Nintendo haven't bothered much with E3 since Iwata's doomed strategy of abandoning talking to the press and releasing endless, monotonous YouTube videos instead. In the years following the Year of Luigi, you never really hear anything in Europe about Nintendo games unless you're reading a specific Nintendo article. PlayStation and Xbox games you hear and read about even in pop culture in comparison. When a random person who has never played an Xbox knows who master chief is, but can't explain how Splatoon works, Nintendo has a problem.
As for people going to saying sales figures are good... At the time the NES Mini was discontinued officially, it had sold more units than the Switch up to that point, even though the potential market for it was much lower. I honestly believe most switch owners are diehard Wii-U fans who upgraded in hope the Switch won't be a (10 years out of date) box of broken promises like the Wii-U was.
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