Aielyn said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
Why? Have you seen Wii U sales? Too much of the market don't know it exists and that it's actually a really good system. And Zelda could be revealed at a US focused event - Zelda has a very small following in Japan. It's pretty much a western game.
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The vast majority of the audience won't be watching VGX, either. And to reach most of them, the best solution is actually advertising.
The vast majority of the audience don't watch any one event, but this event does have the single biggest TV coverage of anything video game related.
I find it very funny, though, that you've just portrayed exactly the stereotype most people have of Americans - thinking that everything is about them. The US is one country. What about the REST of the west? For some reason, Americans think "western = US"...
I'm not American, and I don't think everything is about them. However, that one country makes up over 55% of the sales of typical Zelda titles such as OoT. If you are going to focus a reveal on one market, that would be the one.
Notice that I said that E3 would be different - E3 is watched by the whole world. VGX is an American event, for Americans.
E3 is as much American as VGX, and it actually is watched by very few people. The COVERAGE of e3 is watched by many through media - that is the same as VGX. I don't know if you've watched in the past, but I'm sure you've heard of The Last of Us.
And like I said, the question is "why do it at VGX?". If the issue was trying to get more awareness, there are much more efficient methods for something as well-known as Zelda.
What is more effecient than getting free advertising making an announcement on a show watched by a bunch of videogame enthusiasts?
Let me try putting it another way - why hold off on showing Zelda at E3, at TGS, at Gamescom, at all of the other events before now, only to make the "World premiere" of such an important game on an American show? It would be different if they had begun teasing it ahead of time, and announced a Nintendo Direct to occur around the same time for other countries.
They held off at previous events revealing Zelda because they wanted to focus on the fall titles Mario3D and Zelda WWHD. Revealing the far superior Zelda U before WW was out would have made it seem lame.
And there's also the "why would Reggie be the one to unveil it?" part - it's Zelda. Miyamoto or Aonuma would be the ones unveiling it.
Reggie announced Zelda: ALBW.
No, this is squarely targetted at American audiences. In my opinion, this isn't going to be one of Nintendo's primary franchises (except, perhaps, Metroid - and even that, I find unlikely).
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