Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@jump Nah, it was canceled and Miyamoto forced the people making the direct to male Link’s Crossbow Training 2.

@MarioBrickLayer I think they would have given the timing of the Sony event. If Sony had their event on Wednesday, Nintendo would've likely had the Direct on the Thursday like what they did last September with the Partner Showcase that revealed MH Rise. But with Sony's event being on Thursday, the options are more difficult:

1. Have Direct on Wednesday and risk being overshadowed by Sony (isn't happening given no announcement on Tuesday)
2. Have Direct on Friday (big positive announcements generally don't happen on Fridays, Friday is more common to be when bad news happens)
3. Let Sony have the spotlight and have a Direct next week

Option 3 seems most likely.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/netinfo/en_GB/index.html

NSO has maintenance on Wednesday evening/Thursday morning next week.

I’d just expect one in a week or two, looking forward to the sony conference tho

I'd love to see the actual correlation between Directs and maintenance. I'd love to also see the correlation between 3pm in the UK and Directs too. lol

@Grumblevolcano its only to do with cloud saves.

@jump they go together like lamb and tuna fish, obviously!

So, Direct next Wednesday, @Grumblevolcano ....?

@jump 3pm UK time is when announcements are made by Nintendo nearly every time and including pre-recorded mini directs but not live ones

@Balta666 Ah, I had assumed it was because that is when it was teatime in the UK so people across the world wanted to know if they could have their earl grey, scones and jellied eels with the Brits yet.

@Grumblevolcano so the fall Nintendo Direct in septembre next week?(wedneday)

Doesn't make sense to have a direct this week considering they have a release on friday.
Makes more sense to have it later in the month.

So that's pretty much it. Fall direct de-confirmed

@NintendoByNature How is it de-confirmed? One wasn't happening this week due to Sony itself.. but I don't see how it can't just happen the other weeks, or sometime in October.

Kyoto prefecture (Nintendo) is still under covid state of emergency, which likely means remote working is still limiting game dev progress. I've seen japan prefecture map often enough now, that I know where Kyoto is located on the map at a glace.(I just watched NHK News this hour. Love NHK World<33)

Found this from may 2020. Perhaps Nintendo was more honest then, because everyone was still optimistic that covid would be a short term issue. Now that it's a long term issue, I think they stay more silent on the issue because, it's better for the market to not dwell on negatives.

https://www.gamesradar.com/nintendo-says-working-from-home-wi...

@VoidofLight true, everyday has a 3pm in the UK

@jump is tea time not suposed to be 5pm?

@Balta666 no that’s Bob's your uncle o’clock where try to play rounders as long as there’s the right ones and twos on your feet when you ball and chalk otherwise it’s a sticky wicket.

I may or may not ran out of all the cockney slang I know writing that. ;p

After that Sony showcase, I'm ready for a Nintendo Direct!

@VoidofLight if it didn't happen today it'll never happen again! Ever! 😉