Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@FragRed I'm fine if the surprises are small but having to watch 30+ minutes of boring fluff just to get to it would be painful. Rather them just stick to the trailer uploads if they're going to go down that route.

So are there any stupid rumors that have people expecting an announcement that won't happen at the Direct? It seems like tradition at this point.

@BenAV I agree with you. We should start complaining about the Direct was boring now rather waiting around for it!

@FragRed I think they're doing a 50 minute presentation because third parties have a lot to showcase for the first half but Partner Showcases don't get as much attention. Look at the viewing numbers on Youtube (main Nintendo channel numbers) for the Directs since September 2019:

• September 2019 Direct - 2.6 million
• Animal Crossing Direct - 2.4 million
• March 2020 Direct Mini - 4.7 million
• July Partner Showcase - 3.2 million
• August Partner Showcase - 1.5 million
• Mario 35th anniversary Direct - 9.3 million
• September Partner Showcase - 1.1 million
• October Partner Showcase - 0.412 million
• Super Nintendo World Direct - 3.6 million

Seems to be pretty much the very bad July Partner Showcase put people off watching future Partner Showcases.

@Grumblevolcano lol The July showcase was probably my favorite presentation from last year.

@jump There's never been a Direct that bad so it should be fine unless Nintendo have completely forgotten how to do them after this long break, haha.

@Grumblevolcano The July SMT Direct wasn't that bad lol

Fine, you asked... here goes:

WILD GUESS: A Gameboy Advance Classic is announced, featuring X amount of GB, GBC and GBA games pre-installed. I feel like there has to be some kind of hardware/peripheral revealed, and I don't think it's going to be a Switch revision, so I'm going for a GBA Classic.

@gcunit Hmm..sounds like a good/plausible idea but the classic GameBoy is the most iconic looking version but it would be crappy to play today and the GameBoy Advance doesn't feel iconic enough for a mini-console release.

@jump I had the same thoughts, so ultimately I just went with the fact that the original GBA design is the most appealing to me, and the fact that it would be a bit weird to have GBA games on a GB.

I imagine an issue with giving handhelds the "classic" treatment is the cost of including a decent screen by modern standards. Nintendo doesn't necessarily have to modernize this too much...but it would make me wonder why we couldn't just play these games on the Switch instead.

A little over three hours till the Direct.

Anticipation...rising....

@timleon Right now you can't play those games on the Switch though and these things are really just novelty toys/collectibles rather than folk playing then on the bus.

@Magician Isn't it in like five hours?

@BenAV It is, just under 5 hours.

@BenAV @Grumblevolcano

2pm PST, 4pm CST...my bad.

5 hours later ... (Tom Kenny's voice)

The Corpse Party remake hasn't been announced for a release outside of Japan yet, right? If there's no word of it in the near future then I'll probably just grab it off the Japanese eShop as it has 33% off launch sale till March 8th.

WILD GUESS #2: Something ARMS related.

A new Wild Arms game would be great ...... (I know that's not what's meant but never mind)