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10 minutes Smash Bros character reveal and showcase
5 minutes Age of Calamity DLC
10 minutes Bravely Default 2
10 minutes Monster Hunter Rise
5 minutes No More Heroes 3
The remaining time is given to third party announcements, a smallish Nintendo game and a one more thing for the big holiday title.
I’m unsure if Zelda anniversary will be done in the Direct. With Mario still celebrating his, and Pokemon next week I think Nintendo will wait till second half of the year and release a collection and one or two other games - either ports or new titles - and celebrate the same way they did with Mario.
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New SMT III HD trailer announcing the English release date + Official confirmation the game is coming to PC on Atlus' social media + Reminder SMT V is coming this year
New Smash character announcement + date for next Sakurai Presents
Reminder on imminent Switch releases like Bravely 2, MH Rise and Persona 5 Strikers
2D Metroid for Switch
All the games that were recently rated will get their own segments (Great Ace Attorney, Tales from the Borderlands, etc.)
No More Heroes 3
Another budget Nintendo game like Good Job!
New Square Enix ports (either FFI-VI, FF Tactics or DQIV-VI)
Star Wars: Republic Commando for Switch/PS4 announcement
GBA on NSO
New MK8D DLC
More cloud-only ports like Control and Hitman
RISKIER PREDICTIONS:
Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition for Switch (now Switch has practically all the DMC games that it's actually capable of running natively minus DmC)
A new Atlus port (either Digital Devil Saga or Persona 4 Golden)
New non-gameplay teaser for BotW2
Metroid Prime 4 teaser
Metroid Prime Trilogy during its 35th anniversary
Switch-exclusive Resident Evil game announcement (from the Capcom leak)
@BenAV I’m keeping my expectations low. I don’t think Nintendo are doing a 50 minute presentation because they’ve got so much to showcase for the first half. If anything I think it’s because they are pushing both Monster Hunter Rise and Bravely Default 2 as their big first half games. Smash reveal is always a big event and Nintendo have happily done big segments for character reveals before. I’m just thinking we shouldn’t go into this with high hopes but hope for the surprises.
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Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD trailer and release date. Yay!
Shin Megami Tensei V teaser. Yay!!
Smash character. Either Monster Hunter or Crash Bandicoot, although my money is on the Hunter.
Trailers for stuff coming soon, like Persona 5 Strikers and Bravely Default II.
Gnosia is shadow-dropped during presentation. Yay!
Great Ace Attorney collection is officially announced for localization. Yay!!
New trailers for upcoming exclusives like Rune Factory 5, No More Heroes III, etc.
Something is announced that I never would have expected in my wildest dreams, I think is stupid when I first hear about it, but once it releases I try it and actually kind of like it.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD/Wind Waker HD double-pack announced
WILD GUESS HERE - HD remakes of Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons are announced as the one last thing.
ALTERNATIVE WILD GUESS - Super Mario Galaxy 2 is announced for release on the eshop.
@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.
@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.
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.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
@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.
You guys had me at blood and semen.
What better way to celebrate than firing something out of the pipe?
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.
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@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.
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