Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Bolt_Strike Again with the misquote. I did not call the new trailer a deep dive. I understand that you want a deep dive like an overview trailer or direct (I would very much enjoy that too), but my initial post was not addressing you specifically, so it's just plain weird for you to get mad about what I liked in the trailer not matching precisely what you need from an MP4 trailer to be excited.

@UpsideDownRowlet Oh my mistake I didn't word it correctly. You did say that the trailer had a massive emphasis on the bike but they emphasized the wrong aspect of it. The deep dive is the kind of massive emphasis that was needed, not random clips of Samus biking and shooting in the empty open world.

As for why I responded to you in the first place, it's because you said the trailer was "sick as heck" and should've been the trailer they showed in September. I don't get this take. At all. It barely looks any different from the September trailer, shows off many of the same things, and gives us basically no new information. Again, not the kind of marketing the game needs right now. Answers and clarification on the bike is what the game needs first and foremost and they're avoiding it like the plague. As is, this is practically Wii U levels of marketing and seems to be making a similar mistake, they're trying to emphasize how cool the new thing is without giving the proper context of why we should care about it and it's misconstruing the product. I wouldn't be surprised if a casual fan looks at these trailers and thinks it's an open world game.

@Bolt_Strike I agree that the trailer isn't enough after what little non-existent marketing we've gotten so far, but it seems like you're getting very heated about this. Rowlet never said this was the trailer to end all others, they just think it was better than what we've gotten, and I agree. At the very least, it had more spectacle.

GTA6 has been delayed to November 19th 2026, that's the normal Pokemon slot so I wonder now if Gen 10 would release in October like the Kalos games.

GTAVI is going to be so big that everyone, including Pokemon Gen 10, will move away to avoid it.

However, I think there is a good chance that GTAVI gets delayed again (the 3rd delay) to early 2027, so Nintendo/TPC may not need to worry in the end.

At this rate we're gonna get Waluigi's Taco Stand made by Nintendo before GTA 6

@HyruleWanderer GTA6 stands no chance against Official Waluigi's Taco Stand. All games other than Waluigi's Taco Stand, in fact, will have their releases delayed by 3 years to have any slim margin of success in the aftermath of the release of the Game of the Timeline.

@Grumblevolcano @westman98 I genuinely don't see Gamefreak moving the game from the November slot. They don't share a demographic. Pokemon is a kids series exclusively on Nintendo devices- appealing to children and casuals. GTA6 is an M rated game. While kids do play GTA (even though they shouldn't), it is not being marketed to them. Pokemon will be fine with the November slot.

@VoidofLight The issue is less shared demographic and more advertising space. If the entire internet is blaring about GTA, that means less free advertising for Pokemon.

@HyruleWanderer day one buy for me

@FishyS True, but Pokemon's marketing cycles tend to be spread out through months of marketing and they tend to get a lot of eyes on their games. I don't think GTA is going to disrupt any of that.

prediction: there's going to be a The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct this week

@PikminMarioKirby Well that didn't take long:

@IceClimbers Good lord that's a beautiful image.

Really hope they can deliver as well on story and writing as they can on visuals!

@PikminMarioKirby You can start calling yourself an "insider" after a prediction like that.

Prediction: There's going to be a Metroid Prime 4 Direct on either the 25th or 26th of November. I know for many it seems hopeless, but I'm not giving up. Nintendo has probably not yet released a direct in order to keep the focus on Kirby Air Riders, so we have a small window for a Direct only after Air Riders' launch.

As for why I think they'll make a Direct at all, it comes down to 2 things: 1) Clarification of the gameplay loop as it pertains to Vi-O-La and 2) Details on the in-game functionality of the MP4 amiibo, since they sure love talking about amiibo in these directs (the amiibo is the stronger rationale for Nintendo, I think). Outside of that, they can fill a Direct with plenty of information. Ideally the info would be all new, but as they've demonstrated with the Mario Kart World Direct, they can easily fill it with mostly old news if necessary (a sad scenario, but better than no Direct at all).

I think most of the info is stuff we'll get in the media previews on Friday. I honestly don't believe we'll get a Direct for Prime 4 now, but we'll get an overview trailer at some point.

If a Direct for Prime 4 was to happen, it would be happening this week. That is looking quite unlikely now.

Prime 4 will probably get an overview trailer in conjunction with media previews (which is happening this Friday).

I'm still on copium that Prime 2+3 will drop on the eShop this month.

We are way past the point that such would be plausible. Pretty much any point in November, a person who bought the collection would run an extreme risk of still being playing those games ( or even just one of them! ) by the time Prime 4 dropped. . . and thus be less likely to actually buy Prime 4.

( Remember: However fast you think it would take to finish Prime 2 and 3? Almost certainly much faster than the actual average person would take to play them. )