Has Nintendo abandoned its core community?
Like a lot of people out there (and a lot of our readers have expressed), I was let down with Nintendo’s press conference in E3 with their lack of attention to the hardcore community. However, that doesn’t mean Nintendo’s abandoned us – it was only E3 after all, and we all know how the event’s gone downhill. Analyst Michael Pachter shares his views on the matter. Read up on it in the full article. No bashing until you read the whole thing, eh?
There’s a lot of us out there who were let down with Nintendo’s press conference during E3 for their lack of attention to the core community, as a lot of you have made clear. I haven’t made a secret of my own disappointment with it either, but that doesn’t mean Nintendo’s abandoned us. It’s only E3 after all, and we all know how the event’s gone downhill.
E3 itself was a letdown this year. Publishers, developers, and high profile personalities in the video game industry have expressed as much. Most of the bigger studios naturally won’t be taking out their big guns during the event. Even Microsoft and Sony didn’t have that much to offer either. I expect to hear the big news on the next big gaming event, at the Leipzig GC.
Come to think about it, E3 wasn’t that much of a disappointment, considering how everyone else didn’t bring their A game to the event. Video game industry analyst Michael Pachter also has his own views on the matter. Now I’m sure a lot of you have strong opinions about the man as well, but hold off until you read what he has to say, eh?
Some hardcore gamers were critical of Nintendo’s failure to announce new Mario and Zelda games at the show… we think that Nintendo focused upon building upon its formidable lead with the mass market, and do not consider the lack of major hard core game announcements to be an abandonment of its core.
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Via Gamasutra
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