platformmaster918 said:
yeah I don't get the logic behind people saying "you can't announce at E3 and put it out that Fall!" The way I see it Nintendo didn't start advertising WiiU until September or even reveal price and memory yet people still got hyped in time for the holidays. Considering Apple unveils their stuff a week before it comes out and their stuff is just a yearly incremental upgrade, I think people have enough time to check out and get hyped up for a console in 6 months. |
Microsoft announced the Xbox 360 Slim at E3 and shipped it at the same time. So there is a small chance that they'll announce it and release it in a very short space of time so people throw their money down right when their hype is at the maximum. It'd be a very good tactic to announce it with a price and a date and give people the opportunity to pre-order the console right away. The same also applies to the PS4 as well.
Nintendo did a very poor job of hyping up the Wii U and it seemed even as an informed gamer I felt left out of the loop because they didn't finalise release dates or even get the message across about what the Wii U is very well. Nintendo made the announcement of the Wii U feel like just another E3. They had their reasons to not give away too much of their future plans for comercial reasons but I think they ought to have at least shown something like a snippet of Zelda gameplay or say that the Zelda demo was going to be 'real'.
Tease.
