Confused gamer: Why is one of these situations better than the other?

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DKII said:
I skipped over most of the bickering, but here's what's going on. It's just like last year, only this time Nintendo had more expanded-audience stuff to show off so it took up basically the whole time.

Nintendo knows that their core fanbase is paying attention 24/7. They know that there's no need to waste precious E3 time on them, which is about the only time that the mainstream media is paying attention and they can get word of their lighter fare to those intended audiences. If MS and Sony actually had success reaching that audience en masse they'd probably be following the same strategy.

You'll hear more about core titles at dedicated PR events that all the enthusiast press will be at anyway, some time later this year.

 

Its amazing how many times this can be said and people continue to ignore it. 

E3, like every corporate endeavor, has people who evaluate the time, effort, and money that goes into the event and what they want those resources to create for them.

To put it into gaming terms:

Its like that portion of a game where you can buy the super special armor from the shop but only that one time! Once you leave the shop it will never be for sale again.  So Nintendo is spending all their rupees on the shiny new armor while the "hardcore" want them to stock up on deku seeds, bombs, and arrows.