Cammie Dunaway: We’re disappointed with our performance at E3

[mike_intellivision]

I think what many in the gaming press have missed is that Nintendo was talking to the general press.

If you want positive stories on the morning news shows, if you want general public positive reaction, you go soft (casual) on your presentation. That is what Nintendo did. It felt it only had one chance to talk with this group and took it. Unfortunately, it upset (pissed off) the gaming press, many of whom already felt that Nintendo was ruining gaming because it tacked to port while the others tacked to starboard.

That being said, I do agree that Nintendo made a tactical error or two at E3. For example, Wario Shake would have been a good game to show -- and would have fit the softer demographic need as well.

But the way some gaming magazine writers describe anything Nintendo does, there is no way it could get things right in their eyes, so they didn't try -- and that made them madder.

(For example, Game Informer says that between Animal Crossing and Wii Sports Resort there is half a game; it noted that Wii Sports Resort will keep you entertained for dozens of minutes; it made a comment about Castlevania Judgement Wii in a totally unrelated piece; it made the claim that many here have raised question about that all third parties were caught in the dark on Wii Motion Plus ... and I just got my magazine yesterday)

Mike from Morgantown