Phil Stortzum writes, "Today, Nintendo announced its plans for early June's E3 2014 event. Its plan of attack is to have another presence at E3 just like it did last year. Not only this, but a showing of games via a prerecorded video, a multiple day Super Smash Bros. tournament, a demo for Super Smash Bros. at Best Buy stores across the nation, and various livestreams, the one particularly of the note is the one with Nintendo Treehouse. However, this news has not really been covered so much as it has allowed many members of the gaming press to whine and moan for the sole reason that they aren't being directly catered to like they feel they deserve to be."
I feel like Nintendo doesn't want to compete with Sony and MS at E3..
So the writer is basically saying its good Nintendo skipped another E3 so that way Nintendo can stick it it to the press.
Umm no Nintendo not attending a traditional E3 gives the press reason to hate, further.
The rest of the piece is the writer is in damage control.
"The same press that writes continuous articles on how Nintendo should go third-party? The same press that writes that company CEO Satoru Iwata needs to step down? The same press that writes how Nintendo is always behind the times? The same press that basically makes Nintendo damned if they do and damned if they don't?"
Well Nintendo isn't doing anything to shut the press up. A few events, SSM tourney and Directs isn't enough.
The press is all over MS as well. That's why MS will take this time at E3 and tell the naysayers to stick it. I don't see Nintendo doing that here.
I'm tired of these excuses and finger pointing from certain Nintendo fans and finding fault in the press for Nintendo's mistakes.
Stop it.
Hiroshi Yamauchi philosophy for Nintendo was to not copy others, and do your own thing. This shows.
MS and Sony will seem to inevitably knock one or the other out of the video game console business, while Nintendo chugs along being unique, and vastly different from the others.
If the first thing Nintendo shows at its digital event (not a Nintendo Direct, they were very clear), was a brand new trailer for the new Zelda. Do you think gamers will give 2 shakes about how the information was delivered? no.
The only reason why this is a story is because it is Nintendo.
To be honest, if Zelda is gonna be shown, pre-recorded is no way to do it justice at all... *sigh*