RicardJulianti said:
Basically, everyone is getting exactly what they want out of E3 and directly from Nintendo. Gamers get game announcements and trailers without all of the sales and marketing fluff. Press gets hands-on time without the limitations of the booth setup or the long lines. Businessmen get shown games to see what is coming, but mostly talk about marketing and sales strategy. In their press release about the subject, they mentioned having several Nintendo Directs leading up to E3. I'm guessing a 3DS one to talk more about release dates, show off more LttP2, and Miiverse coming to the system, possibly more XL colors. Then, a Wii U one showing trailers for Mario, Mario Kart, WWHD, Bayo 2, SMT x FE, X, Pikmin 3, Smash Bros and finally Retro's game. Maybe some release windows for those (but they'll all be out before the FY is done, aside from Smash most likely). It's going to be massive. They might even have a separate 3rd party/eShop/Miiverse direct just so they can focus on their first party titles in one sitting.
I could even see Nintendo going the extra mile and putting E3 demos on the eShop for people at home because of the way Iwata worded this quote, "we are continuing to investigate ways to deliver information about our games directly to our home audience around the time of E3." We know there will be Directs and videos from those Directs, so why wouldn't he have just said that? It's VERY optimistic, so I won't exactly get my hopes up over it.
The games they plan on talking about are all coming out this FY according to Nintendo. The teams working on games have mostly been silent in the past 2-3 years aside from 3DS titles. I don't think Nintendo would allocate an entire EAD group to a handheld title that will need less work overall. Many of those 3DS titles have been made in conjunction with smaller studios like Brownie Brown and Grezzo. We won't get another awkward Skyward Sword demo that doesn't exactly work...these games are basically in Nintendo's "polish" phase or are very close. I think they will bundle Mario Kart as it will move systems like crazy, most likely with the Deluxe because the incentives there will lead to more people buying other things on the eShop.
The one thing I'll say is that they need announce the ND's earlier in order to tease and hype them. If they intend to replace E3 with these, they NEED to build hype. This whole.....announce it less than 24 hours in advance thing isn't going to fly. I don't mind the pleasant surprise, but they definitely need to do work.
Another thing that bugs me is the silence on things like W101, it's still a Q2 release after all. Then you've got things for casuals like Wii Fit U and Wii U Party (which I feel should be changed to Mii Party....people love Mii's). I'm not sure if throwing those out there with the likes of Mario and Mario Kart would be the smartest thing. It would be smart to at least release Wii Fit for the summer because people are trying to stay in shape so they can look good at the beach or whatever.
Yet again, Nintendo doesn't do anything that anyone expects them to do. We'll see how it pans out for them.
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