| Smeags said: The SM3DW and Mario Kart 8 trailers didn't garner huge amounts of hype because... they weren't good trailers. They were introduction trailers that did not show us the best that these games had to offer. And that was defiitely Nintendo's fault, but not becaue they weren't live... but because they were poor trailers. People were going on about how (based on the trailers) a mainline Sonic game finally looked better than a mainline Mario game (those were fun times...) It wasn't until the October 1st Trailer for SM3DW (which wasn't live either) to blow away folks (Hey, even you made a thread about it! :D) and the same went with Mario Kart 8, which really didn't impress people until the April 3rd Trailer, which once again blew people away (I'm using GAF because let's face it, VGC is terrible at hyping games... and yet we were still incredibly impressed!) I only see Nintendo needing to improve their reveals... (although their X reveal was on point for sure... so maybe there's hope for them.), not that a non-"live" trailer increases the hype. |
I love you. You're great, Smeagsy-poo.
OT: I'm not surprised at all. Ever since Nintendo put the Direct thing into motion it was obvious what Nintendo wanted to do; Nintendo wanted to have control over the exact time, where, and how we get our information. And they are succeding on those fronts.
What's my personal opinion on this? Well, honestly, I don't care. We are getting the same amount of content we would get with a normal Conference, maybe even more thanks to Nintendo cutting out all the business-talk. I fail to see how this is a "problem" when most, if not nearly all, the people who watch E3 watch it streamed. And Nintendo is even bringing the E3 demos to us by way of Best Buy. You should be saying "Thank you." and stop your whining, especially when you are whining just to whine and make a problem out of nothing.
