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Instead, there'll just be private media and business briefings, and some Nintendo Directs or something. Details to be announced. Their excuse is that they want people to play the games instead of just presenting them, but seriously... the press conference is important! If they really don't have a conference, while MS and Sony do, it won't look good for Nintendo, for sure. Hopefully they come up with something interesting, though... Nintendo Directs are okay, but don't have the excitement or attention of a full-on press conference. E3 tried this "scale down" thing several years back, but it didn't work. I kind of hope this doesn't work too, so we get full-scale Nintendo press conferences again... though at least a live Nintendo Direct, or something, would be good. I just don't want it to be only preshot videos, they aren't quite as interesting.

So we now know that Wii U Smash Bros. will indeed be shown in the E3 Nintendo Direct.

All a "press conference" does is add reporters to the scene. Today, it's all sound and fury. So long as Nintendo has a particularly long "Nintendo Direct" that reveals a lot, then I'm satisfied with that. Playable demos like the sort available at an E3 only now available to all Wii U owners would be a step in the right direction. Reporters will still be there, yes, but they wouldn't be needed for us to get that information. We could just go around them and see this stuff for ourselves.