Nintendo fans were hit with a crushing blow today, when the Big N announced it would not be holding its normal, large-scale presentation at this year’s E3 press conference. While the announcements will still come, as they always do, what this does mean is that there will be no Reggie storming the stage this year, asserting that his body is ready. No Miyamoto-san appearing from the fog wielding a Master Sword and Hylian shield. No Iwata-san pulling a 3DS from his pocket to the roaring cheers of a packed audience. In other words, none of those exciting occurrences and classic moments Nintendo fans look forward to for months on end.

Instead the company will be holding a series of Nintendo Direct broadcasts, supplemented by a small presentation for business partners and a smaller press gathering at their booth to show off this year’s game demos. Given that Directs occasionally have a tendency to be pretty eventful (like the last one where a sequel to SNES masterpiece The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was announced), we can probably expect the E3 versions to be fairly noteworthy.

Regardless, for avid followers of the Big N, this news is disappointing at best. But shock and letdown aside, when you think about it, it’s really not as big of a deal as it feels like… and it actually makes more sense than you might initially think.

Read the rest here: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/26/nintendos-e3-absence-its-going-to-be-okay

We could have (and did) just read this over on IGN. If you have something to post on here, let it be your own interpretation of it with a link. Not copying the IGN article word for word, including the headline. Makes you seem like there's not an ounce of originality in you at all.

Here's a link to the post I made over at IGN about the Nintendo not giving an E3 press conference.

http://www.ign.com/blogs/rendermonk/2013/04/26/nintendont-wanna-attend-e3/

That was a pretty mean way to word that.

Not everybody reads IGN, and that's also why I didn't post the whole article so people would actually head to IGN to read it. Think of it as free advertisement for them since I like them. Also, no this was not meant to be an original post, feel free to check my history for more original ones if you feel like it :P.

no harm done, this thread was not meant to have personality in it.

My apologies. I didn't mean to offend, just tired of seeing the same articles on 10 different sites anytime anything breaks in the news. Then I come to see what people are talking about here, and a forum post was made as a copy paste. Just got under my skin I guess. I just though maybe giving your own thoughts on the issue, and then pointing to the full article with a link to IGN would be better. Just seemed lazy, like you were looking for a post count boost. Hate that stuff.

I generally pick the more positive things sometimes just to offset all the negative energy around here, it's no different than somebody posting Adam Sessler's "ZOMG YOU DOOMZ NINTENDO!" video if you think about it.

My take on no big E3 conference is that it won't effect the overall and people are making too big a deal out of it personally. We'll still see the things we want to see even though not having a Nintendo E3 conference is disappointing. It's pretty much a soft drink we don't need to drink(a dramatic expereience) compared to a necessity like water(actual games that gamers want to see.) Since I don't want to be a journalist, I won't blog or write a 2 page essay on it though, too lazy like you said.

oh for sure, they even have a pretty big booth at PAX Prime usually.

This quote shows what only E3 can do:

"While the announcements will still come, as they always do, what this does mean is that there will be no Reggie storming the stage this year, asserting that his body is ready. No Miyamoto-san appearing from the fog wielding a Master Sword and Hylian shield. No Iwata-san pulling a 3DS from his pocket to the roaring cheers of a packed audience. In other words, none of those exciting occurrences and classic moments Nintendo fans look forward to for months on end."

All this was wonderful to see on stage. No rehearsals. Just live presentations: whether they went fine or not.
As great as NDs are, they don`t pack a punch like E3 does.
At least, i hope that Nintendo doesn`t make the mistake of delivering 3DS or Wii U news piece by piece. Just show it all at once. One for 3DS, one for Wii U. That way things won`t be as bad.

what crushing blow? I would get it if we didn't have an alternative way of getting information but since we have NDs there is really nothing to be sad about.

they could still do all of what they usually do at E3 the only difference would be that there is no fancy stage and audience in front of them and really who care about that if your not among them anyway? this will just make E3 more boring than usual

I won't be mentioning why though since people will start whining if I mention any other company in a Nintendo thread