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Nintendo Directs vs. E3 Blowout: Which style do you prefer?
- Thread starter guek
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Oh, but when an E3 conference delivers, it's incomparable.
Aquamarine
Member
It also gives a platform for Nintendo to announce small things (like HarmoKnight) to a large audience that would get completely overlooked at E3 because everyone's so wrapped up in the hysteria.
I like the Nintendo Directs for smaller announcements. We've seen enough e3es to know that some games either don't stand out from the pack or get lost in the shuffle.
This allows you to focus people's attention on select announcements and continuously give out news and updates.
Would love to see Sony/MS embrace a similar idea for their content.
This allows you to focus people's attention on select announcements and continuously give out news and updates.
Would love to see Sony/MS embrace a similar idea for their content.
strangedopamine
Member
Nintendo Direct for me.
Nintendo at E3 at this point is just a live 60 minute Nintendo Direct that also allows people to play the games that have featured in a convention hall.
I like how they give very little notice to when a Nintendo Direct is about to be shown. It's more of a surprise than E3 where we know it's always at roughly the beginning of June every single year
Nintendo at E3 at this point is just a live 60 minute Nintendo Direct that also allows people to play the games that have featured in a convention hall.
I like how they give very little notice to when a Nintendo Direct is about to be shown. It's more of a surprise than E3 where we know it's always at roughly the beginning of June every single year
TerryWogan
Member
Neither, Nintendo haven't announced anything to excite me in at least a couple of years. 
More seriously, I honestly don't like the way Nintendo do E3 these days or their Directs. They're awkward and frankly dull. Far too corporate considering they're essentially the "purest" video game console manufacturer out there.
More seriously, I honestly don't like the way Nintendo do E3 these days or their Directs. They're awkward and frankly dull. Far too corporate considering they're essentially the "purest" video game console manufacturer out there.
Nintendo Direct are a great step for Nintendo about comunicating what they have to fans and not just them. A way to release news / infos costantly without waiting just for E3 or other events. It's true that some of them have been a bit subpar, with only infos about well-known titles, but most of them have been good and also entertaining: Iwata's fruit obsession / Lego Iwata / What's wrong with you etc.etc...many good things came out of them.
Still, I hope they'll announce at E3 too. I'm still bitter at last conference's ending. I was thinking it would have ended with a bang. The problem is that it ended with a bang...FIREWORKS! They took it too literally ._.
Still, I hope they'll announce at E3 too. I'm still bitter at last conference's ending. I was thinking it would have ended with a bang. The problem is that it ended with a bang...FIREWORKS! They took it too literally ._.
grimshawish
Banned
Why would you do that?
Member
Nintendo Directs don't replace E3 blowouts, they replace the random game announcements throughout a year. They usually announce games in Nintendo Direct that come out within a few months, and that they wouldn't announce at E3.
Here's an example of what happened before Nintendo Direct. ExciteBots for Wii just "showed up" on a Nintendo release list a month before release. A couple weeks later, the first media was shown, and a couple weeks later, it was released. Games like that are what Nintendo Direct is for.
Before Nintendo Direct, I don't think Nintendo made a big deal about WiiWare/DSiWare shops, either. The Directs are an outlet to show those off, too.
Here's an example of what happened before Nintendo Direct. ExciteBots for Wii just "showed up" on a Nintendo release list a month before release. A couple weeks later, the first media was shown, and a couple weeks later, it was released. Games like that are what Nintendo Direct is for.
Before Nintendo Direct, I don't think Nintendo made a big deal about WiiWare/DSiWare shops, either. The Directs are an outlet to show those off, too.
Captain Smoker
Member
Nintendo Direct.
Regular Nintendo Directs are every second month, so next month we should get the regular stream.
I wouldn't even need E3, but E3 has the big game announcements, that's why I still like it.
Regular Nintendo Directs are every second month, so next month we should get the regular stream.
I wouldn't even need E3, but E3 has the big game announcements, that's why I still like it.
Directs are one of the smarter things Nintendo has done in recent years. In many way sit makes E3 semi pointless in the announcement category but the hands on impressions etc. are still vital.
Nintendo just needs to loosen up a bit and not be afraid to talk about things even if a ways out so they can keep the hype train moving forward always
Nintendo just needs to loosen up a bit and not be afraid to talk about things even if a ways out so they can keep the hype train moving forward always
I'm still baffled they didn't put a Nintendo Direct Channel on the WiiU dashboard and have much in the same way as when a friend is online, show a message that there is a message for you waiting by the president of Nintendo. I mean, how many kids and parents have never even heard of these directs? I know they can be seen from the e-shop, but it's not the same thing.
polyh3dron
Banned
I like Nintendo Directs because they don't make you sit through boring graphs and other shit you don't care about most of the time.
grimshawish
Banned
Tomorrows Direct seems specifically about the long term future on the WiiU.
Neoriceisgood
Member
I think it's great to leave some of the major big guns for E3, stuff like smash bros, zelda etc.
But I think most of the "noise" should be ND. People mostly just pay attention to the 2-3 biggest E3 titles anyway.
This will make less awesome titles probably stand out more too when they're a ND title rather than part of an E3 trailer reel.
Refreshment.01
Member
No "big one" BS. A steady stream of news throught the year. I think Nintendo should downright abandon E3 and just do the direct shows. And a return to Spaceworld would be awesome for the public.
I grew to dislike E3 from years ago, expensive and so saturated with news that good stuff tends to get lost in the avalanche.
Yeah, but sometimes they take it too far.
"Nintendo Direct is on in 5 minutes!"
Everyone: WTF!
Sgt.Pepper
Banned
Since E3 stopped being that big of a deal like 4 years ago, I prefer the constant information with ND.
DeaconKnowledge
Member
"Wait until E3!"
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"Wait until next E3!"
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"Wait until next E3!"
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Nintendo Direct For the Win.
I agree with this statement. The fact that I was sitting in a cafe today and just happened to notice a thread on GAF about a Nintendo Direct showing off new Wii U games in less than 24 hours time is great. It also keeps the hype down (although reading the ND thread you wouldn't think so), as you don't have the gradual ramping of hype for months on end as you get before E3.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Nintendo Directs
Don't care, as long as I get the good announcements. The earlier the better honestly, as long as there's something substantial is shown (unlike the SSB4 announcement).
People, on these boards in particular, always seemed to complain whenever Sony would make announcements at any time other than E3, and I never understood that. Who gives a shit about "winning" E3, isn't a good announcement good regardless of when it's shown?
But now that Nintendo's going down the same road, people seem to finally be warming up to it.
People, on these boards in particular, always seemed to complain whenever Sony would make announcements at any time other than E3, and I never understood that. Who gives a shit about "winning" E3, isn't a good announcement good regardless of when it's shown?
But now that Nintendo's going down the same road, people seem to finally be warming up to it.
e3 04s, 06s and 10s are few and far between unfortunately...
I like Nintendo Directs for small things but I want big shit at E3. It's a spectacle and I think new, big games deserve a spectacle. ND's make even the best of games seem pretty soft.
Iwata's English is not good enough to wow, and the ND's are pretty low budget so don't generate the sort of buzz I want. If they did a Nintendo Direct on a stage or somewhere like a bit of a show that'd be fine.
Will never happen either way. E3 is mainstream, ND's are for marketting to enthusiasts at low cost.
Iwata's English is not good enough to wow, and the ND's are pretty low budget so don't generate the sort of buzz I want. If they did a Nintendo Direct on a stage or somewhere like a bit of a show that'd be fine.
Will never happen either way. E3 is mainstream, ND's are for marketting to enthusiasts at low cost.
superpickleman
Member
Nintendo directs are like mini-E3s.
Think about it, there's always hype built around them and they always end in either disappointment or with fantastic surprises.
Think about it, there's always hype built around them and they always end in either disappointment or with fantastic surprises.