Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

My predictions for this Direct Mini given the wording is:

• Bravely Default II
• No More Heroes III
• DOOM Eternal
• Rune Factory 5
• Fuser
• King's Bounty II
• Apex Legends
• Rogue Company
• Bakugan Champions of Vestroia

I have try to lower my expectations, but still i think todays mini direct is going to be a disappoinment.

I'm just waiting for a real big direct..

I think you could be right, the only problem is this year, if this mini doesn't have any Nintendo announcements (which seems certain) then can they wait 2 months to tell people about 1st party games?

@Grumblevolcano
This would be around 1min per game. My guess is that each game will at least get 2min, which makes around 4-5 games.

There will be 10 games, 1 every minute. And they all suck.

Well, that saves us all the bother of watching it, then .... When's the good direct coming, again?

the main couple of games (3 or 4??) will get 1 or 2 minutes each, I think they'll show a batch of 10 games with 10-30 seconds per game. I think we'll see maybe 12-15 games and I bet I care about 3 of them.

So dreaming big and not likely what are people's most wanted?

There was an old rumour of a GTA V port which was taking ages due to technical issues, I'd like to see a selection of Persona ports (I know everyone wants 5 but I'd rather have 3 since I've not played it and the shooting yourself thing sounds too weird not to try), Sega had re-releases of Yakuza and Shenmue not too long ago, there was a new House Of The Dead arcade game, a proper Fallout seems overdue, people were gagging for Nier Automata at one point and there's probably a ton of other stuff people would like to see.

Personally HD ports of the Jet Set Radios or a Dreamcast collection (mainly for Crazy Taxi & Jet Set Radio) like on Steam would have my money.

@jump There seem to be lots of angry Nintendo fans right now, if a GTA V port was announced I think all would be forgiven!!

I'd love to see it but I highly doubt it!!

If this is the first of a series of Direct Minis, I hope they end this one by giving the date of the next one.

@MarioBrickLayer
Yeah, that would be great!

Typical Nintendo fans:

"... they said first in a series, so that pretty much confirms there'll be 63 more this month."

Reality:

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"Tune in on 23/07/2023 for the second in our series"

@gcunit ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@gcunit Yeah, people are reading too much into that. All it likely means is that they'll probably do more of these partner showcases at some point in the future. If the response is all really negative it could very well be the last in the series too.

@BenAV It’s going to be negative simply as there’s not any first party announcements.

@Grumblevolcano I could really see this happening. That list seems very plausible.

I wonder if we'll see Axiom Verge 2 or Little Nightmares 2?

Axiom Verge 2 I would consider borderline major nindie or minor 3rd party release.

Not sure we will see them, I think they will both release later in the year, both are must buys for me.

@Slowdive My point was referring to the fact that a number of these same 'credible leakers' claimed a Mario collection was guaranteed in today's direct. Which, again, very untrue, clearly.

I mean my guess was just that they’d basically split up what would be a normal direct that was supposedly coming in September/E3 into small mini directs throughout the year. I don’t really see the absurdity in that.

@MarioBrickLayer I'd guess there's Indie World in August with indie games like Axiom Verge 2, Sports Story, Silksong, etc. appearing there rather than today.