Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Magician I want that port so, so badly. Kid Icarus Uprising on Switch is the dream.

@StarPoint @Grumblevolcano yeah, Prime 4 feels most likely it, even if I'm hoping for the Donkey Kong rumors to be true.

Finally someone said what I've been thinking, quite a lot of people on this site on this site seem to think MP4 is a dead cert for the Switches' successor, but everyone thought Bayonetta 3 was cancelled/vapourware. After years of silence, a trailer and then it releases that very year, probably the same thing will happen with Metroid Prime 4.

Given the Left 4 Dead games are being delisted from the Xbox store next week (February 7th), I'm going to predict there's a Switch port of 2 announced in the next Direct like how last February had the Portal collection.

@Grumblevolcano @ElRoberico @TeaCatherine Assuming the rumours about a Metroid Prime 1 remaster/port are true, surely that releases before MP4?

I think MP1 is this year, MP4 is next year (part of the launch line up for the switch replacement) and then we get the recently rumoured 2D Metroid Dread follow up and MP2 + 3 ports in 2025 and 2026...

@MarioBrickLayer I thought that was just one of those rumours that doesn't really have any solid proof for it's existence?

@TeaCatherine Yeah, there's conflicting MP info out there. Some have said there's a straight-up port of the Trilogy, while others have said that it's only Prime 1. There's also nothing substantial other than insiders.

@MarioBrickLayer I do think Prime 4 is 2024 (not as a Switch successor title though as the massive increase in Switch production suggests Switch successor isn't happening until 2025 at the earliest, Switch revision in 2023 seems likely) but I don't think we'll see any Prime news without an update on Prime 4. So like if Prime remaster(s) were to appear, the announcement would be followed by a teaser of Prime 4.

@ChaoticKirby at least 4/5 minutes of the first Nintendo Direct of the year, will problaby be dedicated to Legend of zelda Tears of the Kingdom, with Nintendo anuncing a dedicated Direct for the game later problaby in march/april,@Grumblevolcano, @MarioBrickLayer e @TeaCatherine, as i stated severals times here and in the Nintendo Switch forum, i believe Nintendo will release the rumored Metroid Prime trilogy HD remaster, Metroid Prime 1 remaster/remake if they are real, one year/6 months before the release of Metroid Prime 4, supose the rumored Metroid Prime trilogy/Metroid Prime 1 remake/remaster is real and release this octobre, and in next octobre Nintendo finaly release Metroid Prime 4, anything is possible, this could happen or not, Nintendo could tie the release of Metroid prime 4 to this games i mentioned or just release Metroid Prime 4 without any previous games tied to them, only a Nintendo Direct will answer our doubt

@ElRoberico Thanks.

@TeaCatherine If you mean MP1 then a few commentators (like NateTheHate) who speculate on releases have been adamant it exists, they never use the language they used about MP1 unless they are sure.

I think there is less certainty about the new 2D game but it makes sense with the success of Metroid Dread.

@Grumblevolcano The increase in production does support the theory of the switch successor coming in 2025, but i'm not sure - you might be right!

I think there are only 3 possible hardware stories this year:-
1. ToTK themed release
2. OLED Lite
3. Retirement of the LCD Switch

I don't think we see any improved specs until the successor in 2024 or 2025.

@Giancarlothomaz I was considering that. Now that I really think about it, it makes more sense than just solely a direct. The latter would make the Internet go berserk.

@MarioBrickLayer Don't suppose you know of any way for me to check their track record?

@ElRoberico The original story was the MP trilogy was being ported but a while later new info came out about MP1 being more than a basic port. So either something changed during development or someone closer to the project leaked more accurate info.

@TeaCatherine Not sure what sites are out there which track this stuff, but there have been quite a few things he got right. He got something wrong last year though, he said we'd get ports of Twilight Princess and Wind Waker, he's still adamant they are done butnfor whatever reason they are holding them back.

@MarioBrickLayer A quick search did not provide much, but it seems he's one of the people who kept going on about a Switch Pro.

I wonder what 3rd party ports they'll announce in the next Direct. Hard to think of what could get announced. Maybe another Aspyr Star Wars port?

Disney Illusion Island will probably show up though.

Jeff Grubb says the Direct is next week (week of Feb 6). He usually has solid sources about upcoming Direct air dates (even if he doesn't have good sources about the actual contents of said Directs) so I think we won't have to wait too long.

@IceClimbers Every Direct for 2021 and 2022 has had unannounced Square Enix games appear so it's a safe guess Square Enix announces more stuff. Maybe have another big Final Fantasy segment like in September 2018 given Sony events would likely be all focused on FFXVI and FFVII Rebirth on that front.

@IceClimbers This may be way out there, but I hope that we finally get a remaster of both Epic Mickey games. I just want Disney to acknowledge it again, it’s so good.