Nintendo houdt geen grote E3 conferentie.

Nintendo gooit zijn standaard plannen voor de E3 helemaal om. Ze gaan namelijk niet meer zo’n uitgebreide presentatie houden als vroeger. Iwata heeft dit tijdens het tonen van hun financiële resultaten gezegd (ze hebben een kleine winst) dat ze steeds meer de Nintendo Directs gaan gebruiken en dat de E3 meer is om hun software uit te proberen. Wel gaan ze kleiner evenementen plannen voor Amerika en Europa apart. Dit allemaal blijkt uit de volgende quotes:

“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,” Iwata said. “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. 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.”

“At E3 this year, we are not planning to launch new hardware, and our main activity at E3 will be to announce and have people experience our software. Many people are certainly very interested in learning more about the Wii U titles that we are going to announce. We will use E3 as an ideal opportunity to talk in detail mainly about the Wii U titles that we are going to launch this year, and we also plan to make it possible for visitors to try the games immediately. As a brand new challenge, we are working to establish a new presentation style for E3.”