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DélioPT on 13 November 2016
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Miyamotoo said:
DélioPT said:

I don't think making it last almost 2 hours is part of Nintendo's plans. From what we can see in other big presentations from Nintendo, they like to keep it close to 1 hour.
Maybe to Nintendo that's the sweetspot to get people excited from beginning to end.

I spoke of MS because i remember that there was stuff there that they decided to go into detail and could have showed elsewhere. And if you ask me, that's the kind of situation that companies tend to avoid nowdays: too much talk and too little action.
That's why i have no problem imagining Nintendo focusing on games and whatever secret Switch has and leaving other stuff out for a ND.
All that stuff about online, partnerships and smartphone integration can be discussed in detail, at once, in another day - be it before or after January, 12th.

Nintendo might have said no more talk until the presentation... but they also said that Wii U was not ending production and a couples weeks later they confirmed it.
I don't think having a ND to handle all non-gaming, non-HW related news, a day before the 12th would be against what Nintendo said so themselves.

Well I don't think Nintendo would make live presentation in first place if they are doing only one hour presentation, that too much recources for just one hour presentation and definatly not evrething could fit in just one hour. We had Switch trailer where focus was on what exatly is Switch and Switch concept, evrething else (other Switch features and possibilities, details, specs, lineup of games, 3rd party games, pricing, date of launch and launch lineup...) will be talked on full reveal on 12. January. You can't really do all that with live presentation in only just one hour, especially if you consider that just last few Nintendo E3 NDs were around 50 min.

Nintendo said that Wii U is not ending in week in which Eurogamer said its ending, and they were right about that, because Nintendo Japan 2 weeks later said it will soon be ending.

But point is they dont want to talk about Switch at all before 12. January, soon it will begin holiday season and New year and their focus for that time is to sell 3DS and Pokemon and other currently available products not to talk about Switch, thats why they set 12. January for full reveal not partial reveal, but after 12. January they will have some specific NDs until launch but dont expect any before 12. January.

It seems too little, but it's how they have done until now.
And remember one thing, 5 months after the January presentation they will have E3. So, they will probably focus the most of it's presentation on just launch games and have E3 reveal the rest of the line-up and future games.

Not to mention that, like it happened before, only a few games will have a bigger presence on stage, while other games will just be shown through a trailer and some talk about it.

I'm not against the idea of specific NDs to better explain luanch games, btw.
Even the presentation lasts about 2 hours, you can bet they won't focus too much on each game.

Yes, Eurogamer was "wrong" for a couple of weeks, but that doesn't mean the decision wasn't being planned way before. This is the type of situation that takes time to evaluate.
Nintendo knew this and obviously denied it, because, like always, they want to be the ones who reveal (specially after having details settled down).

January 12th is a Wednesy. Having a pre-ND the Sunday before it (on the 9th) doesn't change Nintendo's message.