Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Agriculture I forgot about the titles in the rapid fire segment, whoops!

You know what would be useful for Nintendo. If they had a nearly completed game laying around they can release with little effort. Right? RIGHT?

@Octane To be fair, if that is the case and I was Nintendo I'd hold onto that title for the holiday season. It might be a port or remaster, but I actually has the potential to outsell any other game in the series thanks to current circumstances creating a lack of competition.

That would be fairly disastrous for Nintendo, I think. They have to have something out there for people to get for the holidays, and I feel like 3D World isn't big enough. Bravely Default is pretty niche.

Am I the only one who thought it was bizarre how most of these games either are out today or at the end of May?

Like is late May considered their tentative date when gaming stores and the like will be open again?

Not trying to be a Debbie downer but it was a disappointment for me. I'm glad we got something. But nothing really caught my eye. I can finally try arms which is nice. The bravely default demo will be nice to try out. But yea, nothing at all for me. Glad for everyone who got some good stuff they liked tho

It has been just over 200 days since Nintendo had their last full Nintendo Direct. Rumor has it that they were waiting to hold it at E3, but now E3 has been cancelled. Hopefully they will decide to have it soon, and hopefully it will contain some big releases from Nintendo and their second party developers.

@status-204, remember, they're going to be taking feedback on the demo to make it better.

Daemon X Machina was the same way. It got a rough demo early in the year, and a lot of people were prematurely turned off, even though they were using it for feedback to make the final game better. As someone who played the full game, it didn't have any of the choppiness that was present in the early demo.

I assumed it was just meant as "this will keep you busy until E3 (or not-E3), when we'll have some new stuff."

I didn't see anything like this.

The only issue I noticed was the world map textures taking a second to load, so the map very briefly looked untextured.

Everything else looked great.

@Dezzy Yes you are right, they are clearly holding the big announcements back until when E3 was scheduled.

If Coronavirus has a major impact on the production of physical releases for the remainder of the year, I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to release some first party games as a digital now/physical later deal. In other words you would get a download code that lapses when the physical release is ready to be shipped.

I think there be a huge direct in June

I wouldn't JUMP to conclusions with these next direct rumours.

@DannyBoi
Btw, are you happy now with Mini Direct yesterday ?
Something caught your attention ?

It was a good enough direct for me. I expect they will have a full direct around when E3 usually is with some announcements for the rest I'd the year, including first party titles. I think the Arms fighter for smash and first pokemon expansion are both scheduled for June, so maybe around the same time as those.

If there is not a new first party title, it would not be a disaster for them to release a port this year. Super Mario 3D World seems like the obvious choice, but they also have the Zelda remasters (and who knows the status of the rumored Prime trilogy remaster). A lot of us have played these games, but there are many Switch owners who missed out on them.

Going by Nintendo's current release schedule, they don't need to wait until December for a lack of competition.

@Anti-Matter Yeah, it was good. And not sure.

3D World is the remaining port that has the best potential, lots of Switch owners didn't buy a Wii U and 3D World was the 2nd best selling Wii U game where the best selling Wii U game is also the best selling Switch game (MK8).

I think Wind Waker HD has significant potential as well. But it seems Nintendo isn't very keen about Zelda ports right now.

@Grumblevolcano I am one of those people. I had a Wii but skipped Wii U and now I have a Switch so I never got to play 3D World, which I would love to play on the Switch as I have heard nothing but great reviews of the game. I have Mario Kart 8 on Switch.

@WaffleKnight It definitely does. It's the only title in the top 15 besides 3D World & Yoshi's Woolly World that isn't either: Intrinsically tied to Wii U hardware (Wii Party U, Nintendo Land), ported (MK8, NSMBU+LU, Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors, Pokken) or have a sequel that has basically all of its contents (Splatoon, Mario Maker, Smash). The only other title on the list is Mario Party 10 but... yeah I think that boat's sailed.

I'd say looking at this, the list of potential ports by likely sales would be:

1. Super Mario 3D World
2. Wind Waker HD
3. Twilight Princess HD
4/5. Pikmin 3 / Xenoblade Chronicles X (Pikmin 3 had higher initial sales, Xenoblade's profile has grown since the original release, could be either way)
6. Star Fox Guard
Trashed reviews tier: Star Fox Zero, Paper Mario Color Splash

There's a huge gap between the top 2 and the bottom 4 though, and Guard is a title that would only sell well as a ~20$ eshop release, not a full retail game.