Nintendo at E3 2003
Hold up, buddy.
Nintendo's E3 2003 was all kinds of lame. It's almost hard to do an earnest recap of what the show brought to the table, because this particular year is already so well-remembered for being just outright terrible. E3 '03 has been a running joke for years, the go-to example of an expo that Nintendo just got wrong.
The Big Announcements
The show's biggest lasting contribution might not even have been any Nintendo product, actually, but the underwhelmed reaction that Nintendo's announcements there inspired in those witnessing the failure happening right in front of them: he Internet-famous meme "The Reaction Guys" got its start with IGN's own coverage of Nintendo's E3 2003 press conference.
That's Matt Casamassina, Craig Harris, Chadd Chambers and Peer Schneider all honestly reacting to Nintendo's presentation that year – they were so bored by what they were seeing that they couldn't help but go deadpan for the duration of the event.
So why all the sad faces? Well, Nintendo's biggest announcement of the year was Pac-Man Vs. Seriously, that was the biggest announcement. That was just the beginning of Nintendo's connectivity push, though, as the company then pressed on to focus attention on The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures and Square Enix's Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.
The Big Games
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