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Frogger on 31 May 2016
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KLXVER said:
spemanig said:

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.

You dont know why Nintendo wont show the NX at E3. It could be that they dont want to be in the same situation as they were with the WiiU. So maybe they are waiting to see what Sony and MS has before unveiling it...? Nintendo has had the biggest presence at E3 for the past 2 years with the Treehouse thing lasting for three days. They need E3 because every kind of gamer watch E3. Pretty much only Nintendo fans watch Nintendo Directs.

That doesn't make any sense. It's not about the NX. It's about Nintendo. They still have two platforms to support and they still have games to talk about. They aren't showing more at E3 because they don't believe in E3 anymore. They can show all of those games in a Direct. They don't need E3 to give their games coverage. They aren't waiting for anything. They are revealing NX at their own event because they'll get more attention a their own event, and that's because E3 isn't the defacto place to reveal platforms anymore. It's. Losing. Relevance.

They had Treehouse while not having press conferences. So no, they didn't. And stop pretending that every gamer watches everything at E3. No one but fans watch Treehouse Live, and the Digital Events are literally just Nintendo Directs, so apparently they don't need E3 because only Nintendo fans watch Nintendo at E3.

Or because E3 is losing relevancy and everybody paying attention knows it.