Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

There's no reason it won't. It's periodical and has a known timespan and distribution. We know it's gonna be five more waves by the end of next year.

@Marioman2022 I think they will. It's obviously not as much hype as the Smash reveals were, but it's likely going to be something consistent to look forward to every Direct. If you're a Mario Kart fan, that is.

Between the XC3 website updated on Saturday, a very recent Nintendo Life article and the major NSO maintenance (everything is down for a few hours on Tuesday), it's honestly seeming like there may be a general Direct this week. Would be weird to have a Direct this week given the Three Hopes trailer last week but maybe there's a lot of stuff to show about that game such that a trailer could be outside a Direct.

@Grumblevolcano God it feels so early to have one in April for once, especially after getting another general one at the start of February and a Pokemon Presents at the end. Then again, with E3 cancelled, they could be condensing a lot of E3 announcements into multiple separate announcements through regular Directs so we'll see (I just want Pokemon Emerald on Switch man. It's probably not gonna happen but could you imagine if it did).

I could honestly see a direct happening this week. I just hope they don't drop news for Xenoblade 3's collector's edition randomly, since I really want to have a chance at nabbing it this time around.

It's very possible given the recent leaks. However, it's pretty early for nintendo considering they normally have a summer direct.

Thinking about it, another potential thing that could suggest Direct is Sonic Origins. The info in the Nintendo Life article suggests a release soon and the April 2017 Direct had segments on Sonic Mania and Sonic Forces.

And what are the chances we finally see that rumored RE for switch game?

@NintendoByNature April Nintendo directs aren't really that uncommon. We got one in April of 2017.

@VoidofLight true, It can happen. Time will tell if this will be a repeat of 2017..

I could go for a nice spring Direct

Welp, here’s our news for this week. Our big July release is set.

@CITRONtanker Woah! July was way earlier than I thought they were aiming for.

Yeah, it’s very strange, as it’s actually been pushed forward. They initially said it would come out in September.

Also, I don’t know why, but I’m getting a creeping suspicion that Splatoon 3 is further off than we think. I thought it was a lock for July, and while this doesn’t necessarily debunk that, given how little we’ve seen of the game thus far, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s pushed back.

The trailer says the special edition is exclusive to the My Nintendo Store.

@CITRONtanker We're basically going to have 3 big releases come out within a month of each other: Mario Strikers, Fire Emblem Warriors and Xenoblade 3. Splatoon would have to be an August game at the earliest in order to not get completely quashed in the release schedule (and then there's also the case of Advance Wars possibly coming out at any moment these days which is just WOWZERS).

Live A Live is coming out in July too. Very busy summer for Nintendo!

@Dogorilla They really didn't give us much time between releases. Will need to make a choice whether I want to really commit to playing through Live A Live in a week or just leave it in the backlog for a while because I'm definitely starting Xenoblade at launch.

@BenAV I'm very behind on the Xenoblade series (by which I mean I've only played the first game and just started Future Connected) so I'll probably buy and play Live A Live at launch, but yeah it is a bit odd for Nintendo to release two major RPGs a week apart. I know Square Enix probably decided on the release date for LAL as they're publishing it in Japan, but Nintendo was obviously aware of that date when they decided to bring XC3 forward, so it's a strange decision.

@Dogorilla There's a load of rumours about Sony acquiring Square Enix, maybe that's why? Sony pretty much abandoned promoting Ghostwire Tokyo as a result of Bethesda being acquired by Microsoft.