This was it for this year's E3. As expected, the focus was entirely on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, with no other big games stealing the show. It wasn't as extreme as with Breath of the Wild two years ago, where they only featured the one game and the one game only, but next to Smash they mostly showed upcoming expansions for existing Nintendo games, Splatoon 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, as well as two new Mario fun games.
It was a little bit surprising that they didn't have any Nintendo 3DS software at all. This was clear for the Nintendo Direct in advance, because they had announced this, but that they didn't even show any 3DS games during the Treehouse live stream is a sign that they want to be truly done with the system. They could shown Luigi's Mansion for example, but they didn't.
With that there also goes the hope that we still might get another Zelda game in the A Link Between Worlds engine on the Nintendo 3DS, because otherwise they would have shown this at this year's E3 for sure.
Overall 2018 doesn't feel all too exciting outside of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. The Nintendo Switch got mostly ports this year so far and even Ultimate is mostly about bringing all the old contents back, which is amazing, but also not a big reason to finally buy a Switch, if you're a Nintendo Wii U owner.
Next year should be more interesting, however. That's when I would expect to see Metroid Prime 4 and maybe even two Zelda titles for the system: Skyward Sword HD and Grezzo's upcoming Zelda game.
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