@Grumblevolcano I mean, between AC, PMD, TMS#FE (and possibly TW101 depending on how you count it, likely XC:DE too), we almost certainly have surpassed the first half of 2019 in terms of Nintendo IP releases before the first direct even occurred. I still think April will be empty, but even a 2019 type direct could fill out May and June enough.
Also, it was June to December, cause we had two games in July too.
@Dezzy The February 2019 Direct was pretty much "here's all these fantastic games coming to Switch this year but you're going to have to wait at least June to play them". Until then you have Yoshi, Tetris 99, Boxboy + Boxgirl and a few 3rd party titles.
@link3710 February 2019 Direct with the big games being late June - November so I was moving everything by a month as the 2020 Direct would be a month later (March Direct with big games being late July - December).
@Grumblevolcano true, that was the downside of last year, if youd even call it that. Between June and November, people were up to their gills in games with no space in between, forcing alot of us to pick and choose what games to get, even if we would normally buy both day 1 had they been further apart.
@Grumblevolcano ah okay, that explains that. 2019 was pretty insane in general with at least one notable release every week between Super Mario Maker 2 and AC: Rogue Collection.
StoneWars seems to believe that the LEGO Super Mario sets are listed internally with the codename "LEAF", and that there are going to be 13 sets overall (based on serial numbers listing set #71360 through #71373)
@NintendoByNature It's a downside because the 2nd half of 2018 was also pretty limited with Nintendo focusing so much on Smash so you had almost a year with significant game droughts. Between Captain Toad/Octopath (July 13th 2018) and Mario Maker 2 (June 28th 2019) there wasn't much going on outside of Smash (Hyrule Warriors releasing in the 1st half of 2018 being so filled with content along with consistent XC2 DLC releases throughout the year pretty much saved the 2nd half of 2018 for me). Fortunately the lineup between Mario Maker 2 and Pokemon Sword/Shield was completely insane so the wait for a Direct this year has been less rough but I don't think my backlog will take me to Wonderful 101 Remastered (the next game I'm looking forward to).
It's weird that they would just kind of tease this and then say "stay tuned" without letting people know when or where to look for more information. Why does Nintendo always have to be so cryptic and keep everything so close to the chest?
@Cubs017 It draws eyes toward them. The Direct drought has caused more and more people to pay close attention to Nintendo news. Nintendo, like it or not, loves to keep fans waiting on the edge of their seat.
1.The Direct will be fulled packed,no other posibilites.We waited so much,and we have a preety long run odf no big games being announce,espcially from Mario
2.Its common for popular things to get lego sets,but its weird that it comes out just in time were we will expect somthing big
(There is always a chance for Lego-themed dock to be release at the same time too)
@WaffleKnight Yeah, the Animal Crossing Direct was announced at 10pm UK time so taking into account US daylight savings that would mean 1pm (for usual 2pm announcements) and 9pm (for 10pm announcements) UK time are the times to look out for during the gap between US daylight savings change and UK daylight savings change.
@mariomaster96 Daylight savings change in the US last weekend (clocks forward an hour) means announcements are now an hour earlier for a few weeks outside the US.
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