If there's a direct, it's going to most likely drop in Sept or October, so that's 6 weeks give or take. If you're on team September directs, then chances are 50/50 its next week.
I don't think they will end the year with no directs, if that's what some people are suggesting.
I'm also not very enthused about GB/N64 NSO, the launch titles are going to be games we've played on Virtual Console before, and if there's a new price tier with nothing but just improved NSO, it also sounds like a bad deal, so I'm hoping there's more than that. But whatever that is, I can't think of it.
Nintendo really should improve the selection on their NSO, and I don't mean platform selection, but game selection. Pay some money to get some big games and interesting games on the NES/SNES services. Stuff like Elite was on NES, why not get that there. How about adding some 3rd party racing games like Top Gear, or even some strategy games. Both NES/SNES had several from KOEI.