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What's with all the Nintendo twitter announcements?
- Thread starter alexi52
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Cross posting from another thread:
I think one of three things has happened:
-Direct was delayed a week, companies that didn't want to delay their marketing push have decided to jump the gun.
-Direct was cancelled (at least for Jan), and similar to the above, companies have pushed on with their marketing.
-Direct has plenty to announce, content has now been confirmed, and these are the games that didn't make the cut. Thus they are being announced separately.
-Direct was delayed a week, companies that didn't want to delay their marketing push have decided to jump the gun.
-Direct was cancelled (at least for Jan), and similar to the above, companies have pushed on with their marketing.
-Direct has plenty to announce, content has now been confirmed, and these are the games that didn't make the cut. Thus they are being announced separately.
Nothing they've given dates for has warranted a direct so whatever. They're all games we knew about, save the new stuff for the direct at this point instead of padding it with release dates and footage of games that have been out for 17 years.
The only weird thing to me really is Yoshi but they maybe just wanted to give it the spotlight a week in advance. No other announcement is even close to raising any eyebrow.
Or it won't be a general Direct but a Fire Emblem or Pokémon one.
Of the announcements we've gotten..
I feel only Yoshi and Dragons Dogma is a bit baffling.. Kirby being the lone 3DS game left probably wouldnt be featured, the FF games has been featured in a direct already so them being in one again I dont feel is likely. I'm still feel a Direct is coming in January, they arent going to skip their best marketing tool they have.
I feel only Yoshi and Dragons Dogma is a bit baffling.. Kirby being the lone 3DS game left probably wouldnt be featured, the FF games has been featured in a direct already so them being in one again I dont feel is likely. I'm still feel a Direct is coming in January, they arent going to skip their best marketing tool they have.
So Nintendo tweets out dates for games that were already shown in a previous direct and some people panic and assume there won't be a Nintendo direct?
Did you expect to see these games announced a second time in a row in a direct?
Did you expect to see these games announced a second time in a row in a direct?
Idk.
It's cool, have no problem with either method.
Yes I'm boring but I just want game news lol.
The Dragon's Dogma one isn't that surprising. Capcom are planning on porting several Resident Evil titles to the Switch, and since we haven't heard anything of that since the formal announcement, it's more than likely that they're saving that for the Direct, which will be a bigger deal for them. Most likely Capcom got a limited timeslot for their own announcements, so they decided to give it to the Resi ports.
Yoshi is the only real outlier and question mark, but given that it's just a story trailer, they can get away with showing it more on the Direct since they usually present stuff there in clipshow format.
That and it's CES week so parts of the press are tied up with that.
FWIW, they did a half hour gameplay session on the Yoshi game not long ago.
(Apparently, Dragon's Dogma was never planned to be shown in the upcoming Direct, said my uncle at Nintendo.)
The only I can think is if there is a direct they wanted Yoshi and Kirby out of the way so they can focus on summer releases: FE, AC and Town
why yall acting brand new like yall dont get hype for new announcements lol buying snacks and stuff
I do agree people need to relax though, certaintly since it hasn't been announced
Sure, what I meant was that it was the only other game outside of Yoshi that really fit the bill for a direct of the recent twitter announcements.
Insiders were told a million thing about Nintendo that didn't happen or didn't go as planned.
Metroid at TGA for example, NSMB in the holiday, and other things that people didn't talk about.
Why are you excited about E3? It's the same principle. You want to know about the big games, the big stuffs coming.
Directs are essentially multiple E3s happening throughout the year: you know they do these essentially to show their big exclusives first and foremost and then yes you do also get little announcements like Yoshi's release date, but the big exclusives get the bigger spots.
So the real question should be: Why are you not excited about a Direct?
Please continue the conversation here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-first-party-thread-ot2-new-year-new-mii.90098
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