Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

I guess this makes another "regular" Direct for August pretty unlikely. Maybe another partners showcase, or possibly a Mario Direct? What do you guys think?

I didn't think any of us expected a full direct this month .... Probably a partner direct, for BDII & whatever else? Mario Direct next month, maybe?

@BruceCM
By "regular" I also meant a regular Direct mini (not partner's showcase).

Ah, well .... Since it'd only be 1st party games, it's unlikely there's enough of those for a mini, sadly! I certainly wouldn't get too hopeful for one but I'd love to be wrong about that

Since when do minis only have 1st party games? Look at the last mini in March.

Before they decided to do a separate partner's one .... Maybe, if they cover mostly other 3rd party games?

Yeah I think we'll definitely see another Partner Showcase this month, as well as an Indie World presentation.

In September I think they'll reveal the big holiday game via Twitter and then they'll have a Sakurai livestream that'll reveal Fighter Pack 7.

I don't expect a big Direct at all this year.

Also, I think it's more and more likely that September has no big game, and that Bravely Default II has been delayed to 2021.

It's definitely not 2x as powerful.

There are some parts of the specs that are 2x the Wii U. Like it has twice as much RAM, and reads from RAM about twice as fast. The GPU improvement is smaller though and the CPU improvement is much smaller (though hard to directly compare between different CPUs)

@Dezzy
They Switch can at least render the same games at double the resolution (see DKC: Tropical Freeze).

@Dezzy Is more than double the CPU, is the GPU, that stayed close the same.
Why? Suposely to avoid overheat and battery draining.

@DKTF on WII U was 720p. 1080p is not double.

@dionysos283 @sixrings

1080p is about double the total pixel count of 720p, but not necessarily "double the resolution". People usually would mean doubling to 1440p to double the resolution.

The CPU is definitely not twice as powerful though, so it's just gonna depend on whether the game in question is either CPU or GPU bound (meaning which one is the limiting factor in performance)

Something like Breath of the Wild for example is going to be far more CPU reliant than something like Donkey Kong.

given we got the second twitter drop of a major first party game from Nintendo with Pikmin 3 Deluxe. I'm guessing Nintendo's year is pretty fubar because of COVID and Nintendo's own weirdly inept means of managing the public messaging, were just gonna get these out of the blue surprises.

I agree. Hopefully we'll see DOOM Eternal announced in the next Partner Showcase, whenever that might be.

To be perfectly honest, I've given up on expecting anything meaningful from Nintendo this year, and I am not convinced 2021 will be any better. The only thing exciting me about 2021 so far is SMT (thanks Atlus).

Maybe a mini direct or partner showcase aling with a nindie direct, but anything meaningful? Nope.

Nintendo's made it clear by now that there won't be a major Direct any time soon. They will still have some major game for the holidays, most likely that Mario collection.

@MS7000 I think people may end up being disappointed by 2021 also. Nintendo are going to be pretty delayed in the development of their games and seeing as how they avoid using crunch, it could be a good while before things return to normal for them.

I don't really mind if we haven't got big announcement from Direct or something as i really busy with ACNH.
1 game that keep me busy and it's already enough for me. Not to mentioned my backlogs.

Since Super Nintendo World was supposed to open this year I get the impression that Nintendo wanted to make Mario's 35th Anniversary a huge deal with the park, the new Lego line, and the big remasters. They've probably discussed delaying the remasters to next year to still launch with the park, but with no other alternative (since I don't believe BOTW2 was supposed to be this year's holiday title) they're in a scramble, and that's why they've been so silent. Also, if you told me September 2019's Direct would be the last big one for a year or more, I wouldn't have believed you. It's unprecedented, even during the Wii U days.

i cannot wait until oct 30 for pikmin 3. i cant.