Week in Gaming: Nintendo might not need E3, but it needs to give us hope

By Kate Gray

This year’s E3 will not be a big one for the Nintendo fans. The only playable game at the show will be the new Legend of Zelda, which many of us are certainly looking forward to – but that’s it.

Nintendo has moved further and further away from E3 in recent years, which is partly understandable given that it’s a Japanese company and E3 is a very Western expo – but right now it doesn’t feel like this absence is been compensated for elsewhere.

If, for example, Nintendo said, “We’re not really doing E3 any more, folks, but instead we’re going to throw a five-day party in our newly built Nintendo-branded theme park, and everyone’s invited,” then yes, cool. We would all be satisfied and it would probably feel like Nintendo actually had faith in its products.

As it stands, Nintendo doesn’t have much on its slate for the near future. I understand that we’re on the eve of a new console – the NX – but rather than choosing to build excitement for this, it feels like the company is instead withdrawing into its shell like a nervous hermit crab.

Even with the announcement of the NX and Legend of …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming