Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

The rumors are intensifying:
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/01/nintendos_direct_ar...
Do you guys think we’ll finally get a proper Direct, or will it be another partner showcase?

@dionysos283 It will most likely be a Partner Showcase while Nintendo focus on marketing 3D World + Bower's Fury and then Monster Hunter Rise.

@dionysos283 It'll be nothing. We aren't getting a direct style video from them until March, which will be a Partner Showcase.

I think it will be this week, all seems to be adding up. Nintendo being silent, no info on Bowser's Fury with instead deciding to have a meaningless ad at the Game Awards, the meaningless Indie World ad at the Game Awards was followed by a new Indie World presentation a week later, etc.

Capcom having their own MH Rise event (not under the Direct branding) last week was odd though could be explained by the announcements in an upcoming Direct being so big that MH Rise is forgotten about.

@Grumblevolcano Monster Hunter Rise is pretty damn big in terms of exclusives, and I don’t know what Nintendo would have to announce for first half which could possibly be too big to leave out Monster Hunter. The big first party games are usually second half.

Capcom may have decided not to wait as they wanted the demo to roll out now rather than wait for Ninty and their at times bizarre ways of doing things.

Is it 3pm GMT yet? ;p

The activity of this thread is like a wave, completely influenced by the lunar gravity of Nintendo Direct rumours. I love speculation though so by no means am I complaining!

I'm assuming if they are releasing a Switch Pro this year they would tie in a few big game announcements to make it a big presentation?

Would they do that this early in the year? Or could it be a E3/June presentation?

If the Switch Pro is happening I think they'll have two major presentations this year, the Pro plus the Zelda anniversary one. I think everything else will be minis, partner showcases and nindies.

@FragRed @Grumblevolcano It's probably the opposite. If they do announce anything, it's stuff that's so small that Rise would have overshadowed it.

@FragRed Nintendo usually reveals almost if not the entirety of the year's lineup by March.

2017 - Switch Presentation - January 13th (Mario + Rabbids was the main 2017 game not known straight after the Direct)
2018 - Direct Mini - January 11th, general Direct - March 8th (Pokemon Let's Go and Super Mario Party were the main 2018 games not known straight after the March Direct)
2019 - General Direct - February 13th (Pokemon Sword/Shield was the main 2019 game not known straight after the Direct)

So if Nintendo were to do the same this year, MH Rise could get buried by stuff like BotW 2 and so giving MH Rise a week to itself would help.

@Grumblevolcano Things is you left out 2020 and that's a key point since Ninty changed their approach with Coivd creating so many problems with their developments so they weren't announcing as much in advance, generally only a few months at time and one game at a time . It's looking like 2021 is likely to more affected than 2020's due to how games are developed.

@jump Has much been written about how Nintendo are doing now? Was it a delay whilst they adapted how they worked during lockdowns etc and are now back to normal levels of productivity or are things still falling behind?

@MarioBrickLayer It's all hearsay and rumour but apparently Ninty didn't adapt well, as odd as Japanese companies are Kyoyo companies are even odder, the authorization chain to get work done was convoluted. However they (pinch of salt) adapted in different ways by getting the Nintendo Europe team to work on Mario 3D All Stars rather than the Japan teams and delayed unannounced 2020 games to cover themselves if they can't get their original 2021 line up going.

Ps pinch of salt.

@theJGG i fondly remember the days of r/NintendoNX, i was still studying and i had all the time in the world. I remember the Tomorrow meme and the Dawn of the final day - 24 hours remain stream on youtube before the switch first trailer. aaaah man, those were the days.
Speculation is always fun though if done non-toxically (as with everything, really)

I think Nintendo will likely just let Monster Hunter take the spotlight as the big system seller in the first half of the year and probably won't release any major new first party games until around May or June so I'm not expecting any big announcements this early in the year.

Since general directs are basically required to have Smash news, I'm not expecting anything until March. They just released Sephiroth last month.

@jump SMB 35th anniversary would've been much more than just a bunch of games announcements had the pandemic not happened and GAME leaking Lego Super Mario being announced in a Direct suggests there was a general Direct for early March with the "one more thing" being SMB 35th anniversary stuff but the Mario stuff got cut because of the pandemic and became a Direct Mini in late March.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/03/random_game_mention...

The stuff outside gaming for SMB 35th anniversary could've been a bigger factor for ditching the old Direct strategy because while games can get announced and then delayed, the other stuff is much less likely to actually happen at all.

Think a general direct is coming this week?

Perhaps

I think we'll probably get into a pattern of weekly announcements again, like we had last fall before the holidays hit (events like the Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Hyrule Warriors: AoC, & Kirby Fighters 2 announcements, the monthly Partner Showcases, the autumn Indie World, and the Mario 35th Direct were all in back to back to back weeks pretty much I believe, though obviously not in that exact order).

Arguably you could consider last week's Monster Hunter Rise showcase to be the first of these weekly events, and I believe it will be followed up with a new Super Mario 3D World trailer (with Bowser's Fury info) & the year's first Partner Showcase in the following weeks.