Board 8 > didn't e3 used to have lots of surprise game reveals?

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or is it just that I'm more in the know now and just thought e3 was full of surprise game reveals before? I can't really see that, though, since I used to be way more active on gfaqs.

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It did but there's really no reason to surprise reveal games at E3 anymore. It made sense before when people got more gaming news from magazines because you want to make your big announcements somewhere where you know the press will be paying attention. But now that it's so easy for publishers to reach the audience directly rather than going through the gaming press, there's no real need to do anything big at E3. It's more risk than it's worth because you might get overshadowed, better to announce things in a month or two when nothing else is happening.

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Yup, and that's why E3 sucks so hard now.

Last few years only really Nintendo would have some surprise reveals, most of the others didn't IIRC.

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that makes sense

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wasn't the wonderbook and wii land thing both surprise reveals?

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2 things =/= lots

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It will never happen again :(

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wii land thing?

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nintendoland? Is that what it was called?

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"lots"

"lots"

"lots"

not 1

not 2

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That's a big reason why Watch Dogs got so much hype. It was a complete surprise, like in the classic E3 days.

But nowadays it's more effective to just announce your game before E3, and build hype towards E3.

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Last year we got what, Overstrike and The Last of Us?

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here's Nintendo's recent E3 Announced History

2009
Golden Sun DS
SMG2
NSMBW
Metroid
Skyward Sword

2010:
Kirby's Epic Yarn
Donkey Kong Country
Kid Icarus
OoT3D
Mario Kart 7
Paper Mario
Animal Crossing
Star Fox 64 3D
Pilot Wings

2011:
Luigi's Mansion 2
Smash Bros. 4

2012:
Nintendoland

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Man E3 2010 was so amazing I want it back.

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Nintendo usually step up to the plate on that, but didn't this year. I suppose Mass Effect 3 is the closest thing that counts! That did get a surprising reaction despite happening during a montage.

Unfortunately, it's Mass Effect 3. Ah well.

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id like to surprise your game reveal

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why reveal surprise games when you know that market is going to by them anyway? the focus is on showing market diversity to their investors these days

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make Mass Effect 3 Wii U the only version with the fixed ending

Then Ninty could price the console at $1000 and all the ME fans will buy it at launch, funding nintendo enough to then drop the price and give us megaton after megaton next year~

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Lego gta was a good deal better than expected. South Park looks every bit like south park. Divinity original sin might be the best wrpg the year it comes out in.

There is stuff, but you have to find it.

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South Park was announced early this year.

People are going bananas over the new Star Wars game, though it wasn't at any of the conferences

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/star-wars-1313-looks-real-real-good/4201/

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past 2 years Nintendo has really tried to focus on short marketing cycles and only announce games that are coming out this fiscal year

sometimes they don't even announce a game until it's within a few months of release.

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1313 was shown in a GT interview after the nintendo conference and it did look really cool. Though it looked basically like a Star Wars Uncharted, which of course sounds cool, but it might be bordering on generic.

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