No E3 Conference for Nintendo this year - Mistake or not?

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RolStoppable said:

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Do you believe? Then I can't understand why TP peacing outsold SS with zero userbase. It has been proved, hell, even Iwata said that TP was the most hyped game of all time way before release. Do you believe that doesn't affect at sales?

How many times we have been proved that hype alone can sell a game? Hoy many went to buy Zelda at launch? Assassin's Creed? Call of Duty, GTA, Uncharted? Even TLOU without knowing about it sold good.

Importance of E3? Let see. Years ago Nintendo have their worst E3 conference in 2008. Most of you killed Cammie Dunaway because her fake smile. Yet, that year the Wii sold above 20m. Wow. And let's not forget next year.

Now the use the new format. Nintendo Direct. 3DS can't meet a modest forecast even with their impressive library.

TP is a better Zelda game than SS. Additionally, its artstyle met the expectations of the audience while SS did not.

Hype alone doesn't sell games. You can't seriously ignore the massive marketing campaigns that accompany the games you mentioned. By any reasonable account, the amount of commercials plays a bigger role than hype.

Your third paragraph undermines your own argument. You said it yourself, the worst E3 conference in years didn't hurt the Wii. So if disappointed E3 followers don't have an influence on sales, what reason is there to believe that hyped E3 followers have an impact?

The 3DS, just like the Wii U, managed to fail meeting its forecasts while Nintendo still held E3 conferences. So once again, your line of thinking doesn't work.

And why do you market your products? Yes. To hype it.

My third paragraph just proves how to market a product and generate enough hype to sell it, even if the content is not as good. A marketing that cannot be as efective as it was with a simply ND.

And by a strange casuality, 3DS got a big bump in Japan after the live conference on Oct 2011. Also, by 3DLand and MK7 announced at E3 and that looks like a lot of people knew about it. And even more strange how the userbase was not a problem for 3DLand on 3DS as it move hardware while 3DWorld was limited by userbase.