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9031 | 65.25% |
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I'm just saying, if they can't get Mario or Mario Kart out by holiday then they might as well not even bother, because after the holidays, most families will have already chosen a console and will stick with it for the next couple of years. And no family is going to choose a console whose big black friday buy is... a 10 year old remake  They can't have another year of sales like this for Wii U without a major amount of corporate heads rolling.
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Jun 9, 2013 19:52
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I thought Mario Kart U was already confirmed for this year?
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Jun 9, 2013 20:00
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Chaltab posted:I thought Mario Kart U was already confirmed for this year? Since Pikmin 3 was basically confirmed at launch and was pushed back to 2nd half of 2013, meh. Means nothing to me because I'm just gonna buy it whenever it does come out. However, yeah, nintendo should prolly get that poo poo out prior to Black Friday.
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Jun 9, 2013 20:08
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Chaltab posted:I thought Mario Kart U was already confirmed for this year?
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Jun 9, 2013 20:16
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Yoshifan823 posted:edit: Also, Apparently Best Buy is getting their Wii U Basic's recalled starting tomorrow/Tuesday. I don't know what we should be expecting, but my money is on either a Deluxe price-drop to $300 or an announcement of White Deluxe packs available later in the summer (or both). Earlier amazon in the UK very briefly dropped the WiiU basic down to £140 and the deluxe to £199, and they sold out whatever allocation there was within minutes before jumping back up to the normal price. Either it was a tester or they accidentally price-dropped it early as part a new pricing scheme? Also (as a dedicated PC gamer) I would impulse-buy one of these so bad at £199, even though the only kinda-neat looking games are Monster Hunter and Zombi and maybe Mass Effect if there was a decent online community for the co-op. Watchdogs, Smash Bros and Zelda would be fantastic but they won't be around for a while, if they'd been released at or closer to launch I'm sure theyre would have been far more consoles shifted. What would be really dope would be Animal Crossing and a new Harvest Moon but I haven't seen any rumours 
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Jun 9, 2013 21:22
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I think Nintendo Directs are cool, but its not mainstream enough. How about good ol TV or Internet ads on important websites?
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Jun 9, 2013 21:36
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:I think Nintendo Directs are cool, but its not mainstream enough. How about good ol TV or Internet ads on important websites? So bad. at marketing.
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Jun 9, 2013 21:41
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Quest For Glory II posted:Nintendo Directs are pretty much the opposite of mainstream. The E3 Direct is not even going to be featured on Gametrailers/IGN/Spike/Gamespot/etc. Which means nobody other than Wii U/3DS owners are going to watch it. Er wait really? Why on earth would they do that? edit: I think it's kind of foolish they aren't doing a presentation this year at E3. Reggie is like the most charismatic dude out of any of the people up on the stages at E3. He's just a cool dude while all the other people on stage at the other presentation are always old balding dorks. Why would you not want Reggie up on stage hyping up your poo poo? Especially Smash Bros?
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Jun 9, 2013 21:46
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Quest For Glory II posted:Nintendo Directs are pretty much the opposite of mainstream. The E3 Direct is not even going to be featured on Gametrailers/IGN/Spike/Gamespot/etc. Which means nobody other than Wii U/3DS owners are going to watch it. How ever will Gametrailers, IGN and Gamespot be able to find out about the Nintendo E3!? Let's hope they sneak someone into the barricaded theatre compound and get the scoop! Or maybe they luckily know one of these fabled "Wii U/3DS owners" and can get the scoop from them!
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Jun 9, 2013 21:46
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Well it's going to be broadcast on Nintendo's website so they don't even have to do that. The trick is Nintendo needs to tell non-Nintendo console owners "you should come watch this".
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Jun 9, 2013 21:57
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Nickoten posted:Well it's going to be broadcast on Nintendo's website so they don't even have to do that. The trick is Nintendo needs to tell non-Nintendo console owners "you should come watch this". The video is going to be public. Every game publication is going to cover it. Any trailer Nintendo releases will be immediately on YouTube for everyone to watch, which is where the majority of people who do not watch the Nintendo Direct will see it. People are being completely silly about this. Should Nintendo launch a major scale promotional campaign after the E3 announcement so everyone watching TV knows about the games? Unquestionably and any reservations would be a mistake. But how they are handling E3 is fine. People keep acting like if you read IGN you won't know anything what is going with Nintendo at E3. It's ridiculous.
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Jun 9, 2013 22:01
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Yoshifan823 posted:Wonderful 101 was only announced at last year's E3. I think they had demos for both at last year's Comic-Con, but that was less than a year ago. Whoops, sorry, my mind must have pulled a major failure on me there. I just looked it up and the Wii U event was on July 28th last year, so they've had a demo around of both for at least that long.
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Jun 9, 2013 22:57
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Macaluso posted:Er wait really? Why on earth would they do that? Reggie's charm has worn off. Now he just makes weird faces and fucks up his lines. Like "Legend of Zella" and "Disney Epic Disney."
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Jun 9, 2013 22:59
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And gets mad at journalists for asking him obvious questions he should have been prepped for.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:15
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Reggie has always seemed like a cool dude to me, the only thing I can't stand is the dumb "my body is ready" meme that the internet runs into the ground every E3
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Jun 9, 2013 23:20
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greatn posted:The games that will be at the Best Buy have supposedly leaked: Well at least I won't feel the need to go to Best Buy. I know it's a Sega game, but Nintendo should have included the new Sonic game as well.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:20
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KimT posted:Reggie has always seemed like a cool dude to me, the only thing I can't stand is the dumb "my body is ready" meme that the internet runs into the ground every E3 How did that originate?
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Jun 9, 2013 23:21
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Every blog and gaming related website is going to report everything worth noting about what Nintendo reveals at E3 complete with links, photos, videos, etc. I am on the fence regarding their decision not to have a traditional conference this year, but some of you are talking as if no one but current fans and owners of their consoles will see this stuff. That is not going to be true at all. Nintendo is coming with a list of game reveals and everyone is going to learn what those are. If it was 2007 instead of 2013 I might be singing a different tune, but it isn't.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:22
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For what it's worth, I do prefer the Nintendo Direct over a "regular" press conference. More often than not they're unwatchable and while it is correct that E3 sees (extremely limited) coverage in mainstream media and they're probably missing out on that, the result as far as gaming websites and other online sources are concerned will be the same because they have to cover it anyways. And I do think that whatever 3-minute blub the local news will run about E3 would have been dominated by the Xbone and the PS4 regardless.ghostwritingduck posted:How did that originate? http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-body-is-ready Katana Gomai fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Jun 9, 2013 |
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Jun 9, 2013 23:23
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Creepy Goat posted:Earlier amazon in the UK very briefly dropped the WiiU basic down to £140 and the deluxe to £199, and they sold out whatever allocation there was within minutes before jumping back up to the normal price. Either it was a tester or they accidentally price-dropped it early as part a new pricing scheme? Before HMV was about to close down, they were selling the deluxe model along with a copy of ZombiU for £200. This also included Nintendo Land as part of the deluxe package. Even after selling ZombiU and getting NSMBU, I still don't feel too happy with my purchase, but at least I didn't buy it at full price on launch day.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:26
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Xavier434 posted:Every blog and gaming related website is going to report everything worth noting about what Nintendo reveals at E3 complete with links, photos, videos, etc. I am on the fence regarding their decision not to have a traditional conference this year, but some of you are talking as if no one but current fans and owners of their consoles will see this stuff. That is not going to be true at all. All Nintendo has to do is show off some good looking games. The Xbone's restrictive policies has put a huge damper on my excitement for the other systems. Show me the cool games we already know are in development and a couple surprises, and I'll be excited.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:28
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Paper Jam Dipper posted:The video is going to be public. Exactly. I swear some people forget what year it is. It's 2013, every single person with any interest in technology and gaming has a smart phone and would have to avoid the Internet on purpose to miss this stuff. I'm sure it will be on every tech/gaming site, definitely on twitter, all over tumblr, probably on their Facebook feed. Social media can be poo poo but it's fantastic for fast free marketing and information.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:31
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Katana Gomai posted:For what it's worth, I do prefer the Nintendo Direct over a "regular" press conference. More often than not they're unwatchable and while it is correct that E3 sees (extremely limited) coverage in mainstream media and they're probably missing out on that, the result as far as gaming websites and other online sources are concerned will be the same because they have to cover it anyways. And I do think that whatever 3-minute blub the local news will run about E3 would have been dominated by the Xbone and the PS4 regardless. Plus, the Directs are more efficient. If you have something prepared ahead of time, you know there won't be any gently caress-ups, you can have people watch and evaluate, and there's just a lot less downtime. You don't have to wait for everyone to get seated to start, you don't have to wait for people to get on and off the stage, it's just Trailer-Iwata-Trailer-Iwata-Reggie-Trailer-Iwata for a solid hour.
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Jun 9, 2013 23:49
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Yoshifan823 posted:Plus, the Directs are more efficient. If you have something prepared ahead of time, you know there won't be any gently caress-ups, you can have people watch and evaluate, and there's just a lot less downtime. You don't have to wait for everyone to get seated to start, you don't have to wait for people to get on and off the stage, it's just Trailer-Iwata-Trailer-Iwata-Reggie-Trailer-Iwata for a solid hour.
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Jun 10, 2013 03:48
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It never ceases to amaze me how people interpret "The whole internet huddled around a stream of a pre-recorded video" as massively inferior and more obscure than "The whole internet huddled around a stream of a live event on a stage".
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Jun 10, 2013 03:53
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Well one has enthusiastic applause from paid employees.
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Jun 10, 2013 03:59
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If Nintendo has cool stuff we miss out on ridiculous fan reactions, we'll have to rely on an impossible to follow stream of quick posts instead.
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Jun 10, 2013 04:32
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The biggest problem with them doing a Direct instead of a regular press conference is that we can't possibly get a repeat of when they announced Wii Party and exactly one person in the entire theater clapped. That was pretty much my favorite moment of any E3 ever.
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Jun 10, 2013 04:35
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japtor posted:If Nintendo has cool stuff we miss out on ridiculous fan reactions, we'll have to rely on an impossible to follow stream of quick posts instead. This reminds me to close the thread when it happens. Don't want to give everyone hundreds of white noise posts to read through. Was someone planning on making a Nintendo E3 thread?
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Jun 10, 2013 04:54
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Supercar Gautier posted:It never ceases to amaze me how people interpret "The whole internet huddled around a stream of a pre-recorded video" as massively inferior and more obscure than "The whole internet huddled around a stream of a live event on a stage". They can do the former whenever, but the latter is kind of a big deal in gaming and still gets attention. If the Wii U was doing gangbuster business, sure, do whatever is working. It's not, so why rely purely on a Nintendo Direct for this when that kind of marketing hasn't been super successful so far? They are fun to watch, but there's no reason not to do both.
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Jun 10, 2013 08:16
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MassRafTer posted:They can do the former whenever, but the latter is kind of a big deal in gaming and still gets attention. If the Wii U was doing gangbuster business, sure, do whatever is working. It's not, so why rely purely on a Nintendo Direct for this when that kind of marketing hasn't been super successful so far? They are fun to watch, but there's no reason not to do both. I don't know, these E3 things seem to have become more associated with embarassment than appeal. They're meme machines.
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Jun 10, 2013 08:21
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Creepy Goat posted:Earlier amazon in the UK very briefly dropped the WiiU basic down to £140 and the deluxe to £199, and they sold out whatever allocation there was within minutes before jumping back up to the normal price. Either it was a tester or they accidentally price-dropped it early as part a new pricing scheme? That's the only reason I own a WiiU (which is now gathering dust). £150 was impulse buy money.
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Jun 10, 2013 08:26
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MassRafTer posted:They can do the former whenever, but the latter is kind of a big deal in gaming and still gets attention. If the Wii U was doing gangbuster business, sure, do whatever is working. It's not, so why rely purely on a Nintendo Direct for this when that kind of marketing hasn't been super successful so far? They are fun to watch, but there's no reason not to do both. The kind of gamer that habitually watches all three conferences is not just going to go "WELP NOTHING TO WATCH FROM NINTENDO BECAUSE IT'S NOT ON A STAGE"- they're still going to watch the Direct. As far as memes and gaffes go, there could still be some misfires in the video; there just won't be live bloopers or technical difficulties.
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Jun 10, 2013 08:41
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I mean Konami did the prerecorded thing and we got Transfarring. How they thought that was a good idea I still don't know. Nintendo isn't as likely to gently caress up that badly, but who knows people make accidentally assholes of themselves all the time.
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Jun 10, 2013 08:46
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The bad part about the lack of live presentations is that they're not likely to accidentally reveal anything like they did last year (Fire Emblem).
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Jun 10, 2013 08:58
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Supercar Gautier posted:The kind of gamer that habitually watches all three conferences is not just going to go "WELP NOTHING TO WATCH FROM NINTENDO BECAUSE IT'S NOT ON A STAGE"- they're still going to watch the Direct. There's plenty of people who get caught up in the stupid press conference discussions and the social media surrounding them. Things happening live have a different energy to them and a different level of interest. As long as the memes aren't about your horrible DRM scheme or cameras spying on your children, it's not really bad publicity either. If Reggie does something goofy and it gets people talking about the Nintendo conference, great. It's just another thing you can do to get attention and is kind of engrained in gaming. My main point is, there's really no reason to do both. However, I would wager that in fact there will be people who watch the Sony and Microsoft presentations and not the Nintendo Direct.
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Jun 10, 2013 09:13
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Supercar Gautier posted:As far as memes and gaffes go, there could still be some misfires in the video; there just won't be live bloopers or technical difficulties.    
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Jun 10, 2013 09:49
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japtor posted:What misfires You forgot Miyamoto with the Poltergust.
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Jun 10, 2013 10:44
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cool gifs? Anyone know if we'll be seeing more of this game at e3?
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I think the only way to really sell games is through tv ads, not E3 conferences or Directs, we got a poo poo load of 3DS ads here (Europe) and the result is that they all sell very well (Luigi's Mansion 2, DKCR, Fire Emblem Awakening, Pokemon Dungeon etc...)
Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Jun 10, 2013 |
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