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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT7| March Madness
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I find it a bit weird that they'd tell use which series it's from but not who it is (reveal trailer delay aside, they could have just not said anything and waited), so here's a prediction:
There's going to be a sequel, revealed in June, and the Smash character is going to be the main protagonist of the new game's Story Mode.
Yep, but it seems like at least for me that they have General Direct planned after AC, but obviously covid-19 striked hard on first party schedule so they just did Mini one.
I hope yesterday didn't seriously give you an ulcer. :P
Yeah, _supposedly_ is the key word, though. We a) don't know those are sat on for sure (even though I believe Emily et al. that 3D World and Pikmin ports are ready to go).
But also b) we don't know Nintendo's current schedule. They're more than likely also looking ahead to at least March 2021 (maybe even further) and planning what to release when. We have no clue whether they'd want to fill up other gaps in the line-up we possibly don't know about yet. They certainly do know more than we do, so I trust them to release those ports when the time is right.
Well, in the most literal sense, yeah, everythign that was not shown, and is shown, is news. But when people talk about news, they dont mean single details of stuff that was widely known.
The functionality of the dojo was as they aluded to during the first release, and gmax moves... yeah, i doubt that anybody sees this as news. Here will just have to agree to have differend expectations what counts as news. I wana play games, not get a explanation of every inconsequential detail.
With 51 games: you can always find someone for everything. But with these people i gotha ask:
dont you have a smartphone? pc? these games at home in a box? If you dont play them already, why are you excited now?
Every of these can be found free on mobile and pc. Its just...for that i dont need a switch.But yeah, it is news, i just find it...really bad as part of the first party line up... when there is not much else.
But yeah, te technicality of "news" is on your side, even if colloquialy nobody thinks of it that way.
I think we will not come to agree, which is fine. I bear you no ill will, we just dissagree here.
So, now that we know more about Q2, what are we all buying over the next few months?
I've got Wonderful 101 as a definite buy, Trials of Mana as a maybe-buy, and I'm waiting to pounce on that glorious collector's edition Xenoblade DE is getting over here in Europe. That vinyl!!! Also going to keep an eye out for reviews of Good Job, which looked pretty fun. As usual with Switch, I'm well-catered for.
Out of curiosity, am I right in thinking that this Direct came together relatively recently? Do you know if that had anything to do with Nintendo (or other publishers) shifting some of their plans due to Covid-19? That's my theory, currently. I don't think Q2 was ever going to be a big one, but I think there only being one Nintendo-published title launching at retail in the next few months is suspicious - especially when that period looks like it'll be the worst stretch of the pandemic in Nintendo's major markets.
I've got Wonderful 101 as a definite buy, Trials of Mana as a maybe-buy, and I'm waiting to pounce on that glorious collector's edition Xenoblade DE is getting over here in Europe. That vinyl!!! Also going to keep an eye out for reviews of Good Job, which looked pretty fun. As usual with Switch, I'm well-catered for.
Thanks for sharing what you knew, and sorry for the inevitable hysteria directed your way (no pun intended).
Out of curiosity, am I right in thinking that this Direct came together relatively recently? Do you know if that had anything to do with Nintendo (or other publishers) shifting some of their plans due to Covid-19? That's my theory, currently. I don't think Q2 was ever going to be a big one, but I think there only being one Nintendo-published title launching at retail in the next few months is suspicious - especially when that period looks like it'll be the worst stretch of the pandemic in Nintendo's major markets.
yup that could've been it. Tough to say tho. It's definitely possible they had to push some first party stuff out of the direct because of covid.
In the Direct is was mentioned it's from ARMS - first game if you will (if there is a sequel) and then they showed screen of all ARMS fighters so i can say that it's 100% character from first game.
It's dumb to think that would even be a major issue. A fucking RE3 Remake is coming out next month.
That was also over two weeks ago and seemingly when he thought there might have been a pre AC direcr and before things changed.Some of y'all really need to read Nate's tweets about why Nintendo's original plan was always to have a direct after giving AC the spotlight. Read all his replies here:
Direct-Feed Games on Twitter
“It's almost like Nintendo wanted Animal Crossing: New Horizon to have its own time to shine before getting too in-depth with their 2020 lineup. AC:NH is a major release and deserves the attention. https://t.co/Vay4Z9mSEN”twitter.com
Nah I think the character is gonna be more or less all of the cast from the first one, (as alts) but they're having trouble figuring out who should be the "main" fighter should be.
Look, I'm somewhat in agreement with you that we did get some news, but come on man, you're really reaching here. Most of the 'news' we got for Pokemon was already known (the G-Max forms of the starters was datamined/leaked/whatever months ago) and it was a horrendous thing to do as a last "one more thing" in the Direct when everyone was expecting something new and big in that slot.
And things like Bunny Day announcements are not Direct-quality announcements. If we are now living in a world where every single Direct is going to have a "Oh, here's a look at the next {insert upcoming holiday here} update for Animal Crossing! Now you can get some new cosmetics and stuff!" then just... ugh, that's going to be a huge disappointment. Keep that kind of thing on Twitter where it belongs.
Basically as far as Directs go, any announcements or news updates that most hardcore 1st-party Nintendo fans would classify as a 3 out of 10 on the hype scale or less just plain don't count. Things like the 51-game thing and Good Job fall in that category. (Note: I'm not saying this is a GOOD mentality to have or anything, just that that's how a great many Nintendo fans think)
Yep, that makes a lot of sense and is what Nintendo has been doing ever since Switch launched. I have paid attention to games I normally wouldn't have because the spotlight is always on the game that's closest to release.Some of y'all really need to read Nate's tweets about why Nintendo's original plan was always to have a direct after giving AC the spotlight. Read all his replies here:
Direct-Feed Games on Twitter
“It's almost like Nintendo wanted Animal Crossing: New Horizon to have its own time to shine before getting too in-depth with their 2020 lineup. AC:NH is a major release and deserves the attention. https://t.co/Vay4Z9mSEN”
I have to say though, as someone who's not interested in Fire Emblem, Smash, Pokémon or Animal Crossing, the most recent Switch year I'd call a great one for me personally is still 2017 - BotW, MK8 and Doom 2016. Whew. I'm still playing all of those! Was hoping 2020 would it's successor - it's still a possibilty of course, but I'll only really know when New Year rolls around xD.
what you think of news doesn't change what is factually is rofl. It's just not the news you're looking for.
And for your tragic 51 games opinion, you should ask the people in here to get a good understanding
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There's totally going to be SOMETHING Zelda but yeah probably not BOTW2.
The two things are not necessarily contradictory to each other.
Grubbs original prediction was for the 19th, which is what Nate was responding to. That's a week away from when we got it
I'm afraid you haven't met the animal crossing fanbase... Leif was confirmed god damn it!!! ;)
i just scrolled through the last 20 pages and ugh i'm embarrassed. Nintendo owes you nothing! Let them care for their employees!
And now "this mini was a joke so lame, the apologists will say..." the apologists...? Y'all please, be better. The world is in turmoil. Video games are not immune to that. Just be better.
And now "this mini was a joke so lame, the apologists will say..." the apologists...? Y'all please, be better. The world is in turmoil. Video games are not immune to that. Just be better.
Yeah mate, updates to the biggest launch game of all time in Japan def don't belong in a direct. Rofl
The tired metacommentary on entitlement and a holier-than-thou attitude whenever someone expresses a negative sentiment to the Direct is something else.
True... and interstingly, many of these were not here before the direct...
For everything going on, pretty decent. Really happy as an Arms/Smash fan right now.
Sony actually does in fact. They've had 3 first party releases this year with 4 more on the way and several console exclusives. It's surprising but that's even more than Nintendo for once.
He was saying march 12th for awhile, or even march 6th, plus a lot changed in that week. Even at that point around that tweet he wasn't saying things would be delayed.
Nintendo should not use its ad platform to advertise its games.
Nintendo has had 4 first party releases so far, 5 if you count Brain Training in Europe. And then 2 more by the end of June that we currently know of.
I'm not really sure why people shouldn't be allowed to express their disappointment about this Direct. I absolutely loved the AC one but this one felt like probably the weakest direct I have ever seen.
Previous direct Mini had way more content and surprises. Sometimes a direct is great and sometimes disappointing. Things like that happen
Previous direct Mini had way more content and surprises. Sometimes a direct is great and sometimes disappointing. Things like that happen
Yeah. This moral high ground act is annoying. We know nintendo "owes us nothing" .And i was okay with the Direct.
Do we need to have a million posts saying that the virus is going on? Pretty sure every single person is aware. That doesn't have to do with disappointment.
This week he said nothing had been delayed if the direct would come on thursday. By nothing I mean no direct
I don't think Nate ever said it would be March 12th, or even early March.
All he originally said was if it wasn't in March he'd be surprised.
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