Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@PikaPhantom Yeah, I think ILCA is the most likely. Wouldn't be surprised if the two Alpha Dream employees working under Nintendo had some involvement either.

I actually can see this being an ILCA game as well, since ILCA is great at mocking multiple artistic styles. BDSP looked a lot like the original Diamond and Pearl style-wise with it just being translated into 3D models instead of just 2D Sprites. The One Piece game they made also looks pretty much like the anime but with a slight tinge of realism to some degree. They're really good with basically adapting styles to fit whatever they're making, and so I genuinely could see them working on Mario and Luigi.

And don't forget Sand Land, where they translated Toriyama's art style to 3D graphics.

@DarkRula Yeah, Sand Land is a really good looking game and matches Toriyama's style perfectly. Not worried at all with the New Mario and Luigi.

My first reaction to the Pyoro news was, "well, somebody just got fired, lol."

Another victim of clout chasing.

@Magician He at first didn’t seem like a clout chaser to me with his behavior, but I thought and realized that a lot of people become leakers in the first place to get clout and to achieve a sense of power over others. It looks like to me that a couple of them don’t have a real purpose for doing it. Some leakers just make up info too in order to get attention, which is just malicious and not smart.

People in the article are talking about how the journalist is in the wrong because it broke "integrity," as if Pyoro didn't just walk into that. Leakers never do interviews with Journalists. That's flying too close to the sun and revealing your source to anyone is a mistake. It will get published and you will be held accountable for doing so. It's why a good number of legit leakers are people who leak once and then never pop back up. They don't want the attention on them, and it makes sense.

When you step back for a second all of these leaks are in some way asking for trouble. Either you're a contracted employee in which case leaking almost surely breaches your contract and risks your job. Which isn't illegal but it's definitely dumb. Or you're getting it via some other means which inevitably means a breach of some kind of security. Which is clearly illegal

Of course if the thing you were leaking was something like bad workplace culture or shady corporate behaviour? Then I think that's something that should clearly be protected. Both by the law and also any press reporting on it. But when leaking a game........ nope, no sympathy for whatever comes your way

@skywake Agreed. If its something done in order to help speak out on issues workers are facing, then that should be treated with proper protections for that individual. People like Midori and Pyoro though? I don't feel sympathy for the trouble they got themselves into. They should've been smarter if they didn't want to get caught.

@VoidofLight Leaking stuff is a really risky “job” to have, given it gets you in a lot of trouble with companies and some people might want your head and reveal details on you, which is what I saw with the lead up to Midori being revealed as a guy roleplaying as a Japanese woman. Those two are pretty much open to getting sued if they get found out more, and being a somewhat big person or influencer on the worldwide web can get you tangled into a lot of issues like they are right now. Was it really worth it for them to be leaking all that stuff and achieving clout and attention that got them busted in the end? Probably not, but there could be a chance that they feel satisfied with the clout they got.

I honestly think I’m done reading on game leaks and rumors now, given I’m now starting to realize how awful leakers act and how they spoil big surprises, some of which I actually was looking forward to. Bet you that the person that leaked the new Zelda game and Mario and Luigi: Brothership on ResetEra is going to go away almost immediately in order to not get into any legal troubles.

@Pastellioli Yeah I feel like this is the big shift in leaking culture as a whole. The stuff going on with Midori and Pyoro is starting to open people's eyes up to what leakers truly are. Just people with massive egos that need to be fed. I hope those two sort of deter other prominent leakers from rising.

@VoidofLight I'm not as hopeful. This is just part of the cycle. We'll have a few years of this, then a new crop of gamers (especially teens who weren't in the scene for this round) will start following the next crowd of leakers and it'll happen all over again. It's like how early Switch era had minimal leakers following the mess that was Smash 4 leaks.

Though, at least this time I don't think any big name leakers have been left standing. Even Emily Rogers has been quiet since the Fire Emblem Unite leak, and I thought she'd never give it up. PapaGenos is the only name I still see regularly and he's... well spotty track record is an understatement. I think the Zelda thing was the first thing I've seen that he's been unambiguously correct on.

@link3710 Papa Genos isn't really a leaker from my understanding. Just a youtuber who gets emails with people saying "This is happening." At least from the bit I've seen in the past.

@link3710 In terms of big leakers, there really isn’t any, and a lot of them just seem to be journalists rather than actual leakers. Everyone considers people like Jason Schreier and Tom Henderson to be “leakers,” but they are video game news journalists working for big companies and I do not see them as leakers because of their jobs. A lot of the other “leakers” are usually just semi-popular YouTubers usually being told info from iffy sources and “leakers” or are just random people online.

@PikminMarioKirby @FishyS All the 1st party games from the Direct are now on the eshop. It does seem like the delay was catching out leakers then.

Reading some of the posts in this thread, it looks like a bunch of leakers careers are going to potentially have their careers in jeopardy then. I am a bit surprised it took a while for the crackdown on leakers to happen, but now that I think about it, catching leakers is probably really difficult.

Hopefully a bunch of exciting stuff is now kept
under wraps now, since leaks have ruined surprises a bunch by making them known too early, especially before big video game events and presentations. On a somewhat unrelated note, I remember reading a random wiki page and watching a video on Smash Ultimate leaks over the years, and gosh, I didn’t realize that a ton of surprises for the game got spoiled way too early…

@Grumblevolcano Yeah I think that's probably the reason why. I don't see any other reason to wait only a few days to upload it (especially since it's usually same-day)

Next Direct will be all about the Switch 2

You might be right, but if I was having a bet, I would put a very small amount on a Nintendo Direct in September for the current Switch, with a Metroid Prime 2 shadow drop and a few more announcements running into spring 2025.

@Sir_Axeman but before that the reveal must happen, because they never revealed console via Nintendo Direct aka they just posts trailer/showcase video and posts all over the media for first reveal instead!

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Worth noting the 2016 Direct timeline. The equivalent to the Direct we just had would've been the show at E3 2016 and, from what I can tell and remember, that was the last time they had an event with Wii U content. (edit: looking this up they did mention the Wii U at least once after E3 2016 but the one I can find is talking about Skyward Sword being on the Wii U VC. Not sure that counts). But it wasn't the last 3DS event and there were non-Switch Directs after that

Excluding Japan only Directs September had a full direct for 3DS games which included a bunch of new games. Nothing earth shattering but still, new games. The Switch reveal trailer was in October but then November had a Direct for the Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo DLC. Then the Switch special presentation in January (the one with the ice cubes) which was the first direct that was Switch only. But then a few days after they had a Fire Emblem Direct which talked about 3DS, Switch and Mobile

The next Direct was an indies direct immediately before Switch release entirely focused on Swtich.... but then in April they had a full Nintendo Direct that talked about Switch but also 3DS

Was this last Direct the last one that doesn't talk about Switch 2? Maybe. Very possibly. Is it the last one that mentions Switch? Almost surely not. Will the next one be Switch 2 only? ..... maybe, but probably not