They are making themselves "exclusive" similar to Disney or Apple. Genius if you ask me. A risk, but genius. Sony and MS can fight it out in the trenches whereas Nintendo will make no official appearence. Makes them appear important in our deepest thoughts.

E3's importance is vastly over-exaggerated.

Sega utterly wiped the floor with Sony in both 1999 and 2000, sales did not reflect this.

But then the floor smelled like Sony.

again. Why not do both? not being at e3 sends a message that Ninty isnt taking this whole thing seriously and in turn people wont take them seriously. Doesnt matter what some forum goers say. a ND is not a substitute as the people watching does are Ninty fans already. But hey they can do what they want. But im thinking we arent going to see much new if anything at E3

important? is that why the WIi U have been doing so much better than PS4/one...wait.

Thumps up. People need to wake up and see the reality. Just because some are ok doesn't mean everyone else is. Companies moves by interests and press is not interest anymore in cover Nintendo.

ND are watched by us, Nintendo fans, and we will watch a live conference or a pre-recorded ND, but not anyone else. Most prefer those conferences, crappy or good.

They probably have nothing to announce so this is probably good then. If they on the other hand DO have cool things to announce, then this is a big fail

Just because there is no presentation... that does not mean no conference.

My god people are so narrow minded.

You get far more info this way, better demos/videos, actual possibility of hands-on demo if you can get to a best buy, better media coverage of actual content vs dumb PR crap...

This is so much better. Plus it will be streamed 100% in the same fashion as everyone else.

Can't wait!

Some people are way too hung up on the conference being live. The Direct delivers virtually the same information at the same time, and is probably more succinct as well. Whether the conference is live or pre-recorded is irrelevant.

The stream itself isn't that important. Most people don't sit through all 5+ hours of live conferences at E3. They're more likely to be skimming sites like IGN or Destructoid all day for the latest news, and the type of conference Nintendo holds has no bearing on how these sites will cover their content.

All that matters is what Nintendo brings to the show. If they have exciting new games to talk about, people will listen. If they bungle it and show the same stuff as last year with one or two new things, most people won't care.

Now finally getting to the meat of this, the Treehouse event sounds similar to the Developer Directs from last year (which were outstanding). I'm excited for the Best Buy event again, and actually I think it's better for only being Smash Bros. And the Smash tournament sounds awesome. It's a great idea to involve the competitive community and drum up hype for the new game.

Same thing as a conventional E3 presentation.
Can`t wait!!