| Sal.Paradise said: I think your interpretation is too negative..they haven't let lack of third party support stop them before (and wasn't the 'secondary console' thing something Iwata mentioned was contributing to sales of the Wii? That didn't stop them either.) The best way to get that support is to sell your system, which I believe the conference is the best way of doing. No doubt that the next PS and XBox will dominate the show but looking at their game lineup they have to unveil, it'll automatically be better than the last two E3s for the Wii U...and I DO think they'd attract the PS/Xbox crowd with those games, to some degree. This is some serious speculation though, as we don't know how much or really how many of these games Nintendo will unveil, and we're still missing so much info about the PS/XBox lineup and featureset. I think we'll agree to disagree on this one. I just can't believe they've given up on the conference for the reasons you say. |
I don't think know Nintendo has totally given up on E3. I agree that having a bigger conference might be beneficial to get a point across, but they can still do it with these smaller conferences. It's just a matter of how they want to go about it. As of right now, none of us are completely sure how this Conference-xperiment (so to say 
) will go and how it'll be planned out.
However, if we look back at Nintendo's Direct videos then we can see them leading up to this conclusion of a "smaller conference." Nintendo had already announced a new Zelda, new Mario Kart, new 3D Mario, something else I can't remember, etc. All they really have to do is show gameplay and ideas for these games. Large conferences aren't a neccessity for that type of thing.
I would like a normal conference, but that doesn't mean I don't want to see how this'll go. I feel like Nintendo could do quite good with it... or not.
