...do i even kill him over this? i'm not really mad, just... sweaty and confused. (sweatiness unrelated)

...also, are we just getting drops on wednesdays now? feels like a weirdly consistent thing lately.

if that's the case, i could only assume it was because shed guy was so mad at all the complaints over us losing two drops a week he opted to make sure there was no clean second day instead of actually listening to criticism. this is why we hate shed guy and i personally deem him as beef jerky.

@squiddu-real They dropped it on Wednesday because it was already Thursday in Japan so coincides with the game launch (OoT remake for the special release and Pikmin 4 Switch 2 Edition for Pikmin Bloom).

Seeing the Pikmin Bloom icon in the notification was NOT what I expected lol

@squiddu-real if you won't then I will
no but fr, I think this is the longest streak of mid releases for this app imo

Kinda but it was me firing off one of next week guesses early rather than guessing four times for this week. I thought I had seen a pattern in NSO drops and was filled with mistaken confidence we would get a trailer for a drop next week.

More importantly this update is a huge deal to my Shed Guy head canon.
Since my Shed Guy Lore was that Miyamoto overheard him calling Pikmin overrated, and banished him to the Nintendo Garden, ( perhaps to try to find whimsy amongst nature or alternatively to ostracize and humiliate him.
The fact that this latest update seems very heavily Miyamoto mandated makes me suspect that Pikmin Day involved shed guy being buried alive for the ants/pikmin to claim.
The reign of Shedial release Sayori and shed cat continues.

@AJWolfTill I too was thinking about NSO drop announced this week for release next week but different game, Pokemon Colosseum being announced tonight was my prediction.

I didn't put it in Nintendo Music predictions because another Pokemon soundtrack 2-3 weeks after Legends Z-A was added felt very unlikely.

Anyway, making my predictions early. It's the Wii's 20th anniversary on the 19th so I'm going to predict a bunch of Wii games:

• Mario Kart Wii
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• WarioWare Smooth Moves

While Twilight Princess was a launch day game, I didn't include it because I don't think we're getting Zelda 2 weeks after Zelda.

I'll predict:

• Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Wii Play

@Grumblevolcano looks up wikipedia in doubt

...oh wow. dear lord. not old enough to say "i'm old" cause it's older than me, but still... damn.
anyways, prediction time!

• kirby super star. as per spite said a little while ago.
• twilight princess. while they do like to spread out franchises, being in the middle of the zelda anniversary makes me feel it's not as unlikely. we're about to run out of echoes of wisdom cards on nintendo today, so the next set might determine how likely this is.
• animal crossing: city folk. based on the anniversary.

Well what with the Wii's anniversary, I think it's high time I try to properly earn the other half of that point — always bet on New Super Mario Bros. Wii, baybee!! (Context: if you take a glance at the scores in the lovely AJ's signature, you'll see an asterisk near my name. That's because I predicted NSMBW one time, and the soundtrack we instead got was NSMBDS, which was so uncannily close that the forum collectively decided to generously give me a half point!)

Oh yeah I'll also go with Mario Kart Wii and Animal Crossing: City Folk as backups

I've been waiting all year to guess Twilight Princess this week lmao. I'll come back with more guesses later, but just putting that out there now.

I can't believe it's been 20 years since the Wii took over the world, I remember as a kid we couldn't find the thing anywhere for months 😵‍💫