Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

Because of all these recent announcements, I'm calling it now: nothing in March except trailers for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book and the Galaxy Movie on Mario Day, and perhaps trailers for Rhythm Heaven and Fire Emblem in between the months of April-May. Perhaps a small something for Zelda's 40th? And maybe another Switch 2 Edition in this time frame? And then the usual June Direct of course.

I'm usually wrong about this stuff though 😅.

@Bolt_Strike I've gotta disagree there — if it was an accident, they wouldn't have timed the Nintendo Music release to align with it. I do 100% agree that making it a digital-exclusive release is dumb though, at least when NSO is right there.

It's certainly been interesting seeing the "girl math" being used to justify the price. My favourite is the argument where the used price of these cartridges are used to justify the $30AU price. Which is amusing given the fact that the same people mock NSO which has Virtual Boy on it. A console which is ~$650AU for the hardware and something like $80-500AU per game. I would agree that the price of the VB shell is silly, and I'm certainly silly for getting it. But if we're using the price of the used market to justify the value of replica experiences? Apparently it's totally worth it. An average VB game gives you 2 years of NSO+ Family

As it stands the GBA is a funky resolution and aspect ratio kind of device. Which makes it kinda rough to play on most general purpose portable emulators. I have been considering picking up a portable emulation device just to play GBA games. Notably the ones that weren't on NSO, Mother 3 and Pokemon. The fact that they've made it clear now that Pokemon is certainly not going to be part of NSO or even a perk of NSO? Kinda pushes me a bit closer to that. I mean technically those devices cost less than 3 GBA Pokemon ROMS on the eShop