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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT6| OT7 Has Been Rated in Korea
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Oh no, what happenend to Emily? I can't find her via the search anymore. Always enjoyed reading her posts.
why is Nintendo advertising Sonic Generations for their Sonic sale????
Made me think Generations was getting a Switch port
Made me think Generations was getting a Switch port
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He claimed to have heard from someone that two were planned for February, like Zippo had also heard. Not that he knew of the date of one.
EDIT: Actually he said a few people he trusts had said that. He said he expects that this plan had changed though.
I want them to. I'm not really into sonic, but generations always looked the best to me and I wanted to try it, but didn't want the watered down 3ds one and didn't have my ps3 when it came out.
Finally, I was about to publicly demand to see your take on the Direct.
No kidding
And, again, he's a good guy but I wouldn't use his post here as proof of two Direct. If you want to use anyone, then use Chris' tweet.
Otherwise, I'd suggest to not expect a second Direct this month.
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Fair enough!
Yeah to me the only things saying a Direct next week is Chris' tweet and Nintendo not announcing their PAX lineup yet.
Which isn't terribly much.
I am taking exception to the idea of using associations to bolster an argument. No one at KFG told Mistermegative anything about a Direct, so Zippo shouldn't imply anything of the sort.
They may just not have much beyond AC and Pokemon to show in terms of their own software.
Oh got it. I think he meant that part separately though and just saying that he was friends with them, not about that being a source.
Yea but isn't it a little weird they still haven't announced that yet? It seems like monday would be really close just 3 days before to reveal what they have.
I mean, yes & no. Announce a lineup of AC/PkMD too soon and people complain. Keep it closer to the week of PAX and fewer complaints.
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Then why wouldn't they say that? The longer they put it off the worse it will harm PAX attendance.
Maybe they're waiting on the green light from a third party like Bethesda to announce whether or not Doom Eternal will be playable? Or something like that?
Conversely, announce nothing and people start to speculate only to be disappointed when its AC & PkMD (expecially when PkMD already has a demo on the e-shop).
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I guess, but 6 days out seems close enough at this point. The lineup last year was arguably even lighter, yet announced way before. Pax west lineup was 6 days out.
I don't know why people are turning PAX East into some important goal post. Nintendo has made announcements that happened to coincide around the time of PAX East but it hasn't been a big focal point for announcements like E3 is. So I don't know why people are making it to be a big deal now. Nintendo has been willing to show up to big shows with just announced or even released games.
The worst phase tbh
feels like so many weeks have been that lol
That seems super unlikely because pax is setup going in and someone is bound to see something early.
They would know what stations are going to be in their booth at this point since they need signage and such printed and made.
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Right, good point.
Yeah so I have no idea why they're (seemingly) cutting the reveal of their demo lineup to 3 days or fewer.
While I'd like a Direct next week, PAX east is where a lot of absolutely badass indies will get shown off, a lot of which will be coming to Switch.
So I'll have things to look forward to either way.
So I'll have things to look forward to either way.
Regardless on whether it's next week or not, a Direct is coming very, very soon. Two weeks at the most IMO.
she deleted her account at her request, probably was for the best. Maybe she comes back under a new alias later
in that case considering if there was a second direct this week, perhaps their holding off to drive hype? when in reality their direct games won't be at the booth, either way. Announcing their line up as bare would probably trigger a bunch of youtube personalities saying how "Nintendo not working on anything" or something like that, they might be keen on avoiding that even if their games aren't at the event.
I know it's tin hat, but it's working if all their social media outlets are anything to go by.
Not sure if the account deletion has anything to do with it, but she is expecting her first kid later this year so she said she wasn't going to be around much.
Pretty much where I am at this point: a lot of indies I'm interested in have already promoted updates for their stuff next week, so it's already a win even if no direct airs.
just because they use a render from Generations doesn't mean they are advertising it. It clear says Sonic The Hedgehog on it
I still trust that Nintendo will have a good 2020 and a decent H1, but they have been doing an awful job at hyping the Switch for the last months:
-The longest time between General Directs, at least from the Switch era
-A Smash reveal that was disappoiting for lots of players (I loved it though)
-Pokemon Direct that only announced DLC and a remake
-As good as AC Direct was, they could easily announce the new elements during a general Direct in 10 minutes or so
People is expecting news, the last September Direct wasn't that big and this silence doesn't help Nintendo at all. I wonder why they decided to pace the announcements this way, AC is the kind of game that will sell regardless of other announcements so it's quite surprising their approach.
I mean assuming they were demoing Animal Crossing, it's possible they wanted to wait a bit until after the blowout yesterday so nothing was spoiled. That plus Mystery Dungeon would have them covered if we're going by their first party from last year right?
My question is what third party games would they be showing off? Is there anything notable that was announced that they might highlight? I'd have said Outer Worlds would be there but after the delay I don't know about that.
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