Is E3 relevant anymore?

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spemanig said:

KLXVER said:

Well they are only showing one game, but they are asking for 90 minutes of press time. Thats longer than most of their conferences have lasted. I still think Nintendo know that E3 is important. They are just in a weird situation with the NX right now.

No, they are in a weird position with E3 right now. There's absolutely nothing about NX that justifies skipping E3. Everything about E3 justifies skipping E3. Nintendo can have their own keynote on their own time and they'll get more coverage and they'll have no competition. That's only the case because E3 is losing relevance. Nintendo could have hosted a Digital Event and they could have made it 3DS centric. They have enough games to fill it out, but they didn't, because they have their own platform to do that with now.

The internet has made E3 obsolete, and publishers are starting to get that. Nintendo got that years ago, which is why they started Nintendo Directs in the first place. Nintendo doesn't need E3, and neither does EA, and neither does Activision, or Sony, or MS, or Ubisoft, or anyone else.

That's why they did the Nintendo World Championship, the Smash event and the 3 day Treehouse livestream...

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