Well, that's still not proof.  It's a speculation based off of certain reasonings, but we can't actually claim that we know this is it.  Even if you have a bunch of people online saying "oh, I didn't buy one because of _____," it should be obvious by now (to those who follow sales and the discussions here) that those vocal people do NOT make up the majority unless it were niche to begin with.

If only people cared more about the content itself rather than how the content is presented, then we wouldn't have people whining about this!

Video or live shouldn't matter. The presentation will be all over the news, epecially if Zelda is revealed. That's all that matters.

I think the people 'whining' as you so generously put it are upset that the content will be shown to only a 10th-to-a-100th of the people.

Nintendo's livestream last year - 150k

Sony's livestream on Twitch alone - 15,000,000

Why would Nintendo kick themselves in the butts like that and show the new games to only a small group of people who would be buying them anyway? When they could show to a larger audience and get them excited, too?

I think that matters.

I did, but you know why the gaming world didn't get set on fire?

Because gaming journalists are petty and childish.  Nintendo clearly won E3 from my point of view.  The others basically just showed tech demoes of non existant games or some call of duty/assassins creed games. There was nothing epic or amazing about them. But Sony won E3 in peoples minds due to 2 reasons.

1. Their bashing of Xbox One.  Everyone seemed to care so much about the price and no drm and stuff they didn't look more closely at Sony's boring conference.

2. The GAMING JOURNALIST experienced Nintendo's conference (or direct) the exact same as everyone else in the entire world.  No one pampered them.  They weren't special and didn't get invited to sit at an event and watch, they had to sit at their own computers like us and watch.  Thus they didn't have their usual excitement they had when talking about Nintendo's thing, and kind of downplayed or ignored it.   

I can understand the gaming journalists to an extent.  Be like instead of going to a live concert you instead watch it online.  It wouldn't be as exciting or fun for them.  But I have no idea why us millions of viewers sitting at home watching on the computer would care.  Either direct or conference, both we are watching on our screen.  Only difference for us is the random clapping or cheering that happens or doesn't happen.  But if you need to hear people react to an announcement to get excited there are millions of youtube people you could watch their reactions afterwards or even live.  Or hell watch E3 with some friends and react together.

Yea time and place of announcement mean nothing I agree.

Wasn't Brawl not even announced.  It just randomly started playing on TV's spread about the E3 event while people were walking around?   That game had huge hype and sold well and it was basically announced like a commercial during E3.  Many people probabbly missed it because they didn't look up at the TV the first time.

That is true but 2013 was a disaster for Nintendo for the wiiU and the system was rattled with consistent negative press. One way they could have avoided some was by going to e3 and not have a laggy stream... Many saw it as doom and gloom as always and even though they are a vocal minority, it just added to the issues of the wiiU in 2013... Nintendo needed any good press they could get their hands on and this did not help at all imo. But again, 2014 might change that thanks to that Tournament thing

Got sources for those numbers?

I for one am happy about there decision... They are already showing more excitement and drive than any other company for this E3.

im not coming, so, no difference to me.