E3 2013

Making the topic extra early this year because of this news:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-04-25-nintendo-ditches-e3-press-conference-in-favour-of-behind-closed-doors-events

There won't be a public Nintendo conference.

E3 Timetable:




http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/e3/live.html
http://www.e3insider.com/press-conferences/
http://www.ign.com/events/e3
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/

lol

Quote :

"As video game fans are looking for information about games, it seems that they are less interested in sales figures that investors and analysts on the other hand attach much greater importance to," he said, "and distribution partners are looking for information on how we are going to market our products in the immediate future."

Translation our the Wii U sold poorly, if we release figures compared to our projected sales, people will point and laugh.

To be honest I'm not really surprised, they announced all their games in the "Nintendo Direct" streams every month or two so there's probably not a whole lot to publicly talk about. They will miss out on the advertising opportunity of course but considering how the big 3 have all made themselves look pretty bad for the past few years it might be better off that way.

Neo wrote:

To be honest I'm not really surprised, they announced all their games in the "Nintendo Direct" streams every month or two so there's probably not a whole lot to publicly talk about. They will miss out on the advertising opportunity of course but considering how the big 3 have all made themselves look pretty bad for the past few years it might be better off that way.

I didn't even know these existed. The people they've informed are people who already own there product that in no way helps in getting more console sales and reaching a wider audience. Aside from what you've mentioned to me i'm not even aware of any releases on the Wii U.

Superbuu3 wrote:

Translation our the Wii U sold poorly, if we release figures compared to our projected sales, people will point and laugh.

Everyone already knows it didn't sell well, the people who care enough to involve themselves in corporate fanboy wars already are.

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Aside from what you've mentioned to me i'm not even aware of any releases on the Wii U.

That's because the Wii U doesn't really have any massive releases yet. The biggest non-launch title was Monster Hunter but that was just the same game Capcom has been porting to everything ever with a bit of extra content. Everything that would sell systems is supposed to be coming out later in the year.

so apart from neo, does anyone else actually care about nintendo? As far as im aware even the new cross platform games aint filtering through to the wiiu (correct me if im wrong) & there was a zelda game that was ready for release with the system but they have never released it... Surely with piss poor sales figures they could have dropped it in to try and boost themselves? Dont get me wrong, i dont want them to stop making stuff but maybe just stick to handhelds, it seems sony & microsoft have got the console market

Can't wait for the chatroom/Skype discussions.

Is that really such a smart move? Like Neo said, they miss out on advertising this way. It's mainly going to be the larger Nintendo fans that saw Nintendo Direct. They said something about announcing more WiiU games, E3 would have been a better time to do it.

I kinda care about Nintendo, but it would be better if they stuck to handhelds as you say. I have a hard time motivating myself to switch the Wii on, and the WiiU is stupidly expensive for what it is(imo) + no games hardly so far. Haven't caught up with what Microsoft have been up to yet, but M & S (not marks and spencers) are both probably going to destroy the WiiU.

But you guys, if you don't get a WiiU how will you play Nintendo Land?

GOOD QUESTION. I don't know what to do now...

They're still going to be at E3 with new games and stuff, they're just not doing the usual opening conference.

Oh right, I should have read it sorry.

You're the first person i've heard refer to Microsoft as Micro and Soft.

If Nintendo does have a slew of games to be announced they should do it at E3. I'll care a lot less if i only see these games in short bursts. If you want your console to sell you need to say this is our console, we've got all these games coming out. You know you want them.

Nintendo do strange things I don't understand this HD remake of windwaker at all. Surely they could've chosen a better game than windwaker.

Wind Waker is one of the best Zelda games.

Kaio wrote:

Wind Waker is one of the best Zelda games.

I remember the mixed views when it came out. Also One of the best is not the same as the best. The main point is you can shove your gamecube disc into your Wii U and play it. It makes a lot less sense then going to the older games which look a lot worse.

It got praised more by fans after TP came out.

Superbuu3 wrote:

You're the first person i've heard refer to Microsoft as Micro and Soft.

If Nintendo does have a slew of games to be announced they should do it at E3. I'll care a lot less if i only see these games in short bursts. If you want your console to sell you need to say this is our console, we've got all these games coming out. You know you want them.

Nintendo do strange things I don't understand this HD remake of windwaker at all. Surely they could've chosen a better game than windwaker.

Haw. :p

They do indeed do strange things.

Skip wrote:

But you guys, if you don't get a WiiU how will you play Nintendo Land?

You still think this is a joke but it really is fun, the same way Wii Sports is.

alright, this is a week away. no links yet to where you can see a livestream, but I guess I'll update when I know of some. but here's the time table for stuff that's gonna happen. in GMT (god I hope I'm right this time)


June 10th - 5pm : Microsoft Press Conference
June 10th - 8pm: EA Press Conference
June 10th - 10pm: Ubisoft Press Conference
June 11th - 1am: Sony Press Conference
June 11th - 2pm: Nintendo Direct

*BAM* http://e3.eu.playstation.com/

well yeah, but that's only the Sony conference.

I'd rather post a link to a place where all conferences are shown, like Gametrailers or Gamespot or something.

But yeah, if you only wanna see Sony, that's a good link to go to.

That schedule looks right. The Sony conference will be 2am because of GMT+1.

I'll keep an eye out for better/more links.

Nintendo link http://e3.nintendo.com/

http://events.konami.com/


Konami pre-E3 event in about in hour



or here if first link doesn't work:

http://www.gamespot.com/shows/gamespot-live/?event=konami-pre-e3-show-2013