18th June 2015, 6:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 18th June 2015, 6:52 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Do you really think they're going to release their next console THAT soon? That would alienate everyone who's got a Wii U and fragment the market rather severely. I wouldn't read too much into things like that. Can you HONESTLY look at the games currently out on all 3 systems and say that Nintendo doesn't currently have WAY more to offer than their competition? I've got about 3 games each between my XBox One and PS4, and meanwhile I've got 20 games on my Wii U. Some aren't as good as I had hoped (Wario Ware) and this E3 I realized they're trying to release just as many Mario Party games as they generally push each generation, but "hiding" it behind reskins, but seriously, LOOK at what they've got on there!
http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-lost...4255.phtml
Nintendo's biggest mistake was focusing on games that aren't out yet but have already been announced. However, consider how Nintendo has been handling their announcements lately. They didn't have much left TO save for E3 considering how much they've focused on their "Nintendo Direct" announcements. In fact, I distinctly get the impression that they were using E3 as just another Nintendo Direct. I think the E3 format itself is pretty outdated anyway. There's this little thing called The Youtubes that has become a hot trend with the young people of today, the cat's pajamas if you will.
Nintendo is very behind in a lot of online ways, but in a few ways (Miiverse, Nintendo Direct) they're innovating. Every big game announcement before this had already been revealed in various Nintendo Direct feeds over the past few months. E3 is only a disappointment if you ignore that context. I didn't even WATCH E3 this year, I just waited for the announcements to get collated into an easy-to-digest readable feed, you know, something that wouldn't waste 5 hours of my life when all I actually need to know could be absorbed in half an hour.
In short, GR, I think you might be overreacting a touch. Well, I say that, but appearances and who "won" an E3 can be surprisingly important in what console someone gets. Remember Sony's ridiculously easy "win" a while back? Yeah, that sort of thing happens now and again.
Still, I'm more interested in a larger number of games coming out for Nintendo's systems than I am for the others. What does that tell you? Xenoblade Chronicles X looks like it'll be fun. Yoshi's Woolly World looks fun. Star Fox Zero looks not only fun, but like it's taking elements from the scrapped Star Fox 2 game. The new Zelda coop game looks like it'll actually implement teamwork better than the previous two Four Swords games (and I loved those, especially Adventures). I'm very "iffy" about Metroid, but if it turns out to be a Four Swords style entry, but with Metroid Prime gameplay, it might actually end up pretty fun too. The new Chibi-Robo game looks like a platformer, and frankly I'm not nearly as interested in it as I was the previous Chibi-Robo games. I loves me some Fire Emblem so I'm very interested in "Fates". I am VERY interested in Paper Jam. Bravely Default is one of the best RPGs to come out of Square-Enix in... over a decade actually (a great successor to the DS game Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light), so I'm very interested in Bravely Second. I really enjoyed Fatal Frame 2 (a game a friend kept recommending to me) so I'm very interested in the new one (though apparently the 3DS one was a disappointment). Neither the Animal Crossing "lite" game or a port of Hyrule Warriors (which I already have) interest me all that much. If you don't have Hyrule Warriors though, pick it up. Not really a Zelda game, but still surprisingly fun. Yo-Kai Watch is finally getting brought to the US, and I'm interested in how that works (looks kinda like Pokemon but if all of them were ghost-types).
Okay, so that's already a huge number of games I'm looking forward to, but Mario Maker is still the most exciting game to me. I just... love how easy they seem to have made it to design really insane levels with unique mechanics. I never got into the Lunar editor (sorry Weltall, I haven't played much more of your mod lately, but I intend to get back to it), but I think I'll be getting into this one.
Again, MOST of those games had already been announced, but that's Nintendo Direct for you. I still don't see how you can look at a list of upcoming games like that and not find at least ONE thing that excites you.
http://www.destructoid.com/nintendo-lost...4255.phtml
Nintendo's biggest mistake was focusing on games that aren't out yet but have already been announced. However, consider how Nintendo has been handling their announcements lately. They didn't have much left TO save for E3 considering how much they've focused on their "Nintendo Direct" announcements. In fact, I distinctly get the impression that they were using E3 as just another Nintendo Direct. I think the E3 format itself is pretty outdated anyway. There's this little thing called The Youtubes that has become a hot trend with the young people of today, the cat's pajamas if you will.
Nintendo is very behind in a lot of online ways, but in a few ways (Miiverse, Nintendo Direct) they're innovating. Every big game announcement before this had already been revealed in various Nintendo Direct feeds over the past few months. E3 is only a disappointment if you ignore that context. I didn't even WATCH E3 this year, I just waited for the announcements to get collated into an easy-to-digest readable feed, you know, something that wouldn't waste 5 hours of my life when all I actually need to know could be absorbed in half an hour.
In short, GR, I think you might be overreacting a touch. Well, I say that, but appearances and who "won" an E3 can be surprisingly important in what console someone gets. Remember Sony's ridiculously easy "win" a while back? Yeah, that sort of thing happens now and again.
Still, I'm more interested in a larger number of games coming out for Nintendo's systems than I am for the others. What does that tell you? Xenoblade Chronicles X looks like it'll be fun. Yoshi's Woolly World looks fun. Star Fox Zero looks not only fun, but like it's taking elements from the scrapped Star Fox 2 game. The new Zelda coop game looks like it'll actually implement teamwork better than the previous two Four Swords games (and I loved those, especially Adventures). I'm very "iffy" about Metroid, but if it turns out to be a Four Swords style entry, but with Metroid Prime gameplay, it might actually end up pretty fun too. The new Chibi-Robo game looks like a platformer, and frankly I'm not nearly as interested in it as I was the previous Chibi-Robo games. I loves me some Fire Emblem so I'm very interested in "Fates". I am VERY interested in Paper Jam. Bravely Default is one of the best RPGs to come out of Square-Enix in... over a decade actually (a great successor to the DS game Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light), so I'm very interested in Bravely Second. I really enjoyed Fatal Frame 2 (a game a friend kept recommending to me) so I'm very interested in the new one (though apparently the 3DS one was a disappointment). Neither the Animal Crossing "lite" game or a port of Hyrule Warriors (which I already have) interest me all that much. If you don't have Hyrule Warriors though, pick it up. Not really a Zelda game, but still surprisingly fun. Yo-Kai Watch is finally getting brought to the US, and I'm interested in how that works (looks kinda like Pokemon but if all of them were ghost-types).
Okay, so that's already a huge number of games I'm looking forward to, but Mario Maker is still the most exciting game to me. I just... love how easy they seem to have made it to design really insane levels with unique mechanics. I never got into the Lunar editor (sorry Weltall, I haven't played much more of your mod lately, but I intend to get back to it), but I think I'll be getting into this one.
Again, MOST of those games had already been announced, but that's Nintendo Direct for you. I still don't see how you can look at a list of upcoming games like that and not find at least ONE thing that excites you.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)