| Tachikoma said: Some industry insight for you, when you've released a console that needs to be supported by gamers your best tool is social media and online news outlets (gaming sites), releasing information at E3 is more than just about the people tuning in over the net in excitement, its also about the media blitz that follows each primary conference, news from smaller events at E3 usually gets washed away under the tide of news from the big events and thats exactly whats going to happen to nintendo this year, they'll have their little shindigs, nintendo groupies (the really deaperate ones) will trawl the net for news and spread all the tidbits they can between other nintendo fans in their own little world while everyone else will be seeing mass thread creationa about sony/microsoft hardware, games, services, pricing, speculation and so on, the international games media will be no different, nintendo-specific sites will obviously carry any news they can, but nintendo newa on multiplatform sites is going to drown. it was an extremely poor descision by nintendo to drop their e3 slot in favor of smaller ones, in a long line of bad nintendo descisions the past year, and i do beleieve theyre going to feel the ramifications of that choice after E3. |
I agree, E3 is a huge event and it gets not only gaming media covering it, but the regular media as well. Newspaper articles get written about the big events, it might even feature on the nightly news shows. This happened with the PS4 reveal event, and a large number of people knew about it within days. In other words, the word gets out to average people when they turn on the TV and watch news, or pick up their newspaper. People who normally wouldn't be following gaming news sites on the internet will see these stories about the new PlayStation and new Xbox, and know about them. They'll think "wow! those PlayStation 4 features look impressive!" and "really? the new Xbox does all that!?" and some will become interested in buying it, or at least looking into some more information.
Nintendo Directs and small events are nice for gamers and fans who follow that kind of stuff. But it doesn't make the mainstream media, and that kind of coverage is invaluable in propogating information about a device beyond the core fanbases, just like TV or sporting event advertisements. Core gamers like to think that we are legion, but we are far from it.
