Nintendo And Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Were The Most Talked About Subjects During E3 On Twitter

SSB beat out Kingdom Hearts AND Fallout. Safe to say that Smash is quite the popular series. E3 might have been less satisfying than I had hoped, but I am sure Nintendo appreciates all the free hype.

I sure hope Smash got some hype. It’s essentially all Nintendo had this year. Talk about putting all your eggs in a single basket...

After all the focus and time Nintendo had on it, some accomplishment had to be made. Hope it make ups for the lack of anounced games in the future with good sales.

I feel people are particularly vocal about Smash, both positively and negatively. But no publicity is bad publicity?

That's actually surprising to me considering all the really great games that were announced and shown other than....another Smash Bros. Are we sure it wasn't the largest amount of tweets because people were saying "enough Smash Bros, where's the other games for the year"

Nintendo really showed off their games horribly. I imagine Mario Party and DBZ Fighterz would’ve gotten more hype if those two were properly shown off. (Mario Party could’ve been cleaner on the main board and DBZ should’ve gotten a full trailer.

I’m going to guess knowing Smash Fans that 95% of the tweets are asking for Waluigi. (Now that they’ve moved on from their god Ridley)

I must admit I had lost interest in Smash, but this one really has rekindled the hype. Every character returning? Amazing. I can play on the TV and take it with me? Doubly amazing. I'm counting the days. 169 left to go.

That's great news to a Smash fan like me

"What do you think?"
The last Nintendo will welcome the last Smash Brothers ? OK. What about other UNKNOWN things ?
(well, it was only the E3 so I didn't expect anything big on the other side)

(At least, it's not the previous game sold fully instead of piece after piece)

Too much Smash Bros Ultimate, eh ?
Good for Nintendo can keep the Hype about Smash Bros running, but i expect Animal Crossing for Switch to Double Hype about Nintendo Switch.

@ShadJV tell that Michael Pachter.

I sure hope so.. because it was just about the only thing Nintendo talked about

Nintendo showed the possible best entry in a series to date (SSBU), the possible best entry in a series since ages (Super Mario Party), first footage ofthe new, and only third console version of one of the best strategy game series (Fire Emblem), a very interesting looking, exclusiv third-party game (Daemon X Machina) and few other stuff, but... 😢😢😢😢😢 people are whiney and tend to ignore all that

@thesilverbrick It's the big one they showed at E3 sure, but there are a lot of cool games coming to the Switch this year. The lone mistake was not giving more coverage of them.

@MrBlacky it is because all those other things combined got less coverage than SSB alone did. I think people are too upset, but not wrong to be annoyed.

Nobody makes the link that the most conversations was about Smash Bros because a lot of people complained about the horrible stretchy and boring length it took to show Smash Bros 4.5 ?

Nintendo is incredible to turn a factual mistake into something positive to make people believe the opposite of the reality.

Let's face the truth, a HUGE amount of those tweets were not to talk in a good way about Smash but more to complain about what was happening during the Nintendo DIRECT.

@Cobalt really? I think you are reaching there.

For example, Nintendo's official Smash reveal video has over 3 million views and is running a 98-2 like/dislike ratio.

Not everyone has to agree but the response to Smash has been positive.

@JamesR

Positive about Smash in itself as a game but NEGATIVE on the presentation and the time consuming that Smash took.

30 minutes of Smash on a 45 minutes Nintendo E3 Direct when people want to see new games and get infos and what Nintendo already shown last year ( Metroid Prime 4, Bayonetta 3, Yoshi, Shin Megami Tensei, Travis etc...) hummm excuse me but a lot of people were at least not happy or even upset for some other ones...

Bethesda did some name dropping, but nothing specific.
I wonder if a remake of Morrowind would be possible? Or even the previous two games, especially Daggerfall, as that was a huge game mired with bugs. Games from Morrowind onwards are like 1% of Daggerfall map size.

Maybe they tweeted: Smash Patch Notes

3. Elder Scrolls VI trailer is revealed at @Bethesda press conference

If only I could get hyped for a game that's 6-8 years away...

How many of those tweets were "Is this @SmashBros presentation ever going to end?" ?

People were happy to see the game i'm sure, but that presentation dragged. Not a great E3 from Ninty.

@Heavyarms55 It was not a mistake. They likely expected Smash was going to be the most talked-about game so they needed to feature it. Doing otherwise would have been the mistake.

@Cobalt maybe I misunderstood your point. I don't particular want to debate whether people felt the direct met their expectations or not - there are other threads for that.

Overall I think the reception for Smash Ultimate at E3 has been very positive (the reveal, tournament and Treehouse). I believe that most Twitter traffic (and engagement on YouTube) has been genuine excitement for the game with a little "Where's Waluigi?". I don't buy Smash leading the conversation on Twitter due to the lack of "Yoshi (tentative title)" in the Direct as a likely explanation.

We will see in December how well it performs but I think it has a good chance of becoming the best selling Smash in the series. Although I expect the Pokemon Let's Go titles to lead the sales.

Yeah, lots of people talked about Nintendo...about how they dropped the ball yet again!

Legend says that Twitter is a pretty big deal, mmm hmm.

@Cobalt With your comment it is clear that you are out of touch.

@Cosats

Could you be a little clearer please ?

@thesilverbrick Daemon X Machina deserved more attention. That stuff looked tight.

I like what Nintendo did and Smash looks to be AMAZING. I hope they bring back the story mode to Smash I really missed it in the Smash Wii U and 3DS titles. We only get one of these titles per new Nintendo system so in that regard I'm glad Nintendo focused so much on it and this new Smash Bros. looks massive just the number of characters we know of alone is staggering so consider me hyped. The upcoming Fire Emblem title looks astonishing as well . I'm glad Nintendo didn't show games that are 4 or 5 years away to me that is pointless to many factors can change in that span it is hard for me to get hyped for something that far off and Nintendo being Nintendo will no doubt be dropping a direct soon especially with the online service starting soon and the Pokemon titles getting released not long after.

Well, it is the biggest gaming cross-over ever and I'm sure they pulled a LOT of nostalgia by introducing all of the Melee characters.

The game looks phenomenal as well so I'm glad it's getting a lot of attention.

@MrBlacky It’s true that the Nintendo Switch has a good upcoming lineup, but the way they presented it was terrible. We really needed more info on SMP and FE than just a trailer, especially since we’ve been waiting a year and a half for its reveal. And Smash looks cool, but they spent way too much time on covering the characters and small gameplay changes rather than modes and/or new content for some (like me) to get excited. And while a lot of this information will probably be in a Direct later this year, E3 is the time to pull out all the stops, like Nintendo did in 2017. This year, they did not do that.

I wonder how much of the Nintendo buzz was disappointment. I was let down by a lack of MP4, Bayo 3, and no new...

https://youtu.be/JGuYwGpI0kA

Sorry, but I see WiiU happening again. There is nothing I will buy this year. I bought one game for WiiU while waiting for a Zelda game. Nintendo's E3 had nothing for me. But I'm ok leaving my switch in the closet for now.

@westman98 I can't believe that was such a talked about event as we got nothing but a title. No gameplay, no cutscene, not even a subtitle. Just "The Elder Scrolls IV".

Looks like Nintendo made the right choice on the deep dive.

I saw people during E3 talking about how they were tired of Smash at E3.

@KingdomHeartsFan
The Switch is far, far, far more successful than the Wii U. Comparing those 2 systems is pointless and borderline misleading.

@KingdomHeartsFan
Ahhh...yes. Childish remarks are totally the way to go. What a great and mature response.

@Heavyarms55 What blows me away is that KH was more talked about than fallout. I love KH (one of my favorite rpgs series) but I would have never expected that

Morrowind would be hard to remake. Not only is it larger than Skyrim, much of its mechanics would be very outdated. But the physics based mechanics that Skyrim embraced would require complete redesigns of areas - and would also require banning Levitation, a key spell of the game.

Meanwhile, all the heightmaps would also have to be redone, which would require redesigning much of the overworld and the cities in it, to fit the much more steep inclines you need since you'd be able to see vistas and not be blocked by the engine-saving fog of war.

Essentially, a lot of the work that's taken free-lancers decades to do would need to be put in. And sure, Bethesda could probably churn that out in a few years, but they'd either end up alienating the Morrowind fan-base with a "they broke it now it sucks" mentality, or else anger the newer fan-base begging for the next full game in the series by delaying that to provide this experience - see how people got angry for the delays of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, for instance, while we got HD remasters of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess instead for several years...

Doesn't mean it can't be done, and I'd love it to be done. I'd hate to see it crush the motivations of Tamriel Rebuilt, though, much as TES Online has really crushed the spirits of the larger Project Tamriel companion mod initiatives for Morrowind's mainland mod.

People, don`t waste your time replying to Sony fanboys/Nintendo haters. Just do as I did and report them. Surely Nintendo Life will do something if enough of us report said people.

@Oat really? KH was absolutely massive, at least in my area when it was new. So this doesn't surprise me at all.

@thesilverbrick Pokemon Let's Go is also coming.

@Heavyarms55 Where I live I get to have occasional convos with people who love the series as much as I do but more often than not I hear about Bethesda's games both on and offline hence why I was surprised.