When the NWR staff set out to create this feature, they had no idea just how far the discussion would take them.
When NWR Site Director Neal Ronaghan asked staff to chime in on last week's Nintendo Direct, he never expected the frenzied back-and-forth that would follow. Nintendo fans are commonly believed to have very strong feelings about the company and its games and that passion definitely seemed to play out last Friday amongst the Nintendo World Report staff. Though the discussion started on topic, it quickly became inflamed with themes of negativity vs. optimism, objectivity, nostalgia, the N64, launch windows, the Nintendo Direct format, timing, new IPs, and finally Metroid.
The following account is the result of more than 100 e-mails flying back and forth over the course of a single day. Some sections have been re-arranged chronologically so readers can better understand the flow of discussion, and some non-relevant sections of discussion have not been included.
Continued in "On Topic: Favorite Announcements from the May 17 Nintendo Direct"