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Turkish on 01 May 2016
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WoodenPints said:

Well when we first got the information about the NX releasing globally in March 2017 along with the news that Zelda on the Wii U will be the only game that Nintendo will bring to this years E3 the entire Internet exploded and thought the apocalypse was coming.....

My initial thoughts about the March release wasn't bad so my opinion on this hasn't changed and I don't really mind that they are missing the holiday period of 2016 as :

 

  • Nintendo enthusiast and core fans will buy the hardware no matter when it releases
  • People buying it for Christmas gifts and parents buying it for kids won't buy it straight at launch anyway
  • 2016 is still fairly early into X1/PS4 lifetime and people will be more likely to be looking for new hardware holiday 2017
  • Building a software library up over the year for its first holiday along with some big hitters releasing holiday 2017 will help push it to the above 2 groups of people

 

Onto the news about Nintendo only bringing Zelda to be playable at E3 and at that on the Wii U and not the NX version is where I was negative about, When I first read this news it really did confuse me a little. Although I didn't expect the NX to be unveiled at E3 but more so of a Nintendo conference/Direct mid-late may to do this (but this was presuming a holiday 2016 release) then to hit it big with the game announcements for the launch window and along with some big games for the first year of the NX's life cycle and put on a real big show to sell people into the NX and start the hype going then to just find out only Zelda on the Wii U will be playable was disappointing.

Now after a few days I've accepted the E3 plans and it really doesn't bother me as there will be other stuff at Nintendo booths with demo reels for Wii U and 3DS titles and they can still announce new 3DS stuff and maybe a surprise Wii U title, We could also get some snippets of NX info such as  developers confirming titles (very small but still) or a proper name reveal and even the Zelda hype if the playable demo is amazing could get plenty of people talking about Nintendo and the NX before the reveal later in the year to build on it.

Has your initial opinion and reaction to both the NX release date and E3 announcements stayed the same or after a few days of settling down and thinking changed from your original opinion?

No, if anything now that we know there is no significant news from nintendo coming out at e3 it made me stop caring about them. No more speculation and hype like usual this season. They're losing mindshare fast.