I'm just going to sit back and laugh if this week passes by and we get nothing or just a Partner Showcase. Best to expect nothing from now until next gen is announced, we're at that point in the generation where things seem to be winding down and Nintendo is likely shifting development to next gen.
@TheBigBlue For as sketchy as that rumour is, you can't deny it would be entirely in-character for Nintendo to hold a Summer press conference after literally everyone else: they're predictably unpredictable XD
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The last 2 general directs have been on Tuesdays (in NA at least) so if we are getting a new one this week there’s a decent chance it’ll be announced tomorrow at 9 or 10am ET
@Noble_Haltmann February's general Direct this year was on a Wednesday and Wednesday/Thursday is the norm for non-E3 (September 2022 Direct being on a Tuesday was an exception). Though it's possible that even though they rejected E3, they choose to do the E3 Direct timing of a Tuesday anyway.
Ohhhhh oops you're totally right. That's an interesting point about the usual E3 slot having been Tuesday, but I doubt they'd do that again. I think that widely regarded not good September 2022 direct was likely an outlier because they had to get it out before TGS which started that Wednesday and they had to fulfill contracts to advertise third party games before or something.
If I'm not mistaken minis are usually dropped on Thursday mornings, so we should know by Wednesday morning (NA time) at the latest if we're getting a full juicy general direct this week.
@Bolt_Strike I mean even with them shifting to next gen development, they're not gonna go the rest of 2023 post-Pikmin 4 without releasing anything other than DLC.
While I think we agree that we're getting ports and remasters the rest of the generation, they gotta announce what those ports/remasters are at some point.
Where did all the 'negativity' (I'm not convinced that's the right word) come from about remasters and ports? I find it hard to believe that constitutes being bullish. I'm just thinking they planned being this quiet so as not to divert attention away from Zelda. Pikmin will be a high profile game for them (defo a franchise I can see them wanting to blossom - pardon the pun.) But they will defo want to keep up the Zelda 'engagement' I believe is the industry buzzword these days, so they'll have something planned for that too. I dunno, maybe remasters and dlc is planned upto Switch 2, but I just don't see the Switch in it's swansong years just yet. I honestly wonder what planet folk are on thinking it is.
Points of comparison
Wii sales from 2009:
2009: 21mill hardware, 180mill software
2010: 17mill hardware, 182mill software
2011: 11mill hardware, 135mill software (Wii U reveal)
2012: 5mill hardware, 71mill software (Wii U launch, I think we can all agree too late)
There's a pretty typical sales curve that happens with every platform, they all go through it. The Switch is currently sitting somewhere around where the Wii and DS both were 2010. I don't see how we don't get new hardware soon based on the projected sales trends
Like Bolt Strike, I’m going to sit here every single day between June 20th and June 24 and watch those poor saps on twitter wind themselves up over unverified news sources in PORTUGAL, backed up by the one and only NateTheHate, the notorious “I’m-going-to-guess-an-obvious-announcement-is-happening-every-single-day-until-its-real-and-then-claim-I-was-right-all-along” guy. I still don’t believe this garbage. It sounds faker every time I read the article, but maybe I’m dead wrong. I guess we will see, but I’m definitely not clinging to false hope, especially after the ring around those stupid internet people cooked up last June. “I’m 99.998% sure we’ll get a full direct on June 15!” One day after the 15th later: “Wait a second, I didn’t mean June 15th, I meant the 27 or the 29th! That’s when we’ll get a full direct!”
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And yes, we got a partner direct on the 28th. How amusing
@Grumblevolcano this is potentially solid Partner direct fodder. I don’t see Nintendo not using this for a great announcement during a potential partner direct, or maybe a mini.
@skywake I would argue because their software is still driving sales. They haven't used any of the typical lifecycle extension strategies used (such as a price drop.) Now, granted, I'm not 100% confident with this as due to rising inflation and the economic climate, it may have had one by keeping the price fixed. Hard to say. But it looks like Switch has another year in the tank at this rate. I'm always wrong and can't wait for a new console (and if we all keep expecting one, it will never come. It's Nintendo O.<)
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@chapuH A normal Mini Direct would, however there hasn't been one for quite a while; Partner Showcases are a specific type of Mini that happens much more frequently.
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@chapuH Yeah though there have only been 2 in the entirety of the Switch era, one in January 2018 and one in March 2020. GAME (the UK retailer) did leak that a general Direct revealed Lego Mario though so it suggests the March 2020 Mini was originally a general Direct with a big Mario ending cut off given a load of the Mario celebration plans would've been unsafe because of the pandemic.
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