Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

Silksong is starting to give me the same feelings I had for bayo3, which ultimately I loved. But, the more I speculated and waited, with little to no information, my hype levels decreased.

I guess April is a good month for indies! Hopefully we get another Direct soon from Nintendo though, although to be honest I've got TTYD coming this year so I wouldn't mind if there wasn't a Direct soon...

...although I wouldn't mind a Luigi's Mansion 1 port for Switch...

Righty, NOW everyone can start to take their clown costumes off waiting for Silksong!

Nintendo announced Nintendo Live 2024 Sydney:

I think it seems very clear now why Nintendo aren't attending Gamescom. Nintendo Live is becoming a global thing which replaces Nintendo needing to turn up to any general gaming events like Summer Game Fest, Gamescom, PAX, EGX, etc.

@Grumblevolcano Oh wow, it used to be a Japan thing, but now it’s in US and Australia. I’m glad to see it growing!

My guess is that it’ll feature most games from 2023’s event, but have some games from late last year/early this year there as well.

Nintendo’s just doing their own thing at this point, kinda just avoiding events with other companies now.

@MaisonRidley7000 I guess we'll have to wait and see.

What do you mean by 'the only first party game?' We know of 6 Nintendo published games through June. There are 4 Mario sub-franchise games ( Peach, Paper Mario remake, Mario vs DK remake, Luigi remake/remaster), Another Code remake, and a brand new Endless Ocean game. Only 2 of those are brand new, but they all still exist. Since 3D Mario won't realistically be until 2025, I think if we have even more Mario games the only likely possibilities are a Mario sports or Olympics game, a port of one or more of the New Super Mario games, or Mario Wonder DLC. There will likely be more non-Mario ports or remakes this year ( Zelda, Metroid Prime 2) but a new Kirby spinoff or Pikmin DLC or another franchise which hasn't been around for a while could easily give us more non-remakes as well.

We have had it good for 7 years. Nintendo's output this gen has been legendary. I think they are allowed some time to make games lol.

Fair, but I do need at least one more game I really want so I can use my orphan voucher. 😝

Amiibo Festival Deluxe, everyone?
I'm ready for this game from the next Direct.

April's NSO Expansion Pack games are a shadow drop this time.

I remember liking extreme g as kid. I don't recall the other game.

@Grumblevolcano if it's a shadow drop, are they keeping an opening for something else pretty soon? I mean, we might be getting TTYD previews and possibly a trailer this week, so maybe they are keeping the 2nd half of the week open for that.

re NSO Shadow-Dropped games... don't get me wrong, 'something is better than nothing' - but honestly, there are so many N64 gems that are being overlooked here.

Silicon Valley? Goemon? Body Harvest? DK64 / Diddy Kong Racing?

Can’t believe Atlus does that Snowboard Kids vinyl tease only for it not to be in this month’s NSO. Thats just pure bullying 😝

@CJD87 Honestly the N64 has so few games that Nintendo really ought to give us the whole library (one could argue there's too many NES or SNES games for a full library but N64 has 388, that's perfectly reasonable)

We just got a huge trailer for TTYD, doesn’t mean we won’t get a Direct, but decreases chances for sure.

Looks like they updated the Nintendo website to reveal what the “new gameplay features” are:
https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/paper-mario-the-th...

“Twenty years after the original game on the Nintendo GameCube™ system, this version for the Nintendo Switch™ system has revamped graphics, an updated soundtrack, and gameplay additions like updated quick-travel pipes and a Partner Ring to swap characters in a jiffy. There are some additional improvements too—visit the Battle Master if you need help with combat, access a hint system if you’re stuck, equip the Nostalgic Tunes badge to play using the original soundtrack, and more!“

I saw around the clock made a video about a rumor that the switch 2 will be revealed in June. Anyone know if it's credible? I swore off his videos because the clickbait got WAY too obnoxious.

@Sigran102 there was a well known supposed leaker who is correct sometimes but not always who made this claim. It's possibly insider information but it is at least as likely it is a guess based on the May financial meeting where we expect a codename reveal (or at least acknowledgement of new hardware soon) combined with the fact that Nintendo usually has big directs in June. Seems a bit early to me if the release is March 2025, but it's always possible they will release information in pieces and tell us some things in June and more in e.g. October (I would minimally expect most of the information about Switch 2 games to be saved until Fall. )

The short answer is I wouldn't put much faith in those rumours but it's always possible they will be true. Regardless, seems a little early to conjecture until we see what drops at the May 8 financial meeting.