The Hermit
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I actually said wow.
Heh. What there going to spoil half of the game?
I think you are missing the point here. I don't think anyone says Zelda will be bad or people don't like Zelda, we just want to see other games except 1. As good as Zelda will be it cannot make up for all the other game which will be missing.
How is this alienating their fanbase?
*sigh* It's going to be a great E3
Hey Nintendo, I am your life long fan and here are some of the series I care about more than Zelda:
F-Zero
Super Mario
Kirby
Rhythm Paradise
Mario Kart
Smash Bros.
Pokemon
Band Bros.
Animal Crossing
Mario and Luigi (Before you ruined it)
Paper Mario (Before you ruined it)
Donkey Kong
Wario Ware
Mario Strikers
Mario Party (before you ruined it)
Mario Tennis (before you ruined it)
Yes, people like me exist. This presentation means nothing to me and I bought a 3DS and Wii U day 1.
Thing is, this will still be better than E3 2015.Hilarious. Not even bringing 3DS games? What fresh hell is this?
If someone had told us E3 2016 would be worse than 2015 for Nintendo, we would have laughed. And yet, here we are.
hahahahhahaahahahaha
this is embarrassing
and I think it actually HURTS Zelda, because they've got this weird narrative going at the same time. "Why are they only showing Zelda?" "Where are their other games?" "Is Nintendo in desperation mode?"
Hey Nintendo, I am your life long fan and here are some of the series I care about more than Zelda.
Yes, people like me exist. This presentation means nothing to me and I bought a 3DS and Wii U day 1.
Nintendo really does not give a fuck about their fan base. It's incredible.
You know the really sad thing? They could still have a somewhat decent presence at E3 without even trying. Just focus on their eShop/Virtual Console.
I bet a lot of people here would be ecstatic over Mother 3 on Wii U and Pokemon Gold and Silver on the 3DS (following on from Red and Blue in February).
What about Gamecube on the Wii U vc? Or christ, even a couple more HD remasters people have been crying out for? Mario Sunshine and F-Zero GX?
If they outright said in the PR in the OP that it would be an event that focuses on Zelda, Sun and Moon and the above eShop releases, there would've been a somewhat pleased reaction, maybe even excited by some (I would have been).
But whatever, at this point, I'm kinda done with this company. There's only so many times you can be an apologist for them without starting to feel like an idiot.
I guess my point was, Nintendo will still capture mind-share contrary to popular belief in this thread. Zelda will, or at least I should say that it has the potential to capture peoples (both gamers and the casual audience alike) imagination. People will not perceive Nintendo as missing in action because you'll still be inundated with content, be it on YouTube or Twitter. The other stuff will come later, Nintendo's E3 was just delayed imo because Nintendo will have an NX blowout this year, I suspect around September.
Same here.I actually said wow.
It depends on what you want NX to be. I'm hoping for a 1st party box with weak specs targeting the mobile crowd, not a Sony/MS competitor chasing the western AAA multiplat gamer, i.e. E3's main audience.
Distancing themselves from E3 is a good move because their games don't have much overlap with people who tune in to watch the show, in the same way showcasing Nintendogs and Wii Fit at E3 is ineffective.
It might hurt Zelda because there are already people in the "Zelda must be the greatest thing ever if they're focusing just on it" mode. You can't realistically satisfy this type of expectations.
Yikes.
Who the fuck is going to watch a whole day of Zelda, anyway. Nintendo diehards will likely want to avoid spoiling too much of the game, and everyone else will be preoccupied with other games on the showfloor.
This is baffling.
No Direct @E32016
"Fuck off they couldnt even make a Direct for those few games,they're quitting everything. Nintendoomed."
If Nintendo Direct @E32016
"This Direct sucked, even worse than last E3 one.Nintendooomed."
tbh i'm okay with this, given this situation and the fact they'll probably make a NX direct some months after this.Hooping Treehouse wont spoil the entire game.They are gonna spoil everything,aren't they.
Hey Nintendo, I am your life long fan and here are some of the series I care about more than Zelda:
F-Zero
Super Mario
Kirby
Rhythm Paradise
Mario Kart
Smash Bros.
Pokemon
Band Bros.
Animal Crossing
Mario and Luigi
Paper Mario
Donkey Kong
Wario Ware
Mario Strikers
Mario Party (before you ruined it)
Mario Tennis (before you ruined it)
Other series which I probably care equally for:
Advance Wars
Fire Emblem
Pikmin
Metroid
Yes, people like me exist. This presentation means nothing to me and I bought a 3DS and Wii U day 1.
But they're launching new hardware - in which a lot is riding - 3 months after the holiday. Plus there's still stuff coming out for 3DS like Pokemon, Rhyhm Heaven and Federation Force (teehee).
Why do they need to pay if they want to phase out of E3? Just drop it and be done. It makes no sense.
This is why I think that skipping E3 entirely would have been the better choice. At least then it would just seem like they have something else cooking. Now it just looks like they have nothing to show.
Damn thats a lot of Mario
This is the first Zelda game of its kind though. Open world and HD. FromSoft already had experience making those types of games. They were in a mode to pump that kind of content out.
Kind of crazy to think that FromSoft has released Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 since Nintendo released this teaser, and there's still another year to go before the game is out.