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BlkPaladin on 14 May 2013
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superchunk said:
noname2200 said:
superchunk said:

Because they are having the same shows, but with a slightly different name. They will still show of games and whatnot and likely it will be blogged / streamed. The only real difference is they've added more NDs. That is what they should have said.

"This year we'll be adding significant more exposure to our fans with multiple Nintendo Directs before and during E3."

That's it. Simple, positive, and so forth. Instead they complicated it with language that made everyone think they'd be doing nothing and so forth. No need to dicsuss the main show at all, just not advertise it.


They're not the same shows at all, though. Especially not the Business Presentation one.

Are they having a large presentation in the same Kodak theater, with the same media, on same date/time?

yes.

They made it confusing when they didn't have to. All they needed to do was focus advertising on NDs and not the presentation. It would have been far less confusing and not given many people the idea that they are missing E3 entirely.

It doesn't matter that the "big show" is more of a quick promo with lots of on-hands time for the press vs a hour long promo event.

It's not the same media, the media isn't invited to this "big" conference. This is just the business partner meeting. Usually the press avoided this meeting in the past since this is just a glorified stock holder meeting tailored to business analysts and partners (logistics/retail, etc) There will be some information to be gleamed from this meeting, but far and wide this meeting the part of the "big press conference" that most gamers wanted to get rid of. Them talking about numbers, market share, what they are going from a busiess standpoint to grow the business, stategic partnership with non-gaming markets.

This meeting use to be held at least a decade ago, once the show floor opened and the gaming media where playing games on the show floor, the business was conducted. It was held in a small conference room at the convention center in 2001, and eventually they stopped having this presentation and just included it in their media event before the show. I think they are using the Nokia Theater again for several reasons. 1) The market is bigger involving more people so the people they have to invite to this presentation is significantly bigger then it was in 2001. and 2)Their is probally going be more media crashing the event trying to glean as much information as possible.

 

Yes they are complicating it for themselves. For the gamers it will seem business as usual. Except for the gamers at home there will be three ND. Two covering more on games that we know about for the Wii U and 3DS, and then one the usual Tuesday that will have the new games if they are not spoiled before hand.