Reggie shows up and says it, and shockingly, on the large screen behind him, Mario and Link pop up as he says it.Strubes said:I'm watching the Nintendo E3 conference on G4.com right now for the third time. I haven't heard it yet. Please give me a time I should watch out for.
I'm not saying it wasn't bad, I'm saying you could see it coming a mile away. There's far more important events that Nintendo attends and prefers to show off at.Strubes said:Teams working on games. I gotcha now. I thought you were talking about him actually talking about the games. But, no matter how incredibly disappointing that E3 was fhq, I already knew your stance on E3 before and after it ended. I mean, you HAVE to be a die-hard fan (not fanboy, but fan), to say the conference wasn't just bad.
Crap...Fr0dus Maximus said:And the new Castlevania game for DS looked real sweet!
Both will be available Fall 2008.
fhqwhgads said:Crap...
And fighters are known for amazing stories, huh?
Oh...ew.Fr0dus Maximus said:The way that their doing it is more of a story based game.
fhqwhgads said:I'm not saying it wasn't bad, I'm saying you could see it coming a mile away. There's far more important events that Nintendo attends and prefers to show off at.
Well, do you realize that their 'main' game(Animal Crossing) will be released in America first? It's quite possible they'll show off games in their country of initial release. They know not to ignore the American market, which they didn't. They feel the American market is mostly casual, and guess what they showed?CreepinDeth said:What?! North America is a very important place for video games. If this was Europe then you might have a point. Regardless of whether they're Japanese or not, they should know better that NA is a huge market for them. I don't believe Nintendo is that naive, but got caught off guard. If what you are saying is the case with Nintendo then they don't deserve any more of our money. I will not buy a Wii or any other Nintendo product.
fhqwhgads said:Well, do you realize that their 'main' game(Animal Crossing) will be released in America first? It's quite possible they'll show off games in their country of initial release. They know not to ignore the American market, which they didn't. They feel the American market is mostly casual, and guess what they showed?
Actually, my paper has done some coverage on E3 announcements, like Wii MotionPlus and the Microsoft/Netflix partnership. So it does get to casuals, just not in a very direct way.CreepinDeth said:If that's how they feel then it's only going to hurt them in the long run. Like I said before, casual gamers don't follow events like E3. That's what commercials on TV are for. E3 or any other huge press event is a place where you need to show off your biggest titles. So Nintendo fails even more.
fhqwhgads said:Actually, my paper has done some coverage on E3 announcements, like Wii MotionPlus and the Microsoft/Netflix partnership. So it does get to casuals, just not in a very direct way.
Yeah, E3 is a media only event now, so what does the media do? They get the word out through several other means. You don't have to watch E3 to know a good number of things shown.CreepinDeth said:That's actually pretty cool. Wish my paper did that. In my time internet wasn't as huge.
Strubes said:I found a pretty good point in a user-blog I was checking out earlier. Nintendo tried to appease the casual crowd at E3 when, in fact, the casual players weren't keeping an eye on E3.
fhqwhgads said:Yeah, E3 is a media only event now, so what does the media do? They get the word out through several other means. You don't have to watch E3 to know a good number of things shown.
>_> They can't just read the paper and get caught by the title, oh no, according to Strubes, you have to look for an article to find it.Strubes said:But that's also not what they're looking forward to. Most casual gamers don't even know what E3 is, so they wouldn't really be reading about it in a magazine or paper.
fhqwhgads said:>_> They can't just read the paper and get caught by the title, oh no, according to Strubes, you have to look for an article to find it.