Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Grumblevolcano a february/march Nintendo Direct is very likely to happen, or Nintendo cound not do a Nintendo Direct until E3 2023(unless something terrible happen like world war third happen and force the cancelation of E3 again), we aldready know Nintendo line up for the first half of 2023, know we need to know the line up for the second half of 2023 and the holiday 2023 line up for Nintendo and @Bolt_Strike Nintendo dont need a huge marketing campaing for Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, 2 months will be enough to market the game(march to april)

@Bolt_Strike If there's a January Direct Mini, they'd have an early March general Direct which would start the TotK info blowout.

@Giancarlothomaz No game, not even a big, highly anticipated sequel like TotK, can just get by 2 months of marketing. You need people outside the core audience to know it exists and time for world of mouth to spread. 2 months isn't enough for that.

@Grumblevolcano Having a full blown Direct 2 months after a Mini is relatively pointless, especially if they're going to continue to drip feed game announcements throughout the year as they've come to like doing. We only need 1 general Direct early in the year to cover Spring and Summer games, they probably do not have enough news for 2 within the span of 2 months. If they're doing more than a full Direct, the extras would probably be either a Partner Showcase and/or IP specific directs like Pokemon and Zelda.

@Bolt_Strike The concept came from 2018 when they did exactly that. January Direct Mini covering January - June meanwhile early March general Direct covered beyond June including the big holiday title (Smash). The downside with that approach was it made E3 mostly a Smash Direct though who knows if E3 will actually happen this year.

@Grumblevolcano I don't think they have that many first party announcements coming, and if they were to do it now, they'd probably have the Mini be a Partner Showcase and the full Direct focus more on first party.

Still expecting 2023 to follow 2019/2021/2022 with a general Direct in February.

Yeah I'm expecting the next Direct to be a general one in early February.

Gut feeling says most of the post-Zelda 1st party releases besides Pikmin are remasters/remakes. Wouldn't be surprised if it's a Mario sports spinoff from Camelot in June, Pikmin 4, and then a bunch of remasters/remakes the rest of the year. Oh, and a bunch of DLC too cause there's a lot of that on the way this year.

I don't think we'll see Mario Sports since we have all the ones that are created by Nintendo's studios. The others are:

• Basketball (Square Enix)
• Baseball (Bandai Namco)

I feel it's more likely we instead get a new Mario & Sonic during the holiday season in preparation for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris meanwhile Switch Sports gets new sports throughout the year via updates.

@Grumblevolcano
FYI there was a recent job listing from Sega that indicates the next Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games title will actually just be "Sonic at the Olympic Games" (without Mario). According to the listing, it will be a multiplatform title released on all major platforms.

@westman98 Sonic finally got fed up with Mario beating him.

There we go, the Switch news section on the console itself just had an article with a 5 minute FE Engage trailer. Seems like probably business as usual with a general Direct in early February then.

@Grumblevolcano Interesting that there’s a 5 minute trailer via the news section on the console itself but not the YouTube channel. I also always forget there’s a news section on the system itself. Wonder how many people actually look at the news on there.

@FragRed I do just to get rid of the blue dot on the home screen. Plus I've found some interesting indys that way.

Everytime I watch something on TV that has ads (Hulu, Freevee, etc.) every set of ads contains an ad for Fire Emblem Engage. So there's that, Nintendo is doing some marketing for it.

Fire Emblem will take number one in the charts. It's quite impressive how much it has grown into a 'significant' ip (I believe the analysts call them.) Come along way from playing it on GBA lol.

@FragRed i always look at the news section on my Switch, every, time theres a notification there

@GrailUK Let me know when a Fire Emblem game sells 5-10 million and then I'll be impressed. It's a B tier franchise right now, nothing more, nothing less.

@Bolt_Strike Shhh

@GrailUK No, I think it's fair to question when it gets the release frequency of an A tier IP but the sales of a B tier IP. Metroid sells about the same as Fire Emblem for example, but you don't see Metroid getting a game every 1-2 years.

@Bolt_Strike
Fire Emblem doesn't come close to getting a game every 1-2 years unless you count Fire Emblem Warriors.

But yes, Fire Emblem does see more frequent game releases than Metroid, largely because Intelligent Systems has done a great job managing the Fire Emblem IP while Nintendo has done a relatively poor job managing the Metroid IP over the last 12 years (Other M and Federation Force being flops, Samus Returns launching too late in the 3DS lifecycle, Prime 4 needing to be rebooted, Prime Remastered not materializing yet) despite the recent success of Dread.