breaking news, "live" shows are the exact same thing as pre-recorded shows, millions rejoice at the realization that they no longer need to attend: sports events, racing, band performances and more, because the tv coverage of the highlights, is the "exact same thing"

All hail superchunk.

p.s. during live presentations its made abundantly clear from the audience, directly to the presenter, what portions of the reveals are appreciated, and disliked, putting out a pre-recorded video completely lacks that layer of response, and distances the company from both the media and the general public tuning in on a live stream to comment.

It's really that simple.

The overreaction last year was crazy. People even think Nintendo wasn't at E3 at all, despite them having one of their largest show floors ever.

It all goes to show that Nintendo are 100% right in not pandering hard to this media segment and customer demographic in the first place.

He's saying it's the same damn thing. And in that he's correct.

People are hung up on these oftentimes buggy, oftentimes boring, and oftentimes downright embarrasing live conferences. The importance of these events is fading out more and more. There's a reason that E3 was basically closed to the public for a couple years there. It's because the show means much less than it used it. A long time ago, E3 was a reason to get excited, in a world where we DIDN'T have a seemingly constant stream of "news" and speculation every single day, every single week. E3 was a big deal when it was like the ONE time of year we really got big reveals and big info. Now? That shit happens all year, every year, at random. Yes, some companies do still save some "big guns" type news or anouncements for E3, but that is getting to be less and less. Case in point: Most of the info about PS4 was already "leaked" or outright confirmed before that "epic" conference even took place.

More companies will slowly start going the video route. Many companies have already dropped out of the E3 race over the years, because honestly it's getting to the point that it's a cash-sink and a waste of money.

And Chunk's point about what it means to most of us, who never have nor ever will go to a live E3 event, we're still sitting on our PCs and watching game new unfold.....it's not much different at all, except, as he said, in production values. And I get that some people for whatever reason seem to think "Aw MAN, Nintendo needs to have a massive live conference again and knock it out of the park", because they seem to think somehow that will be the magical momentum shift that might get Nintendo back on top. Or hell, maybe some people simply like bitching about whatever NIntendo does, be it positive or not. Bottom line is, this really isn't a big deal at all. Nintendo will be showing Zelda, that's a no-brainer. They will have at least a couple surprises in store, almost always happens. And we'll finally get more info on games like X, Yoshi, Bayonetta, SMT x FE, Hyrule Warrirors, Sonic Boom, etc.

There is simply nothing stoping Nintendo from still "knocking it out of the park", and creating some major hype, just because they're not doing it live. Just ask the recent (and basically surprise) MK8 video.

Thanks Wikipedia.

"A press conference is a media event in which newsmakers invite journalists to hear them speak and, most often, ask questions."

Journalists are not invited to ask questions at any of the E3 conferences. Nothing here says it must be live. I fail to see how Microsoft inviting journalists to hear them speak from a stage is a "conference" while Nintendo inviting the same journalists to hear them speak from a pre-recorded video is not.

In fact, right there it says it's a media event. Video is a form of media. Nintendo's E3 conference is even called a digital event. It's a press conference, held during E3, largely about E3 (such and such will be available to play on the show floor). So in every regard, this should be considered an E3 conference.

Everything will be streamed: the Digital Event, the live Treehouse sessions, and the Smash Bros tourney.

Most often does not mean always.

''Most often'' in this case is for the ask queston part, Just like when politicians get caught doing something bad, they have a press conference sometimes they'll just say their part and leave some other times they'll let the journalists ask questions and answer them.

Part of that is message control, something Nintendo is notoriously poor at. They do their thing, people make conclusions about that, often quite negative, and Nintendo just lets these impressions run amok in the wild. If Nintendo stayed ahead of the message, it wouldn't be damaging.

I'd much prefer a traditional E3 conference...

Also call it what it is, a Nintendo Direct. Sure we'll still see games, but the pre-recorded nature of it makes it far less exciting. Same with the lack of an audience, and of course for all the journalist, its not the same spectacle as being sat before a stage and the amount of coverage Nintendo get will suffer as a result. Overall its just not as exciting :(

Essentially this comes down to whether people care about the live setting or not, whether or not it will affect press. Lets not drag it out and start arguing about semantics -_-