{"id":131595,"date":"2023-02-02T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-144554"},"modified":"2023-02-02T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:00:00","slug":"ex-nintendo-host-kit-ellis-says-we-may-find-out-why-nintendos-skipping-e3-sooner-rather-than-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/02\/ex-nintendo-host-kit-ellis-says-we-may-find-out-why-nintendos-skipping-e3-sooner-rather-than-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Nintendo Host Kit Ellis Says We May Find Out Why Nintendo&#8217;s Skipping E3 &#8220;Sooner Rather Than Later&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/39210ab6044f8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/39210ab6044f8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/39210ab6044f8\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"M7XInllONJI\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Kit and Krysta, the former hosts of Nintendo Minute, left Nintendo at the start of 2022 after a combined 25 years at the company. This gave them a ton of insight into the secretive company that they&#8217;re now more than happy to share on their YouTube channel and podcast, including speculation based on their experience \u2014 which is what we have today.<\/p>\n<p>In a 40-second video, Kit Ellis says that he doesn&#8217;t believe the story about Nintendo having a &#8220;weak second half schedule of games&#8221; for 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/sources-nintendo-and-playstation-will-not-attend-e3-2023\/\">as reported on by VGC<\/a> through a publishing source &#8220;with knowledge of Nintendo&#8217;s plans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis&#8217; theory is that Nintendo, as one of the most secretive companies in the world, wouldn&#8217;t be &#8220;telling the [Entertainment Software Association] or literally anybody that they have a weak schedule of games,&#8221; stating that he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;believe&#8221; that to be the case. Instead, he says, &#8220;maybe there&#8217;s another reason that Nintendo&#8217;s skipping E3,&#8221; and that we &#8220;might be finding it out sooner than later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not much to go on, other than the educated guess of a former Nintendo employee, but if the ever-swirling Direct rumours turn out to be true, well&#8230; we might be getting some surprise releases in the latter half of 2023.<\/p>\n<p><em>What games would you like to see coming this year to Switch? Or would you rather have a new Switch entirely? Tell us in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Kit and Krysta, the former hosts of Nintendo Minute, left Nintendo at the start of 2022 after a combined 25 years at the company. This gave them a ton of insight into the secretive company that they&#8217;re now more than happy to share on their YouTube channel and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}