Hum... wasn't that used against Sony's fans not so long ago? ¬_¬

idk you should go look it up

I was being rethorical. 

so was I

What would be interesting to check, is who actually made such claims back then... hm?

After thinking the situation for a while I think this won't change anything. 

Casuals don't watch E3, simple as that. The only reason they get information is because newspapers and non-gaming websites make articles about the matter. So, if Nintendo gets the same media attention with no big flashy conference at the Nokia theater, nothing will change and this will only be use for Nintendo haters to say Nintendo is a smaller and stupid company (or that they need to grow up, I already saw that on this site).

People begining to over react confimed! Next...

yes yes we know, nintendo is doomed and bla bla

Time to get to work:

The exact view count isn't important. What's important is that those videos have as many or more views than their E3 counterparts, showing that Nintendo's ND audience is roughly the same size as their E3 audience. So... Nintendo's E3 conferences also attract "small potatoes."

Why are you comparing Nintendo numbers to Sony numbers? Even at E3, Sony gets way more viewers than Nintendo. Sony is just more popular among the E3 audience, the average person who keeps an eye on game news. Again, Nintendo Directs attract as many or more views as their E3 conferences. Don't believe me? Show me a video of a Nintendo E3 press conference with more hits than their pre-E3 Nintendo Direct from last year.

Or I can save you some time and tell you there isn't one -- excepting the Wii U reveal trailer from 2011. Being a short exerpt of their conference and being a freaking new hardware generation reveal kind of unbalances that comparison. The views on that pre-E3 Direct suggest to me that Nintendo gets an audience boost in their Directs around E3 time. Search the highest-watched E3 videos, at least from Nintendo; most of them are reveal trailers of Mario and Zelda games and such. Those will still be a thing through Nintendo Direct. Again, you really think people are going to ignore 3D Mario's next reveal trailer or the reveal of the next Smash Bros just because they don't take place during a huge, live conference? Well, you're wrong. Videos of the live conferences aren't even what's popular. Just videos of the games, which we still get.

So, new suggestion: why don't YOU show ME hits? Prove to me that Nintendo Directs can't and won't attract an audience of the size their live press conference would attract. Because I have offered evidence; all you've offered is that Sony videos are bigger than Nintendo videos, something that holds true no matter what format Nintendo uses.

They wanted to see games, and guess what, that opening also served as a big Skyward Sword trailer, featuring a lot of footage and details we hadn't seen yet. Guess what else, views didn't "drop off" after that; views were higher than usual for the opening because everyone loved it and probably kept coming back to it.

This ^^

The last pre-E3 Nintendo Direct was a great deal more impressive than their E3 showing. It wouldn't surprise me if in the not too distant future both Sony and Microsoft 'borrow' the idea of having streamed updates on software and hardware on a regular basis.

People really need to stop worrying about the fate of the Wii U, if anything people should be more concerned about the fates of the future current gen efforts from Sony and Microsoft. Those consoles aren't going to be cheap and we're still in the middle of a huge worldwide recession. I can see them both selling worse than the Wii U...but when that happens, how many people are going to harp on about Sony and Microsoft going third party..?