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Conference or Digital Event!

Conference 207 53.21%
 
Digital Event 99 25.45%
 
Who cares? E3 is E3 83 21.34%
 
Total:389
S.T.A.G.E. on 10 May 2014
Turkish said:
LOL at Nintendo fans voting for the "digital event" option


This is the truth. Nintendo fans are backing what Nintendo did even if it meant ignoring the fact that Directs are hurting Nintendos publicity. Being that E3 is now televised on cable a portion of the larger audience was lost. They could've just sretched out their conference time to an hour and showed off what content they had on the direct there. The directs havent been great at all. Half the time we've seen responses to Directs on Gametrailers from Nintendo fans even they've expressed disappointment.



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Cheebee on 10 May 2014

Everyone commenting on this all over the internet will be watching this at home. In front of a screen. As such, it doesn't matter whether it's a live conference or a pre-recorded one. In fact, for this audience, a pre-recorded one has more benefits over a live one, as there won't be awkward glitches or mistakes. The only people who ought to prefer a live conference are the journalists and other such attendees at E3. And their number is negligible, in all fairness.



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Fusioncode on 10 May 2014
daredevil.shark said:
Lol. Nintendo is skipping because they have very few games to show and their hardware isnt doing great. Why are you dragging sony / microsoft in to this? To see others to take the route of "surrender" which nintendo has adopted? Grow up man.

Cool it. There's no reason for that kind of hostility. I'm just asking for opinions here. 



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

Solid-Stark on 10 May 2014

Nope. There's something about the conference that makes it better.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 10 May 2014
Cheebee said:
Everyone commenting on this all over the internet will be watching this at home. In front of a screen. As such, it doesn't matter whether it's a live conference or a pre-recorded one. In fact, for this audience, a pre-recorded one has more benefits over a live one, as there won't be awkward glitches or mistakes. The only people who ought to prefer a live conference are the journalists and other such attendees at E3. And their number is negligible, in all fairness.


There is no thrill in a pre-recorded video. At E3 industry people react on behalf of fans, try out the games and report back to us. with Nintendo there is no grand preview, its just them telling us whats what without a proper live demo or anything. That can be done at any time and even the non E3 Directs are lackluster. E3 is a grand show and Nintendo excluding themselves from it seems funny.

At E3 the world is watching the big three sink or swim and thats where the thrill derives from. 



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Porcupeth on 10 May 2014

Conference

i don't see the point of anything else. if you're not gonna do that then you might as well just release material like you would normally do any day of the year, and without concentrating it in one or few days



S.T.A.G.E. on 10 May 2014
ClassicGamingWizzz said:
Yea right, so many votes to the digital event , why not end E3 ?


Exactly, Nintendo fans follow Nintendo so blindly that their wishes for the companies to follow Nintendos method would negate the grand nature of E3 itself, which take away its centerpiece. People would be better off watching the pre-taped videos at PAX if this was the case. E3 is an event where viewers are watching and judging the developersand publishers  based on what they have planned for the year.



Cheebee on 10 May 2014
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Cheebee said:
Everyone commenting on this all over the internet will be watching this at home. In front of a screen. As such, it doesn't matter whether it's a live conference or a pre-recorded one. In fact, for this audience, a pre-recorded one has more benefits over a live one, as there won't be awkward glitches or mistakes. The only people who ought to prefer a live conference are the journalists and other such attendees at E3. And their number is negligible, in all fairness.


There is no thrill in a pre-recorded conference. At E3 industry people react on behalf of fans, try out the games and report back to us. with Nintendo there is no grand preview, its just them telling us whats what without a proper live demo or anything. That can be done at any time and even the non E3 Directs are lackluster. E3 is a grand show and Nintendo excluding themselves from it seems funny.

There is no thrill in 'live' presentations. Those are rehearsed beforehand as much as prerecorded shows, and even then often wind up embarrassingly awkward and chock full or errors. Even so-called 'live' demos have often in the past not been live at all. Kinect's unveiling 'demo' comes to mind, and there are many more such examples.

People at E3 do try out Nintendo's games and report back to us. Nintendo is at E3. It's just the initial conference - the starting presentation - which isn't done live. All the games and demos and showfloor-hands-ons and booths and accompanying stuff are all there.

Honestly, these reasonings of yours hold no water, at all.



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TheJimbo1234 on 10 May 2014
Fusioncode said:

A lot of Nintendo fans seem happy that Nintendo is going the Direct route and skipping out on a press conference again, I'm curious if Sony and MS fans would support a move like this as well. 


Happy as in "rocking back and forth saying that it is ok and simply a change" rather than the result of a huge failing on Nintendos part.

Moderated,

-Mr Khan



S.T.A.G.E. on 10 May 2014
Cheebee said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Cheebee said:
Everyone commenting on this all over the internet will be watching this at home. In front of a screen. As such, it doesn't matter whether it's a live conference or a pre-recorded one. In fact, for this audience, a pre-recorded one has more benefits over a live one, as there won't be awkward glitches or mistakes. The only people who ought to prefer a live conference are the journalists and other such attendees at E3. And their number is negligible, in all fairness.


There is no thrill in a pre-recorded conference. At E3 industry people react on behalf of fans, try out the games and report back to us. with Nintendo there is no grand preview, its just them telling us whats what without a proper live demo or anything. That can be done at any time and even the non E3 Directs are lackluster. E3 is a grand show and Nintendo excluding themselves from it seems funny.

There is no thrill in 'live' presentations. Those are rehearsed beforehand as much as prerecorded shows, and even then often wind up embarrassingly awkward and chock full or errors. Even so-called 'live' demos have often in the past not been live at all. Kinect's unveiling 'demo' comes to mind, and there are many more such examples.

People at E3 do try out Nintendo's games and report back to us. Nintendo is at E3. It's just the initial conference - the starting presentation - which isn't done live. All the games and demos and showfloor-hands-ons and booths and accompanying stuff are all there.

Honestly, these reasonings of yours hold no water, at all.


LOL There are people in this world who view a stage performance to be more captivating than a video (many). Almost every electronics brand goes through it. Nintendo just walked themselves out of tradition. Its obvious that Nintendo did not have enough content to fill a full show so they prepare 30-40 minutes of film. How anti-climactic and boring.