Nintendo Not-E3 and General E3 2015 Thread

When you list them all it doesn't seem bad, E3 just made it seem like it.

It definitely was a poorly presented NDE (as we all know) but the games themselves aren't that bad, I also think (myself included) that gamers want to be surprised by things at e3 and Nintendo didn't do that.

I'd agree with you.  Nintendo's main problem was the lack of a gamechanger, a surprise game (or even an expected one) that just blew us all away.  SF0 came close, but was shown at the beginning of the Direct, so we'd completely forgotten it by the time they were dredging through badly-played versions of the SMB theme.

In fact, I feel that pacing was a bigger problem than games throughout the Direct.  Too much filler, in the form of developer chat, Mario Maker, YWW, and amiibo.  If they'd come out a week before the Direct and said, "We're only going to be speaking for half an hour because we're working hard on Zelda U and NX, prease understand," all of the anger would have subsided by E3.  

Then start with five minutes of Triforce Heroes, give Paper Jam more time than it got too, show some actual gameplay from SMTxFE or whatever it's called now, touch on the Mario website for half a minute in the middle, and end with the Star Fox reveal we all knew was coming - then fade to black, fiery cross, and reveal SSB4 Ryu downloadable NOW...  What could have been.

The puppets were great though.

GNamer's Final E3 Verdicts Tally:

I think the mini direct and jpn direct from the other day was better then the E3 direct, also that end vote is about right looking back a few days later.

Looking myself there's about 16 retail games confirmed for the U I'll likely pick up, yeah I moaned about AC:Amiibo but I know I'll pick it up more then likely.

balla wrote:

In fact, I feel that pacing was a bigger problem than games throughout the Direct.  Too much filler, in the form of developer chat, Mario Maker, YWW, and amiibo.  If they'd come out a week before the Direct and said, "We're only going to be speaking for half an hour because we're working hard on Zelda U and NX, prease understand," all of the anger would have subsided by E3.

Agreed about the pacing as well and how things like the smash bros content and earthbound made their show pique too early.

balla wrote:

The puppets were great though.

Yep!

I've just seen the holographic Minecraft table footage - that'll change fronkhead's toilet gaming forever.

The Cappuccino Kid wrote:

It's not looking too bad for me - there's still a few games I'll get in 2015. On Wii U I'll definitely go for Yoshi's Wooly World, Super Mario Maker, Starfox Zero and Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, and I'll have a look at Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, Devil's Third and Rodea The Sky Soldier. There'll be the odd eShop deal too, and - in all probability - I'll not be able to hold back on getting the Animal Crossing amiibo Festival if it's priced suitably.

This year's probably looking better for me than a lot of posters on here, to be fair. That said, there's a definitely sense of 'GameCube 2006' in the air after that. Just Dance 2017 would probably get a 40-page review if Nintendo Gamer was still kicking about at Christmas next year.

From stuff I've been reading it is late Cube or Wii now for the Wii U with Reggie & Shigsy talking abut the NX along with comments such as people didn't understand the console which being in the past tense doesn't sound great as you could of said people don't understand the console. The most noticeable thing being said is about the launch and taking till 2013 to get out titles and it was to little to late by then.