@S.T.A.G.E
Sorry, my IE6 at work seems to fuck up the quotes badly, so I'll respond this way instead.
If the ND only reaches a small amount of Nintendo fans, then why can I read a summary of any given ND ten minutes after the stream ended on every single gaming website I know? Why was pretty much everyone hyped about "A Link to the Past 2" within an hour after the ND ended? I'm sorry, but you severly underestimate the amount of people a Nintendo Direct reaches.