Topic: First post-E3 Nintendo direct

Everyone keeps asking for Unified Accounts but they are already... it is kinda confusing

What I predict for a Summer Direct:

• Info on Bayonetta 2, Hyrule Warriors, Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, and the new Super Smash Brothers
• Scribblenauts Unmasked and Disney Magical World for Europe
• Ducktales Remastered for Japan
• Sega 3D Classics outside of Japan including a confirmation for 3D Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• More localizations
• eShop Montage including release date for Shantae and the Pirate's Curse

What I predict for a September Direct:

• More info on 2015 games
• Another eShop montage
• Massive updates on the Virtual Console including many new systems like Turbografx-16, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis/MD, Gamecube, Arcade and more
• A big update for the 3DS and Wii U that will give both consoles a universal account system combined with the unveiling with Nintendo's "Quality of Life" product

EDIT: Spelling mistake

Your 3DS and Wii U NNID are together now but it's still tied to your system unlike on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam.

A) Which has nothing to do about accounts being "unified"
B) People have reported being able to recover their old accounts on new systems with Nintendo's help, so while their accounts aren't as easy to cheat you can still recover lost information/games

Which is cross-platform purchasing, it has nothing to do with accounts being unified

A VC-focused Direct would be nice, especially since Capcom seems to be supporting the VCs more often lately. Unfortunately, that would require Nintendo actually giving a hoot about VC...

My point is if you want something be sure to ask for the correct thing. Accounts are already unified and your account on 3DS can tell what you have purchased on Wii U already and vice-versa. If people keep asking for unified accounts what is Nintendo supposed to do when they already have unified accounts?

This exactly, except I expect QoL to be unveiled in another way. Like a Quality of Life direct or something.

What I want from Capcom is the games in the PSP collections - Remixed / Reloaded (The iOS Capcom Arcade has most of them).

Not really bothered about it being bare bones or even particularly the cost (But if they are really expensive I will buy less games from it).

Nintendo actually explained back in the Wii days that it was simply because the point of VC was to make a quick buck, and the only way it could remain profitable was if they put in as little effort as possible.

Nevermind the success Sega had with the Wii and 3DS VC games by putting in more effort. Nevermind the fact that Sony used to consistantly push out Classics on a regular basis at a fraction of the cost despite the games being bigger and more complicated. Nintendo just couldn't make any money off VC with more than the bare minimum of effort. No advertising, that's too costly (because people actually knowing about your products won't make up for the costs apparently). No licensed games, that's too costly (because you can't charge $6 for an NES game when Sony's charging $6 for their Disney PSOne games. Nope). No new features, that's too costly. If there's a glitch, it has to be permanently removed for the shop and gave out refunds, because a patch was somehow more costly.

VC was nothing more than a cash cow to them, and now the milk's dried up...

Can you point me to where Nintendo explained that?

It was way back in the days of VC-Reviews, I think, so I'll see what I can do.

They're probably not going to talk about ORAS in a Direct unless it's something major. And by "major", I mean major for the series as a whole, not just the game itself. The thing is that we've been getting regular information on new Pokemon games long before Nintendo Directs were even a thing, through monthly releases of the Japanese magazine CoroCoro, and with the worldwide release, that info is updated to the game's international websites fairly quickly. Why would they then need an additional Direct to broadcast news for the game? The only times they've done Pokemon Directs in the past (or at least the past year, I didn't really pay attention to ND's before 2013) was to announce the start of a new generation of Pokemon games and to announce a cloud storage app that allows you to transfer your Pokemon. That's some pretty huge news, and there's very little if anything on ORAS they could announce that would be of that scale. So I don't think we'll be getting an ORAS Direct, we'll probably just be getting news on it through CoroCoro, Pokemon.com, or other venues.

I just wan't to use my NNID on another system , and a simple messenger system for 3DS. And ditch friend codes on 3DS.

to do so they'd probably have to update every single game and app that uses the friend list(this includes the third party games) so I doubt it's going to happen.

I would really like to see some GameCube games... namely Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Any JRPG is welcome... a new Metroid game would be cool even if it was a 2.5D side scroll with HD graphics... A Mario RPG (Paper or no).

I agree... the whole friend code thing needs to go... its so unnecessary and a pain

Its not that Nintendo doesn't care about VC its just they have higher priorities and vc while most likely profitable probably doesn't bring enough money to justify a full effort.

Sega was happy with the 3D Classics performance. That means that probably just Sonic made enough to pay M2. If they have one title per system like that then they could just do that anything else is a bonus. Look at the charts the constantly high selling ones almost certainly make enough money to do the job properly.

As far as retail games go, I don't think we're going to be seeing very many over the next year, we've got a ton in development and a few more being hinted at. They'll probably announce like, 5 or 6 full retail titles (and probably a bunch of other smaller stuff like SNES Remix) over the next year or so and then save some of the bigger games for next E3. IDK what to expect though, most of what's been hinted at is the bigger stuff that we probably won't see until E3 (Super Mario Galaxy 3, Metroid, Pokken Fighters), and I can't think of any franchises that could get a new game that either don't already have one or could be announced outside of E3 (Wii U is noticeably missing Animal Crossing, Paper Mario, and a main series Kirby game). This is about all I can predict:

Fall/Winter announcements:
Majora's Mask 3D
Mario sports game for Wii U

Spring announcements:
New main series Pokemon game (probably Z or XY2)

E3 announcements:
Super Mario Galaxy 3
Metroid U
Metroid 3D
Pokken Fighters
Animal Crossing U
Paper Mario U
The second 3DS Zelda game

IDK what else to expect in the next year.

My guess is a direct come September to show off all the games coming for the rest of the year. Than one for every month with a new game coming out.