Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Dezzy I only played a small bit of galaxy 1 and nothing of 2. So id be all in on those. Sunshine is the only other mainline Mario game I haven't played.

@Dezzy I'd buy that for sure. I'd also buy the ports or HD remasters of 64 and Sunshine. The way I see it, they should be released in collections/combo packs.

64/64DS/Sunshine Collection
Galaxy 1+2HD
Paper Mario Collection
Mario Sports Collection.

These games don't even need to be remakes for me, just upscale ports with updated control schemes for modern controllers. I'd drop 240 bucks plus tax right now if they dropped them right now.

Refined predictions based on the recent Mario leaks and Mini Direct (which tbh wasn't that great apart from Smash and Good Job):

Y E S : 3D World DX (all but confirmed now 🦀), NMH3 release date/window, Pikmin 3, 3rd-parties, indies

P E R H A P S : SMM2 update, Prime Trilogy (seems Nintendo is more focused on bringing its Wii U collection to Switch atm), Pikmin 4, Mario Remasters (sounds slightly too good to be true, especially around April Fools)

N O : BOTW 2 (everyone seems to forget that it just started development last year), Smash Fighter 7 (Covid-19 is apparently affecting development so I wouldn't expect it for a while), F-Zero (as long as Nintendo is standing firm on its "each new title must innovate" rule, it's not happening)

That all still sounds really impressive

@TheAwesomeBowser BotW2 did not start development last year. According to interviews, we know it started somewhere roughly around December 2017 (when the Champion's Ballad came out) and there was no break in development, as BotW2 started as part of BotW's DLC. It was only announced last year, and that came with a whole cutscene already completed.

@link3710 Huh, I didn't know.

Yeah but then there's been no updates, either, @link3710 .... So, no idea how much further they've got or anything I'd still feel safer thinking of it as next year, personally, until they say anything else

Another possibility to the Mario remasters situation is Odyssey 2. If you have Kingdoms based on 64, Sunshine and Galaxy you won't be able to tell between HD remasters of the original games in the Odyssey engine and Odyssey 2.

@BruceCM Oh I don't disagree, I was just correcting the claim that everyone was forgetting it only started development last year. It's been in development no less than 2 years, and as much as 3. I still don't think it'll be out either, but it's not that far out on the schedule.

@Grumblevolcano The questionable thing about that is we already got an HD Mario 64 rendition in the first one, why would they do that again in the second one?

@link3710 Odyssey isn't the first time Nintendo has revisited Mario 64 in a different 3D Mario game though, Galaxy 2 (SMB 25th anniversary game) had a level from each previous 3D Mario game:

• Whomp's Fortress
• Ricco Harbor (the area of Ricco Harbor where Shadow Mario steals Fludd)
• Beach Bowl Galaxy (the stone area)

There may be others too but those are the ones I remember, haven't played Galaxy 2 in a long time.

Yeah it still sounds like a great release. But I just meant that it sounds more economically believable. I mean Mario 64 is often regarded as one of the greatest games of all time. If they really did "remaster" it, I'm pretty damn sure they're gonna charge full price for that alone.

So the only possibilities are that it's either a much more lazy port, or they're charging a lot more than their normal retail price for the full collection.

My confidence in the Mario leak is slowly deteriorating. It's possible that it's an April Fool's leak, similar to the Flipnote joke (which actually pissed me off because I loved Flipnote). The most likely scenario in my opinion is a deluxe port of 3D World, which is a pass for me because I don't buy Wii U ports on principle. I'm still going to hold on to the rumor though, because if it's true and they show off Super Mario All-Stars 3D in an upcoming Direct, they might as well just take my money now.

Another supporting piece of evidence that it's real (or partly real) is that they posted that image of Mario on twitter last year which seemed to suggest something to do with Mario Sunshine:

eh, I wouldn't really take that as any indication of anything other than Nintendo wishing the fanbase a good summer using cute Mario references

That would have been my interpretation, if they hadn't used the word "sunshine". That had to be conscious, it's such a specific word. Most people would just say "sun".

I think given the release dates of the Direct Mini games, the next Direct will happen the same week as if E3 was still around. Any earlier and Nintendo would risk screwing over the 3rd party devs they spotlighted in the Direct Mini as most of the 3rd party games that weren't shadow drops come around May 29th.

@Grumblevolcano I agree; it's got to be June. I believe the last first-party released planned is "Clubhouse Games" on June 5th; we're going to need something after that. However, as far as the actual week, I think it might be shifted around, forward or backward. Because of E3's cancellation, Nintendo has the opportunity to air the presentation whenever they wish, so it could be right out of the gates on June 4/5 or at the end of the month around June 25/26. My pipe dream is that Nintendo wants all of the titles showcased in the Mini Direct squared away so they can break out the big guns in June and drop some major announcements.

Agreed 100%. I'm not expecting a news drop until June now. Which I'm totally fine with. I have plenty of backlog and will also be getting both The Wonderful 101 Remastered and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition in that time frame.

@WaffleKnight While I do think they'll want most of them taken care of, It'll probably be before all of them. Mr. Drill Drill Land isn't until June 25th after all, and it's not big enough to wait for. But I'm pretty sure that's the only dated title that's after when the E3 direct would normally be anyways, so I don't see that as a reason it'd be pushed back.

Mr. Driller DrillLand (June 25th), Trails of Cold Steel III (June 30th) and Catherine Full Body (July 7th) are the only games with specific release dates after June 5th so the normal E3 slot which would've been June 9th this year for a Direct would probably work the best and have those 3 appear in the 3rd party highlight reel that comes towards the end of a Direct.