The emailer is right: E3 is just damn boring nowadays. That’s the sad truth. E3 is no longer a “gaming fair” but and “industry club”. All the conferences are boring and overstuffed with weird directions and style. Bethesda trying to be funny. Sony being “progressive”. MS just proving that without third parties is nothing. Nintendo being Nintendo, showing what they want when they want.
I am interested in Smash Bros. but as an emailer pointed. It’s just a mash-up of past games. There’s nothing interesting about it. Of course, it has a huge user base and I guess the reason they are releasing now is to push their online service. The games they shown were “good” but you are right. People who bought a Switch got it for games like Zelda, not for Fire Emblem or Dragon Ball. I am not saying they shouldn’t make those games but I mean.,.was it too hard to show Smash AND another cool game, like the goddamn Metroid Prime one they shown last year?
Then again, Nintendo has stopped putting all their eggs in their basket at E3. In the last 4 years or so, they just show (and hype) something and the rest during the year. Like the Switch announcement. They could do that at E3 but instead they did it on November and January. It’s obvious that E3 is not as important as it used to be for them.
And seeing the boring and pretentious conferences form the other companies, there may be onto something.
Take care!
I really think you are correct about how shows like E3 are more about ‘industry club’ instead of ‘gaming fair’.
The ‘game industry’ is an incestrous circle where they care about their reputations, their ‘next jobs’, and they want everyone else in ‘the industry’ to think they are brilliant, wise, and creative.
And to the great unwashed masses out there? They don’t give a shit what they think.
Does anyone at E3 care about the opinions of the stay at home housewife, or the career woman, or the average teenage or the long houred working adult? No.