Leaked E3 schedule

[aaron]

GENO BEAM!

yes!

[MrEco]

Xenogears on Nintendo?

Because Nintendo and Square have never gotten together to get a game made.

It's not Final Fantasy. Square doesn't care!

*cough, cough*

[ZeroAX]

It's not Final Fantasy. Square doesn't care!

*cough, cough*

Publishers:
NA / PAL / KOR Nintendo

[Flake]

Have there been any official denials or "no comments" on this list yet?

[dsheinem]

Have there been any official denials or "no comments" on this list yet?

no need. these kinds of lists don't exist as stage stuff is often being sorted out the day before/day of, sometimes in response to what other companies are doing. Who would even get a list like this? Certainly not journalists. It is just someone playing a prank.

[dsheinem]

You already know the answers. You posted in this thread http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 5&hilit=e3
Did you just make a without watching the video or reading the topic?

I watched the video, but to be honest I'd already forgotten that is was advertising their E3 plans.

I'm just not sure that Nintendo is going to reach any new audiences by not doing an on-stage event that gets picked up by cable TV and, subsequently, the mainstream news media. E3, traditionally, is primarily aimed at two groups of people - investors and journalists. "Gamers" are a distant third audience, and "core gamers" who stay on top of events all year are an even smaller subset of that audience...which is why we have often seen stuff like Wonderbook and Kinect kids' games get so much stage time. I just don't think that a YouTube video is really doing much to reach the audiences that E3 is traditionally aimed to reach, the audience that Nintendo desperately needs to have any hope of turning around the Wii U.

What sort of "new audience" is going to be watching a video game press conference/video in the middle of the day on a Monday or Tuesday anyway? The news will still get posted on all the major sites so what's the difference? All the on-stage shenanigans are kind of cool sometimes and somewhat annoying other times. At the end of the day it's the trailers, gameplay demos, and new announcements that matter most.

Look how little Nintendo news made in some samples of mainstream media's E3 2013 coverage:

http://www.usatoday.com/topic/A4B93C6E- ... 6/e3-2013/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/tech/gami ... s-e3-2013/
(Ah, wait, there was a CNN story on Nintendo: http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/tech/gami ... ntendo-e3/)

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47707719/ns/t ... ce-e3?q=E3

Of course game news/tech news sites will cover everything including Nintendo stuff, but there's a lot of money to be made in advertising games to a wider audience - the folks who only hear about "game news" when it intersects with regular news. I still think Nintendo, by ditching the stage show, is making a(nother) huge marketing mistake. Certainly it did them no favors last year.

[Flake]

Again Dave, you're assuming that any gains that will be made will offset completely the cost of doing the show in the first place. What's Nintendo's big offering this year? Mario Kart and Smash Bros. Nintendo's marketing team doesn't even need to roll out of bed to get millions upon millions of units sold before Christmas.

If Nintendo was banking on new hardware (which they are not) or a slew of new IPs (again, no) then yes, a show would be necessary. And it would happen. But in a year where Mario, Smash Bros. and maybe Zelda are the bulk of their strategy, not a single dime should be spent on E3.

[CavZee]

If Nintendo had shown off the exact same content they did last E3 except on stage instead of via the direct I don't really see how CNN or NBC would have suddenly cared anymore then they did. Especially when you consider that Sony and MS were talking about new systems, price points, and launch details of course it would dominate the mainstream media.

[pepharytheworm]

Again Dave, you're assuming that any gains that will be made will offset completely the cost of doing the show in the first place. What's Nintendo's big offering this year? Mario Kart and Smash Bros. Nintendo's marketing team doesn't even need to roll out of bed to get millions upon millions of units sold before Christmas.

If Nintendo was banking on new hardware (which they are not) or a slew of new IPs (again, no) then yes, a show would be necessary. And it would happen. But in a year where Mario, Smash Bros. and maybe Zelda are the bulk of their strategy, not a single dime should be spent on E3.

Also last year sony and microsoft were releasing new systems. I doubt Nintendo would have made much news whether they had a live press conference or not. After this year of no live press conference then I will concede it was detrimental to them if little press. I am sorry but a live tournament of a game no one has played yet is way more exciting to me. It screams of the Wizard. I went to best buy last year and I will go again to demo games.