Apr 272016
I’ve been ambivalent toward Nintendo’s unusual E3 decisions over the past few years.
When they first replaced their stage presence with a Nintendo Direct, it didn’t impress me. In 2014, though, Nintendo’s digital show was fantastic, and the Nintendo Treehouse segments kept me watching long after I would have otherwise stopped.
Last year, the Treehouse stuff was still fun, but the digital show was not.
And this year… I’m not entirely sure what they’re doing.
Today, Nintendo made some major announcements. The NX will launch in March 2017, and the Wii U’s Legend of Zelda game has been delayed to release simultaneously for the Wii U and NX.
However, the NX won’t be shown at E3.
Zelda will, though. The new Zelda game will be playable at E3. It will be the only Nintendo game playable at E3.
Wait… what?
I’m not upset about the delay or dual launch for Zelda, because I wasn’t interested enough in it in the first place. And I can sort of understand using E3 to focus on other news to give the NX its own dedicated reveal later in the year. But bringing only a single playable game to E3 feels… alarming.
Supposedly this is to “provide attendees a complete immersion.” That’s… good for Zelda fans, I guess, but it doesn’t do much for attendees who love other Nintendo games.
Why not include Tokyo Mirage Sessions, to help people who still don’t understand what it is? Why not bring Color Splash and prove us naysayers wrong? What about one of the Dragon Quest remakes?
As much as I love Nintendo, this news baffles me. What about you?
I’m baffled.
Do you think this means they’re super confident in Zelda? Or… not confident and want to give it as much attention as possible? :/
You’ll see what I think tomorrow~
…or I’ll spoil it now: They may reserve the other games for the Best Buy event they like to do.
Hmm, that could be.
I’m going to put forh the optimistic theory that Color Splash isn’t playable because they completely redesigned it after the backlash.
And the other games?
No idea. :/
Irony? Metroid Prime: Federation Force was already ahead of development since it was first on the DSIWare. But if Paper Mario: Color Splash being delayed is true? Than that means they’ve pissed off the wrong group of people online. XD
(Remember there were over 9000 videos being made about Color Splash.)
I would not be surprised if that part is true? XD
(That and lots of death threats and fans tearing Nintendo a new one.)
Also fired one of their employers for being in a porno once. :/
Not a great day to start their E3 with a bang? XD
I couldn’t help but theorize it about Color Splash since Nintendo can’t be blind to the insane amount of backlash its trailer got.
This E3 should be… interesting…?
Okay, so now I’ve put myself into the opinion that it really doesn’t matter what’s playable on the show floor. That doesn’t affect us.
And it doesn’t matter if they take out the NX out of a suit jacket pocket because that’s not informative.
http://www.koopatv.org/2016/04/nintendos-e3-2016-might-be-good.html
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