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As a reminder we had a Smash Direct on November 1st, 2018 (Thursday). Nintendo's financials released October 30 and Investors Meeting was the 31st. Fast forward to now and April 25th is their Financial release. That's a Thursday, so if they wanted they could do a Smash Direct on April 24th (Wednesday) right before Atlus does their Persona stuff.
But it does, why would Nintendo want niche character from IP that was before tied to Sony consoles?
Its logical assumption that something Persona related could come to Switch if Joker from Persona 5 in Smash Bros.
Again with point that Vita is dead, if Atlus want Persona 5 on handheld, Switch is only logical assumption.
Its not confirmation but that proves that Atlus thinking about putting Persona on other platforms.
So yeah, all that combined makes believe most people that Persona 5 is coming to Switch, and there is nothing weird about that because those are all logical assumptions with all those things, and Best Buy just gave more fuel in believe that Persona 5 is really coming to Switch.
It's literally not. It's just a character in a fighting game that has lots of characters with lots of random origins. That is it.
Why even bother going into if? Have they given any real indication they want a portable version? No they have not.
Okay? Other platform could literally be PC or a smart phone. Its a pointless speculation.
Of course its weird because nothing besides the best buy info (which is not even confirmed concrete) points to a Switch port. People are seriously drawing links due to Smash Bros character picks when that shit has literally never been based on anything concrete.
You can tell that's so fake, no self-respecting Asian parent would let their kid play video games that late in the evening, much less co-op.
I should know, I'm a self-disrespecting Asian parent. ;-)
Microsoft is announcing their E3 plans on April 16th. So, that'll leave Nintendo as the only company not to do a full reveal. I believe this is usually how it goes with Nintendo being last.
I don't know, something about it is weird. They usually have their first tweet at 10 am ET, not 8 am. And they usually tweet throughout the day.
a video about why a direct doesn't need to happen....
you guys losing it. It's not that big a deal. None of this is a big deal.
You're looking into this way too hard. There's nothing to see here. We're past any general direct happening this week
I imagine in lieu of a Direct they'll just put out a trailer for Joker. Nintendo rarely relies on influencers to do stuff like promote DLC there has to be more official marketing. Mario Maker 2 is the only game that can benefit from a direct but that can be a specific Mario Maker 2 direct or even failing that a massive overview video.
I never said that I think anything's gonna happen this week. I was just saying it's weird. Besides, if something were to happen, I would expect it to be some kind of SMM2 or smash info that's just randomly dropped.
I will say, though, something about the AC tax day tweet and Reggie's last day, makes me think we'll get announcement Friday for something on Monday, or maybe just something dropped on Monday for Reggie's last day.
Love Gamexplain's latest video. They made a lot of good points on why we should remain grounded when it comes to these rumours & leaks.
Now to play more of Yoshi's Crafted World
Now to play more of Yoshi's Crafted World
The 3.0 comes with more than just Joker.
(I'm thinking we're getting a dedicated Smash Direct.)
I don't necessarily think there is a general Direct coming but that video seems a little mean spirited.
Like Arlo wrote, there is nothing wrong with people looking forward to a Direct.
Their video is for specific people. It's not meant for me and you.
It won't be a simple trailer if they do one.
They will likely go over Smash 3.0 as well as Sakurai will go over Joker's moveset, inspiration for moves, final smash, Amiibo and stage. He's done it with Ryu, Bayonetta, Cloud, Piranha Plant, etc.
There's definitely nothing wrong with looking forward to a direct. If it's following bad people, like Garbage Intel, I can understand. Many of us do this for fun. It's all a hobby for me.
It is, again, why would Nintendo want niche character from IP that isnt big or famous and was before tied to Sony consoles?
They didnt done something like that before, and before you say Cloud from FF, Cloud is one of most famous characters in gaming from one of most famous IPs in gaming, on top of that FF7 is released on Switch.
They didnt, but with fact they done that with past 4 Persona games is logical assumption they would probably want to port Persona 5 also to handheld.
Atlus survey about Persona 5 on other platforms included Switch, so that clearly proves that Atlus was thinking about putting Persona on other platforms including Switch.
With all that on mind, were all that combined points that are good chanches (even whithout Best Buy leak) Persona 5 is coming to Switch,
and there is nothing weird about thinking that.
It's ridiculous that they have to release a video on this. It's even more ridiculous that most people are going to ignore what is said in the video anyway lol.
They could do what they did a couple of years ago with Arms/Splatoon 2 where they did a game specific direct but also talk about Smash at the end.
The part of their video when they were talking about Joker's release just seems awfully out of touch considering the history of the franchise and the fact Nintendo were the ones who set up the expectation that 3.0 was going to be a big deal back in the last Direct.
I can understand their points in the case of an actual Direct but I think they're woefully misrepresenting why people are expecting a Direct or presentation for 3.0
I can understand their points in the case of an actual Direct but I think they're woefully misrepresenting why people are expecting a Direct or presentation for 3.0
guess that makes sense.
rereading my post it sounds like I'm calling them out.
Which isn't my intention.
It'd be one thing if we hadn't gotten a february direct, and we didn't know AC(hain), LARemake, MM2, and others existed. But we did.
so overall, Isn't the best perspective to have is just:
"Man it'd be really cool to get a direct his month/week/whatever, but if not, oh well"
and let that be that. Without the weird rumor mongering and agonizing. And...downright anger.
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that being said I do think a smash direct for joker is happening, given how Sakurai operates. But we'll see.
You can't do 1.5 hour long videos about 2 minute trailers and then say "hey guys chill out be normal."
Saw this video right now, I mean what they're saying is true, we have enough games and the things we don't know doesn't need to be announce via Direct
Until cadence 9f hyrule was ann9uned and that game is only raised u9 by the greatest ip of all time
There was n9thing major from early december t9 June whenever Mario maker is
There was n9thing major from early december t9 June whenever Mario maker is
I'm personally convinced we'll have something like that, but with Mario Maker 2 and Smash.
same. That or a general Mini. depends on how much time Smash needs.
or Smash by itself I guess and MM2 by itself in May.
we'll see.
sellars and Stealth still come up every 3 months.
so good luck lol.
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