Is the lack of Nintendo Direct a bad sign?

[Metrium]

Nintentacle said:

Metrium said:

gergroy said:

really?  the best way?  I bet if I went up to and asked 20 wii u or 3ds owners what a nintendo direct is, maybe one of them would know and the rest wouldn't.  Nintendo would probably have better luck using more traditional game media, but nintendo has never liked releasing any kind of control of their message.  Which is part of the problem with nintendo.  They are way too controlling with information.  

What does other company do to get attention when they want to reveal a new game, release a new trailer or announce a launch date? They use websites like IGN right? Well I got news for you, after a ND, IGN ends up talking about what has been announced and post the trailers so that the ppl who are not watching can still learn what's going on. I know it sounds crazy, but if Nintendo announced the launch date of Smash tomorow at a ND, or revealed a new trailer, all of us including you will end up knowing about it cause ppl will talk about it on this forum, on IGN and other gaming blog, the same exact way ppl whould learn about any other game.

Back on topic. Nintendo needs to understand that the longer they take to give us this ND, the higher the expectation are going to be. I look at the future and I see nothing for both my 3DS and WiiU after DK. Only MK that does'nt even have a launch date, they need to launch Bayonetta between DK and MK or something else. Complete silence in front of this barren will only convince ppl to go somewhere else. Their's a limit on how long ppl are willing to wait on games with speculative launch date.

A confirmed May release date is enough.

No, not when you have not a single game coming in March and April... Knowing Nintendo, confirmed May is either extremely late in May, like May 30th (making as far as we know a 3months with no games), or not May at all. The latest system update was confirmed for summer, came in like October... Pikmin was confirmed for March at the latest, came in August and DK:TF was confirmed for December and were still waiting for it.