Nintendo did at some stuff

[A Black Falcon]

So apparently, the E3 Direct is getting a lot of (overly-) harsh criticism online, because it didn't show much new. I think the critics are going too far, even if they have part of a valid point. The contrast between Nintendo and Sony's conferences this year really was interesting. Nintendo had a very good conference for 2015 games, but showed almost nothing for next year and had no big reveals. Meanwhile, Sony had a very good conference for 2016-2017 games, but showed almost nothing for this year (apart for some multiplatform third-party titles), and had some big reveals that are a year or years away.

Which is better? I'm not sure, both have their merits. Had Nintendo had even a single hinted major Wii U game reveal, I think it'd be easy to say they won, because for E3, the game releasing later this year should matter more than games that are a year or more away. Of course, the problem is that they didn't have that, they had only some handheld and minor titles to reveal. And yeah, that's a problem, but I think the haters here are MASSIVELY overstating how bad the conference was. It was, for the most part, a great conference, with no major bad sections, lots of interesting games shown, and some interesting reveals -- the three new 3DS games announced all look good, for sure. Yeah, it was sadly lacking in reveals for the future, but still, it's an okay conference overall.

After watching, I thought 'I wish there had been some more new games shown, particularly for Wii U', but overall I think it was a good conference. And yeah, anyone saying "worst" did not watch 2008 -- this one was many, many times better than that thing was.

Last though, I really do hope that the absence of any major reveals was just because Nintendo was too focused on showing only 2015 stuff, and not because they're giving up on Wii U in favor of NX sooner than they should.