Mihael Mello Keehl
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This also good for awarness of these games coming up. They arent exactly system sellers as MK and 3D mario dont need exposure like this to sell. Still would be nice to see one though.
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Nintendo E3 Site Opens: E3 Direct one hour long. Teases some games.
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GiantEnemyGoomba
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E3 demos are treated differently. It's expected for them to be a little buggy. For in-store demos, glitches and the like would set a bad impression especially if the time with the game is limited. Because of this, we can't really draw a parallel between the E3 and BB demos.
Disorientator
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Come on guys, did you honestly expect Nintendo to leak out details of their game to a retailer before the game is announced?
Retailers have huge staff and often photograph stuff such as this, I've received many a Pokémon event notification from situations like this. It'd be illogical for them to do so
Retailers have huge staff and often photograph stuff such as this, I've received many a Pokémon event notification from situations like this. It'd be illogical for them to do so
GiantEnemyGoomba
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Haven't checked Retro's site for a while - are these the same Metroid Prime icons they always had on there?
Image properties show they were modified on June 3rd though it could mean nothing.
Getting a Nintendo-black/silver-e3-theme vibe here. (or getting paranoid)
LOL
unless they left the design up to the individual store, that looks pretty awful. not a great font choice.
i'm 80% sure it's a fake.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Would make sense if it said Yeah if you want BG&E2 announcements
It's not unbelievable that the staff at some random Best Buy in Wheaton will pick a poor font.
That's what I thought too. Wouldn't they have universal flyers so that every best buy has the same ? These don't look like Nintendo themselves made them.
GiantEnemyGoomba
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It's pretty obvious it's made in-store. The store probably just threw together a placeholder for the official event flyers.
KillerTravis
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So employees can't hope for game announcements now?
Haven't checked Retro's site for a while - are these the same Metroid Prime icons they always had on there?
Image properties show they were modified on June 3rd though it could mean nothing.
Getting a Nintendo-black/silver-e3-theme vibe here. (or getting paranoid)
i checked a cache and nothing has changed
For me the titles I want to see the most goes like this.:
1. Pikmin 3
2. 3D Mario
3. W101
4. Retro
5. Windwaker
6. Mario Kart
7. X
8. Yarn Yoshi
We've seen enough Pikmin 3. We don't need any more Pikmin 3. We know it's coming, we know what it looks like. Move on. I'm looking forward to playing it as much as anyone else, but I hope they don't spend too much time on it during the Direct.
Likewise Wii Fit U. I am genuinely terrified that there won't be enough time for awesome megaton bomb dropping.
Likewise Wii Fit U. I am genuinely terrified that there won't be enough time for awesome megaton bomb dropping.
Jondoyle123
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I presume remake 2 is out the question
GiantEnemyGoomba
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You can only spend so much time talking about a single game in a Direct. It's a lot different than a press conference. In the January Direct they didn't spend more than five minutes on a game. X made a huge impact and they spent less than two minutes on it.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Ask kamiya
They spent less than 2 minutes on Mario Galaxy, Metroid Other M, Metroid Prime 3, Twilight Princess, etc in their reveal conferences.
Megatons do not take time.
In the April Direct, focused on the 3DS, it was 37 minutes. They provided information on 20 different things, almost all games.
We'll have plenty of time
Enough? We only know the objective of the game. We don't know the locations, new systems, new modes, etc. There are tons to talk about in Pikmin 3. And I want to see all of it.
GiantEnemyGoomba
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To sell the Wii U.
Jondoyle123
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one dayBecause:
A) The fact that they are popular franchises means they need even more exposure.
B) They already have Demos ready for E3.
GiantEnemyGoomba
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Exactly. All the worries about time are pretty unwarranted imo.
I'm only going to be excited for X once I've thrown every Final Fantasy in my backlog off of a truck.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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It wont sell until those games drop, you already sold your Wii U in favor of a MK bundle didnt you?
GiantEnemyGoomba
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That doesn't make any sense. Also, they can't have possibly buggy demos at an in-store event like they can at E3.
Don't forget that when announced, they said this Direct was to focus on Wii U games of Autumn and beyond, and the one which was a few weeks ago was for games this summer. As such, Pikmin is unlikely to have much of a presence in the Direct
I'll excited once they talk about the online/multiplayer component. The fact that they had "Player 1"in the previous trailer left me skeptical.
I've always said that Xenoblade's gameplay and battle system would be superb in multiplayer. X seems to follow the same gameplay template, so yeah
we need more details though regardless
They also said that the last one was for Summer titles and they still showed off Sonic Lost World and Mario & Sonic 2014.
Well they had to have some reveals else people would complain...
Oh, I forgot all about that stuff. I remember being really put off by all of that stuff, but I guess they could make it work. We've got a while until it's out anyway, mind.
It makes perfect sense. Why else would big, popular franchise get huge marketing budgets? It helps sell the most. Exposure is nice, but ultimately you will have more potential consumers with Mario than W101. As for the second point, if we are talking about "possibility" then I'd say the possibility of having a cut down Mario demo is very plausible, especially since WW isn't exactly near release either.
I imagine Wind Waker HD is as close to release as Mario Kart or 3D Mario are, given it's position in the demo station.
Really, demos of these games won't sell Wii U's. The release of those games will sell Wii U's. Nobody needs to be made aware of their existence because you simply aren't going to get a rush of casual consumers buying your console for games that are nearly half a year away, and those consumers will know when, as you pointed out, large marketing campaigns for those games take place.
It's not worth the potential for stolen demo stations, leaks, etc.
Maybe not selling them straight away, but at the very least raising awareness. Bolded part makes sense though.
SatoAilDarko
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Pretty disappointed in Luigi U being one of the demos and no Mario U. Luigi is DLC and is literally coming out in a few weeks. I would have much rather have had Game & Wario be the fourth demo as its a game type we really haven't seen before. Still with the Year of Luigi it shouldn't have surprised me that this happened. Also I feel Zelda is a bad game to be demoed at such a short event. Since how more slower paced I feel it is compared to the rest.
Yep. There's no rush to get Mario out for a playable demo. I think the demos are more a courtesy to invested fans, with obviously collateral exposure - not a campaign to primarily raise awareness and get more sales. They have better ways to attract the mainstream than demos in select cities for as you said, games that are a long way off. Like, you know, releasing games. haha
Video games since 3, that means Shenmue 3 hint.
Speed-running the Skyward Sword demo was one of my favourite parts of the Eurogamer Expo back in 2011. I was apparently the only person on that day who managed to finish it, not to mention the only person who played it more than 10 times. >_>
Zelda demos are awesome.
GiantEnemyGoomba
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The huge marketing push for those titles is just a way of reminding casuals that this system does in fact have these games. Even without the marketing, they would still sell more because they are established IPs that everyone knows. An in store demo is much more effective for niche titles like Pikmin and W101 because those casuals would otherwise not give them a second glance.
True, but I am not saying this is an either/or situation. They could have both.
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