Topic: E3 2016 Speculation/Predictions

Treehouse Live is the Zelda stream at 9am Pacific.

@IceClimbers I am not 100% certain but I hope they do Treehouse all 3 days. Their E3 plans are a bit unclear.

@DefHalan I see.So Nintendo's E3 isn't just the Treehouse live .

Showing only Zelda U is still very bad,tough.

@Randomname19 Their Direct could still just be a Treehouse Live broadcast, just setting itself separate from the rest of the Treehouse Live stuff.

@DefHalan Or maybe there isn't "the rest of the Treehouse Live stuff" and that 1 hour stream is the only Nintendo streaming for the whole of E3.

@Grumblevolcano That seems unlikely, but a lot of what Nintendo is doing now "seems unlikely" lol

@DefHalan From what I've read I think Grumblevolcano is correct. Just an hour of Zelda livestream by the Treehouse on the first day.

If they want to back out from E3 they should just not show anything there. This is just making they look bad.

@Octane From what I have seen, they are only talking about the 1 hour in relation to Zelda. Does that mean they aren't doing anything else the rest of the time? I don't know, their plans haven't been very clear.

@DefHalan I imagine they'd have said something if they were doing anything else. The Zelda stream was the only thing announced.

Doesn't stop them from surprise releasing Mother 3 on the eShop though

@IceClimbers True, but we will just have to wait and see. Treehouse Live has always been a 3-day event and it seems weird to fly members of Treehouse down for a 1 hour event. But I am not in charge of Nintendo's E3 plans so we will just have to wait and see.

@DefHalan Don't they also do press interviews and help with the demos and whatnot? You shouldn't forget that there's the usual behind the scenes stuff as well.

@Octane Press interviews are normally done with developers and their translators. elping with the demos are normally just hired help. Treehouse might do some translations for interviews but even that seems unlikely. Treehouse Live was the biggest reason to bring their localization team out to LA. Without Treehouse Live presentations all 3 days then it would be weird to bring out their Treehouse team and do just 1 presentation for 1 hour and maybe just for the rest of the day.

We will just have to wait and see how this plays out.

@DefHalan I don't know, I wouldn't worry too much about that. I think it's pretty clear that there's not a lot more going on at E3 for Nintendo. I too would like more than we're getting, but I don't think it's happening.

I wouldn't be surprised if the NX is shown behind closed doors to a select few developers at E3.

I wouldn't be surprised if we get a NX reveal shortly after/before E3

I've been thinking again over the logic regarding "E3 is dying" and I'm starting to think it may not be like that but rather the things that suggested it may mean other things instead. For example:
. Disney quit E3 but Disney quit gaming so that means nothing about E3.
. EA quit E3 to do their own thing but there will be stuff to play at E3 (e.g. Battlefield 1, Fifa '17)
. Activision doesn't have a booth but the main Activision games are shown at the Sony/Microsoft booths anyway
. Nintendo's only bringing Zelda U but NX hasn't been revealed yet.

Im going to go out on a limb and say...

Zelda. And...

Zelda./... ANd then some Zelda... And finally, just when the curtain goes down and we think its over... Zelda.

@Grumblevolcano I think it's also a safe assumption that the only reason why Nintendo rents all that floor space this year is so that they can have it again next year. If they don't and other publishers rent their space, it's going to be very difficult to get it back next year.

@Octane I think it a social experiment on open worlds. They have massive floor space and only 4 or 5 demo pods spread out. Nintendo will be observing how people dislike having to walk from one to another, yet love performing this action in a video game.