It's all been speculation before now but it was almost always guaranteed. They typically do big Directs in January to outline the releases for the coming year.
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RUMOR: Nintendo Direct January 2018 (Thanks EA)
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It's all been speculation before now but it was almost always guaranteed. They typically do big Directs in January to outline the releases for the coming year.
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Not surprising, but this does bode well for Nintendo having a solid lineup for 2018 to carry on the momentum.
January...
So, it's pretty much 2 months till there, at max. Hope that Nintendo show something nice to mantain the Switch momentum till 2019.
So, it's pretty much 2 months till there, at max. Hope that Nintendo show something nice to mantain the Switch momentum till 2019.
I haven't seen the close ups of the main characters faces for A Way Out before, but need to check before I can say for sure.
Yep.
Bandai event mid December then a few week starts later a Nintendo Direct. Works out nicely
This Direct will likely be a huge one, I'm thinking from now on every January will have a huge Direct announcing games for the year and teases some the year after games. Anyway for this Direct I wouldn't be surprised if...
Animal Crossing
Pikmin 4
Retro's game
Metroid Prime 4 footage
GTAV?
Next Level Switch game (if it's 2018)
And tons of more third party game announcements, maybe even a confirmation of Dragon Ball Fighter Z.
Animal Crossing
Pikmin 4
Retro's game
Metroid Prime 4 footage
GTAV?
Next Level Switch game (if it's 2018)
And tons of more third party game announcements, maybe even a confirmation of Dragon Ball Fighter Z.
Or 2014 (well, not a global one...there was a Direct for South Korea)
He's referring to 2016.
Yeah I was thinking more cus there was a thread the other day predicting the imminent announcement of a new Direct.... but I guess this still doesn't apply anyway since Nintendo hasn't actually announced anything and probably won't for a while.
Well, that's exciting considering the amount of games we know about coming in 2018. Expecting some big 3rd party titles, hopefully out of Japan this time.
That's not much. 4 first party games (6 with Yoshi and Kirby) in 1 year is pretty low for Nintendo's standard, Japanese third parties will jump in with ports and multiplats because the Switch is selling like crazy now. The only think that I doubt is GTA V, the rest is even too little.
Oh I don't know why I thought there was one in 2016. Maybe February? I feel like I remember an early one, maybe specifically for Star Fox Zero?
I'll take it in the form of a Shadows of the Empire remake!
There was a general Direct in March of that year. The first Direct of 2016 was Pokemon-related, in February.
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But is it though? the Animal Crossing Pocket Camp has just released and it's been years since New Leaf released, Pikmin 4 was confirmed back in 2015, Retro's game has been in the works for years and it's about time we see that. a new small MP4 teaser would not be that surprising, Next Level is likely making a Switch game so it making an appearance isn't that surprising as well.
GTAV is a question mark but if LA Noire sold well enough then GTAV coming to Switch isn't that shocking, January 2018 might be too early of an announcement though. As for Dragon Ball Fighter Z, Bandi did confirm if there was a enough demand and if Xenoverse 2 sold well enough on Switch then a Switch port will happen.
But it's a lot of games to reveal at once, the only times they've done this was when they saw that the Wii U was instantly dying and tried to save it by revealing games that were as far off as 2 years or so and the other times were before a new system launch, like the Switch event for example.
They don't need to show all their cards at once, the system is doing well as is.
That will be part of 2018's lineup imo, but I don't think they will all just be shown in January.
That's my point. There's no reason for them to reveal everything at once.
They don't need to for sure, but think about the Switch event again- we knew basically nothing about their software plans for 2017, so they had to show a lot. Now, in our current situation we knew almost nothing about their software plans for 2018, so again they'll have to show a lot. We have a bit more info this time- we know of Yoshi, Kirby and Fire Emblem (just a logo) whereas for 2017 all we knew about for sure was Zelda.
But they will have a lot to announce for the year. I'm thinking they like using January Directs to outline their major releases for the year, and that will be true for both 2017 and 2018.
They only revealed everything at once at the Switch event, because it was before the system even launched and they had to outline what year one for the system was going to be, that's why they revealed as many games at once as they did.
They don't have to do that for next year, since Switch is selling like hotcakes anyway and it would only be stupid for them to cram everything into a single Direct when they can spread out their announcements properly next year, whithout having to worry about another Wii U situation.
Really? That seems relatively tame, outside of MP4 footage, which would surprise me. Hell, he didn't even mention a Smash Brothers port, which I think a lot of people are still expecting to be a thing, or Fire Emblem, which has already been announced for next year.
But announcing a general outline for the entire year isn't cramming everything into a single Direct. I don't think they'll announce all of their games for 2018 just like they didn't announce all of their games for 2017 back at the conference. I just think they'll present a similar outline of the tentpole releases and release windows for those games. Which, again, is exactly what they did last year.
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