Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

I feel like it'll have to be January given we still don't know a ton about Animal Crossing, and have no idea if they have any schedule planned past March.

EDIT: Want to point out that the Indie Showcase usually precedes the Direct by several weeks and we've already had that, so that's my other main point.

I'm sure there will be a Direct next week or the week after. This is one of those big industry years where everyone is going to try to make as much noise as they can.

A Direct next week would be the earliest january direct ever and only 3 days after most people have returned from the holidays.. i just dont see it. Maybe the week after. If not we are in february because directs are never in the second half of months.

@Ninja84 You can never say never with Nintendo

@Ninja84 The current earliest Direct is January 8th (Pokemon X and Y).

Definitely happening this month or the next.

Definitely happening this year.

Assuming Smash DLC is still releasing this February, I'm fairly confidant that the Direct will be this month. No Smash Ultimate DLC character so far has been announced and released in the same month.

@Grumblevolcano
I was thinking general directs not game specific. It is also curious that we dont have any leaks (Metro Redux is not necessarily a direct reveal).

I can't be bothered to check. How often are they on Wednesday?

@Dezzy Every 2019 Direct except E3:
February 13th general Direct - Wednesday
February 27th Sword/Shield Direct - Wednesday
May 15th Mario Maker 2 Direct - Wednesday
June 5th Sword/Shield Direct - Wednesday
June 11th E3 Direct - Tuesday
September 4th general Direct - Wednesday

For 2018 it was mostly Thursday and before then it was pretty much a mixture of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

@Grumblevolcano

So it's either completely random and just coincidentally Wednesday a lot in 2019, or they deliberately choose the day of the week for each year?

@Dezzy With the general Directs, the day is probably about timing with shadow drops. "Releases shortly after this presentation" is more exciting than "Releases tomorrow".

@Grumblevolcano

But that doesn't explain why they'd keep choosing Weds. Shadow drops could be any day couldn't they?

Imagine 20/02/2020 (20 Feb 2020) as the date of Nintendo Direct.

This leaker says its on the 16th if you scroll down his twitter he leaked the last direct correctly even obscure stuff like boxboy

https://twitter.com/Muguwus/status/1213361393727967232

@Anti-Matter
The general directs are always in the first half of the month..

@llazy77 But they also got things wrong like Tomb Raider coming to the Switch as one example as shown in this Tweet.

https://twitter.com/thepeekybird/status/1166280545581588480

@llazy77
Mug is notoriuos for putting out alot of information and then deleting the tweets that does’nt come true.

Metro Redux listed for a february 7th release by 2 russian retailers..🤔