With this year’s E3 finally wrapping up, it is already clear who the winners and the losers are when it comes to fan hype. On one end of the spectrum, you have Bethesda Game Studios and its Fallout 4 showcase, which generated the kind of excitement marketeers dream of.

On the other end of the spectrum, you have Nintendo Co Ltd, whose mostly pre-recorded “E3 Digital Event” showed fans a whole lot of nothing, and what little it did show has been met with a harsh backlash. The video itself showed a few gameplay trailers intercut with bizarre muppet representations of Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, and Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime.

Some fans of the Metroid series were so put off by the Nintendo’s announcement of a 3DS team shooter called Metroid Prime: Federation Force that they created a Change.org petition calling for a halt to its development. It sounds like a joke until you see that it has over 12,000 signatures.

“This is not the Metroid we asked Nintendo to make,” the petition says. “We should let Nintendo know what we really think of the game and make them actually LISTEN to their fans for once.”

“I don’t necessarily want the game cancelled,” wrote one of the people who signed the petition. “I just want Nintendo to get the message that for years now a hopelessly loyal fanbase has simply wanted full & deep gaming experiences utilizing Nintendo’s extensive list of IPs.”

E3 critics are nothing new

Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, who hosted parts of the recent E3 event, is unconcerned with the negative reaction to Federation Force and the E3 presentation in general.

“One of the things I find interesting is that if you look at E3 historically for Nintendo, typically what happens is a press briefing happens or our digital event happens,” Fils-Aime told Polygon, “and then over the course of the next couple of days people see the games get to play the games and the appreciation and understanding of what we’re doing increases over those three days and continues to build into the holidays.”

According to Fils-Aime, the recently released Nintendo game Splatoon received a lukewarm reception when it was first shown at E3.

“There were all of these complaints [about Splatoon],” Fils-Aime said. “But now you look at the finished product and the satisfaction is huge.”

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