Nintendo is completely out of touch with reality.

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Turkish said:

anonymunchy said:

Turkish said:
Nintendo missed a huge opportunity. VGX is watched by millions, Ninty Directs by tens of thousands. They could've shown a new trailer of MK8, SSB or a teaser for a new game and done a better job at marketing than a random Direct stream which only caters to Nintendo fanbase, no one else is watching those streams other than their own fanbase.

Big mistake Iwata, Reggie or whoever runs that company, this was literally the place to get non Nintendo gamers hyped for the Wii U in 2014 but all you showed was Cranky Dong.

The only number I find for VGA viewers is from 2009 and it's at 650k, a decrease from the previous years and Nintendo Directs have hundreds of thousands of views. Perhaps a glimpse of SSB or X would've been nice but I assume they had a small window of time to show something and Donkey Kong is what's going to have to move systems after the holidays.

Geoff himself said yesterday 4 million people were watching while Nintendo Direct streams hover around ~50k viewers, it was a bit more during E3 but then again it was E3.

The only ones were truely hurt yesterday was the Award Show themselves.  With 4 million viewers, I would bet that 390,000 thought it was a total pile of trash and the fact that Cranky Kong was one of the only actual things shown was patheic.   Gamers are getting really fed up with teasers and graphic show-off trailers and just want to see some actual gameplay.  Atleast Nintendo did that.