Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@FragRed The info we have on the Sword/Shield expansion pass is what was announced in January's Pokemon Direct and March's Direct Mini. Whether that's a lot of info or not much depends on the scale of the expansion.

Paper Mario was probably revealed when it was because at least 8 weeks between initial announcement and release date are needed if there's a retail release. Having a Direct Mini then would've been problematic for maintaining Switch hype throughout the summer (lots of digital events going on in June and July focused on PS5, Series X or both).

@Grumblevolcano That maybe so, but I don’t believe there’ll be any more Directs unless it’s game specific. Easier to just shadow drop everything as and when needed and let the internet go into meltdown.

Kind of a long shot, but I'm actually thinking I wouldn't mind seeing a remake/spiritual successor to Yoshi's Story (maybe more the latter, something like what ALBW is to ALttP). Yoshi's recent outings have been heavily themed around different types of materials and crafts, it'd be nice for them to play around with the storybook theme of that game to create some unique mechanics and themes. I'm doubtful it's something we'll see this year, but I could see something like this happening.

At the same time, most of the people who would care about a direct are those who already have a Switch.

There are sone reports on twitter that Nintendo have posted a private video on their youtube channel, no one seems to know what it means! Do they usually post a video as private before making it public?

@MarioBrickLayer A lot of organisations upload videos that are set to be made available ahead of time. It’s the same with how they work tweets, Facebook posts etc. There’s software they use that allows them to do all of this, set dates and times to go live etc.

Yeah, I remember a Ninty game got revealed early at E3 as someone forgot to set the video to private. It might have been Hyrule Warriors but I'm not sure.

Hopefully this means something is imminent!!

I’m not sure whether they do this with only Nintendo developed/published games or if it’s something they do with third party ones as well. I think it’s best to keep an open mind that this could be something new from Nintendo or it could be something from a third party publisher. It could also be an update video with more details on something like Paper Mario.

@MarioBrickLayer Looks like it's a Pokemon Sword/Shield expansion pass video:

These Pokemon Sword/Shield news updates have always come with videos.

It’ll most likely be a trailer with a release date for the first DLC>

There’s absolutely no way Nintendo will release a Direct this June. At this point, it will September at the earliest, but likely not until 2021. I think they’ll do a Direct as soon as they can, but that’s not going to be for a while.

However, I do think there will be another Mini Direct, where they just show videos but there’s no people, relatively soon.

I was hoping for something more exciting!

I don't even think there will be a Mini Direct for ages, it will be more announcements like Paper Mario until the end of summer at the earliest. I'm betting 3 non DLC announcements between now and September.

We could always go back to the good ol’ days when games were announced in magazines

With Sony now delaying the PS5 reveal this Thursday, I can see Nintendo going silent on any announcements regarding new games until they feel timing is better. There’s a lot going on right now and it seems others are doing similar.

I mean, if nothing else, this would be the perfect month to finally announce Captain Rainbow for the west.

I realize even Star Fox: Grand Prix would be more likely, but the timing would fill me with all the joy in the world.

@FragRed Smash DLC would also need to be delayed, Smash news generally attracts more attention than new games.

@Grumblevolcano Several more weeks isn't going to break anyone, everyone can wait. Unfortunately though after seeing a lot of the comments on Push Square over the whole delaying the PS5 reveal I do now feel somewhat more depressed.

@FragRed Delaying would be the right thing to do, Sony made the right decision to delay and not give a new announcement date.

@Grumblevolcano I know, it’s just maddening how upset people have gotten over something that is still going to happen, just not right now. Cyberpunk is the latest victim to get the hatred due to a delay in a video.