Nintendo isn’t playing that game. The company no longer bothers putting on splashy press conferences at E3, which both Sony and Microsoft used this year to drum up excitement for their lineup of video games for the next several years. By contrast, Nintendo streamed an event online featuring puppets that looked like Nintendo executives and a lineup of games that fans mostly already knew about.
The overall reaction from fans online was, well, harsh.
There were complaints about the lack of new games and some of those that were announced didn’t go over well. More than 10,000 people signed a Change.org petition asking Nintendo not to release a new game it showed in its Metroid series. Fans have been waiting for a new Metroid game, according to the petition.
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The overall reaction was so negative that Nintendo’s chief executive took to Twitter to apologize.
Their E3 was so disappointing, It single handedly cemented my decision to throw my ShiiT in the trasH. Thank god that Sony came through and showed us all what a good conference and good games and New IPs are.
Serves them right. That **** was beyond tragic. It was poorly executed and it gave off HS/College student putting together a messy last minute PowerPoint presentation.
Nintendo's business model is basically like if one of our faves was popular in the 90's-early 00's and for the past decade only released greatest hits albums, with the same damn songs on it ever damn time, with the occasional rapper remix or mashup, and then randomly in 2015 releases a song about being a kid then being a squid.
Nintendo is the new Sega apparently. Them tucking their tails between their legs just so they can do mobile. They have phoned it in on E3 since forever, so I'm not surprised by that. I'm just glad fans are getting pissed off and what change. Hopefully this finally gets them to do new IPs and actually put effort into their E3 shows.
this combined with the least new original IP and the least powerful console... not looking good.