LMFAO! Classic! Streets behind is laughable. (Unless you're referring to sales)
Nintendo ditches main E3 conference, still there with games, press events, N-Direct
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LMFAO! Classic! Streets behind is laughable. (Unless you're referring to sales)
thecouncil
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Have you watched the recent few Nintendo Directs? Because you're describing what you want and it's that. Your description of what you don't want sounds like a live stage presentation.
Zen_Arcade
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You asked what people were excited about when all they announced was two closed meetings when they specifically said they would be holding an event streaming
online showing off their lineup to gamers. Kind of like what their on stage show would have done anyway. That's obviously the part people are excited about.
We are getting an event showing off all the games without it being bogged down by sales charts and numbers.
Nintendo Direct.. streamed for people online
Open floor for the media while doing their business presentation at Nokia theater at same time
This way everyone has the same info
The ones who need to respond with hands on get to play as soon as conf ends
And those who need to understand their vision can do the Nokia theater thing is my idea
I wish Nintendo would use their conference time to just do like a live nintendo direct in front of a huge crowd. just games for an hour straight. even if they don't have any surprises, they have enough 3ds and wii u games in the pipeline to impress a lot of people (retro's game, wonderful 101, smash, 3d mario, mario kart, bayonetta 2, fe x smt, X, etc). Damn.
And I don't see what's so great about showing off their showfloor games to selected media when they can do that during the 3 days of E3. cmon man
And I don't see what's so great about showing off their showfloor games to selected media when they can do that during the 3 days of E3. cmon man
So like every year?
BigEvilTurtle
Banned
What is Nintendo Direct?
So down to 1 booth (which is the smaller of the previous 2), no large conference (2 small investor conferences), and hands on only for invited media people.
Sounds super attractive....... (not)
I hope nintendo is successful in the future, but downsizing to less than half of it's formor self is not the way to go about doing it.
Hi i'm Caleb
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Goodnight hype train...
Just unlike every year. They'll just have booths up for media without any extra hassle that the showfloor brings. Probably more Nintendo personnel too taking them through these games.
Ofcourse not. Because the Nintendo fanbase isn't going to suddenly quadruple over one generation. That was his point.
I don't see why his statement should be seen as something negative. It's more a testimony of an insanely high attach rate it had on the gamecube. Halo, as well, had a very high attach rate on the xbox.
You see the opposite as well:
gran turismo 4 sold 11 million on a 120 million PS2 install base
gran turismo 5 sold 9 million on a 60 million PS3 install base
Fanservice games typically do very stable numbers because they are less dependant of platform popularity than other games (mostly third party games).
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
I'm beginning to think Nintendo is going to release playable demos of Mario 3D, Kart, Retro's new thing, and maybe even Smash.
Theres more than a wink and a nod to the "exciting new ways to get our message to home audience" and lord knows WiiU owners want to be given reasons to still own the system.
Perhaps the Rayman Challenge Mode release is a bit of a precursor and Iwata has paid attention.
Theres more than a wink and a nod to the "exciting new ways to get our message to home audience" and lord knows WiiU owners want to be given reasons to still own the system.
Perhaps the Rayman Challenge Mode release is a bit of a precursor and Iwata has paid attention.
I don't know how I feel about this, I just hope Nintendo knows what they are doing because they really need people to know what the Wii U, maybe airing Nintendo Direct on TV would bring wonders.
It's really funny that this is a "exciting new way to get our message to the home audience" when other developers and publishers have been doing this for 20+ years, lol
I seriously hope they'll do that.
Releasing demos of their games they're showing on E3 for everyone to download? I don't think it's that common.
And that would make people like me buy a Wii U sooner rather than later.
metalslimer
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Personally, i don't really mind this as Nintendo doesn't know how to do a good E3 conference anyway and they have no 3rd party support which is the big one. Without any 3rd party support, what even the point of holding a huge conference to announce your own games. On the other hand, Nintendo is going to be completely ignored by the media even more so than usual because of the "next gen" E3 going on,
Goodnight hype train...
It must be important if The Fat Controller is attending in person.
Devs and pubs have been releasing downloadable E3 demos of games unreleased? That's news to me!
True. I mean just demos in general. E3 demos would be sick tho.
But this is coming from someone who loves his wii u and it wouldn't make a difference if I got demos or not, I'd buy all those games
Fourth Storm
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I don't know how I feel about Nintendo Directs. I appreciate the information they provide, of course, but they just seem so...subdued. It's like FDR Fireside Chats. A great concept, but did they take the place of the State of the Union Address? Hell no!
And has been stated by others, "live" is always better for creating buzz.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Theres been a lot more "controlling the message and effect" of demos this generation. I remember playing demos of big games that were half a year away but being released on magazine fronts, while nowadays pubs just want to drop them the month before release in the belief thats what drives hype to omega level.
Its pure positive press of course. Devs create these demos for limited trade show audiences, and then they get a little more polish and that same demo is what gets released online. Big Nintendo titles rarely ever get demos though, so this is going to be a sort of "fanbase loses its mind over something everyone else does" scenario, much like everyone going nuts about a certain ROM being uploaded for their finished emulator system to buy.
There'll also be enough fence sitting CAN'T RESIST WIIU NOW people that will buy the hardware just to play Mario 3D or whatever 3 months earlier than a planned release date. Make it a Challenge Map thing, and you've got at least something to swing dicks around with while Sony and Microsoft are promoting boxes and games you cant demo at all because its new hardware. With direct screenshot posting abilities, you'll get the usual suspects doing Nintendo's promotional job on every forum known to man over and over again. Militarising their fanbase is and always has been Nintendo's secret weapon: see also Luigi Caps.
We'll see. I've given Nintendo the benefit of the doubt over WiiU and "actually having a plan" way too many times.
Mr.Squirrel
Tom
Nintendo will be at e3 though. Read the OP breh
Didn't Microsoft used to do something similar with the Bringing It Home thing once? It would be a great idea to do something similar.
EDIT: Actually that may just be me remembering things wrong since I recall there being a demo in 2006 of Sonic, yet it might have been to coincide with his anniversary rather than E3.
Captainsweatpants
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Nintendo, now there is literally nothing that stops you from showing us your secret Wii U games RIGHT NOW. DO IT, Dammit. I want a Nintendo Direct announcement , now!!
dglavimans
Member
So we dont get a live presentation with crowd and all? Shame it true :/ i like the directs but i also like the size of e3 and the crowd that goes nuts..
I don't know how I feel about this. I will certainly miss a presentation from Nintendo. It strikes me that it'll be difficult to keep track of their announcements, or that they'll get lost in the shuffle. A full-blown hour-long Direct in the middle of the conference would be great though, thanks.
At their first E3 since the 360's release, they released demos for Test Drive: Unlimited and Lost Planet, which were unreleased at that time.
So what exactly do you guys think Nintendo can do to establish ""exciting new ways to get our message to the home audience?"
Been thinking about it, and it sounds like it is gonna be demos of e3 games on your wii u. That'd be pretty sweet, but I'm not sure that would induce anyone to go out and buy a wii u for a demo. I guess 3d Mario or even Retro's demo could do that if it is amazing enough though. If Mario Kart demo is online playable, that'd be even sweeter.
Been thinking about it, and it sounds like it is gonna be demos of e3 games on your wii u. That'd be pretty sweet, but I'm not sure that would induce anyone to go out and buy a wii u for a demo. I guess 3d Mario or even Retro's demo could do that if it is amazing enough though. If Mario Kart demo is online playable, that'd be even sweeter.
That's how I feel as well. I like the big spectacle and all that jazz. Makes it fun.
The more hands on intimate stuff does sound good for the core gamer in me though. Looking forward to all the new software.
The hype train will still be there ... just dilluted in a week instead of 1 hour
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I'm thinking Directs with some "you can download a demo of this game for you Wii U right after this presentation is over". Would be pretty sweet.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
you... you literally just read me say that. You replied even!
Fourth Storm
Member
It would sure make alot of us feel better about our $350 Wii U purchases, though. SMH that I passed on 3DS day 1, and now can't afford one, yet I scooped up the U immediately. Talk about your poor decisions...
(I still love my Wii U, btw. It's just that sometimes I feel it doesn't love me back.)
Seems more like they don't want journalists at the conference because if they are, they're going to be portrayed as the major losers when every outlet does their post-E3 conference report cards. Not that they still won't, but at least now Reggie can go onto Spike TV and tell Geoff, "This wasn't intended for gamers/journalists. It was for vendors. Don't compare, hata."
People can spin it any way they want, but there's a reason it's being done this year and not implemented last year.
Crimson_Gold
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But if I don't own the console and know nothing of nintendo directs, how does this make me want a Wii U?
It is a good thing for current owners if it turns out to be the case.
...You do know you can watch Nintendo Directs without owning a Wii U right?
lol, you're right. you literally posted the same thing. I was just seeing if others thought the same, is all. my bad. I did think that what they meant by the "exciting and new for our home fans" was demos after I first read it, though
metalslimer
Member
Who do you think knows about E3?
They just need to make people informed of Directs. Somehow people tuned in to watch the PS4 reveal too. That wasn't E3. Granted it was bigger event but the principle is the same.
Crimson_Gold
Member
I'm talking about the demos. Not watching the Nintendo Directs.
Mr.Squirrel
Tom
Just in case this thread gets locked, I want to say thanks GAF for all the incredibly insane comments. You've made my work day that much less productive
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