Those tweets are totally just exploiting the news for attention. It uses the available plausibility of other stuff getting postponed, and Nintendo having postponed in the past, to get some easy clicks. Nothing in it.
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I don't think this is really much of a rumor. We know directs are generally announced around Monday or Tuesday within the week it'll air. We know a September direct is likely. Next week is the middle of September, which is when they generally do a direct. I feel like this is most likely just an educated guess.
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Intending no disrespect for her Majesty, the Queen's funeral is due to be held on the 19th, which would reopen the possibility for a direct to be announced and aired next week after reports from Grubb that the funeral would delay a direct.
I really really don’t think Nintendo has delayed anything because of the death of the Queen. No disrespect to her or the Royal Family, but her passing doesn’t affect Nintendo or pretty much anyone outside of the U.K. and even then, the average person won’t be directly affected.
Ubisoft hasn’t delayed what they broadcast and for them, it would have been far easier to do so because they are in control of all marketing of the games shown. Nintendo would have to discuss and arrange any delays with all third party publishers and I just think it’s too much work for no real reason.
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Personally, a 10/10 direct would be:-
1. Windwaker + Twilight Princess
2. Metroid Prime 1
3. Batman Arkham games
4. Lara Croft games update - we need a date!
5. Another 1st party game teaser for 2023 (F-Zero or whatever the Mario team are working on - not Fire Emblem!!)
6. Tunic
7. Sports Story
I know BOTW 2 is coming so I won't mind too much if there isn't an update on it.
I really really don’t think Nintendo has delayed anything because of the death of the Queen. No disrespect to her or the Royal Family, but her passing doesn’t affect Nintendo or pretty much anyone outside of the U.K. and even then, the average person won’t be directly affected.
I tend to agree even though I think you're understating the impact just a tad. There are still a lot of countries where the Queen is the head of state where the Queens death has triggered a bunch of traditions/protocols and whatnot. Eg here in Australia we are officially in 10 days of mourning and have a public holiday a couple of days after the funeral. There has also wall been to wall coverage on pretty much every channel with shows and events being postponed or cancelled
But you are right. I'm not sure how much Nintendo would care, especially given their largest markets are the US and Japan who (in theory) really do have no interest in the Queen. But even so, if you're going to make a point of announcing stuff you probably want to do it when people are watching. It may be a good idea to not push the publish button when you're directly competing with the funeral of the head of state of 15 countries
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We already know about Bayonetta 3 so no need for that, no more spoilers please.
We already know everything about the Pokemons so no need for that.
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