How Nintendo could make their Directs more interesting

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IcaroRibeiro said:

The point of a direct is only to aggregate news of the games coming in the next months. In a visual way because it's more appealing than publishing a list on a website

It's not about detailing the games. If that was the point the directs would last hours

I don’t disagree that a visual format is more appealing than publishing a list on a website. My point is they did this poorly. In this case, reading a list is substantially better because this Direct felt like 3-4 minutes of cool stuff and 30+ minutes of bloat. They could have made this Direct substantially more effective had they compressed the mediocre trailers into a much shorter video and focus more heavily on the spotlight games.

And hours if they detail games? We both know that’s not true. Lots of past Nintendo Directs detail games, and they were shorter than this one.

This Direct was the epitome of a quantity over quality. I’m not saying the games on it were bad, but that Direct did nothing to improve my interest in any of those games… perhaps a small amount with Mario RPG and Star Ocean 2–but the rest of it I could do without.