Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Grumblevolcano I really don't see how LEGO sets, the Olympics, additional merchandise or Nintendo World opening benefit existing Switch users. Would've been poor planning regardless in that case.

@Octane the thing is Nintendo actually makes a profit of their consoles so that is a huge business incentive for them. While on the other hand xbox and PlayStation make all their money off the games. So xbox and PlayStation are incentivized to get more games out which makes back the money they lost on their system while for nintendo that would be great but system sales are a huge profit maker.

I agree. But I think they will be remastered or, I just wouldn’t see this as a big deal, except for core collectors.

There will be an announcement for the fall. The only question is how big the announcement will be. Does Nintendo essentially concede the holiday season to Sony and MSFT? If all we get is the remasters, then they essentially are. But I think the conditions for a big holiday season are favorable, given all of the new Switch owners and a 35 year anniversary should be favorable for a big cash in.

Exactly. That stuff is ancillary at best. Maybe long term it becomes a profit center. As I mentioned above, the conditions are ripe for a big cash in if they play their cards right.

@Octane It wouldn't but Nintendo's focus wouldn't be existing Switch owners, it would be new Switch owners that'll be buying the existing catalog like BotW, MK8 Deluxe, Splatoon 2, Mario Odyssey, etc.

The existing Switch owners would be looking at the exciting 2021 lineup announced at E3.

@Grumblevolcano I wondered if Nintendo's plan was to synergize marketing campaigns with mario bros 35th anniversary. If universal mario world opened around when mario game remasters released, it could help bolster the nintendo & mario brand visibilty, hype. And I imagine Mario & Sonic mascots would be visible at olympic venues. I think nintendo planned on being very visible at the tokyo Olympics too.

without nintendo land or the olympics , nintendo doesnt really have much left to do except the mario remaster and/or a new trailer for metroid prime 4, bayonetta 3?

hopefully a teaser for a new f-zero or pikmin? i'll take anything at this point. also, concerning the mario remasters, i believe that galaxy 1+2 would be bundled together with a retail price of $60, mario 64 as a standalone release for $40, a straight-up port of sunshine for $20 (digital only) i also think that 3d world will be ported with some new characters and that it might be bundled with a new platformer??? ($60)

Any game announcement from one of Nintendo's dorment IPs would be a very welcome sight. Be it Star Fox, F-Zero, Kid Icarus or even Wario Land.

Getting to know the next Smash Bros character is also always exciting for me. Especially now during the second fighters pass in which all bets are off. I feel like any character can join Smash right now, but I still think Rex from XC2 has the most chance.

For me personally, I'm most looking forward to Monolith Soft's next game, although I don't expect an announcement for that until E3 2021.

Looks we will get a direct between 11 and 22 august, the rumors say.

@FlashBoomerang That’s a whole 2 week window, which is the laziest type of rumour. Plus anyone who thinks it would be anything more than another Partner Showcase should just stop getting excited right now.

@BruceCM The last financials had them change that from 'all development on schedule' to 'development has been affected'.

Oh, at last, @link3710.... Did they say how many games or anything?

New rumors again, let’s yust wait and see.

@BruceCM Of course not, you'd have heard if they did. Presumably all 2 presently in development

at this point i think they’re deciding to take an l for 2020 and they’re gonna hit hard in 2021, which will include delayed 2020 games and games planned for 2021

maybe something on the caliber of 2017 could happen in 2021, to take advantage of the new consoles after the hype has died down.

@Octane So, in terms of numbers, Japan isn't doing bad. But Japanese people are terrified of the virus and taking it, almost, possibly, a bit much. Japanese people have no issue with wearing masks and 90% of them already wore them regularly. But some people are very frightened. My friend's wife tried very hard to talk him out of helping me haul my luggage to Tokyo - not out of spite to me or anything, but fear of the virus. And Japan shut down almost everything despite having far fewer cases. Though they have since largely resumed life as normal for business. But masks are everywhere and many stores have turned their greeters into temperature checking professionals.

Lols, there probably are quite a few in some stage of development, @link3710 ....

Those prices seem way off imo.