azrm2k said:
Just gotta address this. The reason GTA didn't have as noticable of an impact is because it was multiplatform. MGS4 released lately as an exclusive and had a very sizeable boost. I'm guessing FFXIII will be the same as GTAIV with a small boost to both, nothing to write home about to either. @Kasz Yea, I guess it shows effort. But no teaser for Mario/Zelda/Pikmin wasn't about Nintendo being lazy. 1- Nintendo's strategy of announcing games closer to release has been talked about to death. I'm surprised we even got mentions of Mario and Zelda considering neither will probably release for a while. 2- Like they have stated they want to focus on the casuals at E3 since the mainstream press attends. They can show off other games on any random Thursday and get the core excited as we'll always be following the latest news. The casuals won't. |
Yeah... I know. Just saying... like a CGI clip can turn something boring into an amazing press confrence. See everyone freaking out about FF13 and GOW3 despite them basically being placeholders saying "Stuff in the future, can't tell you when, cause we don't know!"
I mean. Had there been like a 5 second preview of a shadowy figure walking up to a stone and pulling out a sword in a stone with the triforce symbol on it people would of been freaking out.
It really wouldn't of been any different since while they didn't announce a new Zelda... they basically announced a new Zelda by saying the Zelda team is at work. I don't see much difference unless they are working on a non Zelda game... in which case Nintendo gave everybody the wrong idea.
Not saying it's right... but that's how things work in the hype driven internet world.
