| Dodece said: His point is if I might be so bold. That Nintendo isn't substituting a few smaller events for the larger event that they have cancelled. Which isn't the case at all no matter how many people insinuate otherwise. These smaller events have always been part of their presence at the show. In other words they aren't new, and further more he is saying that Nintendo hasn't even reformatted them to make up for the loss of their main event. I don't think anyone who knows what they are talking about. Assumed that Nintendo wouldn't be having their standard business meetings, or that they wouldn't still be having their private booth sessions with gaming journalists. It should be noted however that every small company that will be attending will have those. Real powers in the industry do have large press events. Even the bigger third party publishers have such public events. So for Nintendo to not be having an event. Sends a very strong message with many negative connotations. Specifically that they are no longer a real power in the industry. It means they will be negotiating from a position of weakness, and stating that they wouldn't be having the event has had a ripple effect forward into time. It creates just one more negative stigma for them, and for their product. It gives license to people to say that they are scared, don't have anything to show, don't know what they are doing, or are just indifferent about their product. None of which is good for potential customers to hear, or even for their supporters for that matter. Lets call it what it really is a pride obliterating bitch slap. You can't honestly tell me that their not having a press conference hasn't left you with some real doubts about their future. |
It gives people like YOU a "license" to say they are scared or don't have anything to show, but let's be honest, you would have been saying that anyway.
Bolded are all of the statements that show how dramatically you are blowing things out of proportion.
Nintendo is certainly taking a risk. It's a risk that may pay off, or it may not pay off. In that regard, I have doubts about their strategy, but being that I'm not a professional businessman like the people running that company, I try not to spend too much time second-guessing their decisions.
I do not have "real doubts" about Nintendo's future. Not at all. Not a single one. They have the best-selling console on the market. They have the two best-selling intellectual properties in the history of the industry. They are profitable. They're doing fine and they're going to continue to do fine, and the fact that they aren't following the same traditions as Sony and Microsoft this year won't change that. Insisting otherwise would be no more than a superstition.
