Adam Sessler responds to Nintendo not having a large press conference at E3

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BlkPaladin said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

redgreenblue said:

deskpro2k3 said:
So no show at E3? The future of Nintendo looks grim.

I can see how stories get so totally blown out of proportion. Nintendo say they're going to change up the way they present at e3 and focus on smaller presentations that are aimed to individual stakeholders, rather than have one large boring presentation aimed at everyone. Because of this you think the future of Nintendo looks grim?

Let me paint a picture for you.

Wrestlemania's main event turns into a one on one match because one main eventer in the arranged triple threat match dodged the main event to fight a lesser opponent.

Get it?

Fair enough let me paint one for you. You go to this match and they stop the action ever 3 mintues to give you a run down of every wrestler's financial status and the status of the venue and the legue as a whole and then they have to cancel the end of the match because they are running over the time they told the venue they would finish at a certin time.

What Nintendo is removing what the gaming audience wants, the game announcments, and what the investors and business partners want and turning it into two shows. One of the biggest complaints about Microsoft presentation is they "allow" the business end of the event to overly dominate the press conference, and unfortantly that is one of the biggest parts of E3. So the business partner show will be a Nokia Theater at the usual time, and during this time, they will allow select gaming press to come into their booth and start playing the titles they have been announcing in the ND for the past week. In addition they will probally relase exclusive videos and demos for the people who are following the media show, so they get the gamers into the action as well.

Now I'm not going to say that it could backfire on them. But the laste two, three years the "big" press event hasn't been doing much for Nintendo. And actually the big all encompassing events have more of a chance to backfire on the presenter then actually help them.

What is Nintendo doing to get peoples attention on Youtube. They can barely scrape over a million + views. most of those a reviews and the Nintendo faithful and that is what Sessler was talking about. Its not healthy publicity. What made the Wii successful was the Wii was engineered to take his hand away from the core gamer and put the control into everyone elses hands. The core Nintendo fan will be happy no matter what Nintendo does so casual or not they'll love it. Nintendo has nothing to gain from preaching to the choir of their subscribers on their page who represent a minority of buyers who most likely already have the console. They need software and they need it now.