Quote Originally Posted by The 1 2 P View Post
I just watched the show and although this year wasn't the greatest overall E3 as far as press conferences are concerned, Nintendo's was really lackluster. All I wanted was a reason for them to sell me on the Wii U. Instead we got looks at the usual legacy first party titles and mostly third party hand-me-downs from last gen(once the Wii U launches they'll be last gen). Is it just me or does this look like the Wii all over again? The only two games that interested me were the Castelvania: LOS 3DS game and Zombie U(although I really hope they change that title). Everything else was very blah to me and I was pretty disappointed by this confernce. I knew we weren't going to get a price or release date but frankly that doesn't even matter now because I have no real incentive to want this system anytime soon while I still have my 360, PS3 and Wii to game on.
I guess I don't really know what people were expecting. With Sony and Microsoft likely launching their next generation consoles in 2013, it is very unlikely that any third parties are going to reveal their next generation stuff right now, even if it will be on Wii U as well as the other two platforms. As such, Nintendo is basically stuck with whatever they can show which right now is going to be current generation stuff with some enhancements. Similarly, Nintendo has historically taken the approach of waiting until closer to launch to reveal pricing, availability dates and first party launch software. Personally, I saw enough to convince me that this is going to be a really fun console with some neat first party software and hopefully some innovative third party stuff that uses the gamepad. Is it enough? For me it was and at least they didn't focus most of the time on exercise applications, streaming media, communication gimmicks and other junk I have little or no interest in using.