-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT6| OT7 Has Been Rated in Korea
- Thread starter Skittzo
- Start date
- Status
Despite E3 2020 being cancelled, I'm sticking with my "no direct until E3" prediction :P
I'm sorry but it's a little underwhelming we have 0 information besides AC:NH and we just had one anouncement which is a 60€ remake of a charming but quite simplistic pokemon dungeon.
And i see 0 direct being anounced, I don't mind the leaks etc because I chose not to believe in any of those, especially if they put in legal danger journalists/leakers...plus none were true for this year so...
I know it's a little disappointing but E3 will probably still be held in a way online and all anouncements will be held on twitch/youtube/mixer (ea, ubisoft, MS,..) for us who never go to E3 it won't be really different.
A very simple example, GDC cancelled, Microsoft anounced an online schedule for next week with interesting bits on series X apparently, I'd expect the same thing here.
If it's not the case then that would mean they didn't really have an important show to begin with and/or need more time
Last edited:
It's not "technical differences". FFVIIR is almost like a reimagining they're adding and changing a lot to it.
they can do Treehouse at Nintendo HQ's instead. Gamescom will cancel if the virus continues strongly
Right now Nintendo of America's employees are telecommuting due to concerns of the virus.
That's true, but we're talking about June. It could get better in Seattle/Redmond by June if Nintendo still wants to have a direct that month. I can see them pushing it to July to get demos out to Best Buy for public if needed
Sounds like normal forum hyperbole to me.i doubt its going anywhere. Maybe the conference's but not the actual expo.
If this is still ongoing to July, which there's no indication to suggest it wouldn't be, demos in BestBuy would also have the overhead of needing constant sanitation, which basically means one staff member constantly watching over them. That'd be fine for the "demo days" Nintendo sometimes does, but not for long term demo kiosks.
Yeah. I can see them not doing it at all. I don't expect it to get better, especially in America. Nintendo will figure it out. I do think they will have a Tree house in some fashion.
It would be good. Not the best year, but definitely a good year.
The Lite Coral is coming on April 24th in Europe , it would make sense for a game to release alongside it (I'll admit that the window is short).
It does strike me as a a bit of an over-reaction, too. Still, E3 seems to have lost a lot of its relevance in the last couple of years. Even if it doesn't go entirely, I don't think it's unreasonable that it likely won't be the same.
That's too short for a retail game. I can only see eShop.
What better game to acompany it than Kirby digital eShop only mini game!? Color's fitting at least.
We had eShop Kirby hand last year. We're getting a retail one this year, probably not that close.
My what? I've never claimed to be an insider! Or whatever the hell a "self-insider" is!
Daniel Ahmad on Twitter
“Looks like all the new games to be announced at E3 2020 just leaked. Image below has the entire list. Might take a while to load because of the large file size.”
twitter.com
Finally the Switch Lite Coral is announced for Europe !! April 24th !
So happy because my girlfriend really wanted this one.
So happy because my girlfriend really wanted this one.
hahaha awesome lol😮Daniel Ahmad on Twitter
“Looks like all the new games to be announced at E3 2020 just leaked. Image below has the entire list. Might take a while to load because of the large file size.”
They've gotten so good at hiding secrets with invisible ink!😮Daniel Ahmad on Twitter
“Looks like all the new games to be announced at E3 2020 just leaked. Image below has the entire list. Might take a while to load because of the large file size.”
Nindies are usually my favourite kind of Direct so I'm happy with this rumour if it pans out. A nice big dose of Nintendo over the space of a week.
I know with E3 cancelled things are all up in the air with what Nintendo is going to do, but if they still plan to do something on their own in June, the silver lining to all of this is it ain't gonna be a long wait till the next Direct after this one.
If we lost treehouse, I'd be extremely sad. I hope you're right.
Yeah, that is probably the most positive thing about this whole wait we had to endure so far.
Still can't believe Nintendo's strategy seemingly is waiting for AC to launch and then start promoting other big releases again. Like, ugh, that's just a dumb way to go about it and I don't think AC really needs it - other there being a really big tent pole announcement in the Direct taking away AC's buzz (which I still doubt would happen, but that's the only slightly logical thing to expect for me).
I like how with an 26th March Direct everyone would be losing.
- People who thought a Direct would happen earlier
- People who claimed no Direct till E3
- Dachhase who said April
- People believing in patterns
The only person winning would be Nate who said it would happen lol.
- People who thought a Direct would happen earlier
- People who claimed no Direct till E3
- Dachhase who said April
- People believing in patterns
The only person winning would be Nate who said it would happen lol.
Everyone involved has a precise marketing schedule.
That's why the possibility that a Direct could be delayed never made sense in the first place. Most of the Directs are made of third party news.
They can "delay" the last Direct of the year, it's still early in the year, but the one that was supposed to air at E3, I doubt that third parties would accept.
Didn't Sabi say they knew of an Indies World broadcast scheduled for March? It's certainly not the first rumour we've had on that front.
I'd guess an Indies World happening next week could be one sign that the other information is accurate, but it's interesting that VentureBeat were confident enough in their sources to go to press with this. I assume the sources are indies and other third parties, rather than anyone at Nintendo.
EDIT: On the subject of E3, it'll be pretty easy for bigger publishers to find work-arounds and get their news out. It wouldn't surprise me if ESA try to get online events going out under the E3 banner anyway, even if the trade/consumer show is postponed. E3 serves as a useful way of funnelling attention into a particular spot on the calendar. Microsoft in particular seemed to be betting heavily on a big E3 showing, so we're still going to get news in June. Maybe Nintendo's timing works out slightly differently, but I'd expect they push out a Direct in June or early July.
I'd guess an Indies World happening next week could be one sign that the other information is accurate, but it's interesting that VentureBeat were confident enough in their sources to go to press with this. I assume the sources are indies and other third parties, rather than anyone at Nintendo.
EDIT: On the subject of E3, it'll be pretty easy for bigger publishers to find work-arounds and get their news out. It wouldn't surprise me if ESA try to get online events going out under the E3 banner anyway, even if the trade/consumer show is postponed. E3 serves as a useful way of funnelling attention into a particular spot on the calendar. Microsoft in particular seemed to be betting heavily on a big E3 showing, so we're still going to get news in June. Maybe Nintendo's timing works out slightly differently, but I'd expect they push out a Direct in June or early July.
Last edited:
Not only Nintendo, almost for everyone else... guess the reason?!
I meant delayed in the sense of airing it later because for whatever reason fits better their marketing schedule, not for external weird factors. It may be, that having the first general Direct of the year that later is solely due to AC.
I'm advocating in my field to reduce unnecessary business trips and conferences (and I speak as someone taking 30+ intercontinental flights per year with the personal carbon footprint of a entire small country). E3 cancellation and possibly move toward an all digital event goes in the right direction.
I don't really care for Animal Crossing, but how's that dumb to not show any other games ? I think it's a smart strategy to push AC to even larger audience, who are on the fence, and just want a new Nintendo game.
Is there any possibility Nintendo delayed the Direct because of corona?
I've read yesterday that China's starting to get a grip on corona so maybe Nintendo wanted to see first how things were progressing?
I've read yesterday that China's starting to get a grip on corona so maybe Nintendo wanted to see first how things were progressing?
I don't think Nintendo's strategy is down to any fear or concern over Animal Crossing. If they're just confirming what's in the Direct, that means they were taking their time to be sure about what would be ready and, as some of us said, that is likely down to what their biggest cards for the year are. I think at least some of this is down to Zelda - Nintendo want to be sure they can get that out. There aren't many bigger cards for them to play in 2020.
In other words, Nintendo decided not to have a general Direct before March before Coronavirus would have forced them into that kind of decision.
See above. I don't think it's likely the Direct was ever 'delayed' - because if VentureBeat are right, Nintendo are only now finalising this Direct. We shouldn't forget Nintendo have done some sort of marketing and reveal for Switch content every month since September, even without them confirming much of their 2020. I think it's more down to Nintendo wanting to be sure they had everything in order for 2020. Coronavirus will perhaps have complicated that, but Nintendo's marketing schedule for December through February (which included Indies World, Pokemon Direct, Smash broadcast, Animal Crossing Direct) would have been decided before Coronavirus was an issue.
In other words, Nintendo decided not to have a general Direct before March before Coronavirus would have forced them into that kind of decision.
I'm not convinced it works like that. I'm not buying AC because I just want another Nintendo first party game. Folks interested in AC would get it by now anyways and you're just taking away potential hype and interest from folks that don't care for AC by solely focusing on that one title.
I'm in no way a marketing expert, I won't claim to know the best, but simply going by logic, I don't see any (huge) upsides and more downsides to this.
But I might also be talking out of my anti-AC bubble here, don't know. I can't really put myself in the shoes of someone who's interested in the game.
Yeah but they're not going to air the June Direct at later date than when was supposed to be E3. Third parties have marketing schedule, right now it's already set in stone than their game will be featured or announced in the Nintendo Direct of E3.
I didn't mean the differences between FFVII and FFVIIR were technical ones, I meant the differences were just technicalities, as in it doesn't matter what the differences were.
Let's be honest, how would people look at it if XC, or even Pikmin 3, got the same treatment as FFVIIR? Hint - "Oh no so many ports". Just look at the uphill fight people had with Splatoon 2, a brand new game... Even to this day there are at least some of the "oh no so many ports" crowd that still count it in the negative (ports) part of the list...
- Status