Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

It’s officially a partner. Per today app.

Still going with my prior prediction of 1st parties.

Feb 27: gen 10 and other Pokémon.

MAR10: yoshi date, movie updates, maybe announcements for mansion 4, Mario maker, 3d mario. Anything Mario- related so movie goers have a lot on shelves.

Fire emblem: own direct late April-May

Rythm Heaven get overview trailer drop in Nintendo Today 2 months before release.

1st party direct: May/June, Zelda announcement , smash, and other big announcements.

Rest is Nintendo Today.

The main question is whether they want to do their first-party Direct before or after the Mario movie hits theaters.

My initial feeling is that a March Direct can really help bring attention to the brand in general in the lead up to the movie and would also be an ok placement of a Direct to cover announcements through the summer.

But the years when they skip a June Direct do feel a little sad because I’m old and will forever miss E3 times lol

Anyway, I’m excited for the partner thing tomorrow. I really want to see some more Sony and Microsoft stuff coming over!

Last time they had a big Mario announcement after the movie came out. But we don't know if there is any more Mario this year besides what we know so the order may not matter.

I'm guessing a general direct is April at the latest. Partially because we don't have games lined up after that and partially to be before the end of the financial year investor report.

guys I found out about one of the games that will be on the Direct and I have an image to show you, but don't rat me out to Miyamoto pls

Unless we're given an announcement of a western release for Dragon Quest X Offline, I have near-zero interest in what could be announced. I'm dialed in to finally tackling the backlog.

@Sylamp I thought the clown (?) on the left was Jax from TADC for a moment haha!

@FishyS MAR10 and Pokémon day could cover enough pushing the direct later.

@FishyS
Yea, I’m just saying that regardless of Mario content, a 1st-party Direct is a way to bring general Nintendo awareness, so I’m wondering if they want to place that before or after the Mario movie, which itself will bring lots of awareness.

I think the Partner Showcase will give an idea for whether there's a general Direct nearby. If it's a big Partner Showcase, I don't see a general Direct happening before June and the key promotion focus for Switch 2 would be the concept that it's much more than just a 1st party machine.

But if the Partner Showcase is a smaller one like of the scale of July 2025 then I could see general Direct around March/April.

Predictions:
Updates on: Resident Evil Trio, Monster Hunter Stories, Mega Man Star Force, 007, and Pragmata
Release Dates for: South Of Midnight, Elden Ring, Fallout 4, Orbitals, Phasmophobia, and Indiana Jones

1. Professor Layton and Decapolice will both be shown off again and given broad fall / summer release dates respectively
2. Danganronpa 2x2 will get a trailer showing off some new stuff in the new scenario and will be releasing July
3. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be announced and get a release date for the second half of this year
4. The Adventures Of Elliott will be getting another demo and will be releasing in May
5. Metaphor will be announced and will release in May
6. Yakuza 4-6 will all be releasing on the switch as a collection later this year
7. Ace Attorney 7 will be announced and barely shown off with a vague 2026 release window. All that will be shown is Phoenix Wright to confirm he will be in it
8. Some new Sonic game will be shown off. Probably the new main game but it'll just be a teaser
9. Blue Prince will be shadowdropped
10. Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139 will be announced for the Switch 2
11. Kingdom Hearts will come to the switch natively
12. That new My Hero Academia game will be announced for switch

@Blooper987
Just get PS4 / PS5 machine to play all Kingdom Hearts games on PS4 in 60 fps and proper physical media (and cheaper price for used games) rather hoping the Switch 2 version that will be game key card.

I'll go for predictions:

• Partner Showcase starts with MH Wilds and its expansion
• More news on Resident Evil Requiem, MH Stories 3, Pragmata, 007 First Light (RE and Pragmata get demos)
• Release dates for Elden Ring, FFVII Rebirth, The Adventures of Elliot, Lego Batman, Orbitals, Silksong DLC
• Youtube for Switch 2 is shadow dropped
• Big spotlight segment for Duskbloods
• New announcements include Hi-Fi Rush, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Kingdom Hearts collection, Blue Prince, Rayman 1, Persona 3 Reload's DLC (The Answer), Age of Imprisonment DLC
• "One more thing" is a large Xbox segment featuring both already announced games like Indiana Jones and new announcements like Halo

I don't know about everyone else, but I'm actually hoping that Age of Imprisonment doesn't get DLC. Yes, both BotW and AOC did get DLC, but TotK didn't.

Here's a hypothetical chart that to me, just makes sense:
Has DLC: BotW and AOC, which is Warriors game of BotW
Doesn't have DLC: TotK (and perhaps AOI, whcich is Warriors game of TotK)

AOI already had free updates, and from what I remember, AOC didn't. Feel free to call me out if I am wrong on that though.

My main reason for not wanting AOI to get DLC is this: if it doesn't have DLC, then they'll probably do the usual eventual cartridge revision that has all updates on the cart, and if they do that and the game doesn't have DLC, I might actually eventually go for a physical copy of the game, since the cart would be complete. If the game does get DLC, the game will be a guaranteed skip for me, since there are other games that would be complete on the cart that I would want to prioritize more.

No, I don't hate DLC like some people do. The one thing that I dislike about DLC is how it makes game cartridges incomplete.

But yes, I have gotten to the point where a game being complete on the cart makes it a higher priority for me, unless it's something that super duper interests me like Pokémon 😅.

(Relatively) Sure Things:

• Resident Evil reminders
• FF VII Rebirth launch window
• Elden Ring gets a date
• Monster Hunters Stories 3 gets...stuff.... I don't play those games lol
• Adventures of Eliot gets its date... and it's gonna be available full physical after all!!! Yay!!!!
• Call of Duty Update
• Duskbloods update
• Indiana Jones update

My Hopes:

• Sony brings a platformer franchise over. Maybe it won't be a "full" release and something like the LEGO Horizons spinoff (which wasn't awful)
• GTA VI is actually coming to Switch 2 day and date!!!! (I don't play GTA nor do I have plans to, but this would be hilarious and huge) Turns out all the delays were for this reason! Ha!

If I go even 33% on these... lol

I suppose I will go over my hopes / predictions as well:

Something about the Resident Evil trio
Something about Pragmata
Something about Eldin Ring
Something about Indiana Jones
Something about Call of Duty
Something about The Duskbloods
Something about Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Something about Adventure of Elliot
Dragon Quest 12?
Something about Monster Hunter Stories 3
Maybe Blue Prince

So many of those sound like the titles of TerminalMontage animations 🤣.

I don't really know what to expect so I don't have any guesses but I will say that if Bamco/FromSoftware could do me a solid and port Dark Souls 3 to Switch 2 I'd appreciate that a lot, I have it on PC but I keep getting random lag and none of the "fixes" online work for me so I can't play it there
Probably won't happen anytime soon because Elden Ring and The Duskbloods but I can dream

@Nep-Nep-Freak
1. Hard disagree there, I love AoI and would kill for more content (free or paid).
2. Terminal Montage is peak!

My predictions/hopes:

• Blue Prince shadow drop
• Marvel Rivals
• Palia Switch 2 Edition
• Expedition 33
• Call of Duty announcement
• Duskbloods update
• the GameFreak game

My only real prediction is Beast of Reincarnation. And at least one Square Enix game.

I would like Infinity Nikki but I don't think it will happen. @CaleBoi25 Palia Switch 2 edition would be neat but I bet they got a dev kit pretty late.