Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Grumblevolcano That's true, but they were asked about the Switch 2 at the meeting, and gave a general time-frame on when they were going to announce the system itself. While I could see them just talking about the four games they have releasing, I feel like there's a chance they would be pushed to speak on the Switch 2 at some point during it.

To be fair, there are no rumours for this round of excitement. The expectation for this week is based on:
1. The shareholder meeting next week which, even in isolation, makes this week far more likely than any other time until late January
2a. The, not rumoured known, ramp-up of component stockpiling in August making a release later next year less likely and
2b. A release in H1 2025 not being particularly compatible with an announcement next year
3. Share price volatility of the kind which tends to happen before major announcements

Everything else swirling around ATM is just noise that doesn't disconfirm the above. And stuff like the eyes emoji basically confirming the first Switch 2 game. Seems unlikely there'd be that kind of chatter if it's releasing in late 2025

A somewhat silly theory lines up the 2016 dates almost exactly:

new NES mini trailer - Sep 30 2016
Switch announcement - Oct 20 2016 (20 days later)
Fall earnings release - Oct 26 2016 (6 days later)

Alarmo Trailer - Oct 9th 2024
Switch 2 announcement - Oct 30 2024? (21 days later)
Fall earnings release - Nov 5 2024 (6 days later)

Just for fun, combine that with the even sillier idea that if you read the alarmo banner time of 03:10 (which is just Mario day as a time) really really incorrectly you get October 30th.

Ignoring the Alarmo conspiracy theory, Oct 29 would of course fit the pattern well also. A pattern which has absolutely no reason to be true unless Nintendo simply happened to make very similar scheduling decisions for similar reasons.

If Youtubers need to keep the Switch 2 grift going through the holiday season, they can simply read the clock backwards and have a speculated reveal on 01/30.

Hope this gets them through Chrstmas...

@FishyS
Was also a Mario Party game released a couple of weeks before, outside of Japan at least. And while it's not quite Mario & Luigi they did have Paper Mario Colour Splash in a similar window also

Yeah, doesn't mean much but it's still a fun little theory. Probably more just a case of these are the sorts of announcements, releases and schedules that just tend to make sense at this point in the console cycle

Seriously almost everyone just tells us that -This week it will happen! for years now. They gets wrong for every weeks and repeats it until they "gets right" and tells us -What wa sit I said!?
This is so incredibly tiresome now.

Pyorocokonoko or what the hell he/she were called which everyone blindly trust everything what the fraud said, claimed during the spring this year that Nintendo 100% will reveal their next console in just days aaaaaaand here we are now just some days shy from entering nov-2024...
Nintendo will reveal it when they does it.

It's incredibly by how stubborn many people are even if they got wrong for 128th time! It's 100& obvious now that they won't reveal it before 2025 like I always had said. Switch still sells extremely well now. The sales of PS2 during its 8th year is not even close to the sale of Switch by many times again and again. I wouldn't gets surprised if Switch sold more than PS5 during this year.

Reveal in jan-march, release in may-sept.
The current state of the world is so horrible now, and it only worsens for every day, so that's not impossible that it gets delayed then.

Im just here believing it’ll be March 2025, the end of the financial year so Nintendo can get the stock boost before their end of year shareholders meeting.

@FishyS
Nintendo Direct on my birthday 30 October 2024 will be a nice surprise for me. 😁

I wonder if you are self aware enough to realise that you are doing precisely what you accuse others of doing here. You're saying, quite litterally, that it's "100% obvious" that it's not revealing before 2025. What insider information do you have to know this? None. You're just guessing. Being contrarian and pessimistic is not the same as being realistic or level headed. Sometimes the news is positive

What we do know for certain at this point is that Nintendo intends to announce new hardware within the next 5 months. In the console of the Switch's lifespan that's VERY soon no matter how you slice it. We also know without a shadow of a doubt that they are currently manufacturing that new hardware. And I can't see them stockpiling this thing for a whole year. This isn't some theoretical thing, it's happening, probably in the first half of next year. I think that alone is enough to put heavy doubt on your pessimistic projections

PS5 outsold the Switch last year and continues to outsell it this year. Obviously Switch only competes with PS5 in this manufactured "console wars" bit which means nothing. What actually matters are total sales..... but it's also significantly down year on year and has been on that trajectory for a few years now

Me saying this isn't an attempt to diminish the success of the Switch, it's merely a statement of fact. Platforms tend to do this over time. This argument you are putting forward here had some merit a few years ago, I'll give you that, but it has no merit now. And we know it has no merit now because, well, they're announcing new hardware within the next 5 months and are already making units

Unless you can point to evidence as to why one war or another or some other political turmoil is impacting the manufacture of this toy then there really isn't any need to invoke world troubles here. If anything I would argue that the fact that the world is as it is means there's value in some form of escapism. And if that escapism involves posting memes about the hype train and our bodies being Reggie? Then so be it. More power to us

The Switch 2 is going to be revealed this week during the NSO playtest. If you factor in an audience of 10000 people, Nintendo themselves saying they are always looking at different ways to communicate news and...ok I'll sit down. I still have no idea what the playtest is lol.

I can only go from console data in Japan because it's more transparent, but in it's final years, the PS2 was selling between 500 and 1000 units a week. The Switch is still >50k! Now granted, sales do plummet once new hardware is announced. We've seen this time and again with people waiting or people buying before a price increase etc. I simply don't get why they would announce something and have that 50K (which in the holidays is more than four times that) tank. There maybe a disparity between the West and Japan but between the two, Nintendo will prioritise the latter.
#team2025

@GrailUK Playtest is Nintendo testing for an MMO of some kind.

@VoidofLight SO they could theoretically have an announcement like Fortnight or something hahaha. A Switchfest if you will. Could potentially be a 'you had to be there' moments.

NoA's first tweet of the day:

@Grumblevolcano That’s surprising how early the first tweet was. Also I thought this game was being closed down.

@Grumblevolcano It was already announced we'd be getting more info about it for October, so now that this is posted there isn't really anything we know they will post (I mean we could guess potential Brothership countdown stuff and probably some random Fortnite stuff). I think a new console reveal this week is still possible, unless Wednesday comes and goes without the reveal, then I will start thinking it's next year. (and continue to question how Nintendo handled the seemingly intentional absence of the September Direct)

Clearly their entire media team was focused on Alarmo.

@FragRed It's because of daylight savings, the US doesn't change their clocks back until November 3rd so regions that changed it back on October 27th see NoA's tweets an hour earlier than usual (e.g. a 2pm UK time tweet becomes a 1pm UK time tweet).

As for Pocket Camp, when they announced the closure they said there'd be more info in October about transferring to a paid version. Might be a side effect of that "Stop Killing Games" thing that's gaining ground in the EU.

@Grumblevolcano Oh I didn’t realise the U.S. changed their clocks at a different date to us.
Welp, today’s out. Just tomorrow and Wednesday to go until we can sit back and twiddle our thumbs and fingers and going “doo doo doo” until next year.

@FragRed they announced they were closing down the free version and offering a paid version of the app without micro transactions.

@VoidofLight Yeah I didn’t realise they were doing that at the time. Stands to reason though.