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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"With E3 no longer what it once was and Spaceworld unlikely to return, I think the days of Nintendo unveiling games and making announcements at shows are coming to an end."
For Nintendo's sake alone (ignoring my own personal desire for Nintendo to keep me informed) I hope they don't ever think this is a good idea. Out of sight = out of mind. People forget about you when you're not in the news and new game annoucements and press conferences and stuff like that get you in the news. And I'm talking about the mainstream media as well before someone says that none of this applies to non-gamers so it doesn't matter. You disappear from the media and everyone assumes you're gone. Nintendo has momemtum and they need to keep that going. Being media-friendly is a good marketing tool. That's why so many people were drooling over the Xbox before it was even revealed and the general public seemed almost unaware that the Gamecube was launching at the same time. Suck up to both the mass media and the gaming media. As long as the games remain of high quality there's no harm of losing any credibility with consumers and you get free ads out of it that most people don't even notice are ads.
I mostly agree, but I think we've got good proof that Nintendo isn't giving up media relations. As many have pointed out, Wii Fit was arguably a much better mainstream media attention-getter than anything Sony or Microsoft showed this E3, even though the long Wii Fit demo is the source of most gamer consternation about Nintendo's E3 show.
Actually, did anybody notice if anything from E3 reached the mainstream media?
Topic: Nintendo WON'T be at TGS 2007 (Read 6261 times)
