Iwata: Why Nintendo went casual for E3
We understand that people were disappointed (with E3). One must bear in mind that the E3 is always a good place to new audience to a mass audience, because the media interest is so high. So we concentrated on the games that we share with new customer in mind have developed. We wanted to show what we are this year and early 2009 on the market. We have our games for the hard core of gamers never neglected and there are still teams in such games. But it just takes longer, they finish two to three years. The beginning of 2009 we will not bring, so we could at the E3 show none. – Satoru Iwata
Well, I hope whatever they show us next year will be worth waiting a year longer.
July 27, 2008
i’m pretty sure that the casual gamer or your grandma isn’t going to pay any attention to what is going on at E3. So why bother showing off a product to people who aren’t even watching?