Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@NintendoByNature True, the sales are the real killer. Physical copies are often cheapest when they first come out so I buy a lot at launch and I grab a lot of eShop titles from my wish list when they go on sale. Too many good games, not enough time.

@Grumblevolcano I knew I could count on you 😋. Good to know. Was hoping there was more general directs released during first party games though. Would've given me more hope for next week.
@Tyranexx that'll do it lol.

Never heard truer words.

Where’s the direct. Pikmin 4 Is ready.

Okay, that last pic has me completely convinced Splatoon 3 will be the big announcement of the next direct. Look at her hair, that's really weird how one's raised if it's not supposed to be a 3.

@link3710 What pic ffs? This is 2020 dagnabbit, how can you refer to a pic and not even share a link?

Don't worry everyone else, I think I've found it myself. Now.

If you count the number of eyes between the protagonists, you get four, which clearly means that Pikmin 4 and Metroid Prime 4 and Splatoon 4 and The Fantastic Four 4 will all be released on April 44th.

(I really doubt we’ll get direct sequel to Splatoon 2 be announced any time soon, although some Splatoon related content of some sort doesn’t seem out of the question, either in the form of more DLC for 2 or a different game set in the same universe).

Also, the hair simply looks like that from that angle. Have a look at the standard pictures from the front (ish) and imagine turning the camera just a little bit more.

@link3710 Remember when people speculated back in the summer that a picture of Mario eating a watermelon just had to mean some kind of Super Mario Sunshine release on the Switch?

Lets not do that again. You might be joking, but even if you are, people end up actually believing this stuff.

I don't think Splatoon 3 but with Animal Crossing out next week, I think Splatoon 2 could potentially return to updates that are bigger than just balancing. Also with each investors meeting, Nintendo keeps saying about more DLC for games and options are kind of limited (here's the upcoming free content updates and DLC so far):

• Smash Ultimate (Fighters Pass 2 DLC, 6 fighters releasing before the end of December 2021)
• Mario Maker 2 (free updates)
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 (Fantastic Four DLC pack, release date March 26th)
• Luigi's Mansion 3 (Multiplayer DLC pack 2, releasing before the end of July)
• Pokemon Sword/Shield (Expansion Pass DLC, 1 part in June and the other in November)
• Animal Crossing New Horizons (free updates)

By the time Nintendo's investor meeting comes along in April the MUA3 DLC will be complete leaving 3 games with paid DLC left.

This just reminds me how much I need to play splatoon2 again 😜

Minority here but i want to see more about Ninjala & ARMS 2 (if possible).

My new prediction is that BotW2 will end up being a 2020 game.

I think they won't have anything else planned for their big holiday release so they'll double down on Zelda and maybe give them more staff members in order to get it finished on time.

Given that it's a sequel that's reusing the same engine (as far as we know), they should be able to do that, much moreso than if it were a completely new game, because there won't be as much bugtesting to get the mechanics working right. It will be much more about just producing the necessary amount of content. That's my guess anyway.

@Harmonie Nah I'm genuine. Don't forget, we literally had a picture at the beginning of this year with that weird Save Our Salmon message, and they've suddenly revved up Splatoon stuff again all of a sudden despite the games support being over (3 new pictures in 3 months). While I'm half joking about the hair, the circumstances around it have me convinced they're planning to announce a sequel.

@Dezzy Yeah,they are bassically gonna make somthing like Majora Mask:Same engine,diffrent game

@Xenomorth

Which they should definitely be able to do in a development time of 3.5 years! Hence a christmas 2020 release.

@Dezzy If Death Stranding can be made in 3 years, BOTW 2 can be done in 3.5 years. I'm fairly certain that 3.5 years would've been enough for a completely new game if they wanted to.

@Dezzy Yeah,gieven that they wil probably re use 40-70% os assets and models.
Nintendo is probably fininshing the game right now,but thats just my speculation

I've always thought botw2 would be a 2020 game since it was announced. I imagine production started right after botw was finished and wasn't botw finished in 2016 technically? So it's been a pretty good amount of time. Not saying it's easy and they should spit it out, but using alot of botw assets should make it more manageable.

The only thing making me cautious is the fact that Nintendo clearly do think of 3D Zelda as their flagship series to some extent.

I think they have more of a "delay it until it's ready" attitude with this series than they do with any others. I certainly can't imagine them making a new 3D Zelda in 2 years like they did with Majora at this point in history. They clearly regard it differently today than they did back then.

They probably even regard it differently now than they did just 10 years ago, given the massive increase in sales BotW had from every other Zelda game. I mean it's sold like twice what Ocarina and Twilight Princess did.

@Dezzy Tbh,im suprised they arent making more remakes of 2D Zelda,its easier and will make us busy while waiting for new 3D one.