Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@VoidofLight

Man alive, you're just a negative-Nancy, aren't you? No Zelda anniversary celebration and a full on denial of a possible Switch V3. And here I thought I was the most pessimistic person around these parts, lol. Then please, give us your theory for how the rest of 2021 will play out, if you would be so kind.

I'm genuinely curious.

Aug; Bayonetta 3 launches
Sep; Microsoft buys Nintendo
Oct; All Nintendo games are added to GamePass
Nov; Nintendo is put to work creating newly launched Xbox VR and Kinetic games
Dec; Microsoft liquidates Nintendo on Xmas day

@Magician I don’t have much of a theory. I mostly just go with the flow on things, so that I don’t get disappointed when they don’t happen. I feel like we will see something about botw 2 at e3, or sometime this year given that they said they’ll announce news sometime this year, and I think the diamond and pearl remakes are the holiday titles for this year as well. We just need to know what’s coming for August, September, and October.

Legends Arceus is probably early 2022, and BOTW 2 is probably late 2022, mainly because I doubt Nintendo wants to have the two series compete.

I don’t expect a switch revision for a while, mainly because the chip shortage for consoles, and the fact that they probably want to get the system into as many people’s hands as possible. Not to mention, I doubt people would be happy when the consoles enevidably get scalped due to shortages.

@jump

Now that is a bold proclamation if I ever saw one. I like it. I might not agree with it, but I like. Just give me a reason to be an Xbot fanboy once again.

@Euler Covid-19, Pokémon Legend Arceus, Pokémon Brilant Diamond e Shining Pearl and most of Nintendo 2022 lineup make us assume Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 is gonna release in fall 2022,@Jump Microsoft is never going to buy Nintendo, they are the richest company in japan thanks to Switch and Animal Crossing, and beside Nintendo denied the chance of Microsoft buying Nintendo ounce.

@Magician Promising a real update and then not actually delivering one would be incredibly arrogant and badly received. In 2014 and 2016 they at least provided some Real News regarding the game even if it wasn't a concrete release date (the release date was not revealed until January 2017, even though all the geniuses at Eurogamer and ResetEra assured us that it would miss the Switch launch). An E3 reveal would be consistent with underpromising and overdelivering (being vague about the details until absolutely necessary), and six months of marketing would be roughly on par with other major first-party games.

@Giancarlothomaz COVID would explain the game coming out in 2021 instead of 2020 (the year with the lowest number of first-party titles in at least a decade). Pokemon Legends is early 2022 (which could be anything from January to April), and they have released major first-party games at the same time as Pokemon remakes (see: Let's Go in 2018). Splatoon 3 is also 2022, though we don't know when (holiday or mid-year would be reasonable).

I think Nintendo will buy Microsoft

I definitely don't think BotW 2 would be exclusive to the new Switch model (the only known Switch games I could see being exclusive if any are Metroid Prime 4 and Bayonetta 3 with that being more a case of releasing so far away that Nintendo just drops Switch support for them) but more like docked 720p 20fps on the old Switch and 1080p 30fps on the new Switch.

@LzWinky

Hmm, could MS cut a check for over 95 billion?

Yes, I know they could (their net worth was 1 trillion in 2020), but that would be one mighty acquisition.

@Magician They wouldn't use money to pay for things, they'd use stock or Ninty's own money to buy it.

They can probably get them to agree to lower the price too by using the coivd vaccine's microchip to brain wash them, Bill Gates is a clever chappy for creating that fake pandamic just to make the Nintendo board get the jab.

@jump don't believe in everything you saw on internet(it filled with misinformation and fake news, Nintendo is the richest company in japan thank to Switch and Animal Crossing, the company is worth $57 bilions dolars, even if Microsoft have all the money to buy Nintendo, they gonna refuse like back 20 year ago @Euler we don't know if Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2 was suposed to release in 2020, got delayed to 2021 and will problaby be delayed to 2022, given the pandemic and the franchise notorious history of delays.

@Grumblevolcano I can't see them outright stopping support of the switch. The third version, if it's even a thing, will probably end up like the New 3DS. Something nice to own, but not many people actually own it, and it's extremely niche. It'll be used as an option, but it won't be an outright replacement. Games will probably sell poorly if they're exclusive too.

The reasoning ninty have for the labo website being taken down is hilarious.😂😂😂. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/04/nintendo_explains_w...

@Giancarlothomaz good point about ignoring YouTube vids as they are fakes news, hopefully people will post vids responsibly ;p

@jump yes, my two years of journalism teaching in university teached me that, @GrumbleVolcano Nintendo is not stupid to release Metroid Prime 4/Bayonetta 3 exclusive to this rumored/suposed Switch Pro, they don't want to lose the oportunity of releasing this game on a console with a 80/90 milions install base or more, why waste two higly antecipated games and it exclusives on this suposed Switch Pro? is better to release on Switch with 80/90 milions install base.

Just speculating...if the Switch Pro/Super Switch has DLSS, and this requires games to be patched to take advantage, I wonder if Nintendo would throw in some DLC for a couple of titles at the same time? I'm thinking specifically Mario Odyssey and Mario Kart 8, I can visualise a Direct where they compare with DLSS on/off and they then say...BTW here is some new levels/circuits which work with DLSS but we've made them work with current switches too...

Not saying it's going to happen, but that could be one reason we haven't seen DLC for those titles, depending on how long they have been working on the Switch revision.

I should probably make a serious post on this. Ninty have ramped up the sales forecast massively so I'm expecting a big hitter to come beyond Pokemon plus in May and June they are releasing multiple games per month so I'm expecting at least a game per month for the year. The known Ninty non-dated games are Metroid Prime 4, a samurai game from Good Feel, Detective Pikachu 2, BOTW2, Pikmin 4 and Bayonetta 3. Also I've not mentioned the Switch Pro as I don't really care about tech stuff.

June: Suprise E3 digital limited time game like Mother 3 or OG Poke games, Ninty published indie (like Snipperclips) and Smash DLC Doomslayer, plus the DC Super Teens (or whatever it's called) and Mario Golf
July: Skyward Sword and New Style Savy (announced pre-E3 as those gamers won't give a poop if it was there anyway)
Aug: New WarioWare, some casual gimmick game and Buddy Mission: Bond digital only release
Sep: Bayonetta 3 and Good Feel Samurai game plus Smash DLC Rillaboom
Oct: Pokemon remakes & New Fatal Frame
Nov: New Kirby
Dec: Zelda BOTW2 or another A list franchise maybe Donkey Kong or maybe a new IP or maybe Doshin The Gaint 2

@Jump i think the new mainline Kirby game is gonna release in 2022 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Kirby franchise, Bayonetta 3 might release on Halloween and the Gen 4 remakes release on novembre as usual, beside this the rest of Nintendo 2021 lineup can happen.

Anything can happen as it's not been announced as to what is actually happening.

Looking at old patterns for release hints is only good if the patterns keep repeating and you can't say they can as you don't know. People said they must always be third version of the Pokemon games up until they stopped doing that so Pokemon doesn't need to release in Nov because the last few have and Doshin The Giant 2 will make the likes of GTA and DOOM look like girly kids game for being so over the top in violence.