WHAT.
Didn't they say they where going to announce SSB-4 at E3?
it's misleading. they're still going to E3 and they're still going to show off some new games.
it's just not going to be a huge presentation like past years, giving us stupid investor sales graphs that no one really cared about
they'll likely do that stuff in separate sessions. probably a private session for investors and the press, and one for games which i would assume would be for the E3 public. i would expect them to use Nintendo Direct in the event that it somehow kept away from people like gametrailers/gamespot/etc
In the past we invited reporters, investors and brown townysts, industry partners, such as software publishers, and distributors who attended E3 to our large-scale presentations. We also used them as a communication tool in which we broadcast our presentations on the Internet to reach out to video game fans around the globe. I believe that many are expecting us to host a similar event this year.
First, we decided not to host a large-scale presentation targeted at everyone in the international audience where we announce new information as we did in the past.
Instead, at the E3 show this year, we are planning to host a few smaller events that are specifically focused on our software lineup for the U.S. market. (meaning GAMES) There will be one closed event for American distributors, and we will hold another closed hands-on experience event, for mainly the Western gaming media. Also, I did not speak at last year’s presentation, and I am not planning to speak at these events at the E3 show this year either. Apart from these exclusive events for visitors, we are continuing to investigate ways to deliver information about our games directly to our home audience around the time of E3. (likely via Nintendo Direct) We will share more information about them once they have officially been decided.
During the E3 period, we will utilize our direct communication tools, such as Nintendo Direct, to deliver information to our Japanese audience, including those who are at this financial briefing, mainly focusing on the software that we are going to launch in Japan, and we will take the same approach outside Japan for the overseas fans as well.
-Nintendo President Satoru Iwata
it is a bit of a bummer all the same, but essentially we'll still get the same announcements around the same time
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