Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Slowdive what authority are they leaning on to say that they can confirm it is real. If they knew it was happening why didn't they leak it before hand? Why did they make a thousand predictions but this one yet we are still asking them to confirm if it's real.

It's difficult for me to get excited for a game made for waggle controls.

It'll be interesting to see if Nintendo added controller support for Skyward Sword, or will it be a tv mode joy-con only game like Fitness Boxing or Disney Tsum Tsum?

I always get excited when I waggle my controller

Somehow I think nintendo will unfortunately get the last laugh whatever happens.

Zell is the same reliable guy who said in Feb '19 that Metroid Prime Trilogy would be announced in a direct, yeah?

I think he also said that the direct from july 20th will be a general direct heavily focused on mario

@Slowdive my point is I could validate something myself if you let me walk it back later. These people make predictions or confirm things and then walk them back making them unreliable.

Well yeah, otherwise it's not leaking,

@jump how about even 50% of the time.

@Slowdive I think this thread is necessary to prevent Direct speculation from taking over the main Switch thread.

All that's really happening on the Nintendo front is Direct rumours and Indie games

I was joking. Most of you are already insane, beyond saving.

@damien33ad what about a game that never existed like Star Fox Grand Prix or Pokemon Stars, false information like Zelda BOTW wasn’t going to be a launch title for the Switch or if a localisation which was meant to happen but never did like Mother 3?

I don’t really trust Miyamoto either, he said Pikmin 4 was nearly done years ago

If someone says Game will launch in fall, but launches in Winter, then all they were doing was predicting, not leaking. A leak is an actual fact of detailed information.

Semantics? Yes. But conflating the two gets really close to supposition, which is Pachter territory

Star fox 64 3D HD DX coming soon. It’s happening.

@damien33ad I'd be ok with a 50% accuracy rating. Less than 50% just let's people get their hopes up and is frustrating. It's even more frustrating when in the prediction the person says keep your expectations in check. Well don't inflate them if you want them in check. Anyways 50% I'm ok with. You can't even graduate high school in Canada with that low an average. Shaq shot better from the ft line. 50/50 is a flip of a coin. I don't know why people here would be happy with leakers because they're getting 10% right. Work on your craft and do better or expect to get slammed online. Nate The Hate freaked out that people were mad after his predictions were wrong. Don't want people to freak out, don't keep getting people's hopes up with wrong info. I feel like I'm talking in a circle. Enjoy but I'll wait for Nintendo to release the info themselves.

I mean, I don't expect perfection, and I don't have anything wrong to admit.
I just hope everyone gets to enjoy games, cuz that's what it's all about anyway.

@damien33ad I predicted paper mario was coming out on the switch. I think everyone predicted it.
I predict the switch successor will have a mario kart, 3d Mario, a zelda, a kirby and other Nintendo first party games. I predict they will come after the launch of the system.

@LetsaGO
Well, considering the original SNES Star Fox has been remade 3 times already (Star Fox 64, Star Fox 64 3D and Star Fox Zero), I wouldn't put it above Nintendo to do it again. 🤣

@damien33ad if a leaker predicted coivd then I would definitely listen to them in the future.

@sixrings @damien33ad I think it has to do with separating the signal from the noise, to use a cliche. Roughly, if someone gets lots of "hard" predictions correct than he probably has access to an inside source. If someone claims to be an insider but gets things wrong (sometimes ridiculously wrong - Star Fox Grand Prix was obviously false even before ResetEra collectively decided it was) then they're likely full of it, or at least their sources aren't reliable. Getting "easy" predictions right doesn't get you any credibility, as well as things that could be attributed to chance (ie "Nintendo will release a 2D Zelda next year").

To draw an analogy, if someone in 2017 leaked that Mario would be in the next Super Smash Bros. game that would not be worth anything because Mario is obviously going to be in any new entry in the series. If that person predicted that all previous Super Smash Bros. characters would return (even Pichu) and that Piranha Plant would be a new character, that would be quite a different story. Something in between (the game being brand new rather than a port of 4) could be inside information, but also attributable to chance. I don't know of any leakers that have been consistently spot-on, so I take most of what they say with a grain of salt.