Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

I’m only annoyed at the “winter” date for VF but honestly Ima be so broke from this direct (so many amiibo) that it won’t matter. Really need a second job.

That new FE just blew up my game purchases next year. I better buy what comes out this year and knock it out because once FE drops that’s it for me. Nothing else exists.

@link3710 Kirby Air Riders already had a release date

@Uncle_Franklin Hm... how about the February 2023 direct then. Literally not a single new 1st part announcement, just some release dates IIRC.

@Sylamp Thank you, fixed!

pretty good direct imo but can someone explain to me the point of doing a Switch 2 Edition of Overcooked 2 and not All You Can Eat?

Pretty good direct, I'm going to be hurting from all the Pokemon stuff

Mario Galaxy 1+2 and DKB DLC are the only things out of the entire Direct that interest me, the rest was boring. Hyrule Warriors is just going to be another mindless button bashing game, Pokopia looks like it should have been Animal Crossing, and I don't understand why they keep putting Yoshi in "child-like" games, the art style looks nice but I think he deserves a good full on adventure game.

When the Direct started and they showed the promo for Mario Galaxy Movie, I honestly thought it was footage of an open world Mario game, and that would have been epic. Sadly not. Looks like the only Mario we're getting anytime soon is old games rehashed with silly content.

Nintendo needs to stop with the "Switch 2 Edition" and give us proper Switch 2 exclusive NEW games. What is going on?

Fatal Frame 2 Remake, Dragon Quest VII Remake, and a new Fire Emblem (even though I have yet to play the previous couple or few entries) were the highlights for me.

A solid 7/10. Mostly release dates for a whole bunch of games previously announced.

By the standards of a September direct, I give it a pretty good/10. But actually it had Mario Galaxy 2 which means it was perfect and had no flaws actually. So 11/10. Sorry I don't make the rules.

I'd give that about a 3/10. I have zero interest in filler games like Mario Tennis this time around with the crazy pricing honestly.

I'd probably give that a 7.

Remember people, everything will come, today was Fire Emblem's turn!
It was incredibly odd Mario Kart wasn't even mentioned. At the very least I expected like an in-game event or something. Very strange, especially when DK rocks up with a DLC shadow drop.

Mario Tennis looks pretty good but then again I liked Aces the most out of the Switch Mario Sports line-up and this looks like a similar kind of set-up. If not better.

There's no way Virtual Boy NSO actually exists...

Metroid looks great, so does Tomodachi Life and I was a bit worried with the SMBW + Wonderpeak Park or whatever it was called but luckily it looks like we'll be getting 'real' DLC for that so that's good.

Honestly wonder what the expectations are for people who thought this was a bad direct. I thought this was great.

Absolutely jam-packed few months ahead (Pokemon Legends Z-A, Kirby, Metroid, Age of Calamity), with Spring 2026 also looking quite full. Plus new Fire Emblem.

I would say my only real disappointment is that there wasn't much on the third-party front. But there's already loads to keep me busy personally.

5 out of 10 direct for me!
We got new Fire Emblem, thats good .
No switch 2 versions of Xenoblade games, even after all these talks about 60fps mode hidden in Xenoblade X...
Donkey Kong demo available today, at least i will try this game everyone is gotyyying about.

Odd take. Yes Mario took a fair chunk, it is the 40th so not sure what we were expecting, but it was an hour long Direct. Directs are usually around 30-45mins so effectively the Mario section was just a second Direct tacked on. And even then, that 20mins did have some substance. The Galaxy remakes, Mario Tennis (which, honestly, looked like a return to form from what was shown), Wonder Switch 2 Edition and a seemingly fairly original Yoshi. Considering half of that Mario section was, you know, not games..... that's not a bad run for what was essentially not part of the Direct proper

And also, the farming sim meme. Ok, sure, there were a few of them and none were Animal Crossing. But also, were there that many? There were what, three? The Ditto one didn't look too bad I thought. Dinkum was, meh, I guess. And the third was what, Stardew Valley getting a Switch 2 Edition? I'm not super into it but TBH, the number of games getting Switch 2 Editions that actually changed gameplay? I would say that's a positive sign. I don't know, complaining about it being all farming sim seems to me like you just wanted to complain about farming sims

Honestly, for me the highlight was just how good some of these titles are looking. And the lowlight was when I went to the eShop afterwards and saw how much they were charging for Galaxy 2. But either way, calling a Direct that throws Virtual Boy on Nintendo Classics, one that includes Hades 2, one that has a possibly good Mario Tennis for a change, one that just generally had a lot of fairly decent looking games even if none of them were face melters

I agree it wasn't a 10/10 Direct. But to call it the worst ever? Come on.... it's not even in the bottom half of Directs for this year. 8/10 for me

I'd give it an 8/10. There were plenty of good reveals of which my favourites were Prime 4 and FFVII Remake getting a release date, Galaxy 2 and a new Fire Emblem getting revealed. Really surprised that DQ7 remake is so soon after DQ1+2 remake.

They did spend a bit too much time on the non-gaming side of the SMB 40th anniversary and 3rd party reveals seemed rather light though.

I guess it was bad for people that bought switch/switch2 for specific series. I bought it because of Monolith Soft + Fire Emblem as a bonus . And dont care about all other games. So i guess thats the issue with "bad or abysmal direct" for some people

Virtual Boy, Danganronpa, and Fire Emblem. Only complaint is no rhythm heaven update. 9/10

Missed the thing live but caught up on a few announcements! Nice that Tomodachi Life showed up and they showed some of the new features, looks like the customization might be a bit similar to Miitopia’s customization, but it also seems like they’ll make the friendship system easier by making them meet up outdoors instead of how in the original, the Mii’s only really became friends if one Mii wanted to befriend another specific one. A bit bummed they won’t go into more details until a bit later, but it’s nice they confirmed it’s releasing next Spring. So glad one of my favorite 3DS games is making a splendid comeback and looks better than ever!

Looking at the stuff for the 40th Mario anniversary, I am a bit surprised there kind of wasn’t any really new mainline game announced, but honestly, them going straight to a 3D Mario game after Bananza would be unrealistic. Interesting the Mario Movie sequel is adapting Galaxy, the ending scene in the first wifh the Yoshi egg (as well as the trademark listing by Universal) made me believe that they were going to loosely adapt Super Mario World. Curious to see how that turns out, given the first one wasn’t bad, but it had some issues with the pacing and some of the writing. I do like how the new Yoshi game seems to be using animation and an art style with less frames per second…I kind of got a bit of Yoshi’s Story vibes from it.

Surprised Rhythm Heaven and Splatoon Raiders were no shows, but I’m gonna assume they won’t talk about the former until maybe a possible February 2026 Direct, and then Raiders will likely get its own Direct next year.

The Virtual Boy getting added to NSO sounds so hilarious (given I heard it wasn’t a good console and there weren’t a lot of games released for it) but it’s an interesting addition, and I think all old games deserve to be playable. The new Fire Emblem game looks interesting, especially because it looks like it’ll have connections to Three Houses from the weapons, and the character designs and art style look familiar? My sister is gonna love that lol. It seemed like it kind of had a bunch of announcements for everyone, given a few triple-A games are coming to the Switch 2 as well!

8/10 for me.

Galaxy 2 was my main prediction and I'm happy it happened.

Good to see the Yoshi game.

The DK DLC so soon is random but interesting.

Plus lots of release dates. And more Dragon Quest. Good direct overall.

I give it a 10 because Pokémon Pokopia 🤣.

Time to review my predictions:
$- correct / &- incorrect / * - kind of correct
Pokémon Legends Z-A trailer (new Mega reveal?) $
Kirby Air Riders trailer *
Shadowdrop of Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remastered (releases on both Switch 1 and 2) &
Metroid Prime 4 Beyond trailer: release date October, November, or December 2025 $
Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment trailer: release date January 2026 (I got the release month wrong on this one)
Rhythm Heaven Groove trailer: release date February 2026 &
Free update for Rhythm Heaven Groove that adds mouse controls on Switch 2 &
(Very surprised that Rhythm Heaven didn't show up)
Tomodachi Life Living the Dream: March 2026, Switch 2 Edition detailed and is launching on the same day * (for all we know, game could still launch in March since it's spring, and a Switch 2 Edition is still possible)
Splatoon Raiders trailer: release date summer 2026 & (also surprised that this didn't show up)
Maybe a teaser trailer for a new Animal Crossing or Fire Emblem tba 2026? $ (new Fire Emblem!)
Mario 40th segment:
Mario Wonder Switch 2 Edition for late October * (my release month guess was off by like half a year 🤣)
Mario Maker Switch 2 Edition or Mario Maker 3 trailer: release date April 2026 &
First Mario Kart World content update for November or December (DK Bananza crossover?) &
Sunshine for GameCube NSO shadowdrop &
Western release of the Hello, Mario! app shadowdrop & (I'm still waiting for this app to come out in the United States 😭)
Teaser trailer for new 3D Mario that is openworld: release date tba 2026 (probably releasing in the fall of that year) &

I did get some things correct, at least 😂!