Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

With the new Mario movie coming at the end of the year, I am wondering whether Nintendo will release a game to coincide with its launch. I’m not saying it’ll be revealed in the next Direct but Nintendo does want something Mario every year and this movie will be perfect for a big new release.

I'm in a glass half empty mood. They sack Charles Martinet to have Chris Pratt voice him in the new game and Mario is remodelled to look more Chris Pratt-ish but his lines are still pidgin English plus are made even worse by having it be more Minions like to fit in with the new movie. In the current mood of the zeitgeist the game is a meta crossover with Mario in the Minions and other Illumination films.

@jump Wow, that would be the first major Mario game I've skipped, ever. And I even played NSMB2.

That said, knowing Nintendo? They'll just release whatever game was going to release anyways and pay lip service that it's a movie tie-in.

Opinion: There's already 15 Mario games on the Switch (3 released each year), we don't need a movie tie-in. The current catalog still sells month after month.

@nitrolink Nintendo did say they want a Mario and Zelda game every single year. So expect plenty more to come. It’s their biggest cash cow.

Super Mario The Video Game The Movie The Video Game

@NinChocolate I commented in that thread too!!

@nitrolink You make a good point, but Mario is Nintendo's main franchise, the games always sell well and the opportunity to sell a game alongside the movie seems to make marketing sense? maybe a way to attract new Switch buyers, maybe parents take their kids to see the film who don't have a Switch and end up getting one to get this game?

A NSMB collection or Galaxy 2 port would fit best if there was a mainline Mario this year, 3D Mario has gotten a lot recently with 3D All Stars and 3D World but Galaxy 2 was oddly absent from 3D All Stars. Meanwhile 2D Mario has been absent for awhile (NSMBU Deluxe and Mario Maker 2 in 2019 but the latter stopped being supported nearly a year ago).

Huh, it's Nintendo, @MarioBrickLayer .... Watch them try to make ALL the Mario games on Switch tie into the movie! "You've seen the film, now here's the games ......"

It's so exciting, Legends Arceus is only 2 days away which means Direct could be next week.

@Grumblevolcano

Hasn't February 21st been the date all the tinfoil hat folk have been pointing towards?

@Magician No it’s February 30th, Nintendo gonna go all out on that date. Just wait and see!

If nintendo sees its shadow on Feb 2, 6 more weeks of no direct.

@Magician 21st is a Monday so seems unlikely.

Honestly I noticed something weird, I loaded up Mario Party Superstars today and the Daily Challenge stars weren't reset despite it doing so in previous weeks.

@NintendoByNature The problem is every day Nintendo wakes up, it's the same day being forced to repeat forever. Unless Nintendo can break this cycle, all future Directs are cancelled.

@FragRed nintendamned...we're in direct hell at the moment and 'I got you babe' is playing on repeat.

@NintendoByNature The only way to break the cycle is to understand how to have a modern fully functional online system in line with competition. I fear we maybe here for many decades.

I doubt it. We didn't get a new Detective Pikachu game (or a port of the 3DS game to Switch) when that released, and same of the Sonic movie. Nintendo's brands already have a strong presence on Switch and there are plenty of Mario/Pokémon games to go around without making a game specifically to promote the movie, but timing a new Mario game to coincide with the movie certainly wouldn't hurt either.

@X-Slayer Every day someone says a direct is coming, they move it back a week, like the people on the island in Persona 5 S, who move the calendar back a day so no one visits a hidden research lab.

@NinChocolate : Considering that Nintendo is still marketing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (soon to be an 8 year old game) and that it continues to dominate the charts in key markets, I don't think Nintendo have anything to worry about as, unlike the likes of say, Ubisoft or Activision, Nintendo doesn't treat their games as being no longer "current" merely because it's been out for a number of months or years and this is reflected in sales figures (though some franchises are less successful in this respect than others). Hell, I see more more TV commercials for years-old Switch games than I do newer ones (Ring Fit Adventure in particular is heavily advertised).

Would it be smart to launch a new game alongside the movie? Sure. But I think such a movie is more of an effort to lure lapsed or non-fans to picking up a Switch rather than drawing existing customers.