Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

Woohoo..!
Wholesome Direct 2023 due to 10 June 2023 at 11 pm at my place.
There will be a lot of cute indie games that I might like almost all of them. 😄
Nintendo Direct can stay away for a while, Wholesome Direct 2023 is on my way.

@Anti-Matter this is your month! No mature bad games for once!

@Professor_Plumber Probably turn the tech demo that was Bowser's Fury into a full fledged Mario game with it's own set of mechanics and flair.

@Owl1 No one tell Anti-matter that Final Fantasy XVI is releasing June 22nd. Even though that isn't a Switch title.

@VoidofLight he knows, he knows.

@Owl1
Actually, there was one game from Wholesome Games (the name of user on Youtube) Thcia that I immediately banned after I saw blood and gore from the beginning of recent trailer of Tchia and I was really shocked and upset because how could a game that already looked beautiful in environment with Mario Oddysey capture gameplay suddenly have dirty stuffs that I immediately hated the game so sudden.

And further investigation from ESRB website, it said there was a scene about headless animal and blood spurt out from its head and I really pissed off to read that descriptor from ESRB.
That was one game from Wholesome Games that I banned for having rated M stuffs.
Tchia itself was rated Teen by ESRB but it has blood and gore, and I have ZERO tolerance with those stuffs.

That announcement of Everybody 1-2-Switch may actually increase the chance of a Direct. They announced the game but absolutely nothing about it (not even screenshots) which is very unlike Nintendo. It gives the impression the announcement timing was only because of physical copies (there is a physical version).

Remember how Metroid Prime Remastered physical version wasn't a shadow drop, instead it launched 2 weeks later for US (the handling of physical was a disaster) and a month later for Europe (unlike the US it was handled well in Europe).

@Professor_Plumber
Last Nintendo Direct, when the last minute shown about upcoming zelda game, I immediately stopped watching the Direct and turned off my Switch since I watched the Direct from my Switch with YouTube as I didn't even need to know that game.
I don't care with blah blah blah AAA games, that zelda games, that xenoblade games.
Last Nintendo Direct was terrible for me because I was looking for the underrated kids games, not the over popular gargatuan AAA games. It was Blah for me.
I don't think I will get more excited from upcoming Nintendo Direct on this month (if that really happens) since I care more the underrated games.

Yeah, I'm not convinced Everybody's 1-2-3 who cares being announced like this kills any possible direct. The game is hardly a headliner.....

@skywake Yeah, it feels abit like when Game Builder Garage (or was it Labo?) that was announced around the time of a Direct just to get it out of the way possibly so real gamers wouldn't complain "junk" games are taking up time.

Watch Everybody 1-2 Switch go on to sell tens of millions of copies and outsell everything else

I think I'm currently with people that think this deconfirms a direct. I don't quite think it fits into the labo or game builder's garage box, because that felt like a new product of sorts. Plus they've also announced new colour joycon that could easily be slipped into a direct. That combined with the tweet about wave 5 of the booster pack makes me think our next direct is gonna be September

@BranJ0 Definitely think that’s the case. Can definitely see Nintendo doing more shadow drops of smaller games like Everybody 1-2 Switch until September. If it’s true Nintendo shelved that game a couple of years back because they didn’t like the quality, then I can totally see them just chucking it out there like this as a gap filler and to keep a flow of game’s coming to the system.

What Nintendo is doing right now - with the announcements of the Booster Pack Wave 5 "coming soon" and of Everybody 1-2-Switch without a trailer - sounds to me more like they want to create some hype for an upcoming Direct. Otherwise both would not make sense to me.

"We're proud to announce Everybody 1-2 Switch! Enjoy the rest of your Summer."

-Nintendo

A big fancy game in June would be nice but I'm still playing Zelda Kingdom Sad 😭 so I'm happy Ninty's June release is something I can ignore.

@jump same. Now I just hope if there IS a direct this month, nothing worthwhile gets shadow dropped. I don't see myself finishing zelda anytime soon.

I'm not so convinced. These are very low tier items to be using as your surprise reveals in a Direct. If they have stuff for the tail end of the year then there's plenty of space for a pre-August Direct

With that said, I'm not really expecting a massive E3 of past years tier June Direct. I do think that we're firmly in the tail end of the generation and this kind of stuff is pretty much what we can kinda expect. But I also don't think that any of this stuff "deconfirms" a Direct in June

My gut feeling is that late June we see a very mid-tier Direct outlining content for the tail end of this year. Heavily leaning on trailers for stuff we already know about and stuff for NSO. Nothing particularly forward looking, nothing game changing for Switch. Just stuff for existing Switch owners to go "oh, yeah, I guess that looks alright"

It all comes down to the way wave 5 is announced. If wave 5 announcement is just a standalone trailer then it's a safe assumption there's no general Direct until September.

I'm assuming Nintendo will just have a mini-direct/partner showcase in June like they did last year. We 'know' there will be some type of Mario announcement this year, but I could imagine them waiting to not distract from people continuing to buy Zelda.

This year has had big releases of the top two Nintendo franchises (I'm counting the movie) as well as some Kirby, Fire Emblem, Metroid, Bayonetta, continued Mario Kart, NSO stuff, etc. So it wouldn't shock me if the immediate future is light on exciting exclusives. Hence the shadow drop of a less exciting exclusive...