Jayden Williams at Aussie-Gamer.com writes: "E3 2013 is almost upon us and in the face of increasing competition from the likes of Microsoft and Sony, all eyes are on Nintendo and what they may bring to ‘wow’ gamers worldwide."
Aside from an onslaught of new Wii U details last year, as well as the official reveal of Pikmin 3 and other first party games, Nintendo’s 2012 conference could be considered lacklustre – though compared to those of the other two it was marginally better in my opinion.
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
What I'm hoping for is Nintendo announces that they've bought back Rare.
There is much to look forward too.
-But I worry that Nintendo may fail in making the news exciting or fail at focusing on the right bits.
-I also hope that they don't try to overcompensate for last year and think, "Maybe we should hire Justin Bieber..."
I like Miyamoto's Geekiness- if Zelda is shown I want to see him Mega-Geek-up the stage in Link garb.
But I think they would do well to show some pizzazz.
If say, an Eternal Darkness game was in development.
They could play to the "nostalgia" (word of the day) built with in the game.
Like maybe announcing the game by having Reggie pretend to say some long drawn-out versions of facts about sales---
After the important information is said about 2 –5 minutes in:
A quick strobe of light
The light darkens as he continues as if nothing has changed.
The Big Screen changes revealing eyes and a then a face peering out at the audience...
A Heavily shadowed Maximilian Roivas babbles on the dark screen above.
They hear, "The Darkness is coming!”
And then with another flash, the trademark sound, and a "This isn't happening!"
Reggie's mic volume returns, the lights come up, and he keeps on talking as if nothing happened.
In the applause and questions (not everyone will understand), he could even make a joke about how fired-up the crowd is about sales figures.
Stuff like this could get them hits, tweets, and publicity.
– And I would scream like a Bieber Fan.
I pray to the heavens that Nintendo bring it E3 and, I better see a shit load of Bayonetta 2 type announcements.
show us a new zelda.
I will be expecting Retro Studios to be the Ace in the Hole, their final showing (provided they do show something)
The fact we will get to see Smash Bros. footage, new Mario and Zelda updates, and a Bayonetta 2 showing is getting me pumped (not to mention "X").
Surprises will be F-Zero, StarFox, GTA 5 for WiiU, anything from EA. A new 3DS model might be announced.