Fun fact:
If the next Nintendo Direct comes next week Thursday, then it will be the longest gap between Directs ever: 183 days! The present record lies at 182 days from 2016.
I absolutely never saw them crossing the F-Zero franchise over with Final Fantasy (and X at that!) but somehow the direct showed it will work and be fantastic. Samurai Goroh best watch out - next time he overtakes I'm summoning Bahamut to take him down!
@Rexenokid I'd guess mostly the former, look at the reactions to an indie presentation being announced for example. The comments are mostly stuff like "this is a sign that the proper direct is near", "where's the real direct" and "nobody asked for this".
I think my reason for wanting a direct to come out is so that I can budget and plan in advance. I only like to spend a set amount of my wages for discretionary purchases like games. I tend to always really like Nintendo's first party games and they often get first preference. Not knowing what will be coming out over the next few months has me hesitant to buy some of the third party games that are currently available. If for example, I knew that I wasn't a fan of whatever is released in April or May, then I'd look at what else might fill the gap.
No Direct announcement at 2pm UK time, getting ever closer to the first year since Directs started that there's been no general Direct in January or February (I'm counting 2018's Direct Mini as a general Direct as it was pretty much a general Direct that wasn't streamed).
@Grumblevolcano I think people are scared it’s going to be a repeat of 2018. A lacklustre year in many people’s eyes.
Exactly. This is the Switch's 4th year. It should be the absolute peak of its lifecycle, and yet things are very quiet. 2018 was understandable because they really blew their load in 2017 in order to get that early momentum. The same shouldn't be happening now though. So why is everything so quiet?
People seem to have also forgotten that they have both their console and handheld divisions all working on Switch games now. We should be getting the equivalent of the Wii U and 3DS libraries combined (obviously a single 3DS game doesn't translate into a single Switch game though).
I really thought that at this point in time it would be like the second half of 2019....all the time.
A Nintendo direct needs to happen soon. The 2020 year is so bare with only 2 or 3 major releases announced yet, and Nintendo should announce some things soon. Even though I hope with all my being that there will be an announcement today, I am pretty sure that that will not happen.
Haiku:
Nintendo Direct
We need there to be one soon
Please Nintendo... Please
@Dezzy Probably HD development, Nintendo had trouble in the Wii U era because of the jump from standard definition (Wii) to HD (Wii U). Now this is happening with the 3DS side as 3DS is a standard definition console meanwhile Switch is HD.
@Grumblevolcano I would understand that jump to HD being an issue as that’s what caused no end of problems and headaches during the Wii U period. However at least those teams now know how to develop games in HD, and the Switch architecture isn’t so archaic as that of the Wii U so it should be helping speed up development times. With the 3DS teams, they have had 3 years to get to know the hardware and how to create HD games. Maybe Nintendo could do with scaling up their studios with either another one or two acquisitions or just opening more if that’s what is needed.
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