Stuff all that, give us a trailer already. It has to be very soon. The Mario movies were released in April and had their reveals in October the previous year. I'm gonna say now OOT is out of the way, next week (or this one, still time) but definitely by the end of November...surely? At this rate we'll start seeing official tie-in merch leaks that tell us more than we've been shown.

When are they going to drop the Zelda Movie Direct? It has to be very soon, all of the Mario movie's were revealed by this point in the release schedule. We haven't even got any official cast news except Link and Zelda yet.

@gcunit that's what I mean, it's not the best way to play Mario Kart! I've played multiplayer in tabletop mode multiple times, it's just too small to really concentrate. That was 2 player, 4 player was just impossible to see anything!

Always interesting to watch these reveal trailers to see how much of it became a reality. I don't think anyone took their Switch to play on their dog walk. I certainly did play mine at the airport and on a flight (not in tabletop mode, that's stupid). I don't think anyone ever would've put the screen in the back of a car or van to play MK8...it's too small for that tbh. Nor did I ever see anyone bring it to a rooftop party. Although I did end up playing Mario Kart with the best man at my friend's wedding after we went back to the hotel. I highly doubt eSports players were putting their screens around in a circle to discuss strategies, were they? Nor did anyone ever break out the Switch's to play multiplayer sports games after playing said sport in real life hahaha. But all great examples of what was possible with it's portability.

Yeah yeah that's all great, but wheeeeeen are we able to pre-order the Ocarina's they showed us? Surely it made sense to get those out before the game hits, so people can like, actually put them to use when playing it?

The concept art looked more interesting tbh

lol there's no doubt about GTA 6, but in no timeline is a Call of Duty game a huge release in 2026. It's an iteration franchise that pushes one out every year. It's like saying FIFA will be game of the year, or Just Dance hahahaha

Talk about dumbing things down for the market. Why did they separate the images to display the sports instead of simply using an image of them all in one?

When the OOT date was announced and there was this fuss about clashing with GTA, I thought it was coming out on the same day. It's two weeks before hahaha why the fuss? Ok so people who are paid monthly might have to make a decision. But genuinely anyone who can afford both, they won't be pressed for time commitments. You can do OOT in two weeks easily, well before GTA is released. This isn't really a clash is it? I'd be more concerned about any game releasing for the next few months after GTA.

P.S. October is aaaaaalways a busy release month.

There's a lot of focus on Majora's Mask this month...

Got tickets for London Saturday night. Complete luck I ended up 1700 in the queue as soon as it started. This'll be my 3rd Zelda symphony concert.

Good. It would've been mediocre Ubislop anyway.

They should sell these separately. Easy money

Wasn't this title really leaked somewhere a few months ago? I remember hearing Metroid Ravenous somewhere and laughing because of that old 70s/80s film called Ravenous

Have to say I was disappointed. Not usually one to criticise Nintendo's release line up or Directs but it's pretty clear they don't have that much ready to show off. Way too many Switch 2 Editions, which I was fine with before but now it's reaaaaaally starting to get annoying how many games they're releasing and trying to make us excited for. When they ported Wii U's greatest hits it was understandable because so few people owned one. But...most of us owned a Switch 1, and bought these games lol

Bloated with 3rd party slop no one you know will be playing, as always. The only games featured I didn't already know about which I'm excited for was Metroid and Kirby. Oh well, I have a lot to catch up on so a light holiday release line up isn't the end of the world.

OOT looks gorgeous, obviously. Slightly underwhelming that we didn’t get anything else game-wise. I expected at least one other remake/HD remaster port. They just quickly flashed up a load of other things too but I understand not every region is getting the same. Really surprising and actually quite annoying they didn’t show off the movie at all, this was the perfect place to do it. Or at least announce some casting. The anniversary concerts coming back are welcome though. All in all great to see what OOT is like (even if they should have shown the trailer before the gameplay) but I expected more from this direct. Here’s hoping they still have a few ports to announce…

Pretty sure we didn't need a 10 minute video about a console we already own, Mr Spanish guy. Just get to the point and show us the inside!!!!

How would a Nintendogs work on Switch with no mic? They'd have to sell an attachment. But honestly, no touch screen in TV mode...surely it's better off as a smartphone game? I would highly suspect that's what they're going to do, it makes perfect sense.

Smash Bros...eh, I'll be excited to play it if it's new not just a deluxe release. But honestly I'd rather Sakurai worked on a Kid Icarus game or something else.

They're like buses! I strongly suspect we will get a teaser trailer for the Zelda movie with an in-depth/dedicated Direct for it a month or two later. Other than that, hoping for WW and TP HD ports at last, a new top-down Zelda or remake of a top-down, and of course (obviously) a full look at the OOT remake. Excited for the 40th anniversary merch and brand tie-ins we're about to get between now and the movie release!

I just want that retro Cloud keyring

@Znake how exactly do you expect them to fit games these big on a card?

Good to know it's in safe hands, then. It'll be out in November (no way they clash it with Switch Sports in October) and we'll probably get a full trailer during a Direct this month.

I hate the constant drip feeding Nintendo do with all their services. So many iconic soundtracks they haven't included yet, and they pull this one out. There's also no way it should take as long as it does to get new game ST's up on the platform. They should be up a week after release.

Amazing game, aged far better than SM64. Not sure why it gets hate except "ugh why do we have this water cannon"

If it was a Switch 2 Lite, I'd get it, but I guess we'll have to wait for next year for that

Different coloured joy-cons?! And the 40th anniversary logo? Nintendo, you're spoiling us

We will not be watching

There will be a Sonic game released in Oct/Nov as there is every single year.

Ok but when counting up how many sales were digital at least be honest with the data and note that it includes games which are digital-only, so no one has a choice but to choose digital. Present the figures for games where people have the choice of which option for more accurate and honest data. I'm saying this because Sony misrepresented their own data when giving a reason for killing physical.

Lite version first. Switch Lite is the perfect size for taking away on trips. Switch 2 is just too much bulk to pack into a suitcase, I need the slimmed down version.

Well it was inevitable, mobile games don't last forever. Pokemon Go will be the same in another 10 years. I stopped playing it after about a year. It's a shame because this game could've been wildly popular with the casual crowd if they just gave it a traditional Mario Kart format but built it around online multiplayer. Instead of that we got this score based microtransaction slop. Glad to say I never spent a penny on it. At least we got some cool new tracks that ended up in MK8. Hopefully those tracks make their way into MKW when they inevitably expand the map.

People saying they're already digital only but hate that this is happening...it's happening because of you. You ditched physical, and sent the message that digital is the way forward for publishers. It's all your fault this is happening, because if none of you decided to stop buying physical media, they would see there is still a market for it.

It's not long until we are playing games via a subscription service where it's streamed off the internet rather than being able to download and "own" them. And just the same as we are all to blame for television and movies going that way, it will be our fault for not resisting it.

@IronMan30 get yourself on social media, people are kicking up a fuss alright

Golden Sun the original version that was supposed to be on N64

Let's hope there's no "Dubious Food" on offer

@johnedwin then buy that one?

$2 million?! I'd be holding them to ransom until they agree to release the HD remasters of Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 2 and 3, and a new F-Zero game on Switch 2. Some people have the wrong priorities.

If they change anything people will complain, if they stick too close to the original and take no risks, people will complain. They literally can't please everyone with this. I'm already dreading the discourse when the full trailer drops.

Anything they change will be met with huge uproar. Just look at the reaction to how Link looks, and we've only seen half of his face.

Thumb wars being called a sport is laughable tbh. Hope there's more to this than the original NS Sports. The Pilotwings-esque plane one looks cool.

It looks fine. I really just expected to see a visual polish of old models the same way it was on 3DS. So very surprised to see they've rebuilt the entire game from scratch, given Link an actual room instead of simply a bed. People are overreacting of course. We haven't even seen him open his eyes yet, we've only seen one half of his face. The only thing that looks slightly off is the hair which appears to fall over his forehead more instead of being stuck up like Isabel Oakeshott's fringe.

But we haven't seen anything to judge really. People are always going to complain about changes to a game like Ocarina of Time, because it's held so dearly. Guess what? There will absolutely be more changes that get people riled up. We haven't even seen Zelda yet. There's going to be some gameplay differences too, probably a slightly re-imagined map and some changes to the layouts of some towns or dungeons. But what do we really want from a remake? The same game with better graphics, or a complete overhaul that expands upon the original in a way the N64 didn't allow? The FFVII remake completely ripped up the original game right down to beats in the storyline, but expanded it to something massive. I'd fully be on board with OOT doing something similar.

So yes, people will complain about every little thing that changes with this remake (I've even seen people pick apart the logo) and this is going to be repeated when the first movie trailer comes out. You'll never please everyone.

The issue with cloud versions laid bare right here. They can be taken offline at anytime and then you've lost access despite paying for them. Give them to the people who paid already for free.

@Tasuki the dead horse being one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time

Good. The reason I haven't even started the latest Octopath is because it's such a time commitment.

It's a fun concept, even if they seriously underestimate how many photos I have on my phone. 33,000, it's gonna take a long long time to scan all those into the app. And as much as I appreciate Nintendo trying to break the freemium habit of smartphone apps, I don't think people will pay £6 or whatever it was for one half of the game, and then the same for another half of it. This is one game where being free with in-app purchases would've been a better model. Also, just give us WarioWare Touched for smartphones.

@topsekret thanks, that's great to hear it's not even new content so I can save my time and my money skipping this

Amazing game but I don't have the appetite to play through it again for a couple of new story scenarios, when I have so much I'm already waiting on playing including the remake of DQ7

Well I think I hate the hero design. I'm sure it'll be a great game though. But we aren't seeing this for at least 2 years.

No way a Bluey game scored more than this! 😂

That's then? Old team on the scrapheap?