Metroid Prime literally showed its title and that was it. You can see the underwhelming responses from everyone as soon as they realise there is nothing else. If FF7R and Shenmue did the same thing they would get similar responses, because while their existence is a great announcement, so little presence means said existence feels small.
FF7R had one of the best CGI trailers in recent years, with beautiful direction, clever dialogue and an ending that provided bounties of excitement. Calling frivolous seems to be a cop out to being unable to understand why certain CGI trailers are so meaningful. Look at Beyond Good and Evil 2 for instance.
CGI trailers are not shallow. They provide story, a feel for the world, an introduction to characters and their relationships....ultimately they provide a feel for the entire game (if handled well).
Shenmue 3, had the creator express his long lost love for his series on stage and countdown to its official start as well.
Exactly, this is all about prescence and "feel" which I just find to be a fool's errand in quantifying. As I said, the Shenmue 3 hype came from its name alone, not from the aftermath of the trailer, so why was the hype for that but not for this? The only difference is in feelings which are so difficult to quantify that it's a fool's errand; you can try to do it afterwards by saying that FFVIIr showed more (it didn't, we got Midgar, Cloud, Barret and an ominous tone; in MP4's reveal we got space, Samus and an ominous sci-fi tone) or that Shenmue 3 showed more (again, it didn't) but at the base level the reveal just didn't work for you, Kyle or Primethius which is fine.
The thing is, Nintendo could have waited until next year when they had some more to show but then they'd have another year of "Where's Metroid?! Just show us a logo, Nintendo! Why are you making a 3DS game instead of Switch Metroid!!!" The game's clearly in early development and they don't have much to show, but they're not stupid and knew that the fan reaction to no Metroid or Switch Pokemon (similar situation) would be even worse than the fan reaction to this reveal.
Because the Shenmue reveal needed to be premature as it was a Kickstarter...
And yes, it would be more hype if it had a outsourced CG trailer. Then we'd actually have something to speculate about. As it stands, it's great that it exists and that's about it. It's silly to you, that's fine.
What's silly to me is Nintendo's half-assed MS paint job revealing a long requested game.
Showing Samus walking down a corridor wouldn't have given us anything more to speculate on. We'd still be wondering about the devs, the look, the gameplay the engine, the story, etc; nothing would have actually changed.
As for Nintendo half-assing it, sure, but I seriously doubt we'll be here in two years time wondering where Metroid Prime 4 went with rumors of Nintendo outsourcing the game because of development hell.
EDIT: Though, as I said, this is a silly argument so I'll just leave it here.
