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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT7| March Madness
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I though Nintendo was supposed to have more resources for developing games since Switch is the only console they have to care about now (no more GC/GBA, Wii/DS, WiiU/3DS situations). I hope June Direct will be packed at least.
Also, sorry Raccoon but Animal Crossing is sold out in the UK apparently so I can't hold up my declaration. You have my sincerest apologies.
Once I saw it was a Mini my expectations from Nintendo was Pikmin 3, 3D World or a Mario Golf. I would've taken any.
Yeah that's true. Maybe we'll hear from Harker again
I really like that Nintendo is doing these indie collabs like The Stretchers and Good Job. I wanna see a ton more of those.
Wait what Capcom game?
Wait what Capcom game?
Still neat! Might give that a shot after Panzer Dragoon and the Bravely Default II Demo.
...What a good time for demos, goddamn.
I don't get why this couldn't have been in January or February, nothing here steals AC's thunder. Unless this had more and they cut stuff from it.
I suppose resources are kinda limited when entire cities are on lockdown. Videogames aren't essential, so it wouldn't surprise me if most people are doing homeoffice/aren't working at all.
I can see them not wanting to show stuff that might get delayed a ton depending on how long this whole mess lasts.
They like to shadowdrop games and demos, so they needed games like Jedi Academy and Panzer Dragoon to be done before they could air this.
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Shinsekai. That Apple Arcade game.
It's not a good play to take John Harker's offhand comment as a reference to an April/May general Direct. This one was packaged as a mini to lay out the release schedule until June while keeping mum on the summer and fall. Nintendo has no incentive to get any info out before (what would have been) E3 week.
First of all, I'm SO HAPPY this was real and that we can move on from the madness now. There's no doubt when the next General will be after this (June, E3 week or close to that).
That said, that was a pretty low-key Direct. Third party-wise it was not bad at all, but in the first party front, it was lukewarm at most. The fact that no game was announced at the end confirms that there's nothing coming from Nintendo in the summer and that, being optimistic, the first of the June Direct's announcements will come out in September. Oh well. I'm happy they decided to release this as a Mini, it was the right call given what they had to show. Now to wait for June.
That said, that was a pretty low-key Direct. Third party-wise it was not bad at all, but in the first party front, it was lukewarm at most. The fact that no game was announced at the end confirms that there's nothing coming from Nintendo in the summer and that, being optimistic, the first of the June Direct's announcements will come out in September. Oh well. I'm happy they decided to release this as a Mini, it was the right call given what they had to show. Now to wait for June.
I'm in the same boat. It did have some nice stuff. Especially Star Wars Racer. I lived and breathed that game, lol.
Congrats to everyone who probably ensured Grubb will never, EVER indicate an upcoming direct again!
You guys rock!
You guys rock!
I opened this thread less than 10 minutes into the release of a 25 minute direct and saw a number of already disappointed "that's all?" posts. To those people: y'all pine over something for weeks and then don't even give it the time of day before shifting directly into complaining? C'mon now.
guys it was a real pleasure to meet you all. See you in June
edit: and also a big thank to Nate, Zippo, and the other insider for telling us these info about the direct... thanks so much!
edit: and also a big thank to Nate, Zippo, and the other insider for telling us these info about the direct... thanks so much!
Wait, what am I saying, they literally just said the ARMS character for Smash will be announced and released in June. There's obviously gonna be a Direct, then. E3 or not.
Not disappointed. Plenty of stuff to consider purchasing. One of those unfortunate people that never got round to playing XC so, lucky for me it is like a tentpole game for me. Really looking to it. Never got round to playing Borderlands either, and fancy a Bioshock 1 play through. Burnout Paradise \o/. Good job and Shinsekai look great too.
Surprised that Bravely Default 1 wasn't kind of shadow dropped or put down for a release.
Surprised that Bravely Default 1 wasn't kind of shadow dropped or put down for a release.
I believe that this was supposed to be General Direct but since covid-19 is a thing they are not quite sure about their first party lineup, so they just changed it to a Mini Direct but everything that was going to shadowdrop was just like as it would be General Direct. But who knows about Pikmin 3 or 3D World since i really doubt that these would be announced in a big June Direct.
In any case this thread is a dumpfire and I'm probably holding off from speculating with most of you for the future, please grow up and try to be decent human beings see ya
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Shinsekai. That Apple Arcade game.
Anything that is not already practically finished has a very possible risk of being delayed due to covid-19 in all companies.
Tbf Nintendo themselves timestamped pretty much everything in the description.
As long as they're not harassing devs or doing other bullshit like that then why not just allow people to complain and be disappointed? Trying to police everyone so that only positive thoughts are allowed will never work.
We've got folks here un-ironically saying that others are "terrible people," for not enjoying the Direct. That shit's ridiculous in my eyes.
Table Top game , Work game and some of 3rd party looks amazing.
Table top game literally justifies purchase of Switch. Interested in XCom and Burnout as well
Table top game literally justifies purchase of Switch. Interested in XCom and Burnout as well
They didn't even tell us what that had in it and it's in probably less than a month, unless it's just the earth day stuff.
I might agree with you if this had been released in January. If we don't get the first proper direct of the year until June then when can we expect the next major release after AC? September? Later?
Makes me wonder what the hell they would have done if AC didn't need to be delayed.
Honestly for a Mini it was pretty solid for me. I am interested in about 3 or 4 of these, which is better than most Minis. The biggest thing to have made it better would've been anything other than Pokémon DLC to end it lol. I mean we get it, Pokémon and Animal Crossing print money, but how about throwing a line to a different IP, like say Pikmin? Even Mario 3D World would've been a better call IMO.
I already played all the ports announced on other systems and the rest is not my cup of tea. The smaller games are a nice touch but come on, the last major first party game announced was 6 months ago and it was a port of a game I played not too long ago. For many of us this mini-direct was just not good and does not promise good things for the rest of the year. Luckily I still have a backlog on Switch but I will be playing my PS4 much more the coming months which is weird because it is PS4 last year and switch should be in its prime.
You have to realize that most of this stuff is not AAA exclusive material, it's more AA/minor stuff. Those are very much more likely to benefit from a short marketing / hype cycle rather than a long one. Alot of this stuff now launches within 1-2 months rather than 3-5, which is a massive difference.
That's my theory anyway, it makes sense to me.
I think it was quite good; main surprise is no Wii U ports at all. I like first party reveals as much as anyone but confirmation of Borderlands, Bioshock, Burnout Paradise etc is great. Though those are old games I love to have them on Switch. Bravely Defauls looks very good. Xenoblade remaster with confirmed epilogue, pretty good.
It is like some of you do not like news, just "megatons".
It is like some of you do not like news, just "megatons".
I said in January it was far too early to determine COVID's impact on publishing and development timelines.
Now we know. There is likely quite a bit of unnannounced content coming to Switch this year, but it's best for everyone if you assume that it will be delayed months after its original timeline. It's not cause for panic or a question of did those things exist; it simply means that you will have to enjoy what's already been released and understand that the world is slowing to a crawl.
Things will eventually resume some kind of regular schedule, but I'm wishing those companies take all the time in the world to stay healthy.
edit - this also reminds of a story that happened during a game preview event that was suddenly delayed. I was supposed to be in LA for a weekend, then they canceled the entire event like five days before it was supposed to happen. Turns out the dev and marketing team had a meal to celebrate the game's nearly completed state and the preview event; that meal led to mass food poisoning, and almost the entire team of 25+ people designated to help us through the weekend were completely knocked out and couldn't work.
These things happened then. Now imagine that at an unprecedented and far more life-threatening scale - we'll be fine waiting.
Now we know. There is likely quite a bit of unnannounced content coming to Switch this year, but it's best for everyone if you assume that it will be delayed months after its original timeline. It's not cause for panic or a question of did those things exist; it simply means that you will have to enjoy what's already been released and understand that the world is slowing to a crawl.
Things will eventually resume some kind of regular schedule, but I'm wishing those companies take all the time in the world to stay healthy.
edit - this also reminds of a story that happened during a game preview event that was suddenly delayed. I was supposed to be in LA for a weekend, then they canceled the entire event like five days before it was supposed to happen. Turns out the dev and marketing team had a meal to celebrate the game's nearly completed state and the preview event; that meal led to mass food poisoning, and almost the entire team of 25+ people designated to help us through the weekend were completely knocked out and couldn't work.
These things happened then. Now imagine that at an unprecedented and far more life-threatening scale - we'll be fine waiting.
People... Shure, in a vacum this was a great direct.
We dont live in a vacum.
Most of the games are yearsor even a decade old. The ports wereleaked months ago. And th eports will cost more than on every other platform. This is not something to get hyped up, except you absolutely wanted to play them mobile.
otherwise, most pcs/laptops bought in the last 6 years should be able to play a lot of these games. Off of steam, for cheaper.
I dont find it a desaster like some others (because, like i sad, in a vacum the direct would be good), but you cant just wave your hand and say "you'll never be happy" or "you have to high expectations".
We dont live in a vacum.
Most of the games are yearsor even a decade old. The ports wereleaked months ago. And th eports will cost more than on every other platform. This is not something to get hyped up, except you absolutely wanted to play them mobile.
otherwise, most pcs/laptops bought in the last 6 years should be able to play a lot of these games. Off of steam, for cheaper.
I dont find it a desaster like some others (because, like i sad, in a vacum the direct would be good), but you cant just wave your hand and say "you'll never be happy" or "you have to high expectations".
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