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Nintendos 2013 E3 Presentation Absense Is A White Flag

Nintendo will not have a conference at E3 2013 this year. Rather, they will just have meetings, and game titles during the event to push the Wii U for the coming year. Clearly Nintendo is sending a signal to not only it's rivals Sony, and Microsoft, but also the games industry, along with consumers. Everyone looks forward to the biggest gaming event on the calendar to see what the big boys do. Is Nintendo waving a white flag not having a conference? Thekingslayer.com believes so.

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Rearden4770d ago

Nintendo is chickening out at E3, they're effectively saying they are no longer in the same league as Microsoft and Sony.

Abash4770d ago

When Wii U sales are doing so poorly, it was a gigantic mistake to not have their traditional E3 conference. I wouldnt say them skipping their big E3 conference says they're in a dire state, but with the way the Wii U is performing so far makes their lack of an E3 presence look ten times worse than it already is

fairyblaster4770d ago

(Rearden)

You makes sense. As leaders, Nintendo doesn't have time for this anymore.

miyamoto4770d ago

a 3RD E3 disaster for the Wii U probably is too much for Nintendo

dedicatedtogamers4770d ago

I'm not one to rush to Nintendo's defense (people who know my post history would agree), but I don't see the big deal. Nintendo is pushing out news via their Nintendo Direct. If you combine the last three Nintendo Direct videos, it has as many (if not more) announcements as a full E3 conference, and they're still going to be at E3. They still may do announcements, too. They just won't have a stage presentation.

Big deal.

OwlEyes4770d ago (Edited 4770d ago )

Exactly.

Nintendo's Direct this E3 will focus on the games, without any additional gimmicky stuff like Usher coming on stage, or Reggie stumbling over his lines.

Focusing solely on gamers, avoiding the gimmicks and ignoring the casual audience is what everyone has been demanding from Nintendo for years.

Yet, when they finally do it, people still complain.

jcnba284769d ago

Finally, someone with a bit of sense!

fairyblaster4770d ago

LMAO. (reard) syke! you dont make sense. since when is E3 a competition?? lol

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Sheepzclothing4770d ago

I can understand if this is about Nintendo being humble, but Nintendo E3 conferences just make me happy to watch. Nothing like 'em.

stragomccloud4769d ago (Edited 4769d ago )

People are ignoring the fact that Nintendo Directs have effectively removed the need for bloated and expensive conferences. Still, I'm going to miss that.

Nevers0ft4769d ago

Not everybody is ignoring it, just the trolls. Same as the fact that Nintendo WILL be at E3, just not doing one of those huge (often cringingly embarassing) stage shows... I still have nightmares about the 2008 E3 Wii Music demonstration ;)

stragomccloud4769d ago

Seriously. I love Nintendo but.... man... I'd be lying if I I said those conferences weren't a bit embarrassing in one way or another.

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7748d ago (Edited 48d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS47d ago (Edited 47d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer73d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi72d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure72d ago (Edited 72d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer73d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot73d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box72d ago (Edited 72d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno73d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay72d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno71d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK71d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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