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Nintendo Direct E3 2019 Live Reactions at Nintendo NY [ABSOLUTELY INSANE O_O]

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The screen at Rockefeller Plaza erupted the moment Sakurai’s silhouette appeared.

On June 11, 2019, Nintendo streamed its E3 Direct presentation worldwide, and inside the flagship Nintendo NY store at 10 Rockefeller Plaza, a packed crowd gathered around the shop’s 15-foot screen to watch it live. YouTube creator KirbyGCN17 filmed the whole thing, and the resulting video, Nintendo Direct E3 2019 Live Reactions at Nintendo NY, is less a preview breakdown than a document of pure fan noise — gasps, screams, and full-on chest-bumping between strangers every time a new reveal hit the screen.

• The crowd’s loudest reactions hit during the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC reveals — The Hero from Dragon Quest and Banjo-Kazooie both joining the roster.
• Nintendo NY store staff and shoppers alike reacted to fresh looks at Luigi’s Mansion 3, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order.
• The Direct closed with a surprise teaser for the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which KirbyGCN17’s footage shows setting off one of the biggest eruptions of the entire broadcast.

Smash Bros. Sets the Room Off

Nobody in the store was prepared for Banjo-Kazooie. When the bear-and-bird duo appeared on screen confirming their spot in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s DLC lineup, the footage catches an instant wall of screaming that drowns out the Direct’s own audio for several seconds. The Hero from Dragon Quest landed just as hard minutes earlier, with fans in the crowd visibly grabbing each other and pointing at the screen as Masahiro Sakurai’s reveal trailer rolled. For a Smash fanbase that treats every character reveal like a title fight, this was Nintendo NY’s main event.

The crowd drowned out the Direct’s own audio the second Banjo-Kazooie appeared on screen.

Luigi, Link, and the Rest of the Lineup

The reactions weren’t limited to Smash. New footage of Luigi’s Mansion 3 drew big laughs and applause as Luigi’s ghost-hunting antics played out on the store’s screen, and the crowd’s response to The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening showed just how much goodwill Nintendo’s Game Boy remake carried into E3. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order also got a strong pop from the room, a reminder that Nintendo’s E3 slate that year leaned hard into crossover appeal rather than just first-party exclusives.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons got its own distinct wave of noise — a mix of relieved cheering and outright squealing from fans who’d been waiting years for a mainline entry. It’s the kind of reaction that only shows up when a fanbase has been starving for a specific announcement, and KirbyGCN17’s camera catches attendees turning to hug each other rather than just clapping.

The Closing Teaser Nobody Saw Coming

Nintendo saved its biggest gut-punch for last. As the Direct wound down, a surprise teaser for the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild hit the screen, and the Nintendo NY floor erupted into what the footage shows as the single loudest moment of the entire broadcast — full-on screaming, jumping, and staff behind the counter visibly losing it alongside customers. It’s a scene that plays out like a title-fight walkout more than a store livestream, and it’s the moment KirbyGCN17’s video is built around.

Anyone tracking Nintendo’s console output that summer had already seen breakdowns of the Switch’s software pipeline on outlets like the Xbox Boss Reacts to PS5 coverage, but nothing on the hardware side matched the raw crowd energy captured inside Nintendo NY that Tuesday.

A Store Built for Moments Like This

Nintendo NY’s location at Rockefeller Plaza has hosted Direct watch parties for years, but the June 11 crowd size and volume level stood out even by that store’s standards. The 15-foot screen setup turned what’s normally a livestream into a shared arena experience, with retail staff working the floor caught on camera reacting just as hard as the paying customers. For a franchise catalog spanning everything from Smash Bros. to Zelda to Animal Crossing, it’s the rare Direct that hits nearly every corner of the fanbase in one 40-minute broadcast — which is exactly why the room never quieted down. Fans hunting for more reveal-day chaos from that E3 cycle can find the console-war angle over in the Nintendo category.

Smash Bros. Ultimate’s DLC pass still had more fighters to reveal after Banjo-Kazooie and The Hero, and if the Nintendo NY crowd’s reaction to those two was any indication, the next Direct-day reveal is going to need a bigger screen.