I'm sure I saw something that thought the game would be November & it'd get it's own State of Play at the end of June, @Grumblevolcano ..... No idea where they got that from but if it's officially still releasing this year, which is official, they'll definitely want to announce a date soon!
My only problem with Nintendo having a Direct on the 29th is that that's also the day of the shareholder meeting. I know it's been brought up before, but I feel like it would make more sense for them to do the Direct at least a few days before that meeting.
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@StarPoint Would it then be wiser to have a Direct before or after it? If you did it before, you could showcase all the new announcements during that meeting but then if you did it afterwards, you could build intrigue and maybe make them want to invest due to a possible opportunity cost. Having it on the day though would be very strange though.
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@Fizza Those meetings are not about getting people to invest. It's about making the existing shareholders happy and keeping them informed on what's going on.
I love shareholder meeting days, all the big bosses are gone so I can swear in the office plus they usually get a huge spread of Krispy Kreme, Subway sandwiches etc for them which they will barely eat and then head office staff get to have the rest. If you make friends with the office manager/secretaries they will make sure you have first dibs!
@Fizza I think timing-wise, it would make sense to have it before the investor meeting. Like @jump said, it's mainly about making those existing investors happy and informed, so I think it would be a smart move to have the Direct before that meeting.
I see it very likely that Nintendo could plan their Direct for after the Sony State of Play, as that's similar to how their E3 timing was.
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It's for existing shareholders, who mostly need continual reassurance their investment is paying off, @Fizza .... So, as long as Sony isn't doing that on June 30th, @StarPoint! We'll have to wait & see, I suppose
@FragRed Well it's pretty obvious that the Partner Showcases in 2020 are remnants of the cancelled E3 Direct so it's not impossible. All that would be affected are any 3rd games planned for the Direct that were launching in between the 2 dates, maybe those games were given to Geoff.
@BruceCM it's not so much about reassurance though, it's a legal duty for public companies to have shareholder meetings. You can't expect people with stock to google the company to find out what's going on. It's why the meetings are normally held around 3/4 months after it's years end so the financial statements for the year are then finalized and ready to review.
Thing is shareholders are looking for growth in companies hence why they are a shareholder so they need a knowledge of games (such as being a fan) to know what's going on plus specifically with companies like Nintendo, Disney etc where it's very brand driven they do tend to get a lot of fans being shareholders rather than just hedge funders.
Also investors and shareholders are two different things btw, you can invest in a company and not be a shareholder.
@Kermit1 At the moment, that's the only thing we know for sure, yeah - waiting will tell.
Maybe I've changed, because the lack of a Direct in 2020 didn't much trouble me. Perhaps the excitement of seeing Metroid Dread last year has whetted my appetite for these things. What I really wonder about is this - has Nintendo done these things in the past purely because because they were expected to, or because it was genuinely something they were strategically interested in? I'm not sure waiting will ever make that clear...
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