Pachter on Nintendo's E3 Plans: "Not sure how this is different."

[Mr Khan]

pokoko said:

superchunk said:
I think Nintendo might have unnecessarily complicated their E3 presentations.

I've been thinking this for awhile.  There was really no need for them to announce much of anything, especially this far in advance.  All it did was make people concerned or dismissive.  All they had to do was go ahead with their plans and there would barely have been a peep about it.

I think it was softening the blow. While there would have been a great deal of hype with the directs, if they would have dropped the "oh, btw, the main show won't have anything new" (compared to the directs, anyway) at the end of the last pre-E3 direct, there would have been meltdowns like we've never seen.

While it may have created undue bad press beforehand, lowered expectations could work to their advantage at this point.