Yes. Just take a look at this board. 95% of all Wii U traffic has to do with rumors, speculation, and supposed leaks, not official information that Nintendo itself has released. What Nintendo has said itself really borderlines on next to nothing at all about the system and its software. A visual of the console and the tablet, tech demos, not even a handful of announced games, including games that weren't even in development at that time, and that's really it. For a console that's supposedly coming out at the end of the year, that isn't very much.
Yeah, I understand the strategy that Nintendo's doing here... or at least the strategy most people THINK Nintendo's going with, since I doubt anyone around here truly knows. However, it's not a foolproof plan in the slightest. You either be this silent because you feel like you have something truly special or because you really have very little to show. *gasp* Not to say that it's the latter, but I don't recall Nintendo being quite this hush-hush about the DS and Wii this close to their respective launches, and they turned out to be special systems. Not to mention that if the Wii U really does have that much going for it, it wouldn't have done too much harm for Nintendo to confirm a rumor or two, such as a Luigi's Mansion 2 coming to the system. That sort of thing wouldn't have been make or break, and it probably would serve as something for people to better gauge their interest in the console.
Instead, we still don't know much about the system at all, including price, launch lineup, and what we should expect from the system down the line. This is a move that is just as dangerous as it is smart. Not that there's anything wrong with high expectations, but right now, the assumption is that Nintendo can do nothing but blow away people's minds at E3, and that can be a bad thing. For some systems like the Wii, it has worked tremendously moving forward. However, it has managed to hurt the starts of several other systems significantly, such as the PS3 and 3DS, which at least in some people before their respective releases were seen as systems that could do no wrong. And even if Nintendo puts up a great showing at E3, that doesn't solidify the system's success on the market, but just give forum-goers something to talk about. If anything, recent history has shown that Nintendo's usually better off when its E3 presentation doesn't send this part of the world in a frenzy.
Just my thoughts on the matter. Take them for what you will, as always. :P
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