Depending on how you define winter that could mean anything from November to early March. Makes sense considering we don't know much about what's coming in Q1 2022 outside of Pokemon and that Marvel game.
Predictions:
Final Smash fighter
NSO GB/GBC games
Animal Crossing content
Metroid Dread trailer
SMT V trailer
Advance Wars trailer
A 1st party game for February/March (Kirby?)
Castlevania Advance Collection
Dying Light Platinum Edition
Danganronpa Decadence
Surprise 3rd party ports for Q1
A 1st party game that releases sometime later in 2022
Direct opens with a big unannounced 3rd party game launching in October/November
Spotlights end up being SMTV, Metroid Dread, NSO, Smash Ultimate
Eshop preorders for SMTV go live straight after the Direct
NSO ends up being GB/GBC for base NSO and N64 for a more expensive tier ($60 a year), the FCC controller turns out to be N64
Direct closes with Smash Ultimate and either announces the Sakurai Presents airing date or the Sakurai Presents stream happening straight after the Direct like with Banjo in September 2019
Mario Golf update
Animal Crossing update
With Smash coming to an end, upcoming Nintendo DLC is very limited so I'd guess MK8 Deluxe DLC happens
Small length headlines include Mario Party Superstars, Advance Wars 1+2 Re-Boot Camp, Pokemon (BDSP and Legends Arceus), a game for February 2022 (e.g. Zelda remasters), a game for March 2022 (e.g. Kirby)
Shadow drops end up being a bunch of 3rd party games including Deltarune Chapter 2
Splatoon 3, Bayonetta 3, BotW 2 and Metroid Prime 4 don't appear (Splatoon 3 gets a spotlight in the early 2022 Direct)
@Grumblevolcano This already sounds way too hopeful for any Direct that isn't an E3 show lol
Also I don't expect Deltarune to come to any consoles or even be announced for them for like another year or possibly two. Look at how long it took for the original Undertale to come to PS4/Vita and then how much longer it took for a Switch and Xbox version
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Opens with final Smash fighter. SMTV, Mario Party, longish Metroid segment, NSO online, Advance Wars. Ends in the announcement of Fire Emblem coming March.
Also I don't expect Deltarune to come to any consoles or even be announced for them for like another year or possibly two. Look at how long it took for the original Undertale to come to PS4/Vita and then how much longer it took for a Switch and Xbox version
Depends if they've been working on it alongside the PC version all along or if it will be ported after the fact.
With Smash coming to an end, upcoming Nintendo DLC is very limited so I'd guess MK8 Deluxe DLC happens
I'm not sure about that. It's been 4 years since Mario Kart 8 Deluxe came out, and that game has literally been only getting minor content updates for like a year or so.
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Anyhoo. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 please. (There is so much I already want, I feel like a spoilt brat hoping for anything if I'm honest! Happy for whatever.)
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The only thing that’s making me wonder is.. this is based on games coming out from November to February. This doesn’t seem to leave much room for many new game announcements, given that we already have a game for November, and a game for January.
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@link3710 It's probably because not many people really care for Age of Calamity. A lot of people were expecting it to be a prequel, and kind of got burned for it. The gameplay was alright, but it lacks the replayability that Hyrule Warriors had.
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@GrailUK Honestly, I'm not holding my breath, but a Xenoblade 3 announcement would be great. Hoping that it'll be much more akin to the original one, where I can actually take moments in the story seriously without the comedic moments bleeding in with the serious ones.
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