Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@FishyS Splitting the two teams to work on both simultaneously may need to be the solution in the long run (and may be a solution to many of their issues with lack of resources to work on specific IPs). I could potentially see that down the line, but I'm not sure if they're sufficiently built up their staff to do that now though.

Yea, I mean... yea lol

Of course the mainline games are gonna sell more, so I certainly don't disagree with that.

But the Mario Maker games have been huge hits. The community is still going, actually, which is pretty crazy.

I'm not gonna pretend to know the breakdown of their 2D Mario dev teams, and the internet hasn't historically done an excellent job prognosticating that sort of stuff either. I just think Maker 3 will come out when it's ready. I don't really see them holding it for a rainy day or a super strategic time, honestly - I think they'll just line it up when it's done.

Basically, I'm filing this one under "We're overthinking this."

@rallydefault,

"The community is still going, actually, which is pretty crazy."

I can attest to this. I was still playing the game (Super Mario Maker 2) myself until the tail end of last year, when I finally uploaded and shared all my course ideas that I had (though I still have my Maker ID in my forum signature, just in case someone on these forums who still plays the game in the big 2026 wants to play some courses made by NL people and sees it). About every other week or other from August-December 2025, I would check out Course World and see that new levels were still being uploaded and played. SMM2 certainly does still have a small, but tight-knit, community, even after all these years (unless a drastic number of the 2025 player base dropped at the same time I did 😜, which I find pretty unlikely).

@Nep-Nep-Freak
Yea, lots of YouTubers still uploading plenty of content, too. I still enjoy watching!

@Don
The Switch 2 screen is has a larger vertical height than the 2 NDS screens put together (with the plastic dead space removed). If NDS games ever come to Switch 2, the two screens will simply be displayed one on top of the other, both docked and undocked.

The biggest issue will be access to the bottom touch screen display in docked mode for NDS games that require touch inputs - this is where mouse mode will come in handy.

I've seen people entertain the idea of a second screen accessory for Switch 2 before the console even launched, but I think there are too many issues with such an accessory: it wouldn't work in docked mode, it wouldn't be compatible with the Switch 2's top USB-C port since that port doesnt support video-out (therefore, the bottom USB-C port would need to be used instead), and it would be quite expensive.