Nintendo had three major directs last year.  Youtube views from the Nintendo of America videos looks like this:

Feb 13, 2019 Direct  2.7m views
E3 2019 Direct   3.6m views
Sept 4 2019 Direct 2.4m views

They are all of comparable length and content, but the E3 video has about 1m more views and this is North America alone.  There is also an identical Gamespot E3 trailer with 700k views that shows the same thing.  Nintendo got a lot more attention just by releasing their video at E3.  It may not make sense to you, but those are the facts.

E3 gets more eyeballs simply because it is the gaming event of the year.  Even when it's just a prepared video it still gets more attention.

We should this and that to be good gamers like you with a valid opinion,that is what i think of when reading your comment.

We can get all the info needed that would otherwise be buried in all the E3 filler hence getting less attention,indiegames might get better showing if those games aren't showed next to all the big announcements.

Besides Nostalgia from E3 i'm not missing anything when it just stops being about the big companies showing off because i will get that content elsewhere on an also easy to see spot,i do get your dissapointment but i see that as a more personal thing and we cannot expect others to be as emotional invested as ourselves when some habits change or disappear.

So this is an opinion without being a shill,do you understand it can be a valid one?

I stay out of most Sony threads. You're in almost every single Xbox thread. Remember that difference please, commit it to memory.

I don't care what "types of answers" you're seeing in this thread or what one person said Sony is doing bad here. Did I post them? Nope. Don't shift goal posts because your argument has no weight.

You can compare this situation to anything Microsoft has done if you'd like. Most stuff discussed on this site has leeway to take different sides. Any of the big three skipping E3 is just bad for everyone though, no way around it. To argue otherwise would just be drinking the corporate Kool-Aid. Hope that helps. And I'm done responding to your nonsense here. It's boring for me to read, I can't imagine others.

I'm not talking about any emotional investment, but I did make a mistake saying only shills wouldn't see it as bad news and should have edited that part out. But really, who wouldn't want more content from E3? Even if Sony does a big blowout for PS5 next month, what is wrong with more? I'm not one of those predicting this is the return of Arrogant Sony or anything but on a purely surface level, it's disappointing.

Nothing is wrong with more but it is not really more when it takes new information away from Playstation/Microsoft or Nintendo solo focussed events,and players are not always excited when they see the same news and games popping up every time.

Yes it is normal to be disappointed when expected content is being withheld for other dates but it will gives us more excitement when the big 3 have their own events,and outside of the first few years with heavy competition early in the new gen we might have a more spread out feed of information without overly long waits.

Unless there is 100 Sony threads to 1 Xbox thread for your comparison to make sense at least statistically then you are very very wrong.

Sure most stuff have leeway, and curiously enough for MS you take one in defense and Sony one of attack even though you are neutral and don't do war.

Sure.

I don't stop what I'm doing to just watch a random direct on a random weekday.

for e3? well, I totally add e3 to my schedule, I got my e3 schedule notifications, clean my youtube watch later list, open all forums on all tabs to be ready to participate on reactions, get my weekend and my TV free for it, and everything else. I watch the stuff live because I know the big bombs will be dropped, because the industry is supposed to keep the big bombs ready for it.

E3 is such an experience. If the industry moves away from that to build their own "youtube playlists" and own events, it'll not be the same at all. I wouldn't be surprised if view numbers would decrease. Many will not be bothered to follow so many events round the year. Many events and videos round year is clearly worse than a single weekend dedicated to it.

That was just general Sony worship, it wasn’t meant for you in particular or to take personally but 🤷🏻‍♂️

Also you’re exactly right I’ve been here for like 7 years, there are plenty of threads you can see me not in. Hope that helps.

for any argumentation about "E3 is bad for indies", the only thing I've got to say is that nobody gives a damm about indies. My opinion of course.

Aside from a few nerds, I don't see anyone that would queue for an indie event of sorts.

E3 is for the million sellers and there's no problem with that in my opinion.

Nintendo's E3 direct having more views than the other directs for the year isn't proof that releasing a video june = more views. The E3 direct has the most views because it is their biggest of the year and expected to be such.

In fact it's remarkable that their other directs are so close to their biggest yearly presentation. If anything I'd take this evidence to show the exact opposite of what you're trying to prove. Their smaller less ambitious directs aren't miles behind their e3 views.

If they hyped a direct as the biggest of the year (as is expected of their e3 direct) rather than just one of several directs I have no doubt they could achieve equal views to their e3 direct at a different time of year in lieu of E3.

The E3 direct had more views due to the actual announcements and public expectations not due to the time it was released. A June release isn't necessary for either high expectations/anticipation nor exciting announcements, it just requires actual hype building which they don't do for their usual directs.

Releasing a video at E3 may be an easy way to cultivate high expectations and a level of importance and thus views, but it is not the only way and it is not necessary.

There is no reason an event outside of E3 HAS to have less views, it depends entirely on how the event is managed and publicised.

But an example of an event outside e3 getting more views...

PS4 Reveal Event (2.8m views) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNGZMx2vhY

PlayStation e3 2013 (2.4m Views) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmoZAPDV3ew

Though just like your example, this isn't proof of anything.