megaman79 on 02 June 2009
| puffy said: Honestly Seece, Nintendo had many more surprise announcements than Microsoft and we all know that surprises is what wins E3. The conference wasn't perfect and I felt that they were pushed for time but weigh up the two conferences.. Of course it's all opinion and we should disect it closely following Sony's own press event but I think Nintendo did sneak ahead of Microsoft just because of the double whammy of Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M right at the end of the conference. Pretty huge ending if you ask me and remember Microsoft won last year due to it's huge ending. It's all about surprise because surprise creates buzz! |
This is the key, surprises. We all bitch and moan about Nintendo secrecy but look what we get, genuine shock announcements.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
