I already heard, that my friends started doubting of getting the Switch because of the E3 direct.
Which makes me frustrated, as the Switch would be the BEST console for me because of the local multiplayer with own screens for each player AND motion controllers, but without friends(and games) it’s just depressing.
I even lost mood for getting the otherwise perfectly jolly nice games, that they showed in the beginning of the video.
You got to set the mood right in your marketing. Show some versatility in your portfolio luring all kinds of gamers that happily do the marketing for you, and then you can keep spamming cute platformers left and right.
Even though the GameCube and Wii didn’t have much of a AAA-game rush, I was perfectly happy for knowing, that there are all kinds of games coming, funny party games and exciting adventures. Now they are telling, that there are no exciting adventures in sight (if you don’t have the hots for j-rpgs that is). Happy customers buy games, depressed customer might skip even Mario Party.
I think they made the same mistake with the Wii U, when they leaned too heavily into looking sales charts while deciding game projects, which lead into rather one sided portfolio in the the beginning(as well as the end half of the Wii era). Even when the NSMB and the Donkey Kong were super strong series, and their predecessors sold amazing amounts, they were not games, that lured people to buy the console.
But then again.
All the games from other companies shows, that made me excited, are not coming this year or don’t even have rough schedule, and we probably see them in several E3 shows in coming years.
And I know, that the Metroid is coming, so does it make much of a concrete difference, when they didn’t show it. It just kills the mood.