Picture this situation: I'm a gamer who really likes his COD (spend 75% of my gametime on it) and Mass effect but have an interest in Mario, Zelda and Smash from childhood fondness. I only have money for one console. Won't the Wii U make the most sense to me since it has my primary game which is multiplat along with other games I'm interested in?

Matter of fact, most people I know are like this  not necessarily interested in exclusives. My former roommate is a more casual gamer who owns a 360 and every single game he owns  is multiplat. His favorite series is Assasin's Creed, a multiplat series. Never asked him why he bought a 360 in particular but it seems like he just got it originally because it was cheaper.

I don't know man. They're not advertising to only you. Many people bought 360s last gen because they legit think it's only available on xbox. You just don't see these types on gaming sites.

It is very important to show off 3rd party games. The majority of people do not visit forums or gaming sites. They either see ads on facebook, or TV, or they hear news from friends/family/co-workers.

Things like to GTA5 announcment at Sony's press conference get posted on the front page of Yahoo, Google News, Comcast, etc. Now the majority of people know that Sony announces GTA5 coming to PS4 this fall. These people don't click the link, they don't research, they don't know it is coming to XBO and PC as well. This is a huge advantage for Sony. On the other side of the table you have Call of Duty playing the same role for MS.

The point is, whether 3rd party, 2nd party, indie, or in house. When you can associate your platform with the most popular Games/franchises, good is all that can come from it.

I dont gauge if a conference was good or bad based on multiplats they show, but I do apreciate seeing them. Hypotethically speaking, if Sony had shown 10 multiplats games and 1 good exclusive and Ms had shown 0 multiplats and 3 good exclusives Id say Ms conference was the best, but that I had fun watching Sonys conf.

I did not say the scenario was common. It's hypothetical. However, note that this situation is only "uncommon" because of nintendo's approach with the Wii. Most COD fanatics now know ninty's system is not the right place to go.

I could repeat the same example by skipping 2 gens back. Imagine a gamer looking to choose between PS2/xbox/Gc after the Dreamcast expired. The person really loves Soul Blade/Soul Calibur on dreamcast and wants to play the sequel. He also likes nintendo's traditional offerings from owning a SNES in the past. Do you see how said individual would lean towards a GC in that gen if ninty advertised SCII with link? I don't see how this is so hard to understand especially when you're talking about just the PS4/XB1.

For M$ and Sony, confirming the presence of multiplats is very important. It's pretty hard to dispute that. I for one was just glad to new gameplay for many multiplats but many on this site just seem to only be interested in console war ammunition.

^This. Someone get's it.

Not all 3rd parties are big enough to have their own conferences. I see it's mostly ninty fans that seem to feel multiplats are unneccesary. Makes sense.

I agree with you here, multiplatform games are the best selling games, people don't care if there on othere consoles, as long as they can play it on the console they own, so they don't have to make anothere investment on different hardware.

the only games that selling great from nintendo have mario in the title, nothing else is really selling great, most of those games they showed at E3 will flop, even zelda will turn off many people cause of its anime look, and probaby sell the same as sky ward sword.

I edited my post to say Wii not Wii U before you posted because it was with the Wii that ninty's stopped getting multiplats completely. That was when they decided to focus on casuals which worked for them no doubt. However, their approach so far with the Wii U has being to recall the more traditional gamers, don't forget that.

Nintendo's current approach makes sense because they don't even have multiplats to show for the most part even if they wanted to. However, the OP specifically mention Sony and M$ which was why I originally responded to the thread. When you said multiplats don't matter, you should've said that you were only talking about the Wii U. Multiplats definitely matter on PS4/XB1 and I don't see how anyone can say they should be absent from sony and microsoft's conferences.