Yeah, in all honesty this direct didn't really feature a lot noteworthy. I get that it's a mini but still, pretty disappointing.
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Nintendo Direct Speculation |OT7| March Madness
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Yeah, in all honesty this direct didn't really feature a lot noteworthy. I get that it's a mini but still, pretty disappointing.
I admit some of that is me personally getting sick of Animal Crossing dominating all the news lately, but I would argue that yeah, they don't.
A Direct should just be new game announcements, release date trailers, shadow drops, etc. for games that have not yet released. No DLC, no updates, or anything like that. If a game has already released, then it should not be mentioned for any reason again in a Direct.
... or at least that's how it would be if it were up to me :P
I remember him saying that nintendo just wanted the ac direct out of the way for thay big marketing push, and that he could easily see a direct in the first two weeks.
Hm?
Maybe launch week in the UK or something.
Its not breaking any series record of 5 million copies
omg do you not know about the pandemic?
how about an elbow bump?
well no offense but good thing you don't manage Nintendo's marketing aha
That's how directs honestly kind of were, but that changed over time. The last two directs were mostly all ports and updates and dlc.
IIRC (at the risk of putting words in Nate's mouth), Nate speculated there was a late-April release and that early March would make sense for a Direct to announce such a game. I think that was the extent of it.
Yeah, people say "the new ones are nice fast paced", and "no boring developer interviews" , but they also fill them up with "do you still remember the trailer 3 months ago" or "for the 6 monts old game there will new a new item and a patch, muchos important, go buy it". I'll take the developer interviews and stuff over this.
I was weirdly looking forward to getting AC. Had it ready in my Nintendo store basket in case we got a shadow drop, then boom sold out today. Vexed.
Yea. It is basically trading filler for filler, but imo less interesting filler.
A lot of people were speculating it was pikmin 3, that supposedly has been sat on for a long time.
You may wanna find a source for that because I don't remember him indicating any possibility for the first two weeks. I don't think he ever discounted them as possibilities (until midway through the week) but I also don't remember him expressing that they could work.
I've been teaching my toddler how to air five for the past couple weeks.
Sad times.
"Its just advertisement, bro!"
Yeah. if advertisement feels like advertisement, it failed.
I would like to see more of the developers than insignificant
items ill see in the games when i get to them.
he reiterated this week that no direct delays were made, assuming one was to drop today
June (Digital E3). This direct has Nintendo covered in 1st party releases up to May.
At this point they might as well save everything for E3, it's only 2 months away. We know their April/May lineup is fucking dead outside of Xenoblade now. Have a huge blowout E3 Direct to compete with the PS5/XBSEX news cycles and generate hype that way.
He definitely said a direct before AC could happen. No way I'm finding the exact posts, but he said back even before the ac direct that he was hinting that an ac direct needs to happen first, and then he could see the general one happening.
But Harker said that this Direct was not the one he heard of, but it's difficult since covid-19 is a thing.
When there was that speculation there was no pandemic. It is likely that they have delayed remasters for more important dates, we already know that Nintendo prioritizes the second half of the year. It would be more catastrophic for them to have that part of the year empty than this one.
It's cute but it's also sad. We saw her aunt the other day and she really wanted to give her a hug but we made sure she didn't. Only air fives.
Harker apparently has Ubisoft connections so maybe he heard about something E3 related
Mario 3D World probably being Nintendo's big game for Holiday 2020 is gonna be a little catastrophic, lol.
I wouldn't expect a blowout direct at this point with delays. It might be announcing a lot of ports to fill the second half.
Probably, but seems like there is nothing they can do about it now.
No general before E3 maybe, game specific though.... Come on Nintendo, pull the Metroidirect trigger, you know you want to
Nate might be right and its best for us to just throw expectations we had for 2020 out the window. Covid is throwing things into flux, so maybe expect wii u and 3rd party ports and hope for more.
Better than nothing and will sell more than 5 million easily.
Exactly! I kind of miss how they used to be. Other than BOTW2 at E3, it feels like the last one that I really liked was February 2019.
Actually that's too harsh, I liked the last few just fine, I just wish there was less update filler and more new info. But as I said, I've been feeling that way for over a year.
There weren't any new announcements in the Mini that I'm particularly interested in, though I'm glad we got more info on Bravely Default 2 (which looks way better than it did in its Game Awards trailer), a confirmed May release date for XCDE, and a Panzer Dragoon shadowdrop.
Also, while I'm not a big Bioshock, XCOM, or Borderlands fan, it's good to see 2K committing so hard to the Switch. Guess Civ 6 must have been a huge success. Similarly, I think I already have Burnout Paradise buried somewhere in my Steam library, but seeing EA putting anything at all on the Switch feels like a [Biden]big fucking deal[/Biden].
Most surprising omission for me was the lack of first party Wii U ports. Given the rumors that Pikmin 3 and 3D World are ready to go, it's odd that Nintendo wouldn't use or or both to fill the holes they seem to have in their lineup in June and July.
Honestly, it felt like this was about making announcements that absolutely, positively could not wait untilE3 June. And I guess that's fair. I imagine it's challenging to figure out how to strike the right tone at a moment like this.
Also, while I'm not a big Bioshock, XCOM, or Borderlands fan, it's good to see 2K committing so hard to the Switch. Guess Civ 6 must have been a huge success. Similarly, I think I already have Burnout Paradise buried somewhere in my Steam library, but seeing EA putting anything at all on the Switch feels like a [Biden]big fucking deal[/Biden].
Most surprising omission for me was the lack of first party Wii U ports. Given the rumors that Pikmin 3 and 3D World are ready to go, it's odd that Nintendo wouldn't use or or both to fill the holes they seem to have in their lineup in June and July.
Honestly, it felt like this was about making announcements that absolutely, positively could not wait until
Who knows what's going to happen because of the Pandemic. They should still do a blowout direct with (presumably) Paper Mario, Metroid 5, BOTW2, and so on if they were originally scheduled for this year.
Nintendo doesn't do that though. They like showing stuff close to release and not beta tier, especially after prime 4.
Sure, but gonna be weird.
Wonder how bad the new Call of Duty will be this year.
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