Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we got the Switch 2 reveal this week with a small presentation. Leaving space for a full September Direct that covers content across Switch and Switch 2 and how cross-generation titles and backwards compatibility will behave

For a potential September Direct, I do wonder if they will announce a ton more 2025 titles, cuz I think only a handful of titles have been confirmed for 2025, and a lot of the remaining 2024 games are releasing very soon.

Realistically, i do expect maybe a few overviews for a couple of the 2024 games and a few 2025 announcements. And then they might go into the 2025 games more in an early 2025 Direct in February and date them. That’s how I think they’d do things when you look at the frequency of Directs they hold. I would maybe expect a few announcements for new 2025 titles, some third-party games, some more looks at a few of the upcoming 2024 games, maybe throw in another port or remaster of some older game from maybe the Wii or WiiU, and an NSO update, and that’s how I would think the lineup for a September 2024 direct would go.

I’ve heard people say that maybe they could port Wind Waker or Twilight Princess, which did seem like super obvious picks for Switch ports, but they surprisingly haven’t done that yet. Maybe they could do that for a new port they might announce soon, but I don’t know what any “leakers” have said on Switch ports of those two, cuz they have been so wrong so far and I don’t keep up with “leaks” anymore, and I do feel like that ports of those are becoming increasingly unlikely, but I can’t explain why I feel that way. I also don’t know if any “leakers” have been teasing a port of an older Nintendo game.

Alongside a possible N64 NSO announcement in the Direct, do any of you expect them to drop other NSO related content for the other services alongside that? I think the other services have been updated recently, and some of the updates for it appear to be monthly rather than 2-3 months like the N64 app.

@Pastellioli
I do wonder how much they can announce in terms of 2025 content without talking about Switch 2. Presumably most of the big 2025 titles are all tied to Switch 2 in one way or another. Of course we have Prime 4 but that's a title that was announced years ago. Hard to see them having a lot of other content they'll want to talk about without at least giving a perception of them being associated with Switch 2

For example if they are planning on doing Wind Waker/Twilight Princess remakes as cross gen titles. But on Switch 2 they run at a higher resolution, framerate or have some light RT effects or something. I'd imagine that talking about them being for Switch first and especially if they release on Switch before Switch 2 is out? That'd take a fair bit of shine off the Switch 2 versions. So yeah, I think we maybe need to keep our expectations in check.....

For NSO, I think definitely there has to be something for NSO. No question about it. I still think the most obvious move is Pokemon because I think it's the biggest splash they can make outside of a new system. And I think new systems are probably going to be saved for Switch 2. Although, Sega Master System? Dreamcast maybe? Possibly they expand to N64DD or Satellaview? I think there's space for something a bit out of left field along those lines

I just can't see them doing something that would overshadow Emio or Splatoon 3 considering Nintendo are promoting both a lot recently. Partner Showcase and a standalone Super Mario Party Jamboree trailer could work though if a Direct with game announcements strategy had to happen this week.

There it is, Partner Showcase and Indie World.

Had a feeling it would be a partner showcase.
Interesting approach showing them back to back, I kinda like it!

Dang. Only time I'm actually busy tomorrow is at 9am central time.

Oof, well I guess we’re waiting until September! These are the two options of the 4 likely that I wouldn’t really care about XD

This seems likely that Nintendo are gearing up for a Switch 2 announcement sooner rather than later. Perhaps not a full blown “here’s everything about the console and launch games” but certainly its initial showcase.

Well okay, I was sure as heck wrong. I think we are getting the Switch 2 initial showcase in the next couple of months after all.

Notably they didn't say it won't include anything related to the Switch successor.......

edit: NVM, it's in a reply to the tweet

Wowie, looks like I was sure wrong about there being no direct in August lol. I wonder if them doing this will delay or reduce the chances of a general direct happening in September, cuz I looked at the Direct list on Wikipedia and they don’t follow up Partner Directs or Indie World directs with normal Directs fast.

OMG YESSS. i havent been active here recently lately but YAYYYYY DIRECT. im glad an indie world is with it , cause i tend to enjoy those better than partner showcases. hopefully this means general direct in september, or possibly an echoes of wisdom direct :3 now, NOBODY say the s word!
@Pastellioli OFF TOPIC BUT I LOVE LOVE YOUR NEW PFP AHH

I think there was a leaker that claimed the presentation wasn’t an Indie World or a Partner Showcase. Hilariously, it’s both! Anyone remember which leaker this is?

Considering Partner Showcase is present, I think there's going to be another Rare NSO shadow drop batch like in February. Slalom, Digger T. Rock, Battletoads, R.C. Pro-AM II and 1 of the N64 games (my guess would be Conker given the Mature N64 app released in June).

@OctolingKing13 Haha, thank you! Chose to make it a GIF. It took me a bit since the video I took was too big, so I had to use a GIF converter.

@PikminMarioKirby I have no clue, but I can assume that after this the leaker is going to lose some credibility...

@Pastellioli
They're jamming an indie world and partner showcase into one Direct. Especially given it's just a week after another Direct showing off the museum. If they had nothing to show in September then surely one or more of these three things would've been shuffled back. September will almost surely have something

Obviously the elephant in the room is the Switch 2 reveal. It would make a lot of sense if that's the thing they're clearing space for by compacting these presentations. People have talked about how they won't announce it this early due to risking Switch holiday sales. But we're also at the point where for every presentation they do they have to remind people that there's a new console coming. They can't do that forever

For the longest time I've said October is when they'll reveal Switch 2, I'm changing my month. September is when they'll do it

@skywake maybe, I went on a subreddit and have heard some people there speculate that they are compressing these two together because Nintendo does not have enough first-party games to show that will warrant a full Direct, which is interesting if true, but it would not surprise me if they had other 2024-2025 games in development that aren’t ready to be show off yet. Of course they do have other games cooking in the kitchen at the moment.

Hm, for me, I sort of lean toward an early 2025 reveal, since I think it was reported here that the next console is not expected to release early next year, which implies a mid or late 2025 release date. I lean towards the latter more though. I think that could be what they would realistically do, since there are still a few 2025 games for the Switch both with full dates and vague dates (like the DKR port releasing early 2025 and Metroid Prime 4 releasing sometime next year) that they may not want the reveal of the next console to overshadow and reduce sales, cuz I am absolutely expecting a ton of talk about the upcoming console to overshadow a lot of the game discussion. But, a September or October reveal makes sense too. Sort of after they get these Directs out of the way.

With what specific games they will show in the Direct, someone here mentioned another Rare NSO drop in the Partner showcase, and given that it has been 2 months for the N64 NSO, I probably would expect at least one NSO title from Rare or another partner company to be announced if you look at the release schedule for NSO. Some people have mentioned Hollow Knight appearing in the Indie World direct, but I’ve seen a lot of people cast doubt on that showing up. Who knows, I can expect both might be full of surprises and new games we haven’t heard of yet!

I just want some release date info on Mina and the hallower. That was announced for switch I believe?