du fudge you talking about?!?That Zelda e3 was a one-off year. Apart from that, Nintendo fans know to expect a full on direct every e3 at a minimum, with other directs being at semi-consistent times. Looking at general directs in the last 7 years:
nintendos "E3" direct has not always been "big" these days. are you forgetting about the year that their e3 presentation was only zelda for like 40 minutes?!? they do directs,.. there is no rhyme or reason to when they drop other than you can expect one near e3. you could get 2 in 2 months or go 9 months without any. some drop massive announcements and some have nothing but indies and old ports. for a while there nintendo literally has 0 unreleased announced games...
it's exactly the same as what sony is doing these days. there is no consistency. "random tuesday" is now a thing people say when sony announces something. on the other side,.. there is literally ALWAYS a rumor that nintendo is just days away from announcing their next direct. and when it doesn't come they just punt it out another week/month until one finally drops...
Feb 2014
E3 2014
November 2014
Jan 2015
April 2015
E3 2015
November 2015
March 2016
E3 2016 (BOTW special)
September 2016
Jan 2017 (Switch reveal event)
April 2017
E3 2017
September 2017
Jan 2018 (mini)
March 2018
E3 2018
September 2018
February 2019
E3 2019
September 2019
March 2020 (mini)
--COVID--
Feb 2021
E3 2021
That's actually remarkably consistent. There's always one early in the year, if not one then two. There's always an E3 direct when E3 is on and there's always one in September or November (november 2015 or earlier, september since 2016). Extra directs dedicated to certain games are thrown around that. Even in 2016 they did their usual March and September directs either side of the one-off BOTW focused E3. Nintendo fans were only going crazier recently due to Nintendo deciding to basically pause their new announcements during most of the pandemic time, skipping directs for e3 and september last year. But they seem to be back to normal now.
In contrast, Sony fans have no idea what's going on currently.