But a good portion of those are also on other systems, aside from maybe a few key exclusive ones that (like you said) nobody ever really talks about. Talking explicitly Nintendo properties/published games, they have a pretty shit lineup this year.
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NX will launch in March 2017 globally, won't be at E3 (focusing on Zelda instead)
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But a good portion of those are also on other systems, aside from maybe a few key exclusive ones that (like you said) nobody ever really talks about. Talking explicitly Nintendo properties/published games, they have a pretty shit lineup this year.
They aren't showing any other games other than Zelda at e3. That's bad.
JetBlackPanda
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I can't believe we are never going to see an NX reveal at any E3.
in that case, it would be playable at E3.
So, no.
Not evn Pikmin.
Nintendo should be SO EMBARASSED right now.
Dark Cloud
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Where did it say they're not showing other games?
PantherLotus
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I am so, so freaking disappointed. Nothing on the NX for E3 less than a year out from release? No waaaaaaaaaay.
MatrixMan.EXE
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None whatsoever.
They're still at E3 like ever, it's just the NX, the one thing people want to know about the most, won't.
Papacheeks
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Yup.
It's called being prepared and having a plan.
Nintendo seems to have no plan at this point. If your plan was to reinvigorate interest in your company as a whole they fucking failed miserably.
If they are not going to have anything other than a handful of games to show at E3 and not at least talk about NX in some form. What are they going to do to drum up hype, and awareness?
They going to have a venue in what February or wait till March 2017 and release the console apple style within the week of it's unveiling?
They are so fucking blind, I can't even fathom wtf Nintendo of AMerica employee's are thinking right now.
Monster Hunter Generations as well.
New console launch and it's going to miss the biggest games show in the world? Ok Nintendo. Keep making awesome business decisions why don't you. Whilst other vendors will have shit loads of games and potential new hardware at theirs, Zelda is apparently important enough to Nintendo for one to cancel out the other.
They said Zelda will be the only playable game at E3, not that it will be the only game announced.
And here I thought they just did that....
Yeah they didn't say they aren't showing any other games at E3, just that Zelda is the only thing playable on the floor from Nintendo.
These times certainly are trying for all of us! If a bully getting kicked in the nards can't cheer us up, than what will?
diablos991
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Get ready for disappointment in 2017.
Nintendo doesn't know how to not disappoint lately.
Nintendo doesn't know how to not disappoint lately.
ElectricBlanketFire
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I'm not freaking out. It just sucks.
So much for the legions that swore it was launching in 2016. I tried to tell you all.
Anyway I guess we go hide under a rock till next March. No use knowing anything about Zelda a year in advance. Maybe will crawl out from under the rock to stretch and get a breath of fresh air during TGS or PAX.
Anyway I guess we go hide under a rock till next March. No use knowing anything about Zelda a year in advance. Maybe will crawl out from under the rock to stretch and get a breath of fresh air during TGS or PAX.
Yep, that and they weren't counting on having to release a new console so soon.
NinjaCoachZ
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Yeah, I'm sorry, but that's some pretty major hindsight bias going on there. If the system is supposed to launch this fiscal year (i.e. 5 - 9 months after the event), it makes sense to reveal it at the world's biggest gaming event. Until now, skipping E3 entirely is something that nobody had even considered entertaining because of what a bad idea it would've been.
Dash_Riprock
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Technically they've had 2-3 years off.
Dark Cloud
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Dr. Black Jack
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Right now the only thing they've announced for E3 is that the lesser version of a crossgen game that's not even releasing this year will be their main focus.
Like, what the fuck else do they have for the next ten months besides the Pokemon games?
Supposedly they'll have their own event which discusses specs/features, price, launch line-up and more according to today's Nikkei report and later reconfirmed just hours ago by Mochi_WSJ.
Godzilla's Left Toe
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Newflash nobody gives a fuck about directs and Digital Events expect Hard cores.
Megatron
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Ugh.,and Zelda,which was supposed to come out last year is delayed another year. It would be one thing if it was delayed because it wasn't ready, but this seems like it's just being delayed to launch with nx.
And why are you going to show Zelda at e3 but not nx if they are both coming out the same time? That makes no sense. 'Since nx isn't going to be out until 2017 we aren't going to show it and will instead focus on something else.... That also won't be out until 2017....
And why are you going to show Zelda at e3 but not nx if they are both coming out the same time? That makes no sense. 'Since nx isn't going to be out until 2017 we aren't going to show it and will instead focus on something else.... That also won't be out until 2017....
Not only is missing out on the Christmas buying season bad for the console sales, think about the message to third parties it sends. Most major releases are done in October-December to hit up that sweet holiday cash. With them skipping out on this release window, why bother releasing your biggest game of the season on a different platform months down the road? Did Mass Effect 3, Batman Arkham City, and Watchdogs do well on the Wii U?
And with them pushing Zelda back to March, it just spells out to me that they're going to have a really, really weak starting year.
Yup. The directs have done absolutely nothing for getting mainstream coverage.
And with them pushing Zelda back to March, it just spells out to me that they're going to have a really, really weak starting year.
Yup. The directs have done absolutely nothing for getting mainstream coverage.
I'm half confident that we'll see a big NX blowout at E3.
Just not this year, but in 2017. I'm not optimistic about a march release at all.
Bots are better than you
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And what's your plan if something happend during production, thus you have to delay the launch, and with this you're not being able to provide demo units for E³ and could only show trailers without anything playable? Is the plan "I'm Batman"?
Papacheeks
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Nintendo Direct is not the same as having E3 presence. And having a Nintendo direct will not have the impact sales wise for preorders E3 does.
Unless they do their own televised press event in December or something for this thing, they are fucking dead.
Wii u was announced and only the gamepad was shown in demo form, and they showed some tech demoes and couple games.
That's all they need to do. Sony didn't even have a finalized fucking console in February 2013 but they put out a presentation talking about the innards, the network, a demo real about developers and showed some games on what they looked like for Next gen.
And it fucking worked.
Every company always has some kind of fall back if there's problems with production lines. Which this seams to fall under, is they caught a snag in development. You don't need to show the console when creating mindshare. Just have the marketing for it done, you show the name, you detail what it is, how it works, show some tech demos, then end with a game running on NX hardware or specs.
That all they have to do. Now unless they do some big Time square press event, they have fucked themselves trying to get mindshare and people outside of internet forums talking about it. they need The Verge, Forbes, CNN and the likes talking about it in the mainstream.
This reeks of "We haven't learned anything in our mistakes".
gamergirly
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That's fine, got enough games right now
That was the 3DS game I was thinking of, thank you!
On Wii U? Sticker Star 2.
On 3DS? Lots, but aside from Pokemon they're localizations of games that are already out in Japan.
Yeah but there will still be a direct with some stuff. Who cares what's at e3
I do agree with this. I have to think that they'll announce a date for the other event during E3, and that the event in question can be absolutely no later than September or else it will get drowned out (and probably better fit for August).
There are really two possibilities here: first that things have gone badly wrong with NX development and that means there's a strong possibility that it could slide from March 2017, or that this is a fully voluntary plan on Nintendo's part because they want to optimize the spotlight or they want to reveal the whole thing, completely-user-ready, all at once and need a bit more time for the OS or something.
I can't think that it has anything to do with PSVR or PS4k. They'll get attention, but not to overshadow a completely new concept-console from Nintendo (and there's room enough for both anyway as E3 2006 showed).
Dark Cloud
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They confirmed they're going to reveal the NX later this year with specs/price etc. They'll probably do a NX reveal event.
Their investors and fans will revolt if they don't.
Who knows? They'll unveil stuff during a direct I'm sure. I think everyone's reading this the wrong way
Megatron
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Why would anyone make a distinction? Other than the handful of people at e3 (all journalists and 'hardcores') for the most part everyone is watching both shows from their computer.
That's just it! Aside from Pokemon, Zelda, and even Star Fox, everything else coming out this year feels like shovelware.
Mysterious
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Are they seriously going to have one single title playable at the largest industry convention?
Jeeze. At least I won't be tempted to take off work for Nintendo's E3 shenanigans. I mean, I love Zelda as much as the next guy, but I want MORE than just Zelda.
If Zelda is really the only playable game, then I'll just check out treehouse videos and stuff later. No need to see it live.
If Zelda is really the only playable game, then I'll just check out treehouse videos and stuff later. No need to see it live.
No one gives a shit about e3 presentations either lol.
Plinko
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Again: E3 is a few days in June. That leaves 362 days to utilize other methods, like other electronics shows or digital events. E3 is by no means the be-all-end-all and is nowhere near the only place to announce a console.
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