Not great/10

They announced virtually nothing and spent 30 minutes on what is basically a glorified port. Not impressed.

Now that the sadness has passed a bit and Splatoon 2 DLC is coming tomorrow, I'd still only give this a 4 at best, but yeah it's not their worst E3. I suppose it makes deciding which games to get for the rest of the year a bit easier now that there's less to choose from.

They should have had a separate smash direct and left this one for the surprises/game announcements. They really took the worst approach with the information they had to work with.

I understand you changed your rating to a 4 already, but I fail to see how Smash Bros Ultimate is a port, not an entirely new game.

And yet still this feeling of disappointment.

It was bad, but the games they will announce all year will be better than the total announced by anyone else. They just don't like to announce games that aren't coming out in 8 months unlike many others (Cough* Bethesda).

That's assuming Nintendo actually had more info to give us. SSBU is the filler for their lack of new information. The Direct would've been 20 minutes without it. Even more sad.

Subjectively: Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Expansion and Fire Emblem won me over easily. The first looks amazing, and fleshes out an interesting part of the story. I just hope it has lots of Mythra, even though the trailer seems to focus mostly on Jin/Lora and Malos and their intersecting paths. Fire Emblem looks absolutely amazing...it's like the Radiant successor I've been waiting for over a decade. Ahhh! These two alone win E3, everything else was gravy.

Objectively: They spent too much time on Smash and not enough on other announced games. First 20 minutes were stellar, but after that, it might as well have been a Smash Direct.

Fortunately I like Smash though, so 8/10.

Big letdown for me given I’m not into smash, fire emblem, or mario party but I guess ones reactions might vary depending on how they view those games. The only consolation is that I don’t think e3 is that big a deal to Nintendo and they could easily announce some good stuff at a future direct. Hoping they’re keeping their cards close to their chest so to speak but it might be delusional of me to think like that....I do know I’ll be going back to my other console for a while and probably use my switch for travel purposes...

If I wasn't so stressed out from life right now, his conference would have made me sad. As it is, all I can muster is 'meh', They brought nothing to the table I'm really excited for and I hope they have a direct with whatever retro is working on, animal crossing, pikmin 4, more info on Metroid, Bayonetta, and Yoshi.....*sigh*