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Nintendo's Killing the E3 with their Wii

Third party developers aren't allowed to show off Wii titles in their own booths

By Filip Truta, Games Editor

17th of May 2007, 07:54 GMT

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This year's E3 was supposed to be well under way by now, hosting hundreds, if not thousands of gamers at Los Angeles. However, this year it's different: other than Nintendo's booth, everyone's missing out on the whole event. There could be many reasons for this year's E3 being gamerless and GamingNexus' Charles Husemann is on it just like

a police detective, pointing out possible suspects for the lack of people present at the halls of the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Suspect #1 would be EA and the publishers, with their leading "the charge behind getting the event canceled year over year. However, the rest of the publishers like Activision, Konami, and Sega are just as complicit in taking down the industries big event," but doesn't blame them either as they also have to struggle to make themselves heard.

Suspect #2 seems like the most plausible for the delay in gamer-flow at this year's E3: Nintendo:

"...the fact that Nintendo had a four hour line that dominated headlines last year did not make it easy for other companies to keep pouring in the funds into E3. It's hard to get the message out about your game when you've got to compete with a YouTube video of how long the line to see the Wii is. Maybe Nintendo could have had a few more units available for people to play or allowed third party developers to show off their Wii games in their own booths to help ease the line. Instead they forced gamers to waste a good chunk of their E3 time sitting in line just to get a chance to play the Wii for a few moments."

It wasn't enough that their little white and shiny console is totally dominating the gaming market, they still want to get everyone Wii crazy. Just as the editor pointed out, allowing third party developers to show off their Wii games in their own booths would have been much more polite. But nooo...! If it's for the Wii, then it's Nintendo's booth they'll check it out at.

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E3 | Los Angeles | Nintendo | Wii | EA

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