Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

Otherwise, May & if not before then, definitely June or July, right, @NintendoByNature ....?

@BruceCM maybe August 😉

Yeah! They'll have to have something at some point this year, right ....?

@BruceCM I wouldnt be surprised if the only announcements this year are from TPC.

That'd be a shame, @link3710 .... I'm sure Nintendo will have some other things to reveal, though!

Stinks if true. Nintendo has tons of anniversaries this year. Zelda metroid Pokémon and wasn't there another? Could be a good year with some good announcements. But I realize they can't have anniversary releases for each franchise.

February 2 new partner direct im writing here.

First Direct of the year:

But not by Nintendo

@BruceCM Eh... The way I see it, the pandemic has basically ceased the majority of work at Nintendo. We probably will have about a 2 year gap between internally developed releases (So not stuff from HAL, Intelligent Systems, Monolith, etc), since that's likely how long remote working will be in place.

It's also Donkey Kong's anniversary.

Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase: Rockstar Special - Featuring Claude, Tommy, and CJ from the GTA 3D Trilogy + Table Tennis Deluxe

@dionysos283 there ya go. Could be a crazy year. Or nothing 🙁. Who knows.

Well, with Mario+Rabbids 2 now also more or less confirmed, probably for late spring early summer, I'm guessing either Super Mario Party 2 or Mario Golf isn't happening. Can't see us getting three spinoffs in short succession. Looks like my yearly predictions are already off to a poor start.

@link3710 Wait, what did I miss? There's going to be a Mario+Rabbids sequel? I mean it shouldn't be surprising but also, kinda is. My bet is Mario Party 2 won't be happening because the original sold 10M and still seems to be doing well. Nintendo seem to be liking the idea of doing one per series for a lot of their franchises which I get if they sell so well, but the lack of any post launch content is pretty poor. Anyway, Mario Golf makes sense as that is a pretty big franchise in terms of Mario spinoffs.

In my opinion, both Super Mario Party and Mario Tennis Aces were pretty trash so this would probably be for the best. I'd take Mario Golf out of the two if I have to choose one but I don't hold high hopes for either.

LOL
Minna no Tennis, Tennis from Bomberman Battles are way much better than Mario Tennis Aces in my opinion after i compared their gameplay.

@FragRed Rabbids twitter account changed from RabbidsOfficial to MarioRabbids. It's not definite confirmation of a Mario + Rabbids 2 but if it was to exist we'll likely be hearing about it very soon.

@Grumblevolcano
What makes you think that we'll hear about it soon? Maybe behind the scenes they are preparing an announcement in March or April?

@Grumblevolcano Wait they only now changing the Twitter account? Kinda odd they never did that back when the first game was revealed. Though I just looked up Rabbids and it still says RabbidsOfficial when I went to the account.

@FragRed Looks like they've changed it back now which is pretty suspicious in itself.