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jump

@NinChocolate well there's 100% chance there will be 3pm in the UK this week and when there's 3pm in the UK there is a possability of a Direct announcement maybe being made. ;p

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VoidofLight

I’d say we probably won’t get a direct in the first month of the year, since we haven’t lately unless it was a direct mini or a huge presentation like the switch presentation from 2017.

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TommyTendo

We need a direct now, it's ages since the last one.
I wish we could have one every other month, and that they announced all the dates a year in advance.

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FragRed

Nintendo has a few games we already know about coming first half of the year. The question is, how soon is the first games to be releasing post Pokémon? If it’s post March then maybe there won’t be a need for any Direct too soon. They’ll probably want a couple of months to get the hype machine going for whatever they have coming first.

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DarkRula

I'm hoping one's coming this week. It would be nice to give us a look at the year ahead (even if it's not everything) at the start of the year.

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Fizza

@VoidofLight Although it would spice up an otherwise uneventful month (PLA doesn't really count since it's more of a February game than a January one in my eyes). It would also be completely unexpected since the first Direct of the year is almost always February. 2018 got funky with March but most of the time that's what it is (and granted, that March Direct was eventful to put it mildly), making it really exciting if a January one were to happen.

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NintendoWife

Yeah January feels slow... :/ But then it always does. So I don't expect an earlier Direct than usual. February it is. Most of it will be about previously announced games anyway no? Kirby and such. Here's hoping for 1-2 major new announcements.

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Giancarlothomaz

@NinChocolate 30% i don't think Nintendo will do a Nintendo Direct specially with Pokémon Legend Arceus releasing in the coming weeks, the first Nintendo Direct will problaby happen after Pokémon Legend Arceus release(problaby in february or march).

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Grumblevolcano

I think the maintenance is the biggest hope for a Direct this month, namely announce tomorrow and air on Wednesday with the maintenance happening early Thursday morning. I'd go with 40% chance of Wednesday, 60% chance of the week after Legends Arceus launch (February 2nd/3rd).

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VoidofLight

@Grumblevolcano Haven’t there been times where maintenance happened, but no direct occurred?

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Grumblevolcano

@VoidofLight Yes, though the part of maintenance that I think may be Direct related is "acquiring stage data". It could be for a Splatoon 3 Global Testfire, the first Splatoon 2 Global Testfire happened around 4 months before Splatoon 2's launch so if Splatoon 3 is May/June then it would be similar timing.

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jump

VoidofLight wrote:

@Grumblevolcano Haven’t there been times where maintenance happened, but no direct occurred?

I think a better question to show no correlation between them is, has there been a Direct when there was no recent maintenance? Just through Ninty being a tech company they will of course be running maintenance but we are only interested if it's an indicator so that’s the question. In any case, talking about maintenance is boring. ;p

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Fizza

@X-Slayer F-ZEROOOOOOOOOOO (Smash medley starts playing).

Whilst I would love to see a new F-Zero (and I've actually played the original so I have the authority to say that at last), I feel like the angle Nintendo's been taking with the Switch is 'every single franchise is coming back, except the ones you want... mostly'. Clubhouse, Brain Training, Brain Age, all of these DS era puzzlers are back and better than ever on Switch while franchises like Golden Sun and Kid Icarus are left to the wayside (hopefully not though, those series are really cool). With that in mind, I believe the next series to come back will be Meteos. People have been wondering what Sakurai's next thing is and, while everyone thinks it'll be Kid Icarus or something, it's revealed to be the sequel to one of the quirkiest puzzle games in history. I'm joking a bit here, but you could absolutely see it, right?

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Grumblevolcano

Not a Direct but we did get a new Kirby and the Forgotten Land trailer with a March 25th release date:

Probably safe to say there isn't a Direct until March/April then.

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Ninja84

@Grumblevolcano
Well unless Nintendo makes another Twitter announcement in february, march is a little late to announce a game for april..

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Magician

@Ninja84 @Grumblevolcano

Advance Wars 1+2 is Nintendo's April game.

Too niche to warrant a Direct specifically for it alone.

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Ninja84

@Magician
You might be right. The third party line up is also Pretty bare bones the next couple of months tho..

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Magician

If the leak of Fire Emblem Echoes coming to Switch is accurate, I think that series is big enough to warrant having a Direct focused on it in March, if it's scheduled for a late May or early June release.

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