Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

To me what this list highlights is the need for something for Switch Sports, Animal Crossing and Smash in the medium term. Even if it's just a free update that improves resolution/framerate or just an announcement of something else. They quietly dropped a Splatoon 3 free update on us, I could see them doing something similar for Animal Crossing

Smash Bros I'm a bit less confident about because its not clear if or when they'll be another one. Or development effort into the current version. Switch Sports, less exciting maybe, but I think it could do with a Switch 2 Edition that adds additional sports, GameShare. Possibly even adding some of the Wii Sports Club GamePad stuff as options. I mean it did prominently feature in their promotions for GameChat

@Grumblevolcano

Wondering the same thing. Maybe Prime 2 & 3 Remastered sometime in the fall, and Prime 4 is the Holiday game? There's a part of me that thinks Nintendo would never make Prime 4 the big game of the year, but it'd be pretty awesome if they did.

@VoidofLight I mean I didn't necessarily say it's a good thing (but it's also not necessarily a bad thing either, means we don't have to wait for February, June, or September to get news), just that I think they're going to do it.

@Bolt_Strike I just can't see it. I can see Nintendo Today replacing Twitter before I see it replacing Directs.

@Joev14 Prime 4 delayed to 2026 could also explain the Direct situation. You could have Prime 2+3 as a September Direct shadow drop and Prime 4 is absent until that same Direct. Kirby and Hyrule Warriors could appear in a Partner Showcase like how Part Time UFO and Age of Calamity appeared in the October 2020 one. DK Bananza, Drag x Drive and whatever happens next for MK World could be Nintendo Today news.

@Grumblevolcano

If we don't see any new Prime news in the next month, I would say you're probably correct.

Donkey Kong Bananza Direct this Wednesday.
Doesn't look like we'll get a general direct this week.

I'm probably not going to watch the Bananza direct honestly. Seems like it'll spoil things and I'm already convinced on buying the game.

Starting to think my prediction from prior to the April Direct is correct: the next big general Direct is in September, and they will just focus on the already announced games in the mean time. No big June Direct.

I'm gonna predict that next week we'll get a Partner Showcase to get some 3rd party news out there (Elden Ring release date, anyone?). Then the next bit of news outside of DK/Mario Party marketing will be the Pokémon Presents on July 22nd, where we'll get Legends ZA news and a release date/Switch 2 Edition for Pokémon Champions.

Sometime in July (possibly prior to the Presents), we'll get a new trailer and release date for Drag x Drive on Nintendo Today.

What about Switch 2 updates for Fire Emblem and Xenoblade series? Will we get these any time soon or we will have to wait main Direct?

@IceClimbers It's possible Nintendo is shifting when General Directs happen now that we're on a new console gen. Maybe January, April, July, October instead?

It seems like they can't get too far past the new DK game without announcing some end-of-year heavy hitters. Waiting until September is too long to announce MP4 and Legends: ZA's release dates.

Some people were theorizing there may be a direct this week because NOA has unpinned their switch 2 tweet. However, it probably doesn't mean anything cause the Europe and Japan accounts both pinned the bananza direct tweet, so somebody probably just forgot.

@Bigmanfan This is crazy copium

@Tayrailbridge Yeah, some people read a little too deep into nothing.

With a Tetris 99 announcement post early, could we be seeing an NSO announcement tonight? Chibi Robo lines up

Edit: just a Nintendo music addition after all, wasn’t expecting Yoshi’s Story. I wonder when the first GCN game will be added?

@Joev14 Legends ZA is coming out October 16th though? The only games without dates now are MP4, Hyrule Warriors, DragXDrive and Kirby Air Riders. MP4 /Air Riders is likely November, and Hyrule Warriors December (the only two months without exclusives, we have DK -> Jamboree+ -> Kirby+ -> Daemon Ex Machina -> Legends ZA) so I could see it waiting until September.

Drag X Drive will probably be a YouTube trailer drop for it's date.

Capcom’s event likely rules out Thursday so if there was one this week it would be announced today for airing on Wednesday. I could see a Partner Showcase where they announce MHWilds and RE9 for Switch 2 but too close to the DK Bananza Direct to be a general Direct.

I wonder if there will be any new Mario game announced for this y. If not, it would be disappointing given this year is Mario’s 40th anniversary.

@Don I don’t see a new Mario for this year. They probably won’t want to step on Bananza’s toes if there’s a Mario game even in production at the moment.

@link3710 Splatoon Raiders also has no release date, I personally am guessing Summer '26 but a lot of speculation is around it being a Drizzle Season release (September, for those unfamiliar).