Zelda isn't as big as mario, kart, pokemon, or Smash. This is nice, but let's not pretend like it's going to do something aside from getting the crowd hyped...but since there won't be a crowd.
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Play Nintendo - Announcing Nintendo @ E3 2014
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Zelda isn't as big as mario, kart, pokemon, or Smash. This is nice, but let's not pretend like it's going to do something aside from getting the crowd hyped...but since there won't be a crowd.
Twenty7KVN
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I cant wait for the e3 2012 reveal comparisons.
Aquamarine
Member
What? I criticize Nintendo all of the time. Many people here do...with minimal backlash.
You just need to be intelligent in how you reason your arguments. In this case, the realistic downsides to Nintendo hosting everything 100% digital is certainly a topic for debate given that tons of people will tune in, and the press will cover Nintendo's endeavours just like the rest of E3.
Last year, the "Nintendo isn't going to E3" misconception was mostly due to how Nintendo handled the announcement.
This time, Nintendo is extremely explicit in underlying their plans to attend the conference, so the negative backlash from last year may not be all that applicable.
Colonel Mustard
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It didn't get ignored last year. Ustream shit the bed when 1.5 million people were attempting to watch the US stream all at once.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Aonuma said there would be more information about Zelda at E3 and the logical assumption is that it will be shown in some form because it's been years in the making and Miyamoto said they were close to showing it at LAST E3.
Don't be so damn sensible, man.
ElectricBlanketFire
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I've experienced lag on both. How will this be different?
Aside from the fact that they could have talked about it at last E3 and shown some visual in any of the previous Directs, Aonuma said they'll talk about it more at E3 2014
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/15/zelda-wii-u-info-coming-at-e3-2014
Hero of Legend
Member
Here's what I don't get.
Why is Nintendo not hosting a live conference, when they're hosting the Smash tournament in the exact same stage they would the conference?
I don't get the logic, why does the tournament take priority over the conference?
Why is Nintendo not hosting a live conference, when they're hosting the Smash tournament in the exact same stage they would the conference?
I don't get the logic, why does the tournament take priority over the conference?
HUELEN10
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Here's hoping it's not an after-hours concept art reveal.
phalestine
aka iby.h
Haha, deal. cant wait!!
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Who cares about the actual content? I watch for the canned applause and padding in between reveals.
Aquamarine
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When Nintendo has said in the past "We'll talk more about XYZ at E3 2014," the precedent is that Nintendo shows off some kind of trailer for the game.
Combine that with the fact that Nintendo is trying to minimize the lag between announcement and release, and we may get a good bit of information about the new Zelda title.
Good.
Something just feels off about his face. Whether its the lighting in the room that makes that happen though I don't know.
This approach is just as weird as it is modern. For how many years have we been talking about how irrelevant big shows like E3 and gamescom have become? Nintendo is moving away from the outdated "sender (Nintendo) - intermediary (press) - receiver (us)" model for quite some time (so is the whole media industry) with Nintendo Direct, not holding an E3 press conference is the next step within that logic. Iwata has been quoted that Nintendo does not care about "winning" E3 (anymore). So instead of (at least how Nintendo sees it - for now) burning money on a press conference they'll just stream their information over the internet. That sure is not as impressive as a press conference with live audience. But they will get something trending on twitter and tech press will cover it. Maybe the mainstream press will not cover it or not to the extent they'll cover Sony and Microsoft, but I guess Nintendo believes that even those outlets will have to change their way of covering events, maybe Nintendo believe they can educate that "mainstream gamer" themselves at a later date, when the products hit the shelves and it really matters.
In addition to that they're transforming E3 with their Smash Bros. Tournament and continued In-store promotion to a more community specific event, following through the new Nintendo Direct mentality. Same thing goes with their daily live streams. That could be huge. I remember from my print magazine days that getting access to Nintendo developers was near right impossible, I hope we'll see some new faces on those streams. (I love Iwata Asks for that specific reason.)
However, yeah, E3 press conferences (DONE RIGHT!) are really special and magical.
In addition to that they're transforming E3 with their Smash Bros. Tournament and continued In-store promotion to a more community specific event, following through the new Nintendo Direct mentality. Same thing goes with their daily live streams. That could be huge. I remember from my print magazine days that getting access to Nintendo developers was near right impossible, I hope we'll see some new faces on those streams. (I love Iwata Asks for that specific reason.)
However, yeah, E3 press conferences (DONE RIGHT!) are really special and magical.
Mysterious
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So Press Conference?! :O
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Yeah, I'd be shocked if it was playable but the odds of a trailer are very high.
Bookmarked!
Matter of logistics, really. A tournament has far less that can go wrong with it than a presentation that has to cover several different titles, especially with live demonstrations. We saw that in action last year with the ridiculous delays for the BF4 demo at MS's presser and the insane stuttering on the AC4 demo at Sony's presser.
Vire
Member
Sure, no problem.
The Nintendo Direct last year for the the E3 press conference only received 1.6 million views on Youtube. This is a paltry number compared to the amount of exposure and viewership they would have received from third party networks in the past.
What this means for Nintendo:
1. No coverage on national television on networks like Spike TV because of the lack of lives press conference.
2. Headlines relegated to small news stories on major sites like IGN, Gamespot, Gametrailers etc, instead of the hundreds of thousands of viewers who watching the live streams daily.
3. And finally, a lack of excitement/energy and buzz of the crowd reaction, or "being the talk of the show".
It's pretty disappointing to be honest.
drunkendonuts
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lol i dug the Evangelion battery timer on the reggie mech
They're building hype for an upcoming game. I don't see how hosting a tournament means that it's taking priority over the conference.
InsaneZero
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Because they feel that dedicating a live event entirely for fans is more important than having a live event primarily aimed at press and industry.
I'm hyped for this. I hope they stream as much as possible from their E3 presence. All I heard in the video was "new games" and Nintendo already hyping their E3 6 weeks before it means they have great things to show. It must be worthy. I'm so looking forward for this.
Possibly a new Miyamoto IP.
Interceptor
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That´s the point. Nobody knows they won´t be doing exactly that. Nintendo digital could be a more elaborate direct with actual good cinematography and cut ins from the audience in the theatre. We don´t know.
sixteen-bit
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no press conference again this year
Wasn't there a comment about Zelda being 'almost ready' to show last year? Maybe I just picked that up from forum gossip, I dunno.
Aquamarine
Member
On YouTube. Do we have metrics about the amount of people who watched it from the Nintendo site / Ustream, or Nico Nico?
Release dates for Bayonetta 2 and X, along with some new footage would also be nice.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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I thought about them poking fun at the Wii U Gamepad's battery life but I guess that was in my mind and not theirs
Colonel Mustard
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>1.5 Million while the show was 'live'.
BruceLeeRoy
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When your desperately trying to gain traction with the mass market and not just the nintendo fans with Zelda tattoos how in the world does a subdued conference make sense.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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What is important is a good press release, especially in great network. Since one year Nintendo only communicates to its fans. That's a problem because the wide public does not care about Nintendo Direct and stuff like that. The lack of big events with huge games is a problem. From launch date till now we only see games with poor HD environnemnts. Where are Metroid Prime, big Zelda as OOT, big Mario 3D Game, big F-Zero, big Star Fox? Nintendo only launches interesting and funny gameplays like Nintendoland, Pikmin 3, SM3DW & DKTF. But if they want to competitor this is not enough. It deals with you because you are fanatics (as me).
As the wii U has a creepy CPU it is very hard for third party games to be good looking. The wii U failure come from bad choices. The gamepad stuff is a feature for true gamers only, not for casual gamers.
What is necessary now is to show bigs games, AAA games, as a massive open world. X could make the difference but when will it be released? Nobody knows.
MK8 seems to be very attractive even for a large public. What games will be launched immediatly after? Smash U will certainly be released in the early 2015.
I think the format will be important. If it's literally the same as last year- just another Direct with Iwata in front of a white screen, I think that yes it will not come across well. If the format is engaging and the software shown off is impressive, I think that's a different story.
1000 Branches
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You know this, how?
HUELEN10
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Who is Shane again?Shane Satterfield is not happy, I think.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Didn't hurt Trine 2, Need for Speed, Black OPs 2, etc...
