Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Balta666 I mean, all I personally want is OOT/MM HD to become a reality, because even a straight uprezzed port of the 3DS titles would look amazing compared to the originals.

But I'm expecting Nintendo to basically ignore any previous improved versions, per usual.

@link3710 Mario Golf for next a June? When was this announced?

@rockodoodle
It wasn't announced, that's just a @link3710 theory. I do think it's a possibility though. Mario Golf is the most consistent Mario sports title besides Tennis and I think we're due for another one.

Loved it on the 3ds

@rockodoodle Yeah no, please don't turn that post into some sorta leak please. It was literally just my guess as to what games are coming out. And since Camelot hasn't released a game in 3 years, it's about time for their next title. Like how it's been that long since HAL's last main title as well, so I guessed we'd see Kirby.

@link3710 You joke about this but the fact that 3D All Stars is selling as well as it is means Nintendo will probably be inclined to do this in the future.

I can't believe Nintendo is actually making ATLUS look good when it comes to re-releases of old content

I thought it was conjecture, but then I might have missed something....

@TheFrenchiestFry It wasn't meant as a joke lol. I'm 100% serious that I expect a poorly emulated Zelda collection next year, and that Nintendo is going to abandon making decent legacy content releases.

@link3710 I literally don't remember an instance where they ever did good collections of legacy content outside Kirby's 20th on Wii, so it's not like they ever really went there outside a few instances

@TheFrenchiestFry Ocarina of Time 3D, Majora's Mask 3D, Wind Waker HD, Super Mario 64 DS (well, it was ambitious at least). Luigi's Mansion on the 3DS.

If you count Kirby, basically every Fire Emblem remake too should count.

I'm not talking about massive collections, I'm talking things with effort put in them. Given they're making just as much on 0 effort, I expect remakes to go the way of the dinosaur.

@link3710 I said collections because I was talking in the context of 3D All Stars. And I consider OoT and Majora's Mask to be remakes, not really remasters since they do more than just clean up the visuals. Same with 64 DS.

@TheFrenchiestFry My point was that my initial comment was saying remakes and remasters on their way out, Nintendo will just sell buggy emulated versions instead for the same cost.

Seems very much like there's no Partner Showcase this week, next week seems more likely than the week after given the dates given so far:

July 20th
August 26th
September 17th

By the way Vanquish's 10th anniversary is next week. Given other platforms got a Bayonetta/Vanquish bundle back in February 2020 and Bayonetta has been on Switch since February 2018, I could see a Vanquish Switch port be a shadow drop if a Partner Showcase did happen next week.

Per usual? One time is usual?

Didn't they literally remake the Gameboy Zelda with a high quality toy aesthetic last year?

Haven't they spent much of the last decade giving fairly high quality Zelda remakes?

I mean the 3D All Stars thing and the lack of effort does bug me, but partially because nearly everything else surrounding the 35th anniversary has a lot more effort put towards it (and for that matter, the Pikmin remake coming out soon).

@LzWinky @kkslider5552000 No, I mean that they won't ever rerelease any improved versions of games that come out. With the sole exception of Super Mario All-Stars, Nintendo tends to basically ignore any versions of games released after the original. For example, Super Mario Bros Deluxe, Super Mario 64 DS, the Wii versions of Metroid Prime 1&2, Kirby Super Star Ultra, Pokemon Fire Red / Leaf Green, Star Fox 64 3D etc. My point is that any of the upgraded versions of titles will likely be completely ignored for later releases.

So I don't expect any of the improvements of Wind Waker HD, Twilight Princess HD, Ocarina of Time 3D, or Majora's Mask 3D to make it to Switch. Instead they'll go back to the originals, and make a new set of tweaks.

@link3710 I see your point. World e of Super Mario Bros. 3 is a Wii U exclusive for example, even though the vanilla game has been rereleased many times. But they have on occasion reissued Super Mario All-Stars (on the Wii and Switch) and placed other enhanced games on the Virtual Console (Link's Awakening DX, colour Wario Land 2). The Super Mario Advance subseries builds off of the All-Stars versions, not the originals. And at its core, Ocarina of Time 3D is a more polished version of the Ocarina + Master Quest Gamecube disk. So it's not out of the question that they would bring in the enhanced versions of at least some of those games.

I mean, there's not many cases where they've released a retail game of just ports of their old games anyway, so there's not many places where the remakes would be ignored?

I mean, I think its more that the remakes are usually newer and they've not re-released their newer games outside of Wii U to Switch ports. And maybe to a much lesser extent, some of those remakes are not as beloved or popular, fair or not. Considering it took them 18 years to re-release Super Mario Sunshine, its not surprising that 64 DS only got re-released on Wii U. And the Gameboy Pokemon games took like 5 years to come out on 3DS VC, and there's never been a GBA VC outside of...Wii U.

On the matter of re-releases, remakes, remasters, and so on, I'm worn out on the whole thing. Videogame history should simply be available. I'm also not wild about the idea of full-on remakes.

I think the situation's healthier in the PC world, which doesn't have console cycles, so classics are nestled along the long tail of Steam or GOG digital stores.

This is a bad take from a Metroid fan, because remaking games got us Zero Mission, which is a good game. Despite remaking Metroid 1, which is not.

I mean the only good Metroid games the past decade have been remakes of Metroid 2 for that matter (though granted, Metroid 2 is at least closer to being a good game).

Though I guess it helps that the old Metroid games have been re-released on popular systems (Metroid 1 is one of those games that's been re-released probably a dozen times at this point, I own 3 versions of it despite never paying for Metroid 1 specifically lololol).

I'm not annoyed at re-releases as much as how often re-releases are used as somehow a replacement for a new game for certain series. Like remember when they brought back Onimusha 1, it sold well, and it lead to nothing else from Onimusha? What? Why?