| Soundwave said:
But they probably don't even have an exclusive like Zombi U this year to show off. The other thing is Sony/MS probably already have booked up all the "big" third party games for their shows, MS will probably have Call of Duty/Battlefield 4 at their event, Sony might have booked up Assassin's Creed/Watch Dogs for their event, so who's Nintendo supposed to get on their stage? I think in part this is the reason. If Nintendo had like say Square-Enix banging on their door giving them FF7 Remake exclusive or something, you bet your ass they would likely have a big show this year, because they have someone else who's really investing in their platform and they'd want to reward that by giving them a big stage. But again if its just Nintendo ... I think it just got to the point where Nintendo said to themselves "well it's just us really, we don't need a big stage to excite our own fans". I do think definitely it's part of the reasoning behind the change. |
You're still over thinking this. There is no conspiracy.
Nintendo looked at the cost of a mega-show and the amount of "return" they got in terms of marketing and buzz. They also looked at what they get out of an average ND and its associated costs.
In the end they realized they will be able to spend less money and provide more content to the media by focusing on a combination of private events and Nintendo Directs.
Its just that simple. Only reason I brought up 3rd party content as it will be shown off in those as well, where earlier, with Wii, they'd skip a lot of multi-port content. BTW the 3rd party content you talked about was either exclusive or had exclusive elements to it. But they didn't show off Madden or NFS or Injustice or ..... and so on. Now they will be able to due to the increased time and lower costing ND.
