It's usually accurate. I mean, it's as official as it comes.
I would actually lean towards the game needing more time if it's left the chart, which is disheartening, obviously.
We'll get an update within 2 ish weeks since the financial report always gives release windows for all announced Nintendo games. But it would be weird to edit that on the webpage 2 weeks early. Makes me wonder if Nintendo Today is about to say something.
@metaphysician What are your feelings about Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment? it has variable party members wirh different skills, it has exp and leveling, it is fairly story-driven. I think of that one as an RPG but Nintendo just says 'action' along with the tag 'raise your stats'
Tough to say, particularly since I don't really play musou games. It sounds like at least some musou games ( like Hyrule Warriors ) probably should be considered RPGs, albeit their own unique branch of the genre. OTOH, I could see the argument that the musou genre more broadly evolved as a style of action game, and that outlier titles don't add enough RPG aspects to jump the border. There might be a marketing angle as well, where the people who buy musou games ( even story-heavy fan service musou games ), don't buy them for the same reasons as people buy RPGs- thus the marketers not wanting to overemphasize any RPGness.
@rallydefault@FishyS If they wanted to avoid doing a general Direct in January/February, sprinkling release date trailers over the next 2 weeks would be an effective strategy. One for Fortune’s Weave, one for Splatoon Raiders + Splatoon 3 11.0.0 update, one for whichever of Yoshi/Wonder comes first (the other perhaps saved for the annual MAR10 Day video).
@FishyS
Definitely a possibility, but why remove it like that altogether? Why not just let it stay at TBD or 2026 like Raiders, and then just update it once they say something else? Seems very weird to remove it and literally extra work.
@Grumblevolcano
My thoughts on that strategy are: not a great strategy lol
Well, I guess I would ask the question: Why would they not do an actual Direct before the Spring? One of the logical answers would be: They don't have enough to fill a Direct. And that would be a worrying thought.
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