Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

Someone here also mentioned a Rare NSO drop during the Partner showcase and there being at least one N64 game in there. For reference of the games on there and not on there:

Banjo-Kazooie

Banjo-Tooie

Perfect Dark

Blast Corps

Jet Force Gemini

GoldenEye 007

Diddy Kong Racing

Donkey Kong 64

Mickey’s Speedway USA

Conker’s Bad Fur Day

There are five N64 Rare games that so far aren’t on NSO. I don’t expect Speedway USA to ever be put on there from licensing issues (though maybe they could work something out like they did with GoldenEye) so I expect one of the four (sans Speedway USA) to appear on there, if there is a Rare NSO drop tomorrow and it includes an N64 game. I lean towards the ones that use original IPs (Tooie and Bad Fur Day) rather than the Donkey Kong games.

Cool. My expectations are beneath the floorboards. I assume wall-to-wall cozy, farming, simulations and visual novels. Because when I look at the release schedule that's...really all I see.

For those who asking about those PH Brazil leaks, he said some kinda Nintendo Direct for games moved to end of August which end up being Partner Showcase and Indie for September to move up plans, but looks like they even moving plans further at last minute by moving Indie to same day as ND:PS, so what the hell is going on now.
Another thing that people forget couple things about Partner Showcase. First February ND:PS end with Nintendo IP/1st party aka Endless Ocean. Second Pokémon/GameFreak is 2nd party aka partner aka just Nintendo Exclusive not Nintendo Made/1st party. So there is possibility for something beyond 3rd party stuff! But I'm still leaving my expectations for PL:Z-A news extremely low due it's still Partner Showcase and not Full or Mini regular Direct! :/

This double direct is really weird. Nintendo doing a partner showcase makes me think they don't have much to reveal, otherwise they would have put it in a full direct. But doing it in August makes me think they have something else in September since they always have a September direct. The combination indie world and partner showcase makes me think that Brazil leaker was right and they just moved up the other direct to this month for some reason. The only thing I can think of that makes all that make sense is a Switch 2 reveal in September. I was firmly in the "early 2025 reveal and holiday 2025 release" camp, but now I'm rethinking that.

Well that was unexpected. Not sure what that means for a Switch 2 reveal. If they are doing it soon, then it would have to be on one of these weeks: September 9-13, September 16-20, or October 7-11.

Part of me doesn't believe they'd do it in September and overshadow Echoes of Wisdom, but on the flipside they may want it out ahead of TGS and manufacturing starting. They also still need to do one more trailer for Zelda, an overview trailer for Jamboree, and I'd say at least a couple trailers for Brothership. Not sure how they squeeze everything in there.

Anyways, don't really know what to expect tomorrow. Release dates for Shantae Advance and Metal Slug Tactics seem likely though, as I believe both are still slated for this year.

The Switch 2 reveal situation is peculiar.

I would rule out seeing it next month but the launch of Echoes of Wisdom with its own special Switch Lite just makes it seem like an odd move. There's also the big final Splatfest which they'll probably want to attract a fair bit of attention for.

Then again, there's been a significant September showcase for the last nine years and why would Nintendo stick the Indie World and Partner Showcase together where they could've placed it in the usual slot next month which it what I was expecting our Direct treatment would be.

I struggle to see us getting another Direct before the end of the year but I'd be surprised if September comes and goes without some kind of significant announcement

Maybe the initial plan was Indie World tomorrow and the Partner Showcase got added in more recently because SEGA gave Nintendo some marketing connected to the Sonic 3 movie promo cycle?

Movie news is finally coming tomorrow:

@Grumblevolcano Tomorrow is going to be an awesome day then!

Random funny prediction: Sony will announce the release date for Lego Horizon during the Partner Showcase tomorrow.

Level 5! Announce ports of your older titles on switch (SOME ARE ALREADY ON THERE, JUST JAPANESE ONLY. SO WHAT THE HECK) and my life is yoooours

I think the September general Direct is still possible. However, it definitely does seem odd that this is 2 presentations in one, as if they’re getting these out of the way for something else. If we start seeing big trailers for Mario Party Jamboree and Mario & Luigi Brothership then a general Direct would seem less likely for September which could mean a Switch Successor reveal sometime in September.

My theory was kinda correct. Nintendo announced a partner showcase and indie direct and Apple announced their Apple Event both today.

@Novamii Would love to see Crow Country in the Indie World showcase. As I mentioned earlier, I hope for release dates for Shantae Advance and Metal Slug Tactics.

As for the Partner Showcase, I think we'll see a release date for the Marvel vs Capcom Collection and more Rare games on NSO, probably Conker if I had to venture a guess. Not sure what to expect past that.

I reckon we are going to see Hi Fi Rush in the Indie Showcase and Call of Duty in the Partner Direct. Both would have previously been represented by Microsoft in a Partner Showcase...but y'know, that didn't pan out.

I'll take my tin foil hat off. (But there must be some reason why it's 2 events in 1. Something related somehow...)

@Novamii I’m not too excited about many 3rd party games, but Pac-Man World 2 Re-PAC would be awesome! I’m also intrigued about the Patrick game however it’s pretty unlikely I’d play it. It’d be nice if there was an indie/3rd party developed game of a Nintendo franchise, however that most likely won’t happen (I’d love to be wrong though!)

@Novamii I don’t really hope to see anything, but someone else brought up that they could do another Rare NSO drop alongside an N64 game, so I would maybe want to see that if there is partner NSO news in the showcase. I’ve been dying to see what the next N64 game will be, but I’ll take any NSO news from any game developer. Other than that, I don’t really have anything else. That rumored port of Hi-Fi Rush would be cool too since it’s been known info already, just hasn’t been officially announced, but I already have an Xbox to play it. I also think a port of a Rare 360 game would be cool and fitting for the Switch (namely the Viva Piñata games) but the chances of that are super unlikely. I’ll just stick to the NSO stuff.

Well, my eShop statistics were correct at predicting a direct. If I'm un-lazy maybe I'll do a more complete analysis and see if we can predict the next one. Although if the next one is a Switch 2 reveal it probably wouldn't work because I'm really just modeling third party games delayed slightly because of being advertised in an upcoming direct and therefore the release-rate dipping before a direct with third party games and spiking afterwards.

The last partner showcase had both an NSO update and a first party game. Think we will get a repeat or only actual third party games?

@FishyS Probably. A lot of people on the thread are leaning towards it being more Rare games, but if there is an NSO update, it could be either Rare or another game developer’s title. If you do look at the release schedule for the N64 games, the last one was in June, and most games are now released every two months, so the service is due for another title soon. If not in the Partner Showcase, then in a possible September Direct…but Nintendo sometimes releases games on NSO sporadically, so it could be possible another NSO release won’t be until more than two months later.

I do think a bit that it could be a double N64 drop since the last two had two games releasing at the same time, but I mostly think it will be a single title. A lot of people here have been speculating it’s going to be Conker if there is an NSO drop in the showcase, but it could pretty much be anything, and I have no idea how quickly they will update the 17+ app, but given how it’s new and only has two titles, they might want to add more content on there as soon as possible. There’s a lot of other third-party N64 games that they could release too that aren’t related to Rare.

I'll be surprised if there's more than 3 things that interest me in all. Both of these showcases are usually miss more than hit for me.