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DélioPT on 26 November 2013
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Soundwave said:

Well the other issue is E3 is a looooooooong time away. Are they just going sit on everything exciting until June? The Wii U needs help like *now*, lol. Nintendo wasted a year already not bothering to market the system at all, the poor thing has been trudging through a desert with no water.

And there's nothing really that big from now until June. Nintendo Direct's are a waste. They're just pom-pom waving sessions for hardcore Nintendo fans that were going to buy the next Mario/Zelda no matter what anyway. 

I think VGX really honestly is the best bet.

They can still save plenty for E3 like Miyamoto's new IP (which will probably be more family oriented anyway), Pokken Fighters (?), Animal Crossing U (?), and playable Zelda for example.

We're just so conditioned to E3 being the big media event, but really VGX probably will get you a larger audience base of actual gamers. Especially non-Nintendo fans ... that's exactly the audience you want to sell games like X and Bayonetta (and perhaps) Zelda to.

You want some of these people to at least start thinking "wow, I love my PS4/XB1, but that trailer(s) looked pretty awesome, maybe one day I'll grab a Wii U". 

Aren`t you forgetting DK and Mario Kart 8? Those will come out before June and i bet there`s more to come in the first half.
NDs are just a more enticing way to reveal what normally comes from a news topic on a gaming site. The difference is they create excitement, talk and the news still gets spread out through the web.
It`s a marketing strategy.

You are right, E3 is a big media event. That`s why, except for the last console reveals, E3 is THE place for the big reveals not just because the mainstream media is there, aswell as investors, but because it`s the one time of the year gamers due expect to see something big.

VGX might have a big audience and some excitement going for it - with all it`s worldwide reveals - but in that regard it still doesn`t beat people`s perception of E3.

I don`t know what kind of strategy Nintendo is following this year in regards to E3 and their NDs, but being a part of VGX is a huge thing.
They know that they need something big to make an impression there and i think they have. Will it be the "WiiR"? Don`t know. But seeing as VGX is about games (E3 is both about games and hardware, btw), i wouldn´t be shocked if they showed something really big... another Bayonetta 2 kinda announcement!