Nintendo's E3 this year
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 10:48 am
After a discussion started about this in another thread, I thought thus could be discussed here further without going too off-topic.
Personally, I think Nintendo's E3 this year was decent, but the actual Nintendo Direct, which was supposed to show off all their new stuff, was pretty terrible. Games that looked awful in the presentation actually look pretty fun when watching actual gameplay videos (I'm mostly thinking about Federation Force here).
There was a bit of a lack of content, and that's especially true when compared to Sony's presentation which was filled with surprises. Nintendo didn't have that big UMF BAM IN YOUR FACE announcement they would have needed. We knew about Star Fox and Mario Maker already, making them far less exciting.
Also, they really should have showed a trailer for the Wii U Zelda. I mean we got one last year, so the argument that "it's too far from release" doesn't really work.
Another thing that makes it easy to be disappointed with Nintendo is that there are so many "obvious" things they could have announced that would have gotten people really hyped. Metroid 5. A new F-Zero. Mother 4. Heck, a western Mother 3. Heck, even just adding Pokémon Red/Blue to the 3DS Virtual Console would have gotten hype, talk about a good workload-per-hype quota.
Personally, I think Nintendo's E3 this year was decent, but the actual Nintendo Direct, which was supposed to show off all their new stuff, was pretty terrible. Games that looked awful in the presentation actually look pretty fun when watching actual gameplay videos (I'm mostly thinking about Federation Force here).
There was a bit of a lack of content, and that's especially true when compared to Sony's presentation which was filled with surprises. Nintendo didn't have that big UMF BAM IN YOUR FACE announcement they would have needed. We knew about Star Fox and Mario Maker already, making them far less exciting.
Also, they really should have showed a trailer for the Wii U Zelda. I mean we got one last year, so the argument that "it's too far from release" doesn't really work.
Another thing that makes it easy to be disappointed with Nintendo is that there are so many "obvious" things they could have announced that would have gotten people really hyped. Metroid 5. A new F-Zero. Mother 4. Heck, a western Mother 3. Heck, even just adding Pokémon Red/Blue to the 3DS Virtual Console would have gotten hype, talk about a good workload-per-hype quota.