>>717510602
They've gotten to a point where they're compartmentalising way too much, everything would get equal visibility if they just did one big direct and differentiated between the segments, which I think is why they're doing it like this, it's how they used to do it, they don't want this partner or indie stuff distracting from their mainlines products, just seems insecure.
They know these announcements pull a lot of attention, they're fumbling their opportunity pretty bad by being petty, a couple more of these lack luster directs and people are going to start skipping them a lot meaning indies get even less attention.
I saw someone brow beating about how being negative about the poor indies sucks and sure, I agree, but it's nintendos fault for doing shit in a way that pisses people off, if this was even just a part of the partner direct it would have been better for both, but honestly I think they should just do one big direct with everything they have in it whenever often, the big titles bring the attention for the smaller stuff and a packed direct means more people are pleased by it.