Revisited: "Nintendo fans are predictable" - Now in compliance with forum rules

[DivinePaladin]

You're definitely oversimplifying things here. There are tons of fans who were looking solely for the 25 minutes that you seem to think people forgot about. We got a bunch of release dates for Q1 2016 and got the hype train started on a good amount of those games. I don't give a damn about Fire Emblem but you can tell Fates is about to start rolling the ball downhill. Things like that, DQVII/VIII, Bravely Second, Paper Jam*, etc. are a big deal to many. They may all be overshadowed by the fact that Cloud has broken all the sacred tenets of Smash eligibility, because, y'know, that's a big goddamn deal, but they're still factors in why the Direct was well received. The only two things that underwhelmed were the weak Yokai Watch push and the freemium games. Well, and how poor TPHD looks, but that's to be expected by most of the sensible people here. Boiling it down to a port that many people unaffected by the Zelda cycle disliked and a very controversial character doesn't do this Direct any justice when they did so much more. And as an addendum to that statement, when arguing that only four series matter when it comes to Direct, you should be more mindful that the reaction to every game in those four series this gen - with the exception of Smash - got very poor response from fans upon reveal. 3DW was hated unlike any other game until its second footage reveal, Zelda U looked horrendously empty, and I won't even touch Federation Force's response. So TL;DR you're very much oversimplifying if you're gonna boil peoples' opinions of Directs or Nintendo by four series alone.