Nintendo saving everything until E3 2008. Good or bad idea?

2 years ago in E3 2006, Nintendo kept everything they had to come in the future from being unveiled before E3. This resulted in everything being shown at E3 2006 was brand new and shocking, and resulted in Nintendo having the best E3 that year, beating both the Xbox 360 with their Halo 3 trailer and Sony's embarrasing price reveal.

But last year, Nintendo didn't do that and let the developers reveal their games before E3. This resulted in being no surprises or any new things besides release dates during E3 2007, since everything shown from NiGHTS to Mario and Sonic were already known. This resulted in them having the worst E3 that year.

Now, in trying to prevent last year from happening, Nintendo decided to keep every game to be released from Fall 2008 to Spring 2009 a secret. This makes for some great E3, but what about the wait for it? We know absolutely nothing about the 3rd generation Wii games and 5th generation DS games. This troublesome when all of the big name games have been released and all the big third-party games have been released, the sheep have nothing to look forward to except July 11-13.

Should Nintendo give it's fans a little peek, or save the kill for 2 months!?!

bad idea...as u can see almost every thread is talking about the big 2's games ( except this one lol )chikenfriedrice

Hopefully they`ll announce something...

last year Ninty`s E3 was abysmal....

They should at least do some teasers or give some hints or something to build hype...Funkyhamster

Reggie did give some hints (big hardcore games coming), but it wasn't enough to change the board.

[QUOTE="chikenfriedrice"]bad idea...as u can see almost every thread is talking about the big 2's games ( except this one lol )air_wolf_cubed

no but they should let some leaks out for some hype

I think it's an exellent idea.SER69

I agree. The Wii and the VC is doing great, the DS is strong and they really have nothing to lose.

Two more months? Sure, I could wait. It's not like there's much else for me to look forward to on all systems this generation. >.> Other people, maybe not. Just as long as there's no sudden drought afterwards, I'll have no problems. A Brawl-like approach would work great if possible.

A steady stream of announcements keeps people interested in their system. However, since the Wii is already selling well they don't need those announcements. In fact, announcing them all at once makes a bigger impression than the combined impression of a bunch of small announcements, making the Wii seem even more miraculous.

To make a metaphor, I am a skilled Magic player. I'm not tournement level, but I'm not exactly casual either. One of my favorite cards is One Dozen Eyes. It lets me create either a single powerful creature, or five really weak creatures. If my game is going well, I will go with the big creature, which will allow me to overpower most things they bring out, and deal heavy hits when they have no blockers.

If the games going poorly for me, I'll choose the second option. This is because no matter what heavy-hitters the opponent has, they can't prevent me from sneaking past with my small guys, and I can afford to toss some away as blockers to buy time.

Basically, if Nintendo was doing poorly, and the competition had a lot of big games, they could give steady announcements, stopping the competition from shutting them out.

Since they're in a good position, they want to play their 5/5 green beast, so that anything the competition does will be overpowered by their announcements.

Who cares? Wii is #1.

They could be a no show and they will still sell out.

Didn't think about it like this. It does build up a lot of hype.

I just hope Nintendo doesn't disappoint.

good idea.

because this would support my hypothesis that e3 2008 will be the best one as far as game announcements/reveals go. :P

[QUOTE="air_wolf_cubed"][QUOTE="chikenfriedrice"]bad idea...as u can see almost every thread is talking about the big 2's games ( except this one lol )chikenfriedrice

no but they should let some leaks out for some hype

You don't need fanboys chatting to build hype. And I'm sure they've thought this out carefully.