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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT3| Nintendo Direct Speculation Trilogy HD
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Will Microsoft try to sell any old Rare games on Switch? Or will they just sell them to Nintendo for N64 Online in 2021?
Nintendo has seemed to stack their back half of the year with Switch, and leaving the first half rather light. 2020 looks to be the same outside of Animal Crossing, unless an imminent direct shows us the light.
Tetris 99 gets underrated. I see Goose Game on countless GOTY lists but no Tetris 99 - this makes me sad :( It's a brilliant reinvention of a timeless masterpiece. I've invested 700 hours into this gem. People will be playing this for years.
I wouldn't call it a small release.
Jesus did not play many other games? That's almost as long as I've played every Switch game this year combined.
i do agree that it's highly underrated, but it's still a F2P Eshop title.
It has had a solid 6 minutes so far. Come on now, that's plenty for Nintendo's biggest release of the year.
I would prefer to see new games in the Direct. I cannot even watch AC footage without getting sleepy.
Egg lost his hair to carry Dan in Tetris. Acceptable sacrifice.
Yeah, I think the first 6 months of the calendar year can feel pretty slow on Switch. Usually there's one "big" game in March, and then another one in June. But that's usually it with the majority of notable games falling into July through December.
2017 - Breath of the Wild, ARMS
2018 - Kirby, Mario Tennis
2019 - Yoshi, Mario Maker 2
Whatever else came in the first 6 months mostly consisted of Wii U ports and Labo kits.
2020 is shaping up exactly in that manner so far. Animal Crossing is the big March game, so I'm not expecting another notable release until June. (Maybe Pikmin 3 can fill the gap in April or May?) I don't really mind it though given how insane the number of upcoming game releases are on other platforms in March through May.
2017 - Breath of the Wild, ARMS
2018 - Kirby, Mario Tennis
2019 - Yoshi, Mario Maker 2
Whatever else came in the first 6 months mostly consisted of Wii U ports and Labo kits.
2020 is shaping up exactly in that manner so far. Animal Crossing is the big March game, so I'm not expecting another notable release until June. (Maybe Pikmin 3 can fill the gap in April or May?) I don't really mind it though given how insane the number of upcoming game releases are on other platforms in March through May.
isn't it a little too soon for the mariah gifs?
...oh what the hell
That's fair! I am almost in the same boat as you. Aside from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, nothing else that has been announced for this year has caught my attention. But, Animal Crossing has only received minimal coverage, especially for such a popular game that will be releasing in less than three months. On the contrary, 25 out of the allotted 43 minutes in the E3 2018 Direct were dedicated to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, followed by two dedicated Directs in the six month lead up to the launch of the game.
I would dumbfounded if Nintendo chose not to give the game the limelight in an upcoming Direct. Since the launch of the Switch, we have had regular Directs that also provided a focus on ARMS, Splatoon 2, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Tennis Aces, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Luigi's Mansion 3, and Pokémon Sword and Shield.
I'm expecting a few more titles to show up in the first half of the year (though just like 2019, late June onward will be where most of the heavy-hitters drop):
- An eShop title of some kind; possibly a Direct shadow-drop, or it could release a few months later like BOXBOY.
- Pokémon Home; not really a game, but they'll promote it when the app drops (currently set for "Early 2020").
- Pikmin 3 Deluxe; a fine April or May release, like Hyrule Warriors and Tropical Freeze in 2018.
- Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition; probably May or June, I can't see it falling further in the year.
- Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir; could see it popping up at some point in Q2, with Part II coming a bit later in the year.
You know what is nearly impossible but would make this upcoming Direct the best one ever
A silky shadow drop
No joke, I'd pause the video right there and run off to the eshop.
A silky shadow drop
No joke, I'd pause the video right there and run off to the eshop.
Team Cherry's last update on Silksong doesn't give me much confidence in a shadow-drop anytime soon.
So they'll shadow-drop Hornet in Smash instead.
I know, but I think one of the Directs will shadow drop it in the future.
Still I would love for them to have a trailer for the upcoming one with something cool and exciting in it.
i kinda don't want to see too many trailers for silk song. i haven't watched any of the trailers and demos past the first one.
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I haven't even watched the first one in full. It's an instant buy anyway, no need to spoil myself in this case.
i'm gonna say no. the full reveal trailer, release date, and several treehouse demos will all be at E3 for maximum impact.
it'll be a repeat of xeno 2, everyone was convinced the game wouldn't come out in 2017.
isn't it a little too soon for the mariah gifs?
...oh what the hell
I have to laugh! You know, it's a little over the top, but that's just how festive we all are 😉
In my opinion, the biggest hint at a Direct happening this month and not February is the recent Animal Crossing trailer with the cover art being shown too. AC will most likely need its own Direct next month and they wouldnt want people to speculate about a another delay when they show nothing about it during next week's Direct.
That's actually a good point but do you think they will leave out AC entirely from the next Direct?
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good point
they may just put it in the sizzle reel at the end, like what they did with mario maker at E3
they might completely ignore animal crossing but then immediately announce a dedicated AC direct for feb
It should have some mention of it. It was missing from the September Direct and TGA. People are starting to wonder if it's delayed.
it was never given a date (not even a year), how can it be delayed?
That's what some of us believe will happen. We always know what the big holiday game is prior to E3 of that year. If Odyssey 2 (or the next big 3D Mario game) isn't announced in this first direct for Holiday 2020, then I believe we will get a March/April direct and it will show BotW 2/Odyssey 2 for Holiday 2020. Nintendo won't wait until E3 to talk about BotW 2 again. We can get a small trailer in a March/April direct for BotW 2 or Odyssey 2, then the huge blowout at E3 of course.
in 2017, both mario odyssey and xenoblade didn't have their date confirmed until E3. odyssey got a full date and xeno got a "holiday 2017" date with the full date being revealed in the september direct.
waiting until E3 to talk about botw 2 AND revealing a 2020 release date wouldn't be that surprising.
edit: and this year luigi's mansion had no date until E3, and even that was just a generic "2019", with the full release date being revealed later.
It's not quite the same tbf. Even though I believe BotW 2 will be 2020 it doesn't have an official release year from Nintendo. Xenoblade 2 at least had an official release of 2017 when it was first announced.
That's actually not true
Mario Odyssey release date was announced during E3 2017
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 release date was announced during the 2017 September Direct
Smash Ultimate release date was announced at E3 2018
Luigi's Mansion 3 release date was announced in a random tweet during the summer I think
I fully believe they wont show Zelda till E3 and then announce there its 2020 release date
what about luigi's mansion 3? first announced with no release year at the september direct last year, then not mentioned until E3 this year where it got a "2019" date, and then the full release date was revealed later.
Luigi's Mansion 3 was announced as 2019 when it was revealed in the September 2018 direct.
This is what we're saying all the of big holiday games were already known to release that year before E3.
2017- Odyssey was announced in January 2017 as holiday 2017
2018- Smash announced in March Direct as 2018
2019- Luigi's Mansion 3 was announced in the September 2018 Direct as a 2019 game
2020- No game big enough has been announced as a 2020 game that fits the bill. XenoblaDE ain't it. BotW 2 is announced, but no release year (yet).
I think if Breath of the Wild 2 is coming this year, we're going to see something of it before E3 - even a brief tease.
Luigi's Mansion 3 had a '2019' release date at the first reveal. Dark Cloud and ivandlspozas are right - end of year games usually have a release window (i.e. the year they'll release) before E3, with a specific date being given later. If Zelda is 2020, we should see it and know before E3.
i see. still, i wouldn't be too worried, the game can get it's release date reveal at E3 imo, without them confirming it for 2020 before then.
Right. It's not a foregone conclusion BotW 2 is even the holiday game, even though most of us believe it will be. If it's a 3D Mario for example then it will 100% be announced before E3.
After being announced, Luigi's Mansion 3 missed the February 2019 Direct before appearing in the E3 2019 Direct
After being announced, BotW 2 missed the September 2019 Direct, thus it will appear in the January 2020 Direct
It sure is easy to make up dumb theories that will probably get destroyed in a few weeks, lol.
After being announced, BotW 2 missed the September 2019 Direct, thus it will appear in the January 2020 Direct
It sure is easy to make up dumb theories that will probably get destroyed in a few weeks, lol.
This is the fun part. Nobody really cares about the actual direct. They're all bad anyways. 😝
A dedicated Direct for the game is a possibility. The last one was for Super Mario Maker 2 on May 15th, just over six weeks before it was released.
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