I fail to see why some people are getting so outraged. In both cases, you're watching a stream at home. The Nintendo Direct last year managed to cut out a lot of PR nonsense and awkward pauses, and focused solely on content reveals, which I personally preferred. All of the reveals are going to be covered on gaming sites, so I don't see how Nintendo is really missing out on something by not spending 2 hours spewing industry buzzwords at a bunch of journalists.

its not a big deal...The past two NDs (Tomodachi and Smash) have been wonderful and it seems like the on-stage events are just getting worse and worse. What it all boils down to is the games, thats why I care about E3. As long as the games are there, I wont complain.

And all Wii owners are E3 fanatics and watch lame conferences. It may be good for investor crap but what's even better is just bringing the games and making people aware who don't care for E3 (like ...95%?). Making people notice and play Mario Kart and Smash across US and EU in shops, at events, small tournaments is the way to go.

You (whole VGC) do not equal the average customer, stop acting like that.

A digital feed that is lag free and high quality is key #1. Having Reggie lead the video would be better than Iwata, and including a small live audience would help greatly. But most important is games, and having good reveals for said games. SM3DW had an awful reveal. Bad name, bad trailer, bad music. If it had a better name, used the second trailer and used actual game music it would have been far more impressive. Just as Mario Kart was. This year Nintendo needs to show a really good Zelda and at least two other very cool reveals, along with a final name and date for X. If they do that - and the feed and presentation is good - everyone will be pleased with the digital format.

They have.. but not a "live" one.. all us who see the show over internet a in for a "perfect" show..

I know i will see it when it goes "live"

Well, I would be happy if no company would have these conferences so that we would get games announcements over the year and not only on a few days a year (it wouldn't hurt if Microsoft or Sony would already show me one of their new games today and not in June) but I'm not sure if that is good to reach the mass market since newspapers and TV-Station seem to talk about the E3 conferences from time to time.

But it's the age of Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and so on so not sure if these newspapers are even needed to spread the news. Not to forget that Nintendo will still talk to them just without a fancy show.

Last year they announced the new 3D Mario and the new Mario Kart, both HD for Wii U. Did you feel the hype? Because I don't.

Last year I was intrigued by the decision not to do the E3 conference. However, being as they didn't do it and then followed up with their worst year as a video game developer, I'm not sure it was wise. It's really hard to gauge the effect skipping E3 had, but it certainly didn't give them a huge boost. I'm not certain now is the best time for them to perform these sorts of 'experiments.' Clearly, there is nothing stopping them from doing everything they plan on doing this year AND having a conference.

Agreed :(

There was so many issues with the stream last year, that's my biggest issue. Imagine, the new Zelda game is revealed... and stream crashes. 

I really, really dont get what they are thinking... Sighh, more reason to fire Iwata... its quite sad really, here you have a company whoes games are still among the best out there yet the company is being so badly managed that no one is bothering to play them... At this rate, by the time Iwata realizes he fucked up, it will be too late