Lately, Nintendo's presentations have started and ended with a big game reveal. Last month's Nintendo Direct began with Super Mario Maker 2 and ended with the Link's Awakening remake. The Nindies Presentation from a few hours ago started with Cuphead and ended with the Cadence of Hyrule expansion for Crypt of the Necrodancer.
Obviously, this is a bit of a play on how humans remember things. We tend to have primacy as well as recency bias in our memories. So it's a smart movie from Nintendo that grabs attention. But it makes the middle of these presentations often feel dull in comparison, and you're just sitting through it until the announcement of "one more thing."
I think this is fine overall, but I wish Nintendo paced their presentations a little bit better. This isn't the first time they did something like this with the November 2015 Direct starting with TP HD and ending with Cloud announced for Smash 4. But it becomes predictable after a while.
What do you think?
Obviously, this is a bit of a play on how humans remember things. We tend to have primacy as well as recency bias in our memories. So it's a smart movie from Nintendo that grabs attention. But it makes the middle of these presentations often feel dull in comparison, and you're just sitting through it until the announcement of "one more thing."
I think this is fine overall, but I wish Nintendo paced their presentations a little bit better. This isn't the first time they did something like this with the November 2015 Direct starting with TP HD and ending with Cloud announced for Smash 4. But it becomes predictable after a while.
What do you think?
