Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@link3710 that could work too!

I think the weak link in both our predictions is the Zelda double pack, I think Nintendo will want to be sure BOTW2 in November before they release it, if it's delayed into 2023 then I think it will release later in the year.

@VoidofLight I was thinking they would want to limit new game announcements in this direct as all things going well we already know 4 of the big releases for the year - Pokemon + Rabbids + Splatoon + BOTW2. One more now plus 2 in a January Direct probably gives us roughly half the years major releases.

@MarioBrickLayer I mean, Rabbids is only being published by Nintendo in Japan, and BotW 2 isn't probably coming next year, given the patterns that the Zelda team follows with their releases.

Also, there hasn't been a January direct in years, so there's no use in expecting one for this year. We'll get one around February or March, just like how it was this year.

@VoidofLight Nintendo focuses further into the future when there's little to promote in the near future.

• Fall/holiday 2017 was very packed so the only post-2017 1st party game in the September 2017 Direct was Kirby Star Allies (March 2018)
• Fall/holiday 2018 was rather barren (heavy reliance on Smash with the other games being Super Mario Party and Pokemon Let's Go) so there were quite a few post-2018 1st party games in the September 2018 Direct (NSMBU Deluxe in January 2019, Yoshi's Crafted World in March 2019 along with Luigi's Mansion 3 and Animal Crossing coming later with 2019 as release windows at that time)
• Fall/holiday 2019 was very packed so the only post-2019 1st party games in the Direct were Animal Crossing (March 2020), TMS#FE Encore (January 2020) and XCDE ("2020" which turned out to be May 2020)

Fall/holiday 2021 is very packed so I only think there'd be 1st party games released up to Spring 2022 present.

@VoidofLight I said January but I meant the first direct, the one setting out the year ahead.

I know it's a third party game, but it's an exclusive with Nintendo IP, so Nintendo will push it hard and coordinate the release with Ubisoft.

@VoidofLight To be fair, no sequel in the same engine has ever been delayed (namely Majora's Mask, Spirit Tracks and Triforce Heroes). So I wouldn't say that a delay is a certainty, merely something possible.

@link3710 Eh, I’m just expecting one, given there’s no certainty that it’ll release next year, at least not from the Zelda team.

I was thinking for next Nintendo Direct it will highlight some indie games that probably will be released in year 2022 such as Sikanda , Re:Legend.

@Anti-Matter We already had an indie direct. The next one will be a general one.

I think Game Awards would be a better fit for the rumoured Resident Evil than a Direct. MH Rise expansion feels like a better fit for the Direct if there's Capcom announcements.

@Grumblevolcano I don’t expect to hear anything about the rise expansion until after Rise gets a steam port.

@damien33ad BotW 2 is an original title. It just happens to share the same world and mythos as the first, but it's promised to mostly stand on it's own and be it's own thing like Majora's Mask was to Ocarina. I'd also expect a lot of BotW sequels, or games that take place in the same version of the world with the same mythos, given that it's the most current era, with BotW being a soft reboot of the entirety of the timeline.

Imagine if Nintendo announce another Mii games for Nintendo Switch from the Direct.
What game will be ?

@VoidofLight I'm predicting the expansion launches the same day as the PC port.

@damien33ad Do you think we'll see a Mario game (2D or 3D) before 2023?

If we see a Mario game next year I'd bet on it being something like Strikers rather than a mainline platformer.

@MarioBrickLayer There's a big bucks Mario movie out next year, my money is a game coming out too, it's good synergy innit.

@MarioBrickLayer Seems unlikely. DK seems to be what the Mario team is going to put out this upcoming year at this point. 3D Mario probably will be a launch (window) title for the next system at this point, alongside Mario Kart.

It's hard to argue with that logic, if I were Nintendo, that is exactly what I would do, however...

All the leaks and inside info seems to point to this (Mario Team working on DK) being true, if so...where is the game coming from?

Without knowing the plot of the movie, it's hard to know what would work well, if there was a racing element to the movie you could see MK9 being the tie in game, who knows!!

There's quite a few Mario platformers missing on the Switch. If the GB/GBC NSO rumour is true, that handles the Super Mario Land games and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe which leaves:

• Galaxy 2
• 64 DS
• 3D Land
• Super Mario Advance series
• NSMB
• NSMBWii
• NSMB2

So maybe a NSMB collection or a 3D All Stars re-release with Galaxy 2?

@MarioBrickLayer Yep we don't know what the plot of the Mario film is but Requiem For A Dream, The Passion Of The Christ and Schindler’s List are all movies so I'd imagine it must be like those. ;p