RolStoppable said:
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. |
So what's the difference between what you said and what has been happening over the last few years? You make it sound like Nintendo had an equal share on multiplatform sites that will be gone now.
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the difference is that no matter how bad a primary conference all attenting media post about practically every single bit of news, smaller sites and those who couldnt attend report on what they see on the live feed, take away the big conference and the 'big three' become the 'big two', no matter how you butter the bread the media exposure from a smaller event at e3 will never hit the same figures holding a larger conference will, regardless of actual content of the event.
gaming media actually treat it like a game to see who can post the first bit of news from major conferences first, many having live text feeds and so on, smaller events are left to specialist/specific media then eventually picked through by the major media outlets 'when theyre done appeasing readers about the major events' all the 'bits you might have missed' come in recaps after e3 is over and when the media blitz about the main ones is subsiding.
however you feel previous nintendo conferences went, doqnsizing e3 is suicidal in the long run.
