Nintendo has faced a barrage of negative publicity following its media briefing at E3 last week. Many self-proclaimed hardcore gamers were expecting a new game to be revealed but instead were presented with games they either knew about or dubbed “casual” games.

Nintendo has since been working hard to win back the support of its fans. In a recent interview with Forbes, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata commented “If there is any perception that Nintendo is ignoring the core gamers, it’s a misunderstanding and we really want to get rid of that misunderstanding by any means.”

Iwata continued “We are sorry about [the E3] media briefings, specifically for those who were expecting to see Nintendo show something about ‘Super Mario’ or ‘Legend of Zelda.’ However, the fact of the matter is the so-called ‘big titles’ need a long, long development period. …We really didn’t think this year’s E3 media briefing was the time to do so.”

Nintendo did unveil Wii Sports Resort which comes bundled with the new Wii MotionPlus accessory for the Wii Remote at the media briefing. However, even though never before seen game play was shown on a few titles, gamers had known about them for a while. These titles included Wii Music and Animal Crossing: City Folk.

Nintendo were also criticized for choosing to showcase quite a few third party games including Shaun White Snowboarding, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Call of Duty: World at War. Many gamers believed that this time would have been better spent on titles published by Nintendo.

But the dust will settle and perhaps we will get another Zelda title soon, after all Iwata did pass that comment at E3 that the teams that designed Mario and Zelda are hard at work. We live in hope then.