Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@NintendoByNature I had around 60 hours on the first game and I think that took me months to finish. I did like it, but for some reason I've no real desire to play any of the other games so I'll be skipping XCX. Maybe it's just the thought of multiple 50+ hour games in a series that's putting me off. At the rate I get through them, it would likely take me the best part of a year to get caught up.

@dmcc0 I'm expecting it'll take me at least a month to beat.

@Bolt_Strike That's my point, that people's expectations could be so astronomically high that the presentation will be viewed as disappointing regardless of what they show.

One thing I've seen some people comment is an expectation of new games from 3rd parties. I think this isn't something we'll see a lot of; it'll be mostly ports like Switch 1's 3rd party support. In terms of new games I think at most you'll see DQ12, maybe something from Team Asano, and then maybe one of the Sega Power Surge titles (Crazi Taxi?). Two of those are already announced titles so most won't count them either. Everything else will be ports of existing titles like Black Ops 6, FFVII Remake, Elden Ring, etc.

For me, I'm expecting a quick hardware segment going over features, a bit of time talking about BC and NSO, and then a lot of time talking about games. I expect Mario Kart, 3D Mario, Metroid Prime 4, and 1 or 2 other 1st party titles, 3rd party stuff in between, then it ends with price and release date.

How much 1st party stuff they reveal is probably dependent on whether they plan to do a June Direct this year or not. Personally I think they'll skip it this year and wait until the September Direct for more announcements, with a few Twitter announcements for Switch 1 titles (Planet Robobot Deluxe) in the mean time.

I mean, occasionally the Switch already gets some simultaneous releases of third party games, but it's usually only for lower end/more cartoony looking IPs. Those kinds of ports do feel more realistic though.

They have been skipping June Directs a bit more recently, but that's usually when they have lighter years with less to show. This year is probably going to be one of the heaviest for quite some time. I could see them having enough to show for both June and September this year.

I really hope this rumor is wrong. Or more specifically the rumor about it being a Switch 1 title. Switch 1 feels too soon for Robobot, the graphical bump might not be enough for it to feel noticeably different just one generation after (I generally don't like to see remakes/remasters this soon, I feel like they're better after 2 generations). The Switch 2 would likely provide a much more noticeable leap from 3DS games. It still might feel fun because Kirby's getting in the habit of adding extra modes to its ports/remakes, but still, I think I'd be much more impressed with it on Switch 2.

@Bolt_Strike Oh there's definitely going to be more to show this year, I just assume that they'd show the majority of it during the April Direct and therefore not need to do a June Direct. The September Direct would then show more of the games launching into next year like 3D Kirby or Luigi's Mansion 4.

For Robobot I somewhat agree. Return to Dream Land Deluxe is a bigger gap time wise, but I'd argue is a smaller gap visual/power wise than Robobot would be.

It's not even a bigger gap time wise. RtDL initially released in 2011 and Deluxe released in 2023, a 12 year gap. PR was released in 2016, it's only been 9 years. If they were to release PR after that same gap, it would release in 2028, not now. Which frankly feels like a better time for it anyway. Only 9 years and 1 console generation later feels too early for this.

@Bolt_Strike @IceClimbers I don't see them skipping summer event season in June, reliance on 3rd party announcements during that timeframe could backfire (especially if GTA6 isn't coming to Switch 2). I feel 1 month out of June and September would be a general Direct meanwhile the other is SMB 40th anniversary Direct with the order being dependent on the distribution of Mario releases in 2025/2026.

Nintendo now has no upcoming games with a release date. Doesn't seem like we'll be hearing anything until the Switch 2 Direct.

@Grumblevolcano Why would it backfire if they skip a June Direct? If they already reveal the 1st party lineup for Switch 2 for this year in the April Direct (which is what we're all expecting), why do they need to do a general Direct in June? At that point they can focus on marketing individual games releasing in the meantime, and then do a general Direct in September to reveal games releasing into the 1st half of next year.

In other words, if they do a general Direct in June, then you need to expect very few 1st party titles in the April Direct because they would need to have something for the June Direct.

I also don't think they'll do a 40th anniversary Direct either. I think it'll just be a dedicated Direct for the new 3D Mario game.

@PikminMarioKirby I mean, the Switch 2 Direct is only 10 days away now. That's been obvious for about the last few weeks.

I was expecting nothing for a while now. There may not be an April game which is fine. But I'm sure something will come up next month to line up may. Potentially even the switch 2 itself with some banger launch titles.

@Bolt_Strike Well yeah, but Xenoblade port just released yesterday so now we're officially without any upcoming games with a release date.

It looks like we've got a confirmed time now for when gold points are going offline, March 25th 4:30am UK time.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/netinfo/en_GB/index.html

There's eshop maintenance at that time (4:30 - 6am) so it's likely that when the eshop is back up after the maintenance, you won't earn gold points anymore.

Some guy is apparently saying direct on the 26th. Doubt.

@VoidofLight It's more than just one guy, but some are just saying Nintendo has some presentation planned for this week, and someone over on Famiboards was adamant about it being an Indie World (which is what I'd expect).

@PikaPhantom If anything it'll probably be an indie world, yeah. I can't see them doing anything else before the Switch 2 direct.

It's been a while since we've had an Indie World so that wouldn't be too surprising.

I can see an Indie World. Kind of feels like a shout into the wind at this point, but if it's true I wouldn't be mad lol

i could deffo see an indie world, @rallydefault! i think the switch direct rumors and the silksong rumours combined are pretty convincing, but we have been tricked in the past. anyways this would be awesome, even thought im stocked up on enough games until switch 2 😹😹😹 i do feel like they would save silksong for april 2nd, or wouldve revealed it earlier. guess the only thing to do is wait and see!

Nate and PH Brazil just backed up the Direct this week. Crazy to think we could have two directs in the next two weeks. Assuming one will be for Switch 1 and be shorter but stilly hype