Nintendo did at some stuff

[A Black Falcon]

Nintendo's E3 Nintendo Direct was good... for what it showed. The problem is, there were almost no major new titles announced; all we've gotten is a spinoff Metroid shooter for 3DS that looks okay but not great, an Animal Crossing boardgame for Wii U, a Zelda game for 3DS with 3-player co-op, a US release of Mother 1 (Wii U VC), a new Mario Tennis for Wii U, Paper Mario / Mario & Luigi crossover RPG for 3DS, and that's about it. It's an okay lineup of 3DS games, but weak for the Wii U. The absence of any major new announcements is something a lot of people are complaining about, and I do agree that it's a problem; they REALLY needed to show something significant that's new for Wii U. Even just a tiny teaser.

I mean, the big focus on Mario Maker and Star Fox makes sense, since those are their two major Wii U titles for this holiday season, but they needed to also show some stuff for next year. Sony and Nintendo are kind of opposites in this respect, here -- Sony showed nothing for this year except for third-party multiplatform games, while Nintendo showed almost nothing for next year and focused entirely on stuff that releases this year. This left Sony with the much bigger reveals, but they mean little for quite a while.