Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

I will say, it's a bit disappointing that's its only a 3rd party showcase. They could've extended the direct an additional 10-15 min, make it a general direct, and have some 1st party stuff. Throw in 1 or 2 new game announcements for 2023, and we're playing ball. But whatevs..I'll watch anyway and more than likely enjoy it 🙃

@HotGoomba Considering how low-key Nintendo's presence as a whole was in that event (it was literally just ADS), they may have either been saving it for this Mini or didn't want it to get lost in the sea of space games (when it itself is a space game).

Oh, and Last Of Us Remake. That might've swayed things just a tad as well.

@HotGoomba Yeah, you're probably right 😅shouldn't get my hopes up lol

@Slowdive NieR Automata?

Sounds like a prime candidate for a Switch cloud version!

I'm disappointed it's a partner showcase, not going to lie, but maybe we'll get a couple of nice surprises.
Ghost Trick Remaster, anyone?

@Slowdive I saw that tweet. The second and third coming separate has me worry these are gonna be full price bare minimum remasters spread over 3 years with the fourth game releasing on the Switch successor. That sounds like the typical Nintendo approach

@FragRed I'd guess it's a situation where in the big September general Direct all 3 gets announced (kind of like how Front Mission was handled in February) and then followed up with a Prime 4 teaser.

cant wait for re4 remake announcement as a cloud game that looks fuzzy and runs at 20 frames. best console!

What a Nintendo Direct is happening Late June, the rumours are true.

Just ignore the fact that they got the date wrong and the type of direct wrong.

It’s almost like they’re lying and are using precedent to make educated guesses that we all could have made.

I like how literally 10 seconds before reading this I see someone posted a tweet guess the correct date 2 days ago.

Anyway I am mostly indifferent. But I will say I'm not sure I would've done things this way because normal Directs get more attention than either the Xenoblade or 3rd party direct will on their own. If they had literally put (a presumably truncated version of) the Xenoblade Direct in between what will be at this one, otherwise the exact same announcements, but called it a regular Direct, more people would've watched it I presume.

@kkslider5552000

I agree, it’s definitely weird to split it up, especially since it’s super rare not to have a full direct in June.

However I suppose the benefit for more hardcore fans is that we can better temper our expectations. (No BoTW2, no SMO2, etc.) I do expect to see a lot of people wanting HKSS, Bayo 3, and Pokémon SV. Hopefully whatever the big announcement is lives up.

Its finally time for capcom to unveil the remakes of the oracle games 🙃. Wishful thinking I guess. They're 3rd party, so it can happen! Don't burst my bubble.

& maybe SE will finally drop Star Ocean 2nd Evolution R.... I'm sure I'm not the only 1 who wants that Although Chrono Trigger &/ or Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions Remasters would be awesome, too

Well we got are direct, but only 3rd party’s, and It said it’s not even going to be a stream right? Sigh, maybe there will be some cool 3rd party stuff, I doubt it but, we have to wait and see.

Yeah, 99% of third party games are niche at best and shovelware at worst, this is practically tantamount to getting nothing. I'm very concerned about Nintendo's first party output. They're relying on so many niche IPs that have only sold 1-2 million that this year is probably not going to be great for them, and this late in the console's lifespan I don't see any of them breaking out of that sales tier. Pokemon Scarlet/Violet will do well, and Splatoon might do decent, but aside from that I don't think the majority of Switch owners are really interested in anything they've been pushing for the 2nd half of the year. IPs like Xenoblade, Fire Emblem (and a spinoff no less), Advance Wars (if we're even still getting that this year), Bayonetta, and Mario + Rabbids are NOT the kind of IPs you want anchoring your holiday lineup. Nintendo really needs to step up their lineup, especially in terms of broadly appealing, high selling games.

@Bolt_Strike Ikr? They really are, I guess for them they already announced there games that’s going to get them through 2020, after that there are a bunch of other games holding us off.

But I kinda wanted to know about games for next year, the one major direct we got showed us a lot, but now we are getting closer to the end of 2022, and we still don’t have anything major from Nintendo in terms of news.

@Bolt_Strike urm, what? We're already on track for the fullest exclusive lineup since 2017. What exactly are you expecting from the rest of the year? And what are Sony and Microsoft doing that's better?

And suggesting that 99% of what they're showing tomorrow is "niche" or "shovel ware" is needlessly pessimistic. The Switch has a great third party lineup, so why can't that continue?

My guesses:

• Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (technically a 3rd party game)
• Bayonetta 3 (similar boat to the above)
• Persona game(s) (will be here if they show up at all)
• MK8D Booster Course wave 2 (If, and this is an if, there's any sort of first party presence at all, it'd be this rather than a new game of some sorts)
• Reminders of other announced games coming to Switch (like the Final Fantasy Crisis Core & Klonoa remasters).

@RR529 If they show off bayonetta, then it will be worth for me lol.

@Bolt_Strike
"99% of third party games are niche at best and shovelware at worst"

I don't think so as my games collection are mostly 3rd party kids games.