RolStoppable said:
Wrong. Nintendo could have a presentation with the likes of Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and 2D Mario (all big guns), and it still would be considered underwhelming. On the other hand, ten seconds of a new 3D Zelda seem to be already half of what's needed to save any show. E3 2012 and 2013 are good counter-examples to your oversimplification of my theory. In 2012 Pikmin 3 (a low-selling IP) was declared to be Nintendo's only noteworthy Wii U game while the new 2D Mario game didn't matter. In 2013 Super Mario 3D World and Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze were received with a lot of hatred, because one wasn't a "real 3D Mario" and the other was a 2D platformer. In the current case, the presented content between E3 2015 and the recent Direct didn't change much, yet the two presentations were wildly different perceived. I get that someone would say that the recent Direct was better than E3, but to say that one was awful while the other one was great is too big of a disparity. |
I disagree, I think a presentation with Mario Kart, Animal Crossing and 2D Mario would be well-received - not by all of course, but by a big segment of the Nintendo fanbase. Sure, NSMBU didn't generate much hype - but that's because it looked basically the same as any other NSMB game. Tropical Freeze meanwhile looked exactly like DKC Returns.
And also, your last statement doesn't take into account the differing expectations of the two events. The fact that it's even possible to say that last week's Direct was better than E3 shows the magnitude of the E3 failure. E3 is traditionally the biggest event by a long, long way for Nintendo reveals, in a typical year.
