Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

Looks like there's major eshop maintenance on June 22nd:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/netinfo/en_GB/index.html

June 22nd 12pm - June 23rd 1am UK time (13 hour maintenance) has maintenance for using eshop cards and download codes.

@Grumblevolcano Nintendo Direct in june 23th

@Giancarlothomaz I highly doubt that. The June Direct is always between the 8th of June and the 19th of June, usually on the earlier side of that range. It could be GB/GBC/GBA support being added to NSO+E though.

@korosanbo If E3 was cancelled next year as well, absolutely, however usually these events are planned a year ahead of time so they didn't know that E3 2022 would be cancelled at the time they likely scheduled the event.

@korosanbo I guess it's because last year's E3 was absolute garbage, which then led to this year's E3 being officially cancelled

Not yet, @korosanbo .... In theory, Nintendo could do their direct anytime but there are still the various alternative digital things instead of E3 You can be sure that as soon as anything is announced, it'll be shared here & talked about around the whole forums, though
In fact, I'm pretty sure it'd be all over the internet, as well, so you won't miss it, lol

There you go, unsurprisingly Scarlet/Violet launches November 18th so that's your big November game.

@korosanbo If the normal structure continues with this year there's 3 unannounced games, 2 for October and 1 for December with 1 of the October ones likely being Bayonetta 3.

@korosanbo Bayonetta 3 was revealed to have a 2022 release window back in September and the release timing of Bayonetta games are generally late October to coincide with Halloween.

@BruceCM I think it's likely that there will still be a Direct in June since at minimum they need to promote Mario Strikers/MK8D DLC

Let's hope so, I can't wait for Bayo 3 .....

Don't know what to make of this whether it increases, stays the same or decreases the chance of a Direct.

@Grumblevolcano One has nothing to do with the other as Nintendo won't abandon their Direct for an in-person only event especially during an ongoing pandemic which will undoubtedly severely impact the number of people going to in-person event like this.

@Grumblevolcano would a 3 month long road trip effect a summer direct? We'll find out soon 😃

I would love a direct next week, because that is one week earlier than two weeks

@TowaHerschel7 @NintendoByNature I was thinking in the sense of the summer already being laid out so perhaps Nintendo would focus heavily on the summer titles instead of announcing stuff further in the future.

On another note, the official page for Three Hopes suggests a demo is coming (maybe revealed today/tomorrow?):

https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/fire-emblem-warriors-...

I hope we get one next week

I also think that the week of June 12th is pretty likely. Not sure why, just a feeling.

@Grumblevolcano Aside from Pokemon Scarlet & Violet we literally only know what's releasing through the end of July. That's abnormally short-term even by Nintendo's standards.

Edit: And we haven't heard anything about wave 2 of the MK8D Booster Course Pass yet which has to release sometime this month or next to keep the waves at least somewhat evenly distributed.

1 year ago today:

@TowaHerschel7 Splatoon 3 is September 9th and there's not usually 1st party games in August (2019 was the exception with Astral Chain).