E3 2016: 4 Ups & 7 Downs From Nintendo's Treehouse

6. Too. Much. Pokemon.

Nintendo E3 Pokemon 2016
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Alright, so just about everyone out there started getting impatient for more Zelda gameplay after the day 1 livestream cut to some Pokemon Sun and Moon footage...which dragged on for about 45 minutes.

For a series that's going to sell like hotcakes anyway and isn't doing a ton in terms of innovation, it felt rather cruel for Nintendo to shove it in-between the Zelda trailer and subsequent gameplay reveal.

Even Nintendo fanboys couldn't contain their frustration on social media, fueled further by the fact that even showing Pokemon at all on the livestream was a last-minute decision. Apparently there was something wrong with just showing Zelda, which to be honest sounds like a pretty great idea in retrospect considering how dull and agonising most of the Pokemon footage was.

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