[E3'13, Wii U, 3DS] Nintendo Reportedly Not Holding E3 Press Conference

[E3'13, Wii U, 3DS] Nintendo Reportedly Not Holding E3 Press Conference

You read that right, according to Iwata during Nintendo's Investor's meeting today, Nintendo is pulling out of the large E3 showcase, and is not going to have a press conference this year.

On the official translation, Iwata states:

Quote:At E3 this year, we are not planning to launch new hardware, and our main activity at E3 will be to announce and have people experience our software. Many people are certainly very interested in learning more about the Wii U titles that we are going to announce. We will use E3 as an ideal opportunity to talk in detail mainly about the Wii U titles that we are going to launch this year, and we also plan to make it possible for visitors to try the games immediately. As a brand new challenge, we are working to establish a new presentation style for E3.

First, we decided not to host a large-scale presentation targeted at everyone in the international audience where we announce new information as we did in the past.
Instead, at the E3 show this year, we are planning to host a few smaller events that are specifically focused on our software lineup for the U.S. market. There will be one closed event for American distributors, and we will hold another closed hands-on experience event, for mainly the Western gaming media. Also, I did not speak at last year’s presentation, and I am not planning to speak at these events at the E3 show this year either. Apart from these exclusive events for visitors, we are continuing to investigate ways to deliver information about our games directly to our home audience around the time of E3. We will share more information about them once they have officially been decided.

An unexpected turn from a company that desperately needs to show some significant software for their latest hardware. Do you think this decision is a good idea?

Written by: Nathen Burrer

(This post was last modified: 04-24-2013 09:25 PM by Cubroso.) [E3'13, Wii U, 3DS] Nintendo Reportedly Not Holding E3 Press Conference
They'll no doubt have a special E3 Nintendo Direct stream that will be heavily promoted and probably broadcast. The only real difference is they won't be on stage at the conference. It probably won't be a huge deal, though I'll still be disappointed because I'm not overly interested in seeing what Microsoft or Sony have to say about their next gen hardware. Unless they have some games that tickle my fancy.

But Nintendo will still be at E3 anyway, there'll be plenty of coverage of their software and who's to say that they won't pop up in the various daily streams by G4, GameSpot, IGN, etc. to reveal games.

At first, this news disappointed me, but then it began to sink in that Nintendo's success with Nintendo Direct streams seems to negate the point of putting on a big E3 conference. Even if I'll miss them.

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