Rate the E3 2018 Nintendo Direct

[Jon-Erich]

KLAMarine said:

Jon-Erich said:

Let's be honest. E3 has never really been a factor is gamers deciding what to buy. Sega Saturn's forced Spring 1995 launch was one of many factor's that led to that system's failure and it would have happened with or without E3. Sony's $600 PS3 was going to be a turnoff to gamers wether there was an E3 or not. Nintendo had arguably their worst E3 in 2008 and yet that turned out to be one of their most financially prosperous years ever. Microsoft's piss poor show at E3 2010 didn't matter because Kinect sold well that year. Xbox One in 2013 would have sold poorly regardless of of E3.

Well I can't speak for others but I know if there's one thing that has turned me off about E3 is when someone is talking to me about a video game or video games. My time is very valuable to me, just show me the damn trailer with some gameplay, few minutes in length, and I'll be on my way.

Don't waste my time!

I'd much rather just look at a store shelf or digital storefront, look at the games, look up gameplay, and go from there on my own. Most of my game purchases went down that way. No need for a 30-minute commercial with someone running their mouth.

/rant

With the exception of Smash, that's pretty much what Nintendo did with their show and has been doing for the last few years. Square-Enix did the same thing. With Smash in particular, some of the game's features needed an actual explanation. You can't really get far more streamlined than that. The type of presentation that EA, Ubisoft, Sony and Microsoft had was more in line with how E3 was presented in the past. They were 90 minute shows with people talking in between or doing whatever. In fact, E3 in the past used to be far worse because the company with the most sales would have pie charts and sales statistics that they would spend a good 15 minutes talking about. Sony did this during the PS2 era while Nintendo did this during the Wii era. So if anything, E3 is arguably more tolerable than it was in the past. It's also less relevant too, but that's another issue.