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[BGBW]

In Europe subs are a daily thing for most media. In fact even the UK Directs are subbed rather than using the English dub from the American Directs.

 

[jariw]

One thing they could add to the treehouse live segments at E3 could be some user interactive features. Such as:
* "Vote on which level you want us to play through on tomorrow's demo of Star Fox U."
* "What questions would you like to ask the developers of Star Fox U."
* Etc.

 

[Mpl90]

An update a bit before E3, since Nintendo posted brand new videos / Directs

2015

General Directs

Nintendo Direct - 1.14.15 - 885,081 - 10,860 likes / 551 dislikes
Nintendo Direct - 4.1.15 - 965,175 - 13,238 likes / 591 dislikes

Special Directs

Splatoon Direct - 5.7.15 - 657,412 - 9,645 likes / 227 dislikes

2015: other videos

Xenoblade Chronicles X Video Showcase 4.24.15 - 229,439 - 4,981 likes / 119 dislikes

2015: Treehouse

Live with Splatoon - 370,689 - 2,490 likes / 31 dislikes
Live with Xenoblade Chronicles X - 140,892 - 2,456 likes / 91 dislikes
Live with Splatoon Global Testfire - 123,744 - 2,553 likes / 82 dislikes
Live with the Splatoon Global Testfire - 90,873 - 1,181 likes / 46 dislikes

Also, a direct (sorry, no pun intended) comparison between this year's Pre-E3 video and past year's one

Play Nintendo 4.29.14 - 1,130,902 - 25,631 likes / 538 dislikes
Mega 64 infiltrates Nintendo - 154,531 - 6,069 likes / 108 dislikes
Total - 1,285,433 - 31,700 likes / 646 dislikes

Nintendo - Get Ready for E3 2015! 5.13.15 - 1,383,224 - 36,370 likes / 952 dislikes
Reggie goes for the gold (Nintendo E3 2015 Video) 5.14.15 - 69,056 - 3,617 likes / 50 dislikes
Total - 1,452,280 - 39,987 likes / 1,002 dislikes

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Dubbed Directs / presentations outside US

Unfortunately, I don't know how much actual dubs in French/German/Italian/Russian/other languages would help in increasing their capability of reaching a larger audience, but IMHO Directs are a bit limited in big non-English speaking countries by being subs-only; while you'll reach fans anyway, there could be people who may be interested, but are blocked by the language barrier, even if subs are present. Having dubs could help in reaching more people, but there's the doubt the investment would be worth it, i.e. the increase in viewers would justify the costs of dubs. I'd like to see dubs, but I don't know if it'll ever happen, honestly.

The Mario kart 8 direct was dubbed to french, spanish, german and italian. It hink that was the only one.
The do susbs of the UK version most of the time though.

It cost them to much to have those country dub actors for each direct, Nitendo usually doenst get quality ones for this things (and smash announcers ironically are the wprse of the bunch). Games that are dubbed though like Star Fox 64 3d and Professor Layton vs Phoeninx Wright vary in quality form country to country.
As a Spaniard I thought both of those dubs were much better than their original treehouse counterparts. But they do this in very FEW occassions.
I really dont understadn how Nintendo of Europe works with that department. Sometimes they do great and dub with good voive actors niche selling games, other times the hire a guy thats probably the cleaner in the german HQ to do voice overs for a best selling game like smash. Utterly baffling.