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IGN Versus Results E3 2014: Nintendo Wins Everything

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Askherserenity

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Guess IGN put up some polls after E3 and readers voted Nintendo the winner for all the categories. Really interesting how things are slowly changing for Nintendo at the moment.

They had the best showing at E3 for sure, in my opinion and other small things (Mario Kart, Smash tourney, Nintendo at EVO) are all adding up to this current sea change in Nintendo's favor.

Any of you surprised by the results though? I know I was. And not because I don't think Nintendo deserved it, obviously. I was surprised because it was voted by IGN readers, which in my mind...don't really care much at all about Nintendo and wouldn't even really pay much attention to what they had to show at E3, even if they did show great things. But I guess I was wrong.

Video of the results here
 
Mysterious said:
Let's see if it translates to hardware unit sales.
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That's what I'm wondering, talk is cheap. It's nice that people are excited for Nintendo games, but saying "I'm excited for Nintendo games" and "I'm buying Nintendo games" are not always the same
 
1000 Branches said:
What were the categories? Sorry, I can't check the video out yet.
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Best Games
Best Conference
Best Overall Showing

Exokell said:
This will not translate in sales, sorry
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Are you completely blind to the change in opinion here on GAF since Mario Kart launched? We've had more "Who just bought a Wii U?" or "Who's buying a Wii U?" threads than I can count, with a TON of Gaffers finally buying into Nintendo's message and vision. If GAF feels that way, you can assume that it's a good representation of gamers in general all around the world.
 
Meanwhile, with the press

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But guys, I thought Nintendo wasn't at E3 /sarcasm

But seriously, hopefully this year shut up the people whining about no live press conference
 
Eh. People who think Nintendo stole the show outright or changed E3 forever are on the Kool Aid a bit. They might have had the best showing, but it's more because Sony screwed up their presentation than Nintendo had a crazy great one. What Sony actually had to show, in my opinion, was at least as interesting to me as what Nintendo had to show.

Most of Nintendo's showing looks like quantity over quality. All of their new franchises were C-tier at best, most of their brand new games are eShop-looking titles being sold at full retail price, and their game reveal method was awkward and annoying (a 45 minute Direct followed by a 30 minute hunt of find the news, with one reveal or two the next day max). They didn't commit to pushing all of their announcements all at once, and they didn't commit to spreading them all out -- they had an bad in-between.

The Treehouse thing was good, but people saying this is a revolutionary event to change E3 forever are on drugs. The press conference is going to die in the next few years regardless of what Nintendo does, and although they had the best stream, they were far from the only company with an all day stream. This just shows they had the best head start.
 
Things like this make me assume that Nintendo feels comfortable sticking with the same format every year from now on and it seems they are announcing games that people seem to like.

Now Nintendo just needs to continue to do things like this for the fans while they fix their internal issues and work on new hardware.
 
dang IGN comments are cancerous.

Anyway...
Nintendo IMO definitely had the best conference. Very entertaining. Was laughing and engaged the whole time. Dev interviews were interesting.

Overall Nintendo Treehouse stuff was cool. First time having such a cool window into E3 itself. Like having Itagaki come on IGN right away and reveal a game, or sometime later having Nintendo showing off S.T.E.A.M felt like they were everywhere.

Wouldn't say Nintendo had the best games overall though. Saying that The other two were just supplemented with 3rd party.
 
culafia said:
Eh. People who think Nintendo stole the show outright or changed E3 forever are on the Kool Aid a bit. They might have had the best showing, but it's more because Sony screwed up their presentation than Nintendo had a crazy great one. What Sony actually had to show, in my opinion, was at least as interesting to me as what Nintendo had to show.

Most of Nintendo's showing looks like quantity over quality. All of their new franchises were C-tier at best, most of their brand new games are eShop-looking titles being sold at full retail price, and their game reveal method was awkward and annoying (a 45 minute Direct followed by a 30 minute hunt of find the news, with one reveal or two the next day max). They didn't commit to pushing all of their announcements all at once, and they didn't commit to spreading them all out -- they had an bad in-between.

The Treehouse thing was good, but people saying this is a revolutionary event to change E3 forever are on drugs. The press conference is going to die in the next few years regardless of what Nintendo does, and although they had the best stream, they were far from the only company with an all day stream. This just shows they had the best head start.
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Not so sure about that. I bet you people from Microsoft and Sony were looking at what Nintendo did at E3 while stroking their chin.

Also, I don't want to sound like I am defending Nintendo so I'm not going to bother with what I bolded since it's obviously just a matter of opinion.

but your opinion is stupid and wrong <3
 
border said:
Who cares about conducting a proper scientific poll or market research when you can just put a button on IGN and let every user click it?
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Not IGN obviously, because they're not a market research firm.

I don't understand what people want from this. It was a fun dumb little poll. It wasn't meant to predict sales data, no one is pretending that it is, and yet the first response to this thread wonders if it will be indicative of sales data followed by a couple of posts asserting that it means nothing for sales.
 
Deadpool_X said:
Are you completely blind to the change in opinion here on GAF since Mario Kart launched? We've had more "Who just bought a Wii U?" or "Who's buying a Wii U?" threads than I can count, with a TON of Gaffers finally buying into Nintendo's message and vision. If GAF feels that way, you can assume that it's a good representation of gamers in general all around the world.
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I don't know if Gaf should ever be used as representation for "gamers" as a whole, let alone the other audiences beyond that.
 
Deadpool_X said:
Are you completely blind to the change in opinion here on GAF since Mario Kart launched? We've had more "Who just bought a Wii U?" or "Who's buying a Wii U?" threads than I can count, with a TON of Gaffers finally buying into Nintendo's message and vision. If GAF feels that way, you can assume that it's a good representation of gamers in general all around the world.
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Lol I'm not sure about that.
 
Well the viewers of E3 have spoken, so let's give the credit where the credit is due.

Many here thought that Nintendo having no live press conference hurts the company more than it helps them. Turns out, it was the opposite. So congratulations Nintendo for having the best show in this year's E3.

As for sales, I will say this again: showing at E3 has no direct correlation with hardware sales. So let's leave that in another discussion.
 
zruben said:
with that logic; this is an internet forum, utterly meaningless... and yet, here we are.
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I certainly don't think the consensus of opinions on NeoGAF is representative of the entire gaming public either.

Strangely enough though, if every NeoGAF member voted in a poll on the front page of this forum, it would have more ballots cast than the IGN poll.
 
1) ninty had more time to show their stuff.

2) the other two actually had more games, it's just that those games weren't shown on-stage.
 
culafia said:
Eh. People who think Nintendo stole the show outright or changed E3 forever are on the Kool Aid a bit. They might have had the best showing, but it's more because Sony screwed up their presentation than Nintendo had a crazy great one. What Sony actually had to show, in my opinion, was at least as interesting to me as what Nintendo had to show.

Most of Nintendo's showing looks like quantity over quality. All of their new franchises were C-tier at best, most of their brand new games are eShop-looking titles being sold at full retail price, and their game reveal method was awkward and annoying (a 45 minute Direct followed by a 30 minute hunt of find the news, with one reveal or two the next day max). They didn't commit to pushing all of their announcements all at once, and they didn't commit to spreading them all out -- they had an bad in-between.

The Treehouse thing was good, but people saying this is a revolutionary event to change E3 forever are on drugs. The press conference is going to die in the next few years regardless of what Nintendo does, and although they had the best stream, they were far from the only company with an all day stream. This just shows they had the best head start.
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Deadpool_X said:
Are you completely blind to the change in opinion here on GAF since Mario Kart launched? We've had more "Who just bought a Wii U?" or "Who's buying a Wii U?" threads than I can count, with a TON of Gaffers finally buying into Nintendo's message and vision. If GAF feels that way, you can assume that it's a good representation of gamers in general all around the world.
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Probably won't translate to sales.

But I don't think that especially matters when discussing the poll.

Edit: Wait this is a crazy person thread, never mind, I'm out
 
culafia said:
Eh. People who think Nintendo stole the show outright or changed E3 forever are on the Kool Aid a bit. They might have had the best showing, but it's more because Sony screwed up their presentation than Nintendo had a crazy great one. What Sony actually had to show, in my opinion, was at least as interesting to me as what Nintendo had to show.

Most of Nintendo's showing looks like quantity over quality. All of their new franchises were C-tier at best, most of their brand new games are eShop-looking titles being sold at full retail price, and their game reveal method was awkward and annoying (a 45 minute Direct followed by a 30 minute hunt of find the news, with one reveal or two the next day max). They didn't commit to pushing all of their announcements all at once, and they didn't commit to spreading them all out -- they had an bad in-between.

The Treehouse thing was good, but people saying this is a revolutionary event to change E3 forever are on drugs. The press conference is going to die in the next few years regardless of what Nintendo does, and although they had the best stream, they were far from the only company with an all day stream. This just shows they had the best head start.
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wha.....wha.....how...

I spit on your opinion.
 
Codeblue said:
Not IGN obviously, because they're not a market research firm.

I don't understand what people want from this. It was a fun dumb little poll. It wasn't meant to predict sales data, no one is pretending that it is, and yet the first response to this thread wonders if it will be indicative of sales data followed by a couple of posts asserting that it means nothing for sales.
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Its because bringing up sales is the easiest way for people to put down Nintendo's conference.
 
culafia said:
Most of Nintendo's showing looks like quantity over quality. All of their new franchises were C-tier at best, most of their brand new games are eShop-looking titles being sold at full retail price
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That's just like, your opinion man.

For me, the only game from MS/Sony I'd put up there with Yoshi's Wooly World/Xenoblade X/Zelda U/Splatoon is Bloodborne.
 
Askherserenity said:
Not so sure about that. I bet you people from Microsoft and Sony were looking at what Nintendo did at E3 while stroking their chin.

Also, I don't want to sound like I am defending Nintendo so I'm not going to bother with what I bolded since it's obviously just a matter of opinion.

but your opinion is stupid and wrong <3
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Do you prefer Kool-Aid from a bottle or in that powder form?
 
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