Could moving away from the traditional E3 conference be a smart move for Nintendo?

[Jaywood2010]

Carl2291 said:

JayWood2010 said:

The WiiU is a new console as well and they should be showing it off.  people already doubt the WiiU and if they show nothing at E3 they will be further criticized.

Are you arguing that a console thats been on the market for 7 Months will generate as much buzz and excitement as 2 consoles yet to be released? At E3? No. 

Just because they choose not to have an E3 press conference, doesnt mean they have no games to show. Theyre holding a few Nintendo Directs for E3 aswell as having behind-closed-doors press events. At least one of these will have Wii U games.

No Im not saying that.  Obviously Sony and MSFT has the edge with newer hardware but that doesn't mean that it isn't important for Nintendo to show their newest hardware themselves.  Not everybody takes E3 as a competition.  Instead some people focus on each conference individually.


The biggest game event of the year often times gets announcements in news so it would be smart to have announcements.