Poll: It's Almost Time For The Game Awards, But Are You Expecting Much Switch News?

I'm really hoping for a repeat of 7 years ago with Bayonetta, where they had a trailer for 3, with 1 + 2 coming in February. Except this time it will be for Metroid Prime. Prime 4 trailer with Prime 2 and 3 announced for February.

I'm not really expecting it but it's the best I can hope for.

Wasn't there supposed to be news on the Bravely Default series this year? Since there hasn't been any yet (unless I missed it) I think TGA would be a good place for that. Especially since BD2 was announced at TGA

I'll probably read a bit about it on this site. Other than that I have zero interest in this event. As someone who basically plays exclusively on Switch and older Nintendo consoles/handhelds I only care about news from the big N.

I highly doubt they'll have big Nintendo news coming up and if they do, hats off to them for managing to get a scoop, I guess.

Remasters like Prime 2/3 seem like the sort of thing Nintendo would put out at the game awards.

If we don't see anything more of Prime 4 before the Switch 2 announcement that confirms to me it will be a cross platform release but I wouldn't expect it here.

Award shows are lame and corny. All these games nominated have a lot of $ to market. There are hundreds of other games that need love and attention.

I expect to make fun of it w you's guys, and maybe get some fun reveals. Pretty much it.

I really wish we had a better awards show. So much about this event rubs me the wrong way and every year all its faults become more apparent. Can’t stop this machine, though, can’t even corral it into a better, more thoughtful lane. Greed, vanity, excess with little respect shown to game creators or even the games being awarded. Oh, and that’s before the recent change of rules to allow a pet nominee in on a technicality.

I hope they reveal smashbros DLC (costumes, characters stages) wont happen tho lol.
Or at least some info about the switch 2. (Wont happen either 🤣)

Not expecting any Switch news that's gonna be relevant to me and I'm definitely not watching the Awards.

I think at most on the 1st party side of things we'll see something like 2019's "Nintendo Switch has Games". However, I think there'll be some 3rd party games releasing on Switch that are present.

There's a chance the Switch 2 could pop up, or even another look at Metroid Prime 4.

Nintendo has used TGA to announce things like Joker and Sephiroth for Smash Bros, so anyone saying they doubt Nintendo will be involved is kidding themselves. Nintendo is very much a soulless corporate sponsor of the soulless corporate Game Awards.

Watch it with friends for the trailers and to laugh at Veilguard when it wins its stupid "accessibility" award or whatever. Or do literally anything else with your Thursday night.

Doubt it. As has been said, the switch logo will probably appear at the bottom of the screen after a few trailers, but that's it.

I've watched every TGA to date, so I'll probably sit through this one, but eh. The players choice awards have showed their true colors (remind me again why an ancient gacha game is in the running?) and highlighted why the actual awards are so heavily weighted against the popular vote.

I'm mostly just curious to see how/if they respond to last year's backlash.

Nintendo ain't showing anything lets be honest. They basically never do outside of smash reveals.

I am not interested in The Game Commercials and definitely expect zero from Nintendo to be there.

I just want a Resident Evil 9 announcement.

Not interested in the games award. See how I don't even bother giving it capital letters..
Anything interesting will show up here on NL. I don't need to be the first to know XD

I do what I always do at this TGA time of the year. Ignore it and read the articles the day after.
If I do miss out at something that I would consider worthwhile, Nintendo-related or not, thats on me and me alone.

No and no.

I mean, there's always a chance. But who the heck cares about TGA. I'm surprised Nintendo ever showed stuff off there in the first place.

Personally I'm just waiting for Tomb Raider IV-VI collection to drop to half price in about a year (and of course release first in february). I think we got more or less anything worthwhile remastered at this point, so I can't see anything coming (and new games for Switch that'd interest me - forget it).

Not really, and that's fine because we'll get 'Switch 2' news relatively soon.

Only thing that can be guaranteed for the game awards is that I won’t be watching it 😂

Yes, I expect metroid prime 2, 3 and 4 news, in a similar way like they did with Bayonetta 1, 2 and 3 news.

Perhaps a shadow drop to bytrack the leakers, otherwise physical in February.

Could be a Metroid prime 4 trailer or something and possibly an announcement of Metroid 2 and/or 3 but beyond that(lol) I don’t see Nintendo doing anything else. I have said this on other sites and stuff but Nintendo or at least Nintendo of japan of doesn’t see game awards as a place to announce the most crazy things. Would love to be proven wrong but if last year’s game awards(wrap it up statement) is anything to go by then I would say it will be the same. Nintendo doesn’t need game awards. Geoff can beg all he wants like he always does to Nintendo but Nintendo does what they want. Simple as that.

Reject The Game Awards.

Embrace Interstella 5555. (at least, that's what I'll be doing this Thursday). I'll catch up Friday morning.

There’s not going to be anything Nintendo related here. There never is. Not since Smash ended.

That being said, I’m going to watch it live this year (like I do every year), since I like wasting hours of my life that I’ll never get back.

I'm watching it in hopes of some Squenix stuff, and Bandai saved the reveal of the next Tekken 8 character for the game awards, instead of this big recent Tekken tournament where they're usually announced at, so I'm thinking a guest character.

I don’t even watch The Game Awards. I voted last year, but didn’t watch the actual event.

That being said, Nintendo will not announce anything there, especially news for the Switch 2. They’ll probably just say “Please note that there will be no game announcements or mentions of the Nintendo Switch successor during the Game Awards 2024.”

Switch 2 will probably be revealed next month. Although if they do announce anything there, IG Metroid Prime 4.

Ive said it before but publishers don't need the TGAs but the TGAs need publishers. If Nintendo does reveal something, it'll be something minor or just noteworthy. Might see games for Switch revealed from indies though.
Will I watch it? Nah, it happens so late UK time and I doubt Geoff Keighley will respect my time or patience during it

İ am not expecting next console announcement from Nintendo in this Game Awards. İ think not in December. Not this year. Not the great time for it.
İ am expecting maybe Wind waker HD remake, Twilight princess HD remake or maybe Ocarina of time HD remake on Nintendo Switch. About Majora's mask HD remake? No not Majora's mask HD remake. Not now. For Nintendo Switch.

The best moment will be maybe second trailer from Metroid prime 4 beyond. That game was like gameplay trailer from Halo 2 on the original Xbox.

İ hope Metroid prime 4 beyond will be incredible game.

Do awards for Echoes and Prime 4 winning count? No guarantee of course.

If we do get any news of upcoming Switch releases, it’ll be from third party companies.

I will be traveling by boat that day. But even if I wasn’t I would not watch

Geoff Keighly is my number 5 most hated thing in the world.

Nope. But I'll watch it anyway because it's always fun watching these crappy shows.

I don’t care for award shows. They are superficial, shallow and ultimately meaningless.

I expect zero Nintendo news and not much news from other publishers and developers.

I won’t be watching the show at all, never cared for it. I’ll just look up an article to see all the announcements and watch any trailers that interest me.

It's going to be a night of gushing over Astrobot like Sony are the saviours of the 3D platformer. No thanks.

If they have anything It’ll be another NSO drop like last year. They’ve been dropping DK games every week for a while now and I could see them announcing Diddy Kong Racing or DK64

There isn't a lot I would expect from Nintendo. Maybe trailers for already announced projects like Pokemon Legends A-Z, Metroid Prime 4, or Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. Fully new announcements, though? No, I think Nintendo'll do its own separate event like when the Switch was announced.

If there is anything worth seeing I'll hear about it after the fact. Shows like this are just an interminable slog to get through.

I'm gonna pass on watching the show. Like the Oscars it's a snooze fest and it's generic as it gets. There's also a clear bias towards Western made games, AAA mainstream or games that cater to the Western market.

The Game Awards is a shamelessly terrible advertisement event organised by an egotistical, uncharismatic, self-appointed cretin.

Of course I won’t be watching.

I don't believe the Dorito Pope likes Nintendo all that much, and so there's rarely anything substantial that I care about.

I usually tune in and am usually left disappointed, so that's my expectation once again. I'll have the Game Awards on my iPad while watching football on the big screen (go Rams!).

"Will you be watching The Game Awards 2024?"

Option missing from the poll:
Probably not, but I'll probably read some articles about it.

I think there may still be more games slated for the switch than people assume but I don’t expect anything to be announced at the game awards. I think Nintendo has decided that this is not the best venue for their brand, and I think they are likely to hold any announcements for their own direct. The switch games we’ll see will be multi platform indies.

Metroid Prime 4 and/or Prime 2 and 3 Remastered would be so perfect given the rumors of the 2018 all those years ago. But, you can never really tell or know.

I don't follow the show too much. There might be a thing or two for me in there. Something Sonic or Mega Man (not happening) or even the old Transformers games at this point.

In the end, I feel like this Games Awards has the potential to be either surprisely good given that I think 2025 will be a big year to some degree, or absolutely terrible given the current state of the game industry. It might be interesting to see either way.

In Kealey’s defense - the rushing people off stage last year was very much a reaction to 2022 where a few speeches when upwards of 5 minutes, and there was also that incident with the bad actor at the end.

I think 2024 deserves to be an opportunity to fix this over correction.

Also I may have reverse psychology-d myself into expecting switch two news. Like a dope

i stop watching this worthless show its just rigged in most choices in these awards.

I'd rather walk on Lego barefooted than watch the Game Awards.

I hope Reggie comes out to reveal a new playable character for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD

Considering the announcements have already been leaked for the Scammies, I mean VGA, I’m gonna say there won’t be any significant Nintendo announcements.
I won’t be watching them either. “The Real Video Game Awards” are where it’s at.

@RupeeClock They announce things at the Game Awards when they deem appropriate and there’s nothing to suggest they won’t continue to do so. Sure they didn’t show anything last year but they announced Bayonetta Origins the year before…it’s not like they’ve had a string of consecutive years where they’ve ignored them. They just seem to look at what they have to announce each year and whether it makes sense to show anything during TGA’s or not.

I’m not expecting it but I don’t think it’s impossible that a Prime 4 trailer could be shown given that it fits with the kinds of games that get a lot of the spotlight during these shows (big budget, dark and serious). It’d be a good way of appealing to the crowds who don’t pay attention to what Nintendo do and who don’t watch Directs etc. IMO.

I'm stupidly hopeful Silksong will make an appearance. The fact that at the last couple events, Geoff made sure to let people know Silksong would NOT be shown, and he hasn't done that for this event certainly seems like a sign.

Sadly, Nintendo will probably be shut out this year at the Game Awards. The Family Award, which normally they have on lock down, will go to Astro Bot, and while Metroid Prime 4 is a darkhouse for the Most Anticipated Game, I think GTA VI will get it.

My only hope is they shadow drop Prime 2 and 3, alongside Twlight Princess/Wind Waker, and maybe Star Fox Zero, to hold us over until Switch 2 comes out.

@ScalenePowers Honestly I wish they’d just jettison the whole awards side of it and stop pretending that they care about that stuff. Just call it Winter Games Fest and show the trailers. Maybe just do Game of the Year and let the winners have an actual respectable amount of time to talk, but otherwise just indulge in the fact that it’s one big marketing showcase and stop using awards as an excuse to do it.

I want to see a new trailer for the new Carmen Sandiego Game for the Nintendo Switch, other than that, I might watch it

@RupeeClock Again, I think it just depends on what they think is going to resonate with the crowd that watches these things. They announced Bayonetta 3 at the 2017 show which is very much in line with what this audience wants to see. Same thing with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3…”Marvel game developed by Team Ninja” is exactly the kind of headline that grabs attention during these shows. It’s a question of timing and whether they have something that makes sense to show, like they’re not going to announce a new Kirby game or something during TGA’s because it’s not the audience for it. Ultimately I wouldn’t go in expecting them to show anything but I wouldn’t count them out given their track record.

No nintendo news, elden ring DLC will win GOTY and Geoff will gush over hideio kojimi.

I hope they don't use game awards for advertising. I know people like the show but it is unwatchable for me, it is basically a long form commercial.

@larryisaman that would be a beautiful thing.
I think it’s imaginary, but it’s good to imagine a better world!
I think our medium came too late to the party and only gets an awards show if they can make infinity dollars off of it

No, there’s never any real Switch news outside of directs, E3 (RIP), and trailers. TGA 2017 was the exception, not the rule. The show itself has been a joke ever since they blackballed Hogwarts Legacy.

Nintendo already tweeted that we're getting Tetris NES that night

At least Black Myth Wukong got a well-deserved Game of the Year from the Golden Joystick Awards, so it's not all propaganda, bias, and messaging this year.

And in other good news, I can't wait for Asmongold's The Shame Awards. Now that will be FUN to watch. ❤︎

They have scheduled TGA for 3.5 hours lol that has to mean there are a ton of announcements coming our way - not all Switch related, of course - but 3.5 hours is a lot. Has to mean a ton of announcements, right? 🤔