That's kind of the problem though.  Nintendo fans are already the ones buying the console.  If they want their numbers to rise they'll have to look outside of that market, and with two powerful consoles set to debut this year, that must be a pretty scary prospect for them at the moment.

Ok, so the main point of this thread is "How shit is Nintendo amirite??!!"

I'm not going to address that, because there's a more important thing to address, the argument that if Nintendo aren't holding a traditional E3 event, then they aren't holding an E3 event.

Now, we could think up many reasons for them wanting to have non traditional events. The most likely one to me is that traditional E3 events are ok if you want to announce games and show a few minutes of gameplay footage, or some cinematics. But Nintendo has a lot of games that are further along in development than that.

Instead of having one event where they have to squeze in so much different stuff, they can have multiple.
One event can focus on investors, recognising the problems that Nintendo have encountered this gen and how they are going to be fixed.
One event can be announcing some 3DS stuff, probably for launch 2014.
One event can be just to give as much in game footage/demo playtime as possible to smash bros, mario kart, 3d mario, WiiU zelda, wii fit u, Shin migami v fire emblem and yarn yoshi.
And then an event on 3rd party partnerships if they want.

tl;dr, you are looking for the negatives.

I wish i was smart like you

I have long contended that Nintendo's efforts at getting the multiplats are more defensive than offensive. If you have a multi-gamer household, and junior gets the game console first for his (or her) Marios and Zeldas, then the dad doesn't have to buy the nextbox to get the CoDs or Maddens (though with EA's dickery, he probably will anyway for the latter)

Nobody buys Nintendo for the multiplats, they don't have to go elsewhere for the multiplats

I think that was what Nintendo was counting on or hoping for, but I think they underestimated the fact that left basically unchallenged the last 4-5 years, that Sony/MS have used their marketing, branding, online networks, and mindshare to basically create an iron grip on the type of "core gamer" market that gravitates towards franchises like Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed and Madden and so on.

Nintendo simply just left this market alone for too long and now its too far gone, there's no getting it back. They would have to in effect moneyhat like Call of Duty or something, which is never going to happen.

wiiU has significantly weaker specs but will receive the exact same games witht the exact same graphical fidelity all while sporting more options via the gamepad?    ...thing is superchunck says it over and over so confidently he almost masks all the stank of the bullshit.

Come to think about it.... you should be presenting exclusive games on your conference...

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=159285

What a shock, everything I said a few posts ago came true!

Moving along.

It's a big gamble - let's just wait and see what happens

I agree. I think they're experimenting too. They know that Sony and MSFT are coming out with new consoles at the same time and that, I even if they show big games, the e3 conference they show will be he one with the least hype going in. It's hard to compete against 1 new console let alone 2.