 Hey everyone, before we get into today's video, I want to remind you to enter our giveaway for Paper Mario the Origami King. We will be giving away a copy at the end of the month to enter, you just need to comment on this video, like this video, subscribe to the channel and hit that bell icon and set it to all notifications. If you do this on every single video from now through the end of the month, you get additional entries and I wish all of you luck. Today we're going to be talking about something that is near and dear to my heart in some ways, but also a little disappointing. So we all know that E3 didn't happen this year. They tried to replace it with some summer thing and then everyone backed out. Now there's been like the Summer Games Fest hosted by Jeff Keely, there's been this Ubisoft Forward event, which was like their E3 replacement event yesterday. We had Sony do their own PlayStation 5 reveal event. We have something coming up from Xbox later this month as well, maybe even a supposed rumored Nintendo Direct on July 20th. So we have more and more announcements coming, but there was a big thing when E3 was cancelled this year, a kind of a permeating opinion that was basically taken as a fact. And that was with E3 gone, companies are going to find out that they don't need E3, that they can get just as much sales without E3, that they can generate maybe even more hype by doing their own events. And then yeah, we would just end up not having E3 needing to come back. Now yes, E3 has already announced they are coming back, they do have an event scheduled for next year. There's going to be some changes. There seems to be changes everywhere with E3. I don't know what the ESA is doing at this point. And obviously E3 is a near and dear event to my heart as a gamer. As I guess you could say a member of the media, I've attended at three of the last four E3s I've been to. One of them when I was an actual editor in chief and journalist at Zelda Informer back in 2016, then I went again in 2018 and 2019 and obviously there wasn't one this year to go to. And I've had a really good time every time I've gone. And we've gotten a lot of views on all the content that I make during that time because we get to play exclusive demos. I get to talk about my experiences with it. You know, like why were people at my channel getting hyped for things like, I don't know, Ninjala, which recently came out well because of my experience with Ninjala back in 2018. So the thing is, E3 has always been really healthy for the channel in terms of viewership and it's also been just something I generally enjoy as a gamer. But obviously there's been a lot of controversy with E3 over the years, mostly in so much that it felt like it was getting worse and less needed. And Nintendo Directs were kind of at the forefront of this. Then you also had the PSX event that happens later in the year. And it just started to feel like E3 was kind of antiquated in some ways. Plus there were some really terrible press conferences. But this is the first summer where there wasn't an E3. And every company was left to defend for themselves and do whatever they feel like. And I'm left sitting here despite, you know, what I think Jeff Keely has actually done a really good job with his Summer Game Fest. I think that Ubisoft Forward was okay for the most part. Nothing to really knock your socks off with. And EA's little event that they did before was just okay. Nothing just feels like companies are just being lazy in a way because they're not building the kind of hype that you would see with E3. And in that sense, it feels like, at least to me personally, that E3 has not been replaced. We all assumed that these companies would get their acts together and realize that E3 isn't needed. But now after seeing a lot of the stuff already happened, and I know there's still some more coming. Yes, the Microsoft event could kill it. Yeah, we're supposed to supposedly rumor has it, get a PlayStation 5 price point reveal today. Now that's cool. And the PlayStation 5 reveal event was fine. It was okay. The actual reveal event was decent, all right? I'm not going to sit here and act like it wasn't good, but it didn't feel as hyped as revealing a system E3 has felt like in the past. And I think what happened here is that companies, you know, Sony was never planning to be at E3 anyways. That's what makes it so weird that it just didn't feel as hype is E3, it feels like it's more needed to happen next year, then maybe it's felt like it's been needed for a long time. The ESA basically got everything to go their way so far. Essentially, the ESA was probably scared that companies would just back out at E3 like crazy and realize they could do things on their own. And instead, a lot of us gamers, a lot of us media, a lot of people just left out here being like, eh, this has not really been that great of a summer or even though we're getting new announcements more often spread throughout the summer, none of it is, you know, blowing our minds and this is heading into the next gen like it shouldn't be that way. So it feels like, yeah, E3 hasn't been replaced because nobody's doing as good of a job as a single industry event does. And now I'm actually sitting here at home begging for E3 to come back and for Sony and everyone else is to jump full head into it next year because I'm sorry, the stuff you guys are doing on your own is not working out as well. Even the terrible press conferences that sometimes happen with Ubisoft and EA and Sony the last time they were at E3, their presser wasn't that good. Even those press conferences, to me, built more hype than what's happening this summer as a gamer. Maybe it's just because you could excuse a bad press conference from one because there would be good press conferences from another and that is something that has to do with the hype cycle for gamers. Like when you squeeze all the press conferences and all the gaming news into like a one week span, what happens is if one company disappoints another company, it lifts everyone up. So there's an effect here where, oh, if this is bad, Nintendo's will be good or if Sony's is bad, Xbox's will be good or if Xbox and Sony are bad, maybe Ubisoft kills it this year. Like you would end up forgiving other companies for not necessarily killing it because other companies would be killing it around that same time. And since most of these games come to all platforms except Switch, it was kind of a, hey, you know what, yeah, maybe it didn't look so good for this company or that company, but all these games are coming to the platforms we play anyways. And so we're left sitting here in this weird space in July, right? We're in the middle of July. And we just, to me, it kind of feels like E3 is missed. And maybe I'm alone in that thought. I'm not exactly sure if anyone else agrees with me, but I miss E3. I find myself wishing that E3 was here. And I didn't think I was going to feel that way at this point. Despite the fact that I liked going to E3, I thought it was a nice thing for the channel for you guys to get some different content compared to other YouTubers that might not go to E3. I still just, I find myself wondering, you know, did we show a lack of appreciation for what E3 really was? I think many of us just assumed it could easily not exist and everyone could just do Nintendo Directs and call it good, but not even Nintendo's not doing it. I get it. We're in the middle of a pandemic and that affects things. There's game delays. Oh, I understand that the pandemic has a huge effect on all of this. That's why we don't even have an E3. But honestly, as much as E3 was getting, you know, quote unquote, worse, it was still better than this, in my opinion. Maybe you guys completely disagree and you think I'm way off base on this. Maybe I literally stand alone in this thought. But man, I would have rather had an E3 this year than anything else that's happened so far. And this isn't, you know, no offense to Jeff Keely with his, you know, summer games thing. I know Jeff Keely wasn't going to go to E3 anyways this year because he was going to do the summer game fest thing and that's fine. And I think what he's done is fine. Just like I think his Game of War show is good, but none of it's as good as just up here at E3. So E3 will be back next year. So we'll see if all the companies continue to support it or most of the companies be nice to see Sony get back on board. I don't know if that's going to happen. We'll see. But I just, I am disappointed, I suppose. I expected more. I thought this summer was just going to be big event after big event after big event that we would usually get in a week spread across all summer and it would just be awesome as we just get all this massive gaming news all the time. But to be clear, there's been good, you know, we've got Far Cry 6 and like all like there's been gaming news happening. It's just not the same. And I miss what once was just a year ago, let alone what has been for 20, 30 years with E3s. So I don't know. You guys don't know what you think about this down in the comments below because I'm just one voice out in the crowd speaking my mind. Maybe you guys vehemently disagree. You don't miss E3. You think it's a waste of time. Everyone should just keep doing the digital stuff. Who cares? Games gets announced on the announce. Just drop them on Twitter or whatever. It's fine if you prefer that method of stuff. And I feel like I don't know how sales are going to be impacted in the end because that'll be the big, you know, hey, it's like the new Assassin's Creed Valhalla going to sell less because we didn't have an E3. I'd have no idea. But what I do know is personally, this summer game announcement, everyone doing their own thing, isn't working for me. I'm still going to pay attention. As a content creator, you would figure it will be awesome because I've got a billion different events I can live stream and I know I haven't streamed most of them because I have children in their home and I got jobs. I can't just always drop everything for all these events. So for me personally, it's actually easier to like take a week off. Baby sitters and like, you know, take care of business. But just in general, this is just a tough time. I guess I always say tough time to be a gamer because it's a great time to be a gamer because a lot of us have more time to game than ever before. But I think it's just a tough time to enjoy the new cycle of gaming when there just isn't that much excitement around it. Like even when you get hyped or just let down a lot. So like even the next Nintendo Direct, you know, if there is a legit Nintendo Direct coming this month, we're going to get hyped. How much do you think that directs going to live up to that hype? Because we haven't had one since September of last year. Like we had a mini, but we haven't had a true Nintendo Direct, a big Nintendo Direct that September of 2019 or almost to September of 2020. So of course, if we get an internal direct, the hype will probably be the biggest it's ever been for a Nintendo Direct in the history of Nintendo Directs. No way in hell it's going to live up to that. And that's Nintendo's fault for not giving us anything. Not, you know, maybe it's because they were planning everything for E3 and then that got squashed and then that changed everything. I don't know, but at least we have Microsoft's event later this month and maybe that'll deliver. And I'm sure it'll feel nice. It just won't feel as nice as it would have during an E3. Anyways, I'm Nathan Robojans from Nintendo Prime. Be sure to comment down below, like the video, subscribe to the channel, hit that bell icon that you entered in the contest. Plus, you must like the video if you stuck around this long. So stay tuned for more content for those that stuck around to the end. I am working on getting Yulia, my my woman, my better half to join me for a live stream tonight to celebrate her birthday. It was her birthday yesterday and do a little late celebration of it today, kind of like we did for me. You know, get some some little drinky drinks on and have some fun and chat, chat, maybe play some games or whatever the case might be. Whatever we decide to do. I am working on that. It sounds like she's pretty up for it, but no guarantees yet. Yulia flies by the seat of her pants. So we'll see. But hopefully that's something I can get lined up for you guys. In fact, I'm going to be tidying up around the office a little bit here to make it more inviting to her to come down and not be like, oh, man, you need to clean your office. Like, yeah, I know, I know. But I got this. I got this. All right, folks, I'll catch you guys in the next video.