Nintendo Confirms No Major E3 Event This Year, Reveals 1-2-Switch Shipment Numbers

@smoke_dog_4ever: I don't know about others but based on what I've observed as well as my personal childhood experience, this kind of mentality is possibly explained by Nintendo being the entry points for most gamers as kids, and at times when they had little purchasing power and/or authority, and whatever precious Mario or Zelda (or for me, Donkey Kong Country) games they get to play could only come as birthday/Xmas gifts or rewards for good work in schools or behaviours, which happen only two or three times a year and most will only receive one game each time to play for months to come, thus giving these games a heightened sense of worth and value. Now the last thing anyone would like to hear when being subjected to such restrictions when comes to gaming, is being told that the particular game you're playing is not really that good, and you've wasted your precious few opportunities to experience new games on something not considered good. Unfortunately, this mentality associated with Nintendo games, in particular Mario and Zelda ones, does not die with age, and may actually instead increase owing to nostalgia etc, so don't expect these things to die off until the late baby boomer generation who grew up in the NES era retire first.

PS: Before you accuse me of ageism, let me reassure you I also love Nintendo games as well as Pixar and DreamWorks animated films, but I absolutely detest to be associated with certain fanboy behaviours.

@smoke_dog_4ever: Honestly I don't get why the NES Classic was a thing. I don't think they ever expected it to be as popular as it was, they just meant for it to be a fun little nostalgia thing. But they never should have released something like that when their brand new console was on the way. It just makes manufacturing both more difficult.

@1Post: this will be the battle cry of the switch just like with the wii u. No offense to you specifically I just expect to see this comment all year and maybe next year with 1 or 2 additions. My wii u wounds have not healed nintendo needs to bring it sooner rather than later.

@1Post: Xenoblade 2 is years away. X came out 2 years ago in Japan, and took like 8 months to localize.

@Thanatos2k: Here's a fun fact for you. Not everyone has a Wii U so your comment is irrelevant.

@dotWithShoes: A publisher sure as hell cares about sold, because sometimes unsold stuff gets sent back to them and they have to refund distributors.

@dotWithShoes: Right but truthier is talking about sales and customer interest. While they can ship so many copies of a title at once, unless those copies get sold of shelves within the first couple of months following they'll potentially start ending up in clearance bins. Given that the Switch as a new console has a numerically weak release calendar at this time, if I saw switch titles in bargain bins a couple of weeks from now it wouldn't inspire confidence in investing in a new console. If others follow a similar train of thought it could in turn hurt sales of the console. So certainly this may indicate a short-term gain which is fine for financial reporting purposes. However, in the long game one has to worry about this becoming another Wii U. Also lets not forget if I was absolutely compelled to pick up breath of the wild, I could buy a Wii U at considerably discounted price and a copy of the most critically acclaimed "Switch game" released so far. If I was more unscrupulous, I could even resort to pirating the Wii U version. Bottom-line while I wouldn't hesitate to try out the switch while visiting a friend's house it seems about as attractive as the XBONE or PS4 did at launch.

@Myron117: late 2000's e3 events were so awesome. New IP's almost every year. All gen 7 consoles firing on all cylinders.

@Myron117: Too expensive? So Nintendo has no money? Sony and MS can afford the big stage shows but Nintendo can't anymore? Is that supposed to encourage people to buy their shit? Didn't see E3 last year but 2015 was awesome...Horizon Zero Dawn, Doom, the hell you talking about.

@lebanese_boy: Hardly they get lots of media attention especially when you focus on games like sony last year... that was a killer conference.