I mean not really, they tend to have big updates on stuff still a bit out(Mario party, HWAoC dlc2, Advance wars, smash characters), a lot of third party updates, a few third party semi exclusive reveals and 2-3 new games either for Q4 or 1(Luigi's mansion 3/Super Mario party and Tms#fe/XBcDE for previous examples)
Monolithsoft are as far as I'm concerned the absolute best company around for cutscene direction.
reality set in
Ah, rejoining #TeamJanuary I see, just as the prophecy foretold
For a while there they were doing Directs with long segments (like 5-10 minutes I think?) focused on whatever the next big game coming out was. I remember them doing it for Fire Emblem among others. The last few haven't done that, though, which I think is probably a good thing. Better to leave the longer marketing for outside of Directs to keep the pacing up, unless they REALLY want to focus on something
They definitely didn't do it for Fire Emblem, considering E3 2019 only had a fairly brief trailer. FE's focus Direct was February 2019
Good point, I guess it was usually a few months in advance and not RIGHT before like this would be. I was just thinking about how they were branding each Direct as "Stay tuned for a Nintendo Direct focusing on Fire Emblem Three Houses and other games coming out in 2019!" etc. where they would call out specific games in advance, and then give that game a bit more of a focus.
The current vibe is that it's on the 15th, but I still don't think there's been any kind of firm hint about that yet.
"here's a direct. now shut the fuck up. no Dane Switch won't be in it, mobile won't be in it, BotW2 won't be in it, none of your hopes and dreams are in it, your parents never loved you, and your dog is dead. enjoy"
"Tune in 9/15 at 2 p.m. PT for a #NintendoDirect livestream featuring roughly 45 minutes of information focused on current and upcoming Nintendo Switch games, including the final Fighter Pass for Super Smash Bros Ultimate!"
With how much Nintendo has been trying to manage expectations in advance lately, this may not be far off :P.
This is pretty likely, but I have a feeling 45 minutes is too long for this one. I say 40.
Will you buy ME one for this?
All this is missing is a "please understand".
This could be!
This is exactly what I expect, except I'd swap out 45 for 40 minutes.
Ayyyyyy great minds!
Yeah I did!!! I spent like 30 plus minutes filling it out and when it said "press submit" there was no submit button!! I'm gonna do it again tomorrow I think lol. I'll screenshot the potentially interesting questions if y'all would like.
