Ooh gimme news on new Zelda and new pokegames.

"There was obviously some news about E3 back in the fall and we had a discussion internally of 'should we go big? Should we save some money? You know… what does that mean?'"

Spencer continued, noting that ultimately the team decided the curveball from Sony wasn't going to change Microsoft's plans.

"We just said 'No, we are going to do our thing. We’re going to go and be as big at E3 as we’ve ever been.' I love that opportunity to be with our fans and the industry."

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I think the implication is that they were considering scaling back, but with Sony not being there they are going to go as big as usual (if not more). Certainly, I think Sony's decision will make Microsoft do more than they would have had Sony decided to present, but that's just my interpretation.

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Oh, that's gonna be great. People are going to complain so hard because we know most of the 2019 line-up already. "What? Only two new titles announced and nothing for 2020?"  

Btw, who will present the E3 Direct? Bowser? It has been Reggie all those years, so he's the logical heir, but I'm not sure if his body is ready already.

How is that different from prior E3's? If anything it's MS who needs to bring out something as they've been getting plastered by the competition for the past 2 years even with big third parties on their stage.

Other than updates for Pokemon, Bayonetta 3, AC and Luigi's Mansion, I don't know what to expect. We might get a decent amount of 3rd party ports, considering it's about damn time some of them start getting their act together and put at the very least something there "ejem" Atlus "ejem".

One thing's for sure. With Sony skipping E3 and Microsoft shuffling their hardware strategy, Nintendo is going to hog all of the attention. Let's hope it's for the best.

Even if they decide to focus only in titles scheduled to come in 2019, there's a lot of content: Super Mario Maker 2, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Astral Chain, Deamon X Machina, Luigi's Mansion 3, TLOZ: Link's Awakening, Pokemon Sword and Shield, and Animal Crossing. Add in there a couple of 3rd parties ports and we are good.

My guess is, if they decide to show a 2020 title, it would be Bayonetta 3, or delay one of the 2019 titles.

The's also Astral Chains, LA Remake, Town, Marvel UA and Daemon X so they've got quite a bit to get through from what's already announced, the will probably be the usual one or two new announcements.

I think we`ll see the next gen Xbox.

Really, really looking forward to seeing Animal Crossing. I'm afraid they'll saturate the Direct with Mario Maker 2, but I'm really just hoping for a well balanced presentation unlike last year. Please don't spend too much time on anything...that's what the Treehouse and game specific Directs are for.