Exactly!!! I hate when people say it failed because NSMB Wii sold 30m and NSMBU is only at 2m. I dont think it will come close to its predecessor s sales but Mario games have incredible legs and with bundling Im pretty positive it will pass 15m.

Without a big E3 conference, Nintendo are drifting further away from the core market they so desperately wanted with the WiiU, there is no way to spin this positively. The last good Nintendo E3 conference was the 3DS full unveil, the others have been terrible and I know Nintendo Directs appease the Nintendo fans, but they don't have a reach big enough to get to the mass market, E3 would do that.

It doesn't matter that they are on the show floor, they won't be dropping the megatons needed from the show floor, to save the WiiU's image this year they needed to come out all guns blazing at E3 with an insane conference and gameplay trailers and presentations of games that will appeal to multiplatform gamers, with Nintendo Directs, I think that market is crucially lost.

Nintendo is having a party with themselves like they always do. 

Yes, because the worlds gaming media go to E3. The "casuals" hear about everything at E3 from this media.

On another note, this is probably the best year to try something different. All Nintendo noise is going to be drowned out by the PS4 and Nextbox noise from the general media.

One thing I think Nintendo could do is make demos available to the public. Give every Wii U/3DS owner a week of Mario 3D. A week of Zelda WW/ALttP2. A week of Mario Kart Wii U.

And u dont think the media will say/show anything about the games they have on the floor

incoming super nintendo direct 2 hours long.

Wii U:
3d Mario
Mario Kart
X
bayonetta 2
wonderful 101
more pikman
smash brothers details and screens
zelda game
yoshi yarn
retros game?

3ds
mario party
dream team
new leaf
mario and donkey kong
Zelda game
donkey kong country returns
Retros game?
pokemon x/y
mario golf

those are just the ones off the top of my head and bet there is more. pretty exciting!

I think you might be exaggerating how well Sony has done and how poorly Microsoft and Nintendo have performed at E3 in the past.

Yes, last year Sony "won" E3, but not by much. The best demo of the Sony presentation (really the best demo of the entire expo) was The Last of Us. That pushed Sony over the top. But I think Nintendo's show has been wildly underrated. Sure it relied a little too much on established IPs and ports, but it showed off Pikmin 3, ZombiU, Lego City, Luigi's Mansion, Kingdom Hearts, Castlevania, etc. Plus it presented a new philosophy: asymmetrical gameplay.

Microsoft, I'll admit, performed poorly last year.

I never said that. I fully expect the media to be talking about Nintendo stuff.

Sorry I thought u were implying the media wouldnt be giving nintendo attention because they dont have a big press conference. My bad