Itching For 2020's First Nintendo Direct? One Super Mario Maker 2 Player Got Tired Of Waiting

Absolute genius

2020 really is a desert beyond Animal Crossing. We really do need a Direct. Good job to BeardBear for this though.

It would be ironically funny if those were actually announced.

Omg, we had a more packed year in 2016.

The lack of releases this year is astonishing, I really don’t understand why Nintendo has always such a dry 1st half of the year

If anything we should get something for Bayonetta 3 even if just a single screen shot. No chance in hell of a BOTW 2 update or Metroid prime 4 so you might as well forget that. It sure would be a nice surprise if Mario Galaxy 3 was a thing but not getting my hopes up.

I love the little "SMG3 is a mobile game" troll at the end, followed by Mario dying. Like the top comment said, absolute genius.

"Super mario Galaxy 3 " YEESSS

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"MOBILE GAME" ...die

This made me laugh xD

this is so good!

I think it's bad that a fan has to make a direct in Mario maker 2 because Nintendo hasn't done one yet. This year looks bad for Nintendo and is affecting my confidence in them. 2017 was great, 2018 was ok and 2019 was great. But this year looks bad. I don't think Nintendo will perform this year.

This next one is going to include the Metroid Prime Trilogy announcement... surely to god.

What is it with this Switch brand of Nintendo “fans”? Always whinging and moaning, feels like we’ve adopted some of the Xbox/PlayStation crowd

@DannyBoi agreed. Even If they have crazy games at e3 I'm still going to be angry. I love animal crossing but couldn't care less about xenoblade. Nintendo has such a lackluster year. Also consider that animal could've came out in 2019 if it wasnt delayed. So Nintendo could've had only one game this year

@Hobbesyall Nintendo have always had dry spells, usually on either their handheld or home device whilst the other gets packed with new releases, then they'll swap. I dont know why this is the case, but theres always been periods I would leave (for example) my Gamecube alone for a few months because the GBA was getting a few new games instead.

It helped that with their handhelds that third party devs would always be releasing exclusive games for them making releases seem even more frequent, even if nintendo wasnt the one actually making them. Obviously that was a product of limitation, devs couldnt just port a version of a game to GBA and had to deliver something unique, which shows with the Switch having far less unique titles from third parties than any older handheld at this point in their life.

I had hoped with the Switch phasing out both their home and handheld systems to combine them into one this would no longer be the issue, that having one system to focus on would mean a steady release of first party games on that one system...sadly though Nintendo never does what you expect, for better and for worse.

@popey1980 Nintendo have always had people moaning...that's because for all the great things nintendo do, they always do something sucky pretty much alongside.

@Hobbesyall Simple. No holiday sales. Nintendo likes to put the biggest hitters for the holidays.

Early games are either "new" games, like Splatoon, MarioMaker, ARMS, etc, or games that would sell no matter what (BotW, AC)

Remember last year when Nintendo would announce and release games?

Me too

Botw2 in 2029. That made me laugh!

@ToonStuff Last year most games were released in Q3 - Q4. So a Direct in April / May (or E3) is early enough.

Everybody should temper their expectations some on any announcements coming out soon. As much as we would like to believe that everything is fine and dandy, the corona virus is having an affect on all businesses. Japan is dealing with the virus right now as we speak. An announcement for games coming out this year kind of takes a back seat to health. Cut them some slack and be patient.

@DannyBoi it's bad that the absence of a promo clip compilation drives anyone to assume that "fans have" to do anything - speaks much grimmer things about the audiences' addiction than about Nintendo's marketing policies. These months have seen a whole lot of prominent releases on Switch, especially in the genres that can fill one's backlog for months to come apiece. Not all of them may appeal to an individual user, but then what guarantees the imminent announcement of something that will? The whole problem the Direct abstinence hysteria reminds of is how ridiculously overhyped Directs have inadvertently become - each of them is a dream vessel of fans' wet dreams, and the only "issue" with long gaps between directs (which a sane audience will just fill up with existing backlogs, especially on a 3-year-old platform with thousands of games on it) is that they proportionally increase the amount of such unrealistic wet dreams inflating the bubble of eventual disappointment and nintendoom.

And of course, no one is considering the odds like Nintendo possibly having to edit and delay a Direct due to release dates changing on the fly in the coronavirus-impacted production environments. We're fans, after all - when did trivial things like health and other human troubles in the industry ever outrank our entertainment?

@Tao you are totally correct but it does come off as mismanagement, the fact that they have such a weak first half and then a totally packed 2nd half even sales wise they sometimes hurt games that could do so much better in this dry periods

If it meant more Rosalina, I'd take the mobile game!

at this point I doubt we will get a Direct until ether April or E3

It’s really not the time for Nintendo to be resting on their laurels. They know Animal Crossing will sell by the bucket loads and maybe they don’t want a full direct before that releases to distract anyone.
But this year Nintendo need to be hammering home all the great games they have lined up. The longer they leave it, the less likely many more people will pick up a Switch.

Yeah the lack of a direct really just told us that Nintendo had nothing this first quarter. Only thing they had was AC. That is goes for first and third party games.

R.E. No Direct- I wonder does it have something to do with the Coronavirus, it's very odd. I deal with a lot of Chinese suppliers in my job and they are only now coming back to work and factories are re-opening, so there shouldn't be any delay on future game cart production for Nintendo (if that's indeed where they get their carts produced).

@Torakaka
Now wait as the level is taken down for that exact reason.

Some fresh content for Mario Maker 2 would be nice, though I fear they’ve given up on adding new styles after how badly it sold. It’s now quite plausible we don’t hear any Real News until Animal Crossing is out.

The end got a genuine audible laugh out of me, instead of the quick exhale through nose kind of laugh that usually occurs.

I really don't know why Nintendo has such a dry first half of the year. Does the Coronavirus have something to do it? Probably, even though we just had an Animal Crossing Direct. Why Nintendo has been so quiet, we don't know for sure. I feel like we aren't getting a Direct anytime soon, and there probably gonna leave us in the dark until E3. Honestly, I doubt a March Direct for some reason.

It's missing comments at the end complaining about ports and the lack of AAA western games.

I was expecting a desert level, lol.

Nintendo was behind as it was (Animal Crossing was supposed to be out last year) and with the coronavirus...I don't think we get a Direct until e3. We'll get single game "Directs" if that before then. Xenoblade will have to be late June, then they announce a port for Sept (Metroid Prime), Bayonetta 3 for Oct then something else for November. I doubted Travis or BotW 2 comes out this year, but I bet they are now throwing whatever extra support they can to launch BotW in Nov and seeing if they could assist Suda so the game comes out this year for sure. Also will guess the Ps5 gets delayed to spring 2021.

Loved it! That "mobile" inclusion after revealing SMG3 followed by Mario dying was hilarious. Great work on that!

@Euler Huh? Sold badly? I mean, sure it didn't move Breath of the Wild or Super Mario Odyssey numbers, but five million in sales ain't bad, especially for a niche game centered entirely around building and playing user-created levels.

@nhSnork well said. I get caught up in the Direct hype just as much as anyone else, but it’s really just feeding those endorphins. How many of the games announced will I even play in the end? Maybe 4? Its all good fun getting hyped, but it’s important to continue to be grounded in reality. Like you said, There are plentyyyyy of games to get lost in already. And what of the coronavirus, it could seriously be impacting release schedules which would definitely hinder an already edited direct. 200 cases in Japan now, Probably canceling the olympics! This is what’s insane, not the lack of gaming news.

@Donald_M Niche game? It's a mainline 2D Mario title, one that many reviewers argue makes all the other 2D Marios obsolete (an assessment I personally disagree with, but there's a case to be made). 2D Marios are generally among the best-selling titles on Nintendo systems. And this time, it's not on an underselling console that's rapidly losing steam. Absolutely it should be pulling out BotW/Odyssey numbers.

Come on folks. Nintendo often surprise launch stuff during Directs, and then announce stuff for the end of the year. They could do a Direct now, or next week, or next month... there's no urgency. And with issues around Switch hardware supply, I suspect they're not in a huge hurry to fill the schedule with system selling products.

I love how people assumed that we would be getting double the games since handheld and home console development are now combined. I'm sure Nintendo has SOMEthing up their sleeve but it would be nice to at least give us that reassurance and tell us. Right now it's looking like Animal Crossing is it until E3 which...wouldn't be good. They already had severe dry spells in the Wii U. Please don't repeat that.

@DannyBoi I agree 2018 was pretty much ports and play it safe because we already unleashed the titans in 2017 for Nintendo. 2019 was better but so far 2020 is bleak. We have Animal Crossing at least which is a system seller. Lets hope they just want to save the big stuff for closer towards E3. We do have hints of a new Super Mario, BOTW2, and there still hasn't been an official DK game, just a Wii U port. Also no MK9 or SMP2 so far. Which isn't like Nintendo to just stop with the side Mario games. I'd love for a baseball or even Strikers return. Gamecube had so many Mario side games.