Remember the small 3DS conference last year? Could be that they plan on doing a couple of those instead, and if that's the case I won't complain as the 3DS show pretty much punched the main one into the face of the sun.

I've been a Nintendo fan since 1989 when I first played Super Mario bros and Dragon Quest. I'm also a Christian and I attempt not to swear (although it does seem to get the best of me at times). With that said, (1) This is absolutely a fucking ridiculous move on Nintendo's behalf and (2) It's time Iwata is given his walking papers (imo).

P.S I'm probabaly overreacting but still, for  Nintendo fans, E3 presentations are still a big deal and this just seems absurd.

It is as well painful reading your post. possibly Nintendo will go softwar eonly at some point bu trust that (in my opinion) will be only because there is no other future in gaming industry. If Ninty goes teh big 2 will not even been ther eanymore. (In my opinion.)

I agree!

Am I the only one who thinks Nintendo could be on to something, think about it, if Nintendo did do it the old fashion way, none of the non-core gamer audience wouldn't watch E3 either. The only way themass public would know about these E3 announcements is if some media channels share the news like MSN or Today news etc. This is why Xbox E3 keynotes been lacking for the pass few years, because their talking to an audience (casual) who doesn't care about E3.

Nintendo Direct get way more attentions and the best part are that its fully under Nintendo control. Sony have their event back in Feb. which got them alot of buzz and now Microsoft with the next Xbox announcement coming May 21th. knowing how crowded and big E3 is, why not have full control of a event that give plenty of views.

i would love Nintendo to ditch e3, which has become pointless for the 90% of the gamers

don't see the big deal...have enjoyed their nintendo directs much more than any e3 conference from recent memory.
I don't think e3 is as big a deal as it once was in this day and age.

My god, you're really just cerry picking about the DLC... What about everything else? Sure, there was some wishful thinking in there (SSB4 namely), but as a whole that is a much better conference than the actual one Nintendo had. And there has been studies about DLC's indicating that the sooner a DLC comes more people will get it. If it comes out like s few weeks after the games release a lot less are gonna get it...

I'm actually not comparing companies; you can compare e3 to going to the movies to watching a film at home, or going to a concert to simply playing an album at home.... It's just not the same. You don't get to share it with anyone

Of all the years to make such a decision, they had to pick the one where their home console is going through the toughest time and where MS and Sony are going to show their new consoles... awesome.

*laughs into hand*