Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Anakin I'm kinda hoping the real reason why they haven't re-released Twilight Princess HD is because they're going to outright remake Twilight Princess from the ground-up like they did with Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door.

@VoidofLight Yeah, I think there was one of the official E3 Directs (wanna say it was either 2019 or 2021) where they did away with the "headlines" stuff and just played the trailers back to back. I assume this is what they'll do here.

Future Directs will return to the headlines format though as there really isn't any reason to go away from what works. They're as popular as ever and what makes or breaks a Direct is just what games they show (and personal tastes).

@IceClimbers Exactly. I feel like headlines themselves are here to stay, but the direct they're doing here is a special case- so it'll probably forgo them. Especially since this will be mainly first party games with prominent third parties in the mix.

Both monthly NSO missions (regular and expansion) are Kirby games. Nintendo Today has had several Kirby things as well. Surely we are getting Kirby in the direct right?

@FishyS Yeah idk what's up with the sudden Kirby emphasis, but it is definitely odd. If we don't get a Kirby game announced at the Direct, I could see them just announcing a Kirby game on Nintendo Today!.

@FishyS I have Kirby listed as one of the series I'm interested in and I haven't seen any Kirby content. I didn't mark Fire Emblem and I've seen something from it in my feed today. I don't think Nintendo Today matters here, and this kind of logic could easily be applied to say "F-Zero music dropping in Nintendo Music this week means they've got something to announce for the series at the Direct"

@PikaPhantom Interesting, I didn't realize the Nintendo Today extras were randomized. Having Kirby be two different NSO games-of-the-month with icons for each still feels like more than the weekly music drops though. You really didn't get Kirby on Nintendo Today? They've been doing 'name that copy ability' in numerical order in my app plus had some other Kirby as well.

@FishyS Interesting, while I haven’t seen the copy ability thing you’re talking about my app gave me a kirby orchestra opening this morning. Kind of weird that it’s randomzed, I wonder how they’ll not run out of content to show.

Yeah, I wouldn't take Nintendo Today as being a hint towards what we'll get in the next direct. I marked Xenoblade as one of the interests I have- and they put an old recording of a Xenoblade song on the main feed for today. I don't think that means we'll be seeing Xenoblade at the direct.

Are we minutes away from a length announcement??

An hour?! Let's flipping goooo!!

You called it! I'm very excited, I think it's pretty certain we get a decent amount of games here, I don't see why else it would be this long!

@PikminMarioKirby 10 minutes on hardware, 50 minutes of Furukawa staring at us like this 🥺👉👈

Haven't climbed up to visit the treehouse in a while, this will be cool!!

@Nintoz I mean with the Switch 2 being playable hands on and the Treehouse including Switch 2 games, I wonder how many will be announced at the Direct. I think Mario Kart will certainly be at the Nintendo Treehouse, as well as maybe a new IP, but I could see them not putting 3D Mario for hands on or being in the Treehouse.

Well, there it is. I guess the pessimistic takes from some over the last week or so about how this thing somehow wouldn't be a showcase of games are kinda proven wrong now. As they were always going to be. An hour long presentation is not going to just outline hardware. It's also going to go deeper than just Switch content and a couple of Switch 2 games. An hour is a LONG Direct

And if anyone still doubted that with the length? Boom, treehouse events showcasing gameplay for Switch 2 games

We're going to be eating well the next few days I think. Has to be a solid 5 meaty game announcements in here at least

@skywake Yeah with the hands-on it was already guaranteed to have games pretty much, but this pretty much confirms it. Nintendo Japan's description of the Direct includes that software shown might have age restrictions, meaning software is indeed there!

@PikminMarioKirby With an entire hour, it feels like it will be like January 2017 where they announce basically a year's worth of games but only give lots of details on some of them, with some of of the others reappearing in a later direct this year.

This is dope. 1hr for the presentation and 2 treehouses back to back. I won't be able to watch the treehouse presentation live unfortunately but I'll catch up after.

According to the Nintendo Today calendar, the two treehouses will last 4 and 3 hours respectively!🤯