@jump It's not that I find "joy" in it. I'm just saying clearly they didn't pluck random dates out of their arse. They clearly are able to obtain accurate inside information. I have no idea what they got wrong or whatever, because leakers aren't all one homogenous entity and it all gets muddied by clickbait youtubers, "influencers" and video games sites. I don't follow it clearly, so I don't know if there's a specific leaker who promised stuff that didn't happen. I just know sites like this one reported a leaker had said a Direct would happen on the 20th and they were right.
Also a leak is always as accurate as the point it was obtained. What I mean is, plans can change, delays can happen. The pandemic has supposedly had a pretty big impact on Nintendo's development. So just because something a leaker says doesn't happen or doesn't happen immediately, it doesn't necessarily mean they're full of *****. They could have said what was correct at the time, but plans changed behind the scene.
Plans change all the time. Sega were working on an entire remake of both Shenmue 1 and 2 and then scrapped the whole project, instead opting to just port the games with some minor improvements. That news didn't leak until long after the project had been cancelled and the HD ports had been released, but if it had leaked during development and then never came out people would be claiming the leakers were full of *****, when actually it was true, the project was just scrapped before even being announced.
@Reprise that’s all very well and good but the date was the ONLY thing they got right and everything else massively wrong so the statement they were mostly right seems ridiculous to me.
I don't think we'll see a Direct or Mini with 1st party games this year, I think each game will be shadow dropped, one at a time, nothing new whilst a release is pending.
Maybe we'll see something slightly different (multiple shadow drops) if there is more than one game coming between mid November and end of December
@jump Sorry, I missed what else was predicted. I must have entered this thread mid discussion and missed other parts, sorry about that. All that I recall sites and youtubers stating was that a Direct would happen on the 20th. Did it come from a specific leaker then and they made other bold predictions?
I'm sure others here will dispute this, @Reprise .... But I think the actual leakers just said a direct or something was coming today! Then, when people passed that on, they added about Mario & all sorts Or perhaps people pestered the leakers for details so much that they made some of those up? As usual, these things spread so fast it's very hard to be sure exactly
@EOTW that their approach of a zero substance video( aside from SMT), wasn't welcomed by the masses? Maybe open their eyes with not dropping a video with very little information unless you have some reveals in there? I dk, anything along those lines I suppose to avoid outrage.
@Dezzy While that's true, Pokemon and Mario will also outsell pretty much any other video game franchise, period. That doesn't make the others not true franchises. I was more curious what your cutoff was, since something like Animal Crossing or Splatoon could also outsell those four combined and you didn't list them.
@link3710 yoshi, paper Mario, Mario and Luigi, smash bros, is all part of the Mario universe. Maybe their own games but still in my world classified as Mario games.
@link3710 yoshi, paper Mario, Mario and Luigi, smash bros, is all part of the Mario universe. Maybe their own games but still in my world classified as Mario games.
Just to let everyone know NintendoEverything has shown that the Fzero Twitter account is a fake and it is likely the 35th Mario anniversary account is fake as well.
@NintendoByNature I was more referring to the other comment I quoted when I said angry, and in general since the direct is at like 50% dislikes. @sixrings how many of the games announced for PS5 are actually developed by Sony?
Well, they seem to have several companies/ teams that do some games for them, @EOTW .... Would you count something like The Last of Us? It's still exclusive to PS4, although it's obviously made by Naughty Dog If Nintendo had more companies like that making games for Switch, it'd help a lot!
@jump The source of one of your links was "4chan" lol. I now see what you're referring to though. However, they don't appear to be the person who originally leaked the 20th date? Maybe they just piggybacked onto it and wanted to attention seek. I honestly don't know. Or maybe the stuff they mentioned is all in the works and as many of us know, internally has been delayed due to the pandemic. Who knows?
It is all pretty frustrating all round though. Personally I didn't think it was worth Nintendo's resources and time doing that Mini Direct. Those developers could have just done their own trailers and announcements. It was basically just SMT anyways.
@EOTW ok thanks for clarifying because I didn't feel my post came off as angry. I was simply stating what I saw on the YouTube channel. I get theres a pandemic, but its felt "light-ish" for a lot of people since right after pokemon released. Im personally fine as i have tons to play, but just saying.
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