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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT5| Hello darkness my old friend...

For how long will Nintendo drink our tears?

  • Until March 2020

    Votes: 1,043 53.8%

  • Until April 2020

    Votes: 207 10.7%

  • Until E3

    Votes: 244 12.6%

  • Forever (no more Directs)

    Votes: 444 22.9%
  • Total voters
    1,938
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4CornersTHSA

Member
Jun 13, 2019
1,555
Partly on us for being insatiable...but man it's frustrating to follow Nintendo sometimes.

Is there an issue with their dev teams/games? Holding things back so they don't feel confident enough to have a Direct, if they're concerned they may delay them? Not an insider or pessimist, just wondering why such a long time between General Directs, at this point the longest in the Switch era ever.
 
ned_ballad

ned_ballad

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
48,247
Rochester, New York
Fizzlefry9 said:
Fortnite having a 3-month long season with no changes, games getting delayed until September or "TBD" that were supposed to come out in a couple months, Nintendo not having a Direct since god knows when....

I'm really struggling to be excited about gaming at all this year. Usually the year before a new generation is full of bangers, and this year has been extremely disappointing so far and doesn't look like it's going to get much better.
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I'm not sure what's up with Nintendo, but everyone else is probably just the usual lull before a new console generation
 
Brofield

Brofield

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,896
I voted for March out of spite after being hurt by January's lack of general direct.
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Mimosa

Mimosa

Community & Social Media Manager
Verified
Oct 23, 2019
795
well dang - perhaps this year they're changing their communication strategy?

I.e. no more Direct "patterns"
 
PillFencer

PillFencer

Banned
Nov 15, 2018
2,431
I don't trust Zippo yet because he has no track record but he only said that there would be 2 Directs this month (AC and general), there are two weeks left for that.
Even if he ends up being wrong, don't hate on him. Just don't blindly trust him or anyone else with little to back their credibility.
 
Common Knowledge

Common Knowledge

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,250
I always thought that Nintendo needed to improve their Q1's, but apparently they decided it's better to just go completely invisible during this time frame and then come back into existence around late March. They're like a bear who goes into hibernation.
 
alm0st^_^

alm0st^_^

Banned
Jan 25, 2020
1,378
my only regret is dkcfan isn't here with us lmao. He would be having a meltdown right now about insiders and casual gamers
 
ShinobiBk

ShinobiBk

One Winged Slayer
Member
Dec 28, 2017
10,121
The longer we go without a Direct, the shittier H1 is going to be. Nintedno isn't gonna release a bunch of games with less than 4 months or marketing.
Feels like 2018 all over again, although at least Animal Crossing is a much better anchor for the first half line up than Mario Tennis.

I can only hope Xenoblade DE is coming in H1.
 
Xita

Xita

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
9,185
Nintendo's marketing has been so bad this year lol, wouldn't be surprised if AC comes out with big issues at the moment with how quiet they are.
 
Dest

Dest

Has seen more 10s than EA ever will
Coward
Jun 4, 2018
14,056
Work
damn
just doing my followup popin to see how things are going and it looks like not well
 
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