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irstupid on 29 April 2014
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Pavolink said:
Smeags said:
There will be an E3 conference... just not live...

Whether it'll succeed or fail has never been dependent on whether it's live or digital, but about the content they show for the fans.

Sure, we had great live conferences like 2006 and 2010... but we also had less-than-great (that's putting it lightly) conferences with 2008 and 2012. Being live or not had very little to do with their successes and failures. Nintendo will impress with new features, games, and announcements, not CEO and talking heads going on about sales, ecosystems, and other buzzwords.

And with a digital conference, the only technical issue they have to worry about is their live-feed (which *was* piss poor last year. Hopefully they'll have that fixed this time... >_>). No more crashing games (Assassin's Creed at the PS conference) or broken controls due to interference (Skyward Sword). Nintendo will show us exactly what they want to show us, and they'll succeed or fail based off of that.


Last year they announced the new 3D Mario and the new Mario Kart, both HD for Wii U. Did you feel the hype? Because I don't.

I did, but you know why the gaming world didn't get set on fire?

Because gaming journalists are petty and childish.  Nintendo clearly won E3 from my point of view.  The others basically just showed tech demoes of non existant games or some call of duty/assassins creed games. There was nothing epic or amazing about them. But Sony won E3 in peoples minds due to 2 reasons.

1. Their bashing of Xbox One.  Everyone seemed to care so much about the price and no drm and stuff they didn't look more closely at Sony's boring conference.

2. The GAMING JOURNALIST experienced Nintendo's conference (or direct) the exact same as everyone else in the entire world.  No one pampered them.  They weren't special and didn't get invited to sit at an event and watch, they had to sit at their own computers like us and watch.  Thus they didn't have their usual excitement they had when talking about Nintendo's thing, and kind of downplayed or ignored it.   

I can understand the gaming journalists to an extent.  Be like instead of going to a live concert you instead watch it online.  It wouldn't be as exciting or fun for them.  But I have no idea why us millions of viewers sitting at home watching on the computer would care.  Either direct or conference, both we are watching on our screen.  Only difference for us is the random clapping or cheering that happens or doesn't happen.  But if you need to hear people react to an announcement to get excited there are millions of youtube people you could watch their reactions afterwards or even live.  Or hell watch E3 with some friends and react together.