So the Best Buy stuff might be limited, but it's something that can actually happen, unlike E3 demos on the eShop.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/blog/34378
With the fewer than 10% of Best Buy locations offering Nintendo’s E3 experience and other maladies about the roll-out, it seems like we are returning to a concept that fans of Nintendo dream of: E3 demos available off of the eShop during E3.
I have long been in the camp of thinking that that would never happen, chiefly because, well, E3 demos break, and showing off a game that would break would reflect poorly on the game to the public. We all remember how wireless interference botched Shigeru Miyamoto playing an early Skyward Sword demo at E3 2010, and countless other memes have spawned out of games acting weird. Also, since the demo would be on the eShop, it would exist forever, even with Nintendo’s restriction of the amount of times a demo can be played.
Through the E3s, New York Comic-Cons, and other events I’ve attended, I’ve seen systems crash and games freeze quite often. It’s something you accept during these events, and because a representative from the company is always there, it’s usually nothing more than a short delay as they reboot. Naturally if it’s rampant and the game is close to release, you worry, but oftentimes these demos at events are from earlier builds, meaning that the issues crashing the game might have already been fixed.
After the reactions to the limited Best Buy E3 showing, I asked Renegade Kid’s Jools Watsham, who released an eShop demo for Mutant Mudds after the game was released, about the subject. “(Demos) are held to the same testing and standards as final games - so it can result in some fails before a demo is ready for the eShop,” he told me. Meaning, that these E3 eShop demos we crave would take away more time from development as the standards for an eShop demo are higher than the standards for an E3 demo. At least pre-release eShop demos are made at the end of the development.
Yes, it’d be great if more than 100 Best Buy locations participated in Nintendo’s E3 showing, and it’d be wonderful if those games were playable for more than eight hours over two days. But the answer isn’t to throw the demos on the eShop, the answer is get more Best Buys (or other retailers) to show off the games and let them be up there for more time.
I don't get it. Are the Best Buy demos going to be any less broken? Are there going to be Nintendo reps to hold the gamers hand while they play them? If the demos get backlash for being broken or crashing, it won't matter if they're in 100 locations or 1 million. The backlash will be the same. Put them on the eShop.
I don't get it. Are the Best Buy demos going to be any less broken? Are there going to be Nintendo reps to hold the gamers hand while they play them? If the demos get backlash for being broken or crashing, it won't matter if they're in 100 locations or 1 million. The backlash will be the same. Put them on the eShop.
Being at Best Buy for only 8 hours over 2 days sounds like Nintendo will have people there to help out. And the backlash would not be the same, putting it on the eShop would cause a far bigger backlash if the demo crashes compared to at Best Buy when there will likely be somewhere there.
Very weird when I see people get mad at this "not-being-on-the-eShop" business (haven't read any of the thread comments, but this has been all over the internet since this was originally unveiled). Is Best Buy not enough for people? Is anyone unsatisfied that they arent putting E3 in the living room immediately despite nothing like this ever happening before? Anyone complaining should just be grateful that they dont have to drop a bunch of money and wait in a comparatively huge line to play this ****. I'm the opposite of Nintendo apologist and this **** just seems bananas to me.
...E3 demos break, and showing off a game that would break would reflect poorly on the game to the publicIt doesn't really matter. They just need to add a disclaimer that issues mat be encountered. Besides, there are plenty of released software titles that are ridden with bugs. Unfortunately, I am starting to get used to broken software.
They clearly shouldn't have even bothered to do this.
The horrible backlash on forums is an irreparable taint and a major PR failure. Nintendo will never recover from this horrible, atrocious affair of providing some demos to some locations.
They obviously should have provided no demos to no one, it's all very clear now.
Thanks, Iwata
Nintendo: We'll have E3 demos at some Best Buy stores across the United States and Canada.
Ian Sane: Awesome eshop demos!
Nintendo: Wait, what? No, we didn't say that. And you don't have a Wii U so this doesn't affect you anywa...
Ian Sane: BAIT AND SWITCH! AND NONE FOR GRETCHEN WEINERS! BYE!
This topic is about E3 eshop demos always being unlikely. I'm lumping everyone who's upset these demos aren't at every Best Buy or on the eshop together because they're equally ridiculous.
In any case, complaining about these demos not being at every Best Buy or on the eshop is silliness. If you made the assumption, you're responsible for being let down. I don't understand how this is a bait and switch. Nintendo said these demos would be at 100 stores across the United States and Canada. They didn't bait you with anything. They couldn't have been more blatant.
I don't think anyone's calling this a bait and switch
It's an inadvertent bait-and-switchSeriously, brood...
I don't think anyone's calling this a bait and switchIt's an inadvertent bait-and-switchSeriously, brood...
I know people will rage about this being somehow worse than nothing, but hey! this is sure as hell better than nothing!No, it's not.
