Opinion: Nintendo needs to make more Developer Story segments, just not during E3

Our team will have our will Nintendo Digital Event thoughts up later tonight, but first something smaller. 

This morning’s Nintendo Digital Event might not have been what every one was expecting for many different reasons. There were however a number of segments in the Digital Event that while we respect them for it doing it, are just not the best time for it. 

I am of course speaking about the Developer Stories, the longer segments where the developers talk about their games. You can see their passion for the game and in this year’s case, game design in general. These Developer Stories are something no one else is doing, every other studio or developer puts a PR frontman on these segments.

But they’re lost, they’re wasted fitting into these Nintendo Digital Events, these should be saved for the longer Nintendo Directs or their separate own Direct. I really enjoy hearing about the history about certain things came to be in Super Mario Bros, how the Yarn Yoshi amiibo came to be and the thoughts behind making Triforce Heroes only have 3 players during multiplayer.

As an aside the Super Mario Maker art book will be great, but I would love to see a Hyrule Historia-esque version with everything Nintendo’s ever done with Mario. Now that would be a sight to behold. Nintendo has over 30 years of history in game design, it’s time to see what makes everything tick.

This, along with the Iwata Asks are what makes Nintendo unique and special, we need more of it – just not during E3 where it sadly won’t be respected.