Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

When their playlist is updated, how soon does the direct come?

@Rexenokid

Well no digital music is technically lossless though is it? Encoding something digitally necessarily creates a loss of accuracy.

I really can't hear the difference myself.

@Dezzy Mmm well, yes and no. It's possible to store any frequency by sampling at a rate of twice what it's at.

Lossless just means it's stored with reversable compression, as opposed to Lossy, which is irreversable without changes.

But combine a sample rate that's as twice as high as the best speakers with a lossless storage system and you have the top quality music possible.

@Dannyboi Anywhere between later that day and 4-5 weeks out.

Edit: a better example might be images. JPEGs are Lossy, so they have artifacts when you look at them, the more compressed the more artifacts. PNG are lossless, so the image is always the same as expected. But neither has as much detail as the image does in real life.

@link3710

Yeah I wasn't aware that was the actual definition of what Lossless meant. I guess the old .wav files on standard CDs are technically Lossless then.
I was trying to be smart rather than checking the actual definition! Lol.

@Rexenokid

Well I don't normally pirate music, but with a video game I feel like it's part of the price of buying the game.

I mean you wouldn't consider it pirating if I just rewatched the in-game scenes where the music happens to be played, would you? Cos I have done that quite often actually. I like that interplay between music and a dramatic story scene.
It doesn't seem a whole lot different to me.

@Rexenokid
I really wish for ARMS 2 with more features.

F-Zero Switch please

In my wildest dreams, I’d love to see a new Kid Icarus, if Atleast a port with adjusted controls of the Uprising game.

@Rexenokid Yep, I'm hoping for a new IP and I think we're going to get one this year. Something big and totally out there, like Splatoon was on Wii U. ARMS is great and I really hope we'll get a sequel one day but it was never going to be a console defining game like Splatoon was. My money is on a racing game that isn't Mario Kart 9. Starfox GP fits the bill,I still believe in it.

So more insanity over no general Direct announcement for at least another 4+ days, eh?

@Grumblevolcano They've announced directs on Friday for early to middle of the following week right?

@NintendoByNature Indie presentations, yes and also a Smash Direct did get announced on a Sunday though a special case as it was an EVO announcement. Outside of those, don't think so.

Yeah check out Twitter. Every tweet Nintendo makes is just people moaning about not getting a Direct. Even when Nintendo are promoting new games people are still moaning about no Direct. It’s only going to get worse.

Honestly at this point I'd be surprised if we get one before March. A Direct in March would fit in nicely with a 2 month gap then E3 and a 3 month gap and then a September Direct. An Animal Crossing Direct I can see happening this month, however.

I think there is trouble at Nintendo. They are being too quiet. No plans for 2020, longest we have gone without a direct, Eshop sales happening a lot. It's like they are trying to keep people interested until they sort out whatever the problem is. And I know that people shouldn't be demanding a direct on every twitter post that Nintendo does, but they could say something.

@DannyBoi You do know that this happens literally every year, right? Fanboys get overzealous and attack Nintendo on Twitter as soon as the turn of the year occurs and (per usual) there's no general direct. Which let's face it, this year we got WAY more in the gap than usual. A Pokemon Direct, a Smash 'Direct', and an Indie World during December and January, usually silent months? There's no reason to suspect anything's up.

@link3710 It’s because people are worried about the lack of first party games after March. That and the fact it’s Twitter.

@FragRed For me, it's the lack of games in the first half of 2020 and no direct for getting on for 6 months now. They updated their direct playlist, so something is coming. But we don't know when.

Somethings coming and it’s BIG.

BIG I tell you.

BIG

@1UP_MARIO It's this week. No next week... Definitely the week after. Next month has to be it.