Mwah, maybe you're right.
I think the main difference is that both Sony and Microsoft, although their conferences were pretty bleak as well, at least thought about their audience.
Why did they show GoW3: because the fans like that.
Nintendo gave me, as a fan of Nintendo's core games, absolutely nothing whatsoever. True, 1:1 motion was cool and has enormous potential, but another WiiSports demo...I'm a bit tired of it tbh. Never been a fan of Animal Crossing. WiiMusic was lame. Really, it's not even a game.
Don't get me wrong here, I know that Nintendo has to show all that stuff, I don't mind their strategy, I even applaud it very much. I don't want them to be like Sony that shows 20 trailers 2 years in advance.
But what I really missed this year is a bit of affection for the fans. You know they look forward to E3 because they anticipate something. To leave those fans, some that have stuck with Nintendo from the NES onwards, without a single core announcement is a bit sad. These are the people that dragged Nintendo through the Gamecube days.
And it's not that they don't have it. I'd be very surprised if Nintendo will serve the approx. 45 million Wii owners this holiday without a real core game. That's the same as throwing money away. They have something, at the very least the Fatal Frame 4 trailer could have been shown. Or something about Disaster. For me it didn't have to be something the magnitude of Kid Icarus, just something to show that they still know that the core is also an important part of the Wii audience.
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