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Soundwave on 25 April 2013
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superchunk said:
Soundwave said:


They have showed quite a bit of third party content the last few years, last year a lot of time was spent on Batman (rightly or wrongly, lol) and Zombi U.

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.


It's not a conspiracy, it just makes sense.

If Nintendo had multiple third parties that were really focusing on the Wii U and giving them mindblowing content, I don't think they'd be going this route.

But since they're getting multiplats of only certain titles at best, and the rest of the show is just going to be Nintendo IP ... why bother with a big stage? It's not just EA. There's basically nothing from Konami. Outside of Monster Hunter not much from Capcom seemingly either. Nada from Square-Enix thus far. Looks mum on the Rockstar front too. That Mikami game? Nope, looks like.

Ubi Soft is the only one really supporting Nintendo with a lot of help, but even they screwed Nintendo on the Rayman deal, privately I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo was thinking "hell no" to having Rayman or Watch Dogs on their stage this year. Why should they help Ubi Soft when Ubi Soft screwed them in a moment when they badly needed content?

It costs a lot of money and Nintendo Direct does a good enough job getting the word out to Nintendo fans.

I think Nintendo just got to the point where they said "well our show is basically just our own games ... why are we spending so much for a stage show again? These Nintendo Directs seem to do a good job with our own fans".