| MTZehvor said: So...Nintendo had more games it could have shown...but deliberately chose not to in order to keep other companies from "copying" their game style? Am I the only one who doesn't buy this? E3 was the time for Nintendo to come out, guns blazing, and show it could compete with Microsoft and Sony. It was their chance to give people a reason to buy a Wii U. And yes, I realize it wasn't a big press conference like the other companies had, but nonetheless, it was still the most highly publicized and criticized Nintendo showing since...well...last E3. Somehow, I have doubts that they would purposefully skip out on mentioning games that could convince people to buy a Wii U simply because they were concerned that someone might steal their ideas, or that people would have to wait. But oh well. I guess time will tell if I'm right on that. |
Regardless of the "Stealing our ideas" bit, which does have some merrit considering Sony and MS have in fact blatantly ripped off even recent Nintendo concepts, the fact of the matter is, announcing games is a double edged sword. Sure, IF perhaps, they're working on, let's say, Star Fox or F-Zero or Wave Race or whatever, and they announced those at least as being "in development" at E3, sure, it could have lifted enthusiasm to a higher pitch, and many fanboys might have soiled themselves. But on the other hand, what do they have left to announce during the course of 2014? And then people would complain next year they they don't have enough "big surprises".
Proof of this is in the equally dual-edged nature of the Nintendo Directs themselves. Nintendo kind of sabotaged themselves, by announcing games like Yarn Yoshi, and Sonic: Lost World, and SMT x Fire Emblem, etc., earlier this year. If those games had been all announced at E3, along with what they did show, I think that alone might have helped put it over the top. But at the same time, they kind of had to announce some of that stuff back when they did, because they had an enormous drought going on, and needed to show people that there were in fact games coming. So they were kind of fucked either way. Show stuff then, but no longer have those games as big surprises for E3, or hold off for E3 ammo, but then have silence for all those months, in which people shit their pants more.
It was, and is, a no win, in that respect. Trust me, I was hoping the rumors or Star Fox were true, perhaps more than anybody. I've been waiting for a REAL SF sequel for over a decade. But I also respect the fact that, even IF they're working on it, it surely won't be out till 2014, if not later, so why announce it so far ahead of time? It's a dual edged sword, it really is.
