Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@N00BiSH Didn't miss anything. Wasn't a good watch at all. Only games of note were Metaphor: Refantazio, Monster Hunter Wilds, and maybe that one Lego game.

@skywake
It’s not happening, man. They’re not remastering either of those games for a second time. We’ll “get” them when GameCube stuff comes to NSO.

@rallydefault
I expect there's a non-zero chance you'll be proven wrong within a week or so. I expect the end of 2024 will be padded out with GC/Wii era "HD" releases and, at the top of that shortlist, are the Zelda games. And with no other clear prospects for 2024 Zelda releases it's a fairly safe bet I feel

I could well be wrong but all speculation carries that risk. I'm not saying it will here. What I'm saying is that with the information we know it seems probable. And it's not like they haven't done this already in some form with other titles. Galaxy, Prime, TTYD, Sunshine, Pikmin, Skyward Sword. I don't see how you can argue with a straight face that this is fantasy when they always have something like this on the go

GC on NSO on the other hand feels like a bit of wishful thinking. I'm sure it'll happen in some form at some point but I think there are other "classic game" wells to mine first. Like Pokemon for example

Plus it seems to me that it's counterproductive to wholesale make GC available on NSO for subscribers given they're currently in the process of mining that era of games for remasters they can charge full retail for

I missed this post, much hype for this (although obviously this is a game to be played on PC). Switch 2 can wait, booking in all of my 2025 weekends for this

@rallydefault Yeaaaah nah. Not happening. We aren't getting Gamecube on NSO. Gamecube games are on that silver-lining where Nintendo stands to benefit more from remaking the games and selling them at a higher price than they initially launched at- over putting them on a subscription service. They're most likely capping NSO at Gameboy titles.

Also while it's more likely Nintendo could just repackage Twilight Princess HD and WindWaker HD from the Wii U, I genuinely hope they won't. While WindWaker HD would be fine- Twilight Princess HD is literally only a texture redraw with an added dungeon to make the Wolf Link amiibo relevant outside of BotW. It's a game that never got properly remade- and it's the one Zelda that got screwed over the most due to not being properly remade.

Oh, silly me.
Wholesome Direct 2024 will be aired at 11 PM in my country Indonesia. 😅
I misread it will be 11 AM.
Well, I will wait for next 12 hours.

If switch 2 is indeed launching in 2025 this direct should have some welcomed surprises. We will see

You will realize if Switch 2 will be revealed when you see a trailer that showing peoples playing Switch on random place then suddenly about to show something unexpected. (Cue from Switch revealed)

The problem with relying solely on remakes to resell old games is that they only choose the most profitable games on that console, the other ones get left behind. So it doesn't help much for game preservation. What if I want to play something niche that'll probably never get a remake, like Wario World. Or hey, Alex loves Doshin the Giant, how can we play something like that in the present day (or for NA, period, since this game never released in NA?)?

I'm sorry, but in what way is Prime Remastered a "huge overhaul"? Did we play the same game? The graphics are very different, but everything else is pretty much the same. Prime Remastered isn't even the best Metroid remake (have you not played Zero Mission or Samus Returns? Now THOSE are huge overhauls that modernize those experiences), let alone the best remake overall. Prime Remastered feels far more like what you're describing LM2HD to be. Underwhelming, largely minimalist experience that feels little more than them turning up the graphics slider (yes I know the actual development did not turn out that way, but in terms of the end product experience that's what the game feels like). I mean Prime is still great and Remastered isn't a bad game at all, but it's far from an untouchable masterpiece and I was dreaming of them giving the game the ZM/SR treatment. Seeing it turn out to be... this was massively deflating. And they supposedly put more effort into this then Prime 2 and 3 remasters? I can barely tell they did anything.

@Qwertyninty I wouldn't get your hopes up high. While this is the last direct before the next console announcement, they won't be talking about the next system here. At most I'd expect just ports really.

@VoidofLight How do you know. The next console could very well be announced next year and we still get a holiday Direct. You don't know!

@VoidofLight my hopes are never high and I'm not expecting anything for switch 2. But if they plan on having a decent year of sales then they need something unexpectedly big.

@GrailUK The new console is probably going to be announced in the Fall of this year and have a release for early next. I genuinely don't think there's anything for the switch to keep sustaining itself with, seeing as we're getting our first general Nintendo Direct this late in the year.

TotK was the last major release. At this point we're just getting smaller titles and remakes/ports.

@VoidofLight I can't share your sentiment (yet lol). Especially as there is a Direct around the corner that's going to show us how sustainable the next half of the year will be. Even if they reveal it this year, it could very well be they share info early next year. But I can't see much sense in making people want the next thing while they are trying to have a successful holiday season. Switch is obviously getting a slew of third party titles. If they finally reveal Metroid Prime 4 and a Zelda remaster or two, Switch 2 or no Switch 2, then the holiday season will be as strong as usual! We'll see. (I'm always wrong as everyone knows lol.) I don't put much stock in the delay rumours (they could be true...but I'm not concerned with rumours regardless of how many outlets report them lol) so I'm still expecting a good Direct (And I'm sure it will be infuriating hearing peopl say they should have kept game whatever until the next console...)

I'm personally not expecting Prime 4 to release any time soon. I'd be surprised if it showcases in this next direct and is slated for Winter 2024- given the game is basically in dev hell.

@GrailUK

I'm mostly just going in with the lowest expectations. No big blockbuster games- with it mostly just being third party announcements, Wii U and 3DS ports, or smaller IPs that Nintendo is using to pad out releases and hold people over for one more year.

@VoidofLight Aim low. Avoid disappointent. kids! Heheh. you are probably wise

It could happen, but the internet would rage 😝 And that would likely mean we would get Switch holiday 2025 rather than early 2025.

I wouldn't be surprised if Switch 2 was announced in Fall but some of the big games were announced or detailed a little later such as November/December/January to be after the holiday shopping. Not sure what that would mean for the direct schedule.

@VoidofLight Nintendo's forecast with the current Switch for April 2024 - March 2025 seems way too high for Switch 2 to be announced this year. I think it'll be announce in March 2025 and release around September 2025. Perhaps GTA6 is a launch title.

@FishyS Yeah, but the internet is full of morons. If all they have to rage about is the timing of a console, then they aren't doing so bad.

@Grumblevolcano GTA6 as a launch title seems like a terrible idea .... that would be a day one 'look, our console still isn't powerful enough to play the most modern games well'. Seems much better to have one of the final fantasy games or BG3 which are not quite so resource intensive really optimized for Switch 2.