| irstupid said: I read all your prior posts and you talk alot about "no games in 2018 or future" and it being all PR talk basically that they only talk about today. You bring up how in the past they used to talk about the future. ECT. Well here are my two cents. 1. In the past. In the past they also had big live conferences. They also no longer do that. They have differentiated how they Market and release themselves and their games from Sony/Microsoft in basically all ways. Being secretive is nothign new for Nintendo. 2. What is teh point of announcing 2018 games now? The hype and demand for a switch is through the roof right now. Why further hype something that is 'sold out' They can showcase 2018 and future games whenever they want to draw new hype and excitement to teh system, no need to have it get lost in the E3 noise. Hell look at teh Pokemon direct. It shut down a half dozen gaming sites on the internet after it aired. Nintendo had that day solely to themselves. No sharing with MS/Sony and the dozens of other 3rd party developers that E3 has. Same with any other Nintendo direct other parts of the year. They get that day to themselves. Everyone in the gaming community is tuning solely into them, and afterwards has only them to talk about. |
I think you may have misread what i wrote and what i "implied".
I never said 2018 is doomed and that there won't be games for Switch in 2018.
All that i have been trying to say is that i don't believe the "we only reveal games closer to launch, now". Specially when that change came during a time where they really had nothing to show.
And to me, that was PR spin, damage control, whatever you want to call it.
Going from press conference to digital event was, in my view, more of a necessity than anything else.
Can you imagine their conferences lasting less then 45 minutes and having only Nintendo games?
The digital route also ended up being great for them: 2014 showed that, 2015 aswell.
Basically, even they changed how they "appear" at E3, the way they revealed their line-up didn't really change until E3 2016 (E3 2016 was for Zelda and Paper Mario: CS. That was it.)
Also, at E3 2015, when they had no games besides Mario Tennis, they couldn't actually show them, right?
What's the point of hyping 2018?
Why do you think companies like Sony and MS do it? Specially Sony, who dominates the market. It's in the bag for them, so why the extra mile?
Because that's what winning companies do: they sell you the present and the future to have a hold on you and not another company; to create this image that they are better than anyone else, etc., etc..
Nintendo, despite it's great start with Switch, has to show that they are up there with the other companies.
You can change your ways and do things the way no one does, but when you confront them with other companies, they will pale in comparison. And that isn't the image that companies want to pass to consumers.
