Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@NintendoByNature I mean... Superstars could have been better than it was, but they also shot themselves in the foot releasing it the same week as Mario and Spiderman. Frontiers had very mixed reviews but they didn't help themselves making a really poor demo for it. Sonic games lately certainly could use some extra polish but it seems like their release strategies have just made things worse. They've definitely gone out of their way to avoid some of my money they could have easily obtained.

@FishyS for sure. But even if sonic released today, it doesn't even hold a candle to mario wonder. My whole point is that sonic games just feel mediocre in comparison to mario games. Even sonic 2 or sonic and knuckles aren't as engaging as any mario title imo. And I absolutely adored those back during the genesis hey day. Everyone gets so hyped with every new sonic title, and once the dust settles, we're usually left with a decent game, really good at best.

There's plenty of Sonic games I really like, my top 5 would be:
1. Generations
2. Adventure
3. Adventure 2
4. Colours
5. Mania

My most anticipated game of 2024 is tied between the Tomb Raider 1-3 collection and Sonic X Shadow Generations.

I would say more recent Sonic games (e.g. Forces, Frontiers, Superstars) generally could've done with more time in the oven. I still liked them though obviously a longer dev cycle allowing for a better game is much better.

It’ll either be announced in 8 hours or 32 hours if it’s happening this month

I would say 32 or 56... The directs are generally on Wednesday or Thursday and announced the day before.

Hopefully the direct will be on Wednesday so we can finally stop guessing when it will happen. 😆

And thus begins another round of checking my Twitter feed at 10am daily for a Direct announcement

Didn't someone say it was rumored to be a partner? Maybe nate? If that's the case it could be announced same day. More waiting if that's the case lol

@NintendoByNature Yeah, pretty sure it was him. But just because he said it could be a partner Direct doesn't necessarily mean that it will be a partner Direct. Could still very well be a regular one, but with less focus on first party stuff

I don’t mind third party direct honestly. The last one was so good. The hate some online people give towards them are so comically overblown sometimes

@MarkL1987 yea who knows at this point. This is nintendo we're talking about

Hopefully tomorrow we get a direct announcement (or Wednesday)

Do you think it's strange we haven't heard anything from Pyoro yet?
Idk how far in advance he starts chirpin' away but part of me feels like we should have heard something by now if the Direct's expected in 2 days🤷‍♂️

@Nintoz If we're putting trust into leakers, I put more stock into Nate the Hate, and he's been talking about there being an upcoming Partner Direct for the past week or so.

So the Xbox Business Update is confirmed for 8pm UK time on February 15th:

Does this give more stock into a direct before or after the Xbox podcast

@Magician Pyoro has never been wrong dude, Nate has been wrong multiple times, according to him we would have gotten 4 Zelda remakes in 2021/2022 so...
I only 100% trust Pyoro.

@Nintoz Was thinking that too, hopefully we still get a direct though, I just want more games lol

@NintendoByNature Before, feels like if the 2 are connected the Direct would announce some 1st party Xbox games for Switch and then later on in the day the podcast happens to discuss the more general Xbox multiplatform strategy.

If the 2 aren't connected, I'd say it's likely that there isn't a Direct at all this week.

Given how this is the week this February Direct has been rumoured to be taking place in, I must ask: what timeframe do we think it'd be announced at if its a general one? I know Partner Showcases tend to be either shadowdropped or announced the day before so would we be expecting a Direct announcement to fall either tomorrow or the day after?

@Fizza Wednesday being Valentines Day may complicate things but in normal circumstances, general Directs are announced the day before airing.