This is the thing I was talking about in regards to image. E3 is no longer about game reveals or hands-on demos, since they're confirmed to be happening. It's all about image :/
But image to who? The only people who benefit from a big swanky press event are, well, the press. What does it matter to the average consumer? For that matter what does it really matter to the press? The information is still all there for them to report on, it's just more readily available to the average joe who isn't lucky enough to attend E3 as well and they don't get a plush goody bag at the en.....oh I see.
The live updates from the show floor are the most appealing part to me, anyhow. Sounds like there will be a tonne of coverage and that's whats important to my E3 experience.
What are the implications of a a digital event for a Zelda U reveal?
Will be exactly the same as any other Zelda reveal for 99% of us.
My assumption:
Imagine a Nintendo Direct, but built around more live content and a demo of the new Zelda presented by Aonuma. Except instead of him standing nervously on a stage somewhere giving a speech peppered with awkward silences from the watching press, he'll be standing slightly less nervously in a corridor in Nintendo HQ, holding a Master Sword replica and cracking jokes to an invisible audience. Or something like that.