RolStoppable said:
Mummelmann said:
Gonna have to disagree with the OP, the ones I have seen have been awkward and also plagued by a lack of truly exciting news. Part of the problem is their attempts at dangling carrots before the Directs, hyping up incoming announcements, we shall never forget Cranky.
I respect that Iwata is probably the only gaming industry icon that presents anything in such an intimate form but the execution is a bit clumsy, the format seems awkward and there simply isn't enough meat to pack into the Directs, at a yearly electronics and/or gaming convention, it's different since there are so many different players on the scene to show their stuff, no one company on its own is likely to have enough gunpowder to make big blasts several times a year.
It seems like a very Japanese idea to me, and it also appears not to be having the desired effect, given that the desired effect is more exposure and subsequently increased sales. It's not what the doctor ordered and Nintendo still needs to solve the Western market puzzle.
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Cranky Kong wasn't a Direct announcement, that was the VGX thing. And it wasn't Nintendo who hyped up that incoming announcement, but a bunch of lunatics who thought that the VGX awards are a fantastic show. Nintendo usually announces what a Direct will be about when they announce a new Direct, so the perceived lack of exciting news is solely created by the expectations of people who refuse to believe that the Direct will be about the things that Nintendo announced beforehand; and that's probably what led you to believe that Nintendo is misleading their audience.
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So even when Nintendo make their own announcement show to avoid being shamed by the media and internet in general; they end up getting outide influences hyping their announcments, thus ending up being trolled once more when they don't deliver on those promises they never made? 
Regardless; it doesn't change my opinion on the Directs themselves, it's not the grandest idea they've had, in my honest opinion.
