@rallydefault I think the biggest problem with the concept of a general Direct next week is about the 3rd party side of things. With a Partner Showcase being months away from general Direct, it treats the Partner Showcase as a big event which is a good thing.
Meanwhile if general Direct is only a few weeks away from a Partner Showcase, it treats the general Direct as the main event and the Partner Showcase as effectively leftovers. That's not a way you'd want to treat 3rd parties.
I would be shocked by a February general direct given the fairly packed schedule we have for the next few months. But it's still the first year of Switch 2 so it is hard to rule out unusual marketing strategies.
@rallydefault I think the biggest problem with the concept of a general Direct next week is about the 3rd party side of things. With a Partner Showcase being months away from general Direct, it treats the Partner Showcase as a big event which is a good thing.
Meanwhile if general Direct is only a few weeks away from a Partner Showcase, it treats the general Direct as the main event and the Partner Showcase as effectively leftovers. That's not a way you'd want to treat 3rd parties.
I mean sales wise, they pretty much are leftovers, but 3rd parties definitely do not want to be treated that way. Nintendo knows that if they actually have something and split it into two Directs, everyone is going to watch the General and no one is going to watch the Partner. They'd just have a General and put the 3rd party stuff in it along with the 1st party stuff. Not having a General and keeping it a 3rd party only Partner signals they have nothing right now.
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