Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

Yeah, apparently there's a massive Apple event tomorrow. Everything else tech related is getting swept away in that storm.

XCX impossible on Switch...?

Come again Switch is more powerful than Wii U och pretty much more capable than PS3 and Xbox360.
Still many people believes the opposite yet in today! Red Dead Redemption is just a bit above 600p on PS3 while it's in 1080p on Switch and has a super-stable frame rate. That's just enough proof that Switch is more powerful.

Still I sees many here claiming that Switch can't run XCX because of Switch's cartridges, but Switch 2 will do it, how? If Switch 2 is still a hybrid console, so it will still use cartridges too.
Switch 2 according to 99% here will be in 4K with ray-tracing, so that means XCX Switch 2 port will be huge, like +64GB, or closing to 100GB, so how on the earth will it fit into a cartridge then? If Switch 2 will also be Switch-compatibility so it will use the same type or similar cartridges then. I don't think that a +64GB cartridge will a thing before "Switch 3".
16GB cartridges appears to be standard for Switch, so 32GB will be the new standard for Switch 2.

Also Nintendo & co is so much better in compression now compared with for 8 years ago, so XCX will easily look better on Switch and still is like +10GB smaller than the Wii U version. XCX were actually only 720p on Wii U, VERY few Wii U games were in higher than 720p so it just makes Wii U weaker than Switch. Still people out there claims the opposite...
Just a bunch of disgruntled Wii U fanboys who're still upset that Nintendo discontinued Wi U for 7 years ago...

If Nintendo could port the "impossible game" Skyward Sword on Switch with 3 different control types, so why can't tehy do it with XCX? The game is not that dependent (not even close!) of the gamepad as many want to claim it.

General Directs are announced 1 day in advance so announcement tomorrow would mean airing on Wednesday. Which fits as with the exception of last September's awkward clash with State of Play, the February Direct is usually the same day of the week as the September Direct.

Well let's hope it's tomorrow. I don't have much to play on switch til Mario wonder.

@Stamina_Wheel should i put my clown make up, over the possibility of no Metroid Prime 4 on the septembre Direct?

@Stamina_Wheel when has Nintendo aired a Nintendo direct on 9/11 before?

@Stamina_Wheel Ah, fair enough. Well then you’re probably right about it being on Thursday

If it does happen on Wednesday, that will be the fourth Direct to be on 13/09!
Albeit one was the result of a delay.

@Stamina_Wheel hopefully, Switch is nearing it end and yet no sign of the game

@Nintoz When was that delay, exactly?

@Stamina_Wheel They did change the announcement gap to 1 day from 2018 onwards, here's the 2018-2022 September general Direct announcements:

So the whole airing on September 14th thing may very well be a time zone thing. For example 11pm UK time (the normal September Direct airing time) is the following day for a lot of the world. Do note that the 2018 Direct was delayed by a week due to an earthquake in Japan.

@MarkL1987 The top one in the post above. Due to an earthquake in Japan

Nintendo should normalize doing a direct on the 3rd week of September since it usually fits in their schedule and twitter people can stop asking for a direct on 9/11 sooner

@Keman never said xcx was impossible to run on switch. It’s just not happening because it’ll be expensive to port. Monolith said this themselves.

X also has no barring on the main series, and most likely won’t get a sequel.

Totally real direct leaks!1!!1!1!1!1!1!!1!

@DiamondCore

I know it's a joke, but clearly we aren't getting any paper mario announcements anytime soon. It would just be too much distraction from Mario RPG. Plus we are already pretty much full up on Mario right now.

I think basically every possibility has been predicted at this point, so we may as well buckle up and see what actually happens this week

@DiamondCore
I have bought Paper Mario TTYD GameCube last August 2023 LOL.
Let's see if TTYD will get Remastered on Switch.

@FishyS yeah, smrpg sadly rules it out D:

@Anti-Matter I hope so! But like @FishyS said, it would likely interfere with SMRPG in November.

@BobTheBunkerGuy thanks! I made them myself on an iPad, it’s surprisingly not hard to do, just requires some effort in replication to make it look legit.
Also, here’s a new TTYD mock-up with the hashtag added (reason it was originally excluded was because some Nintendo products have them and some don’t so I figured I’d apply that to the mockups)

Got my clown wig at the ready if there isn’t any Side Order news at the next Direct 😭