Am I the only one still holding onto a morsel of hope that there's a mini/general direct on the 28th? I know the partner showcase on Wednesday significantly reduces the chance it will happen, as Nintendo may have just moved the PS from the 28th to the 26th to spite the leakers, but I still don't think it's impossible we get an announcement today and direct tomorrow.
@Zilock Nintendo being the weird traditional company it is I don’t reckon they are flexible enough to move Directs (mini or otherwise) to spite leakers as there was games that were released at the same time as the Direct.
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It's not impossible. But even the leakers backpedalled from their prediction of a Friday Direct. I guess, if true, we'll see an announcement today.
@Zilock My assumption is that Nintendo always planned the partner showcase for the 26th, there was never going to be anything on the 28th and the leakers were just wrong.
Looking back at July, the Treehouse stream also said "July 2020" like the Partner Showcase. Could be Friday is a Treehouse stream having a closer look at Pikmin 3 perhaps (the Paper Mario Treehouse stream was also on a Friday)?
That'd be more likely than another direct this week .... Haven't yet generated any interest in Pikmin 3, myself, so it'd be good to see a bit more about it!
@Grumblevolcano very likely to happen, i believe the upcoming Fall update for Animal Crossing New Horizons will be so big that Nintendo have to divide into two part to add everything then want to add, with part 1 adding the third and final expansion to the Museum adding the Roost vastlyexpanded acting like a real cafeteria/restaurant,Gyriods, Museum Shop and the return of Nintendo themed Furniture and itens expanded with the latest games of this series and the return of the Luck mechanics expanded releasing mid septembre, part 2 of the Fall update would add the Halloween event, the third and final expansion to Nook Cranny, a small update to Nook Cranny and Able Sisters that add a Shopping Cart option and would release late octobre.
If Nintendo keeps following their MO with first party announcements, I'll expect a trailer for the rumored Mario Anniversary collection to drop shortly before it's to be released; No direct, just a trailer. That's what they've been doing with their first party stuff this year.
@Anti-Matter yes because Nintendo refuse to anounce any big games after Pikmin 3 Deluxe, and it seen more likely that Pikmin 3 Deluxe is gonna be the Holiday title of 2020 for Switch, i hope i wrong and Nintendo anounce the rumored 3D Mario Collection is the Holiday title of 2020 for Switch, but given Nintendo refusal to not reveal any big games after Pikmin 3 Deluxe, is more likely this game is the Holiday title of Switch for this year.
@Harmonie not really, sadly 2020 is really lacking completely new games, there have been only 3 new first party games: Animal Crossing, Paper Mario and Clubhouse game
And at this point I don't believe there will be another completely new first party game this year
Are 3D Mario ports really that much more exciting as a holiday title than Pikmin 3? I really don't think either is exciting.
Honestly, as far as I concerned, no. It feels like Nintendo are being too reliant on the back catalogue than creating new entries in any series as the moment. It is not as if there aren't any old series they could make new games for, such as Wario Land, F-Zero, Pikmin 4 as opposed to 3, Rhythm Heaven, Kid Icarus... but no, Nintendo seems insistent in porting all Wii U games (or any game in general). It makes business sense, but as a Wii U owner, it sucks.
Seriously. The Nintendo Switch has had this problem since day one. I had no reason to get a Switch early on because its big launch title, Breath of the Wild, was a Wii U game, and I had a Wii U to play it on. Every single Switch year has had this problem. Although to be fair, the last half of last year had a fair number of new Nintendo games.
It's just really something to see people clamoring for Mario ports to be the big holiday title. Can the Nintendo Switch not even have a holiday title that is new?
@Harmonie That probably summarizes my biggest problem with the Switch, being that it just seems like it's heavily favoring ports, remasters or remakes of older titles and not enough new content. This goes both ways with first party games like Link's Awakening, XCDE and these rumored Mario remasters in addition to the multiple ports of Wii U titles (which were at least justified by the fact that for a lot of people these games were new to them as they didn't own the console at that time), as well as 7th and 8th gen remasters of games that are well past their period of hype or heyday
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