?
As i said, it's more like E3 2015 when they barely announced games for wii u because they just didn't have them. And that is what i fear: a repitition of that situation.

Why focus on 2017? Maybe because we are not even half way through 2017? They have big Nintendo directs throughout the year, we can prob expect a big one between August-November giving us an idea of what's coming in the first half of 2018. Remember when they announced Zelda early (and kept delaying it). People were going nuts saying "why would Nintendo announce stuff that isn't coming out soon".

So, they have stuff to show but can't/won't show at a time where their competitors are bringing their best/future games to the show?
They focused on 2015 games at E3 2015 and we know exactly why. The reason wasn't a good one.

Nautilus said:
DélioPT said:
This should have been a e3 2014 type of event where they show what's coming in 2014 and beyond that. But it's not. It's more like E3 2015 where they focus on games releasing in the current year - and barely announce anything for the home console.

This was the moment where they convince non-switch owners that there's a lot coming next year. But it's not.
Not that they won't, but it's obviously not the focus and that will make a lot of people think - and with good reason - that Switch won't have a good support in 2018. Couple that with Nintendo's recente comments of wanting 3rd party games as soon as possible on Switch and Switch in 2018 doesn't look good.

You are wrong.First because focus dosent mean exclusively.And you have the recent direct as a proof that you could still talk alot about other things and still have it focused in other things.I mean, from the 40 or so minutes it lasted, around 20 minutes was for Splatoon and ARMS and the rest was for the myriad other games.

This E3 culd have a similar format.Assuming it lasts around one hour, 45 minutes could be about games releasing this year, and the extra 15 minutes to announce or tease games for 2018(I could see two or three announcements fitting there).

And even if they just spoke about 2017, it would be the better decision.We still know little about XC 2 and FE Warriors, they talked little about ODDyssey, and I bet they are going to flesh out more on Splatoon 2.And with all the success Switch is having so far, I bet they manage to secure one or two big third party announcements for the E3, outside of the ones that were talked about in the Switch reveal presentation.And thats not to say on unnannounced things they surelly have.

So dont worry, they are fine.

I never said it's JUST about 2017 games.
What i said is that focusing on 2017 games is a bad sign.

I'll even add the fact that this is their first E3 after launch and despite the recent success they can't just go at E3 and say "2018 games? Wait for it."

In depth details about upcoming games can be revealed at future specific NDs.
There's no reason why they can't show and talk about 2017 games and still show 2018 games in a good amount.

I'll bet that surprises will be more about unknown 2017 games than 2018 games - at least for Switch.



Miyamotoo on 11 May 2017
DélioPT said:
Miyamotoo said:

You dont know that, focus means just that. Last Direct had a focus on Splatoon 2 and Arms, but we had plenty of things alongside Splatoon 2 and ARMS, but obviously they have biggest focus.

Your other part of post is clear assumption based on nothing, for instance we recently had official statement that over 20 UE4 games are in development for Switch in Japan only.

They said focus on games releasing this year when they could have said focus on games coming out this year and games to come in 2018.
And that makes all the difference.

You can say that part of my reasoning is based on a rumor, but it barely changes what i'm trying to say.

I know about those 20 games, but then again, if they are coming in 2018, and Nintendo has also a lot for 2018, why make a presentation that focus in 2017?
As i said, it's more like E3 2015 when they barely announced games for wii u because they just didn't have them. And that is what i fear: a repitition of that situation.

Nintendo several times talk about point that they dont want to talk about games and to focus on game that are far away from release, thats why for quite time Nintendo is focused on games only that are relesed in near future (3-6 monts). And like I wrote, for Last Direct Nintendo said that it will have focus on Splatoon 2 and ARMS, but we actually saw plenty of games in that Direct alongside Splatoon 2 and ARMS even they biggest focuse. And that actually has sense, you will definitely not focus on game that is 1-2 year from release but actualy on games that are 3-6 months from release.

E3 2015. was totally different situation, because they didn't had what to show for Wii U and then became obvious that Nintendo start focusing on NX and they start dropping Wii U support. Also they will keep announce new games through Nintendo Directs also.