Topic: So what are your thoughts on Nintendo's new E3 presentation approach?

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.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/130425/04.html

Cliffnotes:

• No big presentation
• Nintendo Direct(s) for gamers
• Closed event/demo for press where they can experience software announced
• Closed retail event for distributors

Just show up at Walmart, and you're gold Nintendo. Haha. They'll probably just show up in malls like they used to do.

I'm not sure if it will work but considering how Nintendo has actively tried to distance itself as much as possible from the competition, this makes sense. Don't go against the consoles that will get huge buzz and just do your own thing with actual game releases.

I think this is a much better approach along with their directs this is the way to go, E3 has gotten stale for the most part. The more even flow of the directs is really nice along with their constant updates on their YouTube channel.

Those big screen E3 presentations can be a huge loss. (and kind-of a heart breaker if you ask me)
But I'll give it a wait n see approach. (E3 won't be the same this year, that's for sure)

Stupid seeing as the mainstream media who usually puts headlines up and gets the general populous hyped rarely does that much on the show floor. They usually lieblogad write up what they see at a press conference.

By ignoring this avenue Nintendo is effectyily cutting these guys out and catering to the same group of people who already own or plan to own a Wii U. This move seems foolhardy when you have two big consoles launching that will be the highlights of the 5 or 6 remaining press conferences which this audience will be at and live streamed at a variety of places. Betting the odds on Nintendo Directs and show floor demos is too high of a gamble.

Iwata also not speaking or participating in any of Nintendo's E3 events doesn't instill confidence in his continued stay at the company despite todays news of him becoming CEO of NOA. Amid speculation of his interment departure one would think as the head of NCL and now NOA he would be speaking at the company's biggest event of the year.

I think its a great approach as long as they blow us away with a strong accurate release list.

would be cool if we could get a limited time demo of any of those games that will expire upon certain timelimit base on the fact that they arent actual demos you would release to the public in the first place

anyone know where im getting at here?

Yeah, I believe the strategy is fine. They won't have to rely on the E3 Game Girls to do their presentations. It will give the audience a chance to play. Since they aren't exactly announcing anything new, other than the software shown, any other things can be revealed in Nintendo Directs.

People have come to expect too much from the Big Presentation. Since Iwata has his directs there's no need for the dog n pony show. This should eliminate discussion of dissapoinment of the presentation like there has been in the last few years. But journalists will still get good substance for articles.

I makes sense to me to scale it down in this way. Still hyped!

Honestly, I think this is good news, and here's why:

Nintendo is going to focus on games throughout the timeframe, and doesn't have to limit itself to a one-hour presentation on a stage, where two other presentations from their competitors will be showing off two brand new consoles. Nintendo gets multiple chances to show everything they're going to be doing right; the major games will be available to play at the show, and there will be a discussion specifically with investors to encourage them. They also get to have one or more Nintendo Directs aimed specifically at us, the American audience. Iwata also didn't clearly say they weren't going to have some sort of stage-show. He just said it's going to be non-traditional and spread out. I'm sure there will be dozens of trailers popping up all over the Internet. We don't have to worry about the Usher, lame dance games, cheesy family playing games, playing with books, thirty minutes of fitness, lame motion games, and shaking wands that all three of Big Three are guilty of.

I think its bad news as it shows weakness. Now I am seeing fanboys flood the IGN topic they have on this subject and what I'm seeing is nearly everyone slagging off Nintendo on how they are failing and that they are going down ect. All this negativity is getting me down.

So from what I've been gathering from almost everyone is that this is a very good thing?

Hey, as long as I get my Smash Bros. coverage, with some juicy Pikmin 3 details (would really like to know what the plot is) on the side, I'm good.

Many people have been saying doom about Nintendo ever since the day Sega became a business rival. Why let them bother you now?

When you think about it, those massive theater presentations are actually very old-fashioned. Sounds like Nintendo is going modern with their new approach. I think it's a step in the right direction. Congrats, Nintendo.

I think Nintendo is making the right choice by doing this. It is a unique approach and we all know that if they hold a huge big-screen press conference they will just be smashed by the competition. They should only do those when they announce new consoles, and since they are doing that, their approach for this year will work, IMO. I'm just looking forward to gameplay footage for the announced Wii U games.

I'm not sure what to think right now. I want to experience what it's like first.

This is a massive gamble. E3 is the massive hype train, like it or loathe it, and the press conferences are watched by gamers around the globe. E3 sets the stage for the gaming for the next 12 months and with Nintendo skipping the conference then I am little concerned. I hope they have some good news in the directs and by that I mean new unexpected games and some more features. Its a ballsy thing to do and you have to give them credit.

I can't make my mind up if its good or bad, not sharing the press conference spotlight with the other 2 might be a huge mistake, because to the general public it will look like this:

• BOOM PS4
• BOOM NextBox
• BOOM Nintendo gone

Do the general public even pay attention to E3 much at all? I don't know if it's much different in the US than it is here in Aus but in the mainstream media the coverage is very, very thin. They will always do a "pg 15" bit on new hardware, they sometimes do a fourth story in a news bulletin about the newest fitness game. They don't do anything about the major titles.

The only media that even bothers to cover the major stuff are the gaming specific media... and they do write ups about tweets from developers and games appearing in the classification database. So I think people are overstating the impact. Just look at how much coverage the PS4 announcement got. The gaming industry doesn't need an event to get people hyped about an announcement.

...... anyways, most of the E3 buzz is in the post announcement anyway. The sharing of trailers on social media, the gameplay videos from the showroom floor. That's what I look forward to the most.