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So Era, Which Was Better The Latest Nintendo Direct or State of Play?

Which One?

  • Nintendo Direct

    Votes: 984 65.0%

  • State of Play

    Votes: 347 22.9%

  • Final Fantasy VII Battle Royale

    Votes: 184 12.1%
  • Total voters
    1,515
PhazonBlazer

PhazonBlazer

Prophet of Truth
Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
1,855
So now that the first State of Play and Nintendo Direct of the year are both done, which did you like more, and why?

In their own ways, both disappointed me, but maybe others managed to enjoy the shows overall more? What did you think of the Nintendo Direct and State of Play, Era? Were these new streams good? Which would you rank as the better one? And what were your favorite announcements from both?

I'd still have to pick the Direct, I'm a sucker for Skyward Sword.
 
Lotus

Lotus

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
106,573
I've always preferred Directs personally, this was no different
 
Renna Hazel

Renna Hazel

Member
Oct 27, 2017
11,727
The Direct had way more games so I guess that was better. It doesn't seem like State of Play is going for the same thing, and was more updates on existing stuff. I don't care much about that.
 
WestEgg

WestEgg

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,050
I feel like this is going to get shut down for leading to platform wars. Having said that, Pyra in Smash is the highlight of my week, so the Direct.
 
Jencks

Jencks

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,477
Neither were particularly good but the Direct actually had some decent surprises. State of Play was just kind of lame.
 
Dyle

Dyle

One Winged Slayer
The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
30,120
Sony didn't have a little buddy with a mohawk

But more seriously the Direct had multiple big new announcements, way more games relative to its runtime, a demo to play, and generally better pacing imo. Plus Nintendo hasn't repeated stuff as much as Sony has in their recent shows with Oddworld and Deathloop
 
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Quinton

Quinton

Specialist at TheGamer / Reviewer at RPG Site
Verified
Oct 25, 2017
17,380
Midgar, With Love
Direct had Project Triangle Strategy and Skyward Sword HD. State of Play had FFVII Remake Intergrade. Neither had anything else that did much for me. The former is rad. The latter is rad with a capital RAD. So the State of Play, I guess, but man. Directs remain far more fun to watch.
 

Skyscourge

One Winged Slayer
Member
Nov 7, 2020
1,857
The Direct had a lot more "big news" games than the State of play. It wasn't exactly in tune with Era's demographic, but Splatoon 3, Mario golf and a Smash bros character are big deals among the general Nintendo audience.
 
Fat4all

Fat4all

Woke up, got a money tag, swears a lot
Member
Oct 25, 2017
94,149
here
to be fair, over on EtcetEra they talking about having sex with insurance commercial mascots
 
Gay Bowser

Gay Bowser

Member
Oct 30, 2017
17,760
I don't really see the point in pitting them against each other. Both were primarily focused on the next few months. One showed one of their big games for 2022 at the end. Does that make it "better"? I don't know. Maybe?

What matters to me are the games that actually get released.
 
Rosebud

Rosebud

Two Pieces
Member
Apr 16, 2018
44,013
C'mon, obviously Direct.

SoP only had predictable stuff (and that FFVII new remake lol)
 

Deleted member 17388

User requested account closure
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Oct 27, 2017
12,994
Direct had more anticipation and had a lot to fulfill, so they disappointed harder. Also Pyra.

Sony's Direct at least hosted the newest FNaF trailer.

But of the poll options, Final Fantasy VII Battle Royale reveal trailer was funnier :V
I wanna play that!
 
Disclaimer

Disclaimer

Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,580
Project Triangle Strategy > all.

Getting that demo made me as giddy as the Octopath one did before. Team Asano knows what's up.
 
Captain of Outer Space

Captain of Outer Space

Come Sale Away With Me
Member
Oct 28, 2017
11,478
The State of Play had a much higher hit percentage for me. The Direct had a handful of good stuff to it, but a lot of ports of things I've played or don't want to play.

I had zero expectations for either, so I wasn't disappointed in either.
 
Meg Cherry

Meg Cherry

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,332
Seattle, WA
Both underwhelming, but I'll give it to the State of Play. At least that event had slightly lower expectations, given Sony had done several last year. Plus, the announced games were at least on the near horizon.
 
Musubi

Musubi

Unshakable Resolve - Prophet of Truth
Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,761
State of Play. That FFVII announcement is better than anything they announced on the direct.
 
Geode

Geode

Keeper of the White Materia
Member
Oct 27, 2017
4,536
The Direct was way better. The only thing that interested me from the SoP was FF7R on PS5.
 
SoulsHunt

SoulsHunt

Banned
Dec 3, 2019
3,622
I don't think you can compare these two. I don't see the point.

It was literally a small SoP, nothing really big (if FFVII) where even Crash had a fucking long trailer for a PS5 version. It's not like the next one is one year. Even tho I'd rather have less events with bigger impact.

Whereas we had one hour of ND, that we were all waiting for so long for nothing (for me, no BOTW 2, Bayo 3, etc).

So yeah, for me it doesn't make sense at all.

As I said, Direct was trash. Couldn't be worse.

SoP, wasn't expecting anything, even tho I wanted to see at least Ratchet. FFVII was the show and I can't wait to play it again.
 
NediarPT88

NediarPT88

Member
Oct 29, 2017
15,292
I prefered SOP since I actually intend to play Deathloop, Kena, Solar Ash and FFVII. Sifu was a nice surprise too, looks really cool.

I'm not super into Nintendo stuff so I thought that Direct was awful, those 50 minutes felt like hours lol, some really lame stuff there.

Was hoping to see BOTW2, Bayonetta 3 or Silksong. Yeah I know 🤡
 
An Army of Bees

An Army of Bees

Member
Sep 19, 2020
210
Not even a competition. There was nothing in the State of Play that deserved being "an event", and could have just gotten the same reaction by a new trailer or whatever.
 
PAFenix

PAFenix

Unshakable Resolve
Member
Nov 21, 2019
14,925
I voted for the Direct because it had more things I was interested in. Neither was "bad" though.
 
tok9

tok9

Prophet of Truth
Member
Nov 2, 2017
1,999
I think the format and games were more interesting in the SOP but it was a lot of stuff we'd already seen (bar SIFU) while the Direct had bigger games overall but also bloated with a lot of uninteresting stuff.

Both were not particularly great though.
 

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The Fallen
Dec 3, 2018
1,425
Wow. Wild to me that so many seem to like the Direct so much more. I didn't think the SOP was amazing, but at least almost every game actually looked interesting. I think most of the games in the Direct looked terrible and the BIG games they had were super underwhelming for me.
 
Procheno

Procheno

Alt Account
Banned
Nov 14, 2018
2,879
The State of Play despite being 3/5th the length only showed off like 1/5th the games or announcements of the Nintendo direct. Plus the Nintendo direct actually had first party reveals, including a bomb at the end with the sequel to one their S tier selling IP this gen

No way anyone could objectively say the SoP was better
 
jph139

jph139

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
14,448
Neither was particularly strong, and honestly the only game between the two that I'm definitely going to get at some point is FF7R, but the Direct had more variety and obviously a much stronger first party showing. Hard to beat that.
 
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