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Aielyn on 23 January 2013
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badgenome said:
Aielyn said:

Do you really think they'd announce that Mario 3D and Mario Kart will be playable at E3 during the Nintendo Direct in JANUARY if they didn't have some surprises lined up?

Given their past E3s? Yes.

Nintendo has had surprises at practically all past E3s. The only exception I can recall is E3 2008, the year that they changed it from an entertainment expo to a business and media conference (it switched back most of the way in 2009).

Sometimes the surprises are relatively underwhelming. But having said that, those were in years where there wasn't a Mario, Mario Kart, Zelda, and new Pokemon generation launching by the end of the year on one of their platforms. Usually, Nintendo would keep those sorts of games "secret", for announcement at E3. For instance, Mario Kart Wii was announced at E3 2007 - there wasn't even a whisper that it was going to be announced prior to that.

We all knew these games would be in development, just as we knew that Mario Kart Wii would be in development. But what's different about this situation is that they announced it well before E3, when it's going to release more than a couple of months after E3. Nintendo's most successful E3s came when they announced games like these. Why spoil the surprise of them now?