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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST7| It’s Showtime People! Famiboards Productions Proudly Presents: What Lies Beyond The Door? Act II - Rebirth

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MrMiyamoto said:
Since Microsoft wants the individual developers to announce their multiplat games separately, it's still feasible to me that the Direct was delayed because it has one or two in there.
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Wouldn't those details be worked out, you know...before putting together a Direct presentation?

"Here's some footage for the Nintendo Direct where you'll announce some of our titles coming to Switch"
"Cool"
"Actually, never mind. We want the developers to announce them. Scrap all of the work you did and notify all the other third parties that we fucked them over at the last minute"

It's that really how you think it played out?
 
LukasManak22 said:
There is no fucking way that Nintendo delayed Direct because of this. Like literally.
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Yeah, I think we can rule that out. They most likely would've known what was coming in that podcast. Grubb (and others) are just speculating and playing telephone.

They just must not have wanted to do an event this week.
 
HockeyBird said:
Wouldn't those details be worked out, you know...before putting together a Direct presentation?

"Here's some footage for the Nintendo Direct where you'll announce some of our titles coming to Switch"
"Cool"
"Actually, never mind. We want the developers to announce them. Scrap all of the work you did and notify all the other third parties that we fucked them over at the last minute"

It's that really how you think it played out?
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They decided to have the announcements early because of the rumors, this was an emergency thing. And it changed everything. This was supposed to be in late February.
 
HockeyBird said:
Wouldn't those details be worked out, you know...before putting together a Direct presentation?

"Here's some footage for the Nintendo Direct where you'll announce some of our titles coming to Switch"
"Cool"
"Actually, never mind. We want the developers to announce them. Scrap all of the work you did and notify all the other third parties that we fucked them over at the last minute"

It's that really how you think it played out?
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Exactly, xbox always were going to be the first to discuss games going multiplat. Then a reveal from their teams/partners
 
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lexony said:
Honestly I am starting to think that this really was a secret message by Nintendo employees to tell us that we shouldn‘t expect the Direct this week.
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It's the opposite of this
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LukasManak22 said:
This is the day when industry changed forever, when someone will ask me where I was or what I was doing when Xbox podcast dropped I will remember it for the rest of my life.
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To be fair, anytime there's a major announcement or something in the gaming industry I'd say most of us will remember what we were doing, because the answer will be "shitposting on famiboards dot com"
 
On another note, imagine Nintendo execs doing podcast. That would be fun as hell, as these guys are not just the "corporate suits" they seem to be funny guys a lot of the times. Would be great honestly.
 
Hocot8 said:
Yeah I think people already resigned themselves to what MS is going to do but it's so much different when MS announced it lol. It's a massive shift for them. It has grand implications, even for Nintendo cause it means they get more games on their systems haha. This business meeting had to be pushed up because of all of the reports and rumors. I mean they were seeing reports about their biggest game from last year coming to playstation and that wasn't necessarily true.
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LOL. LMAO even.
 
chocolate_supra said:
To be fair, anytime there's a major announcement or something in the gaming industry I'd say most of us will remember what we were doing, because the answer will be "shitposting on famiboards dot com"
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I for one, was taking a nap. But now I am here... Shortly after
 
HockeyBird said:
Wouldn't those details be worked out, you know...before putting together a Direct presentation?

"Here's some footage for the Nintendo Direct where you'll announce some of our titles coming to Switch"
"Cool"
"Actually, never mind. We want the developers to announce them. Scrap all of the work you did and notify all the other third parties that we fucked them over at the last minute"

It's that really how you think it played out?
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I do feel the suddenness of the Xbox podcast response could be a factor. They had to throw out that PR move fairly quickly because the rumours were getting all stirred up and Xbox influencers were starting to swear off the platform -- people were worried that Xbox was going full third-party and all sorts of things.

I don't see it as a screwed over last minute deal, but a "oh, we were going to announce a couple of these through the Nintendo Partner Direct, get their PR on the line see if we can negotiate a delay of a couple hours/days so we can sort out this emergent problem in our base and not compromise the messaging". I think it's possible that the announcement through a Nintendo Direct wasn't seen as a big deal until the rumours started riling people up.

Microsoft and Nintendo are not very directly competitive with each other for the most part -- their American headquarters are next door neighbours to boot -- so I don't see it as even implausible.

Could still have been that the Direct was scheduled for next week for a while now though and that news just never touched any leakers or insiders too.
 
What I think has happened (and in 90 minutes it will be disconfirmed when there is no direct lol)

Original Scenario: Microsoft decides to release games on other platforms, they decide to announce some in a Direct like they did with Cuphead or the Ori, people would be happy and wouldn't give much importance to the fact that Microsoft would release games on Switch like it happened at the time with the mentioned games and later Microsoft would announce their plans to release more games on Switch and PS5.

What happened: Microsoft decides to release games on other platforms, they decide to announce some in a Direct, it is leaked in an exaggerated way that Microsoft is going to stop having exclusive games, internet and XBOX gamers explode, Microsoft decides to do the podcast urgently to tell their plans and they ask Nintendo to delay the direct for a few hours.
 
Come on guys, we can just accept that insiders got the date wrong. There's nothing wrong with that and nobody is safe from being fed wrong info.

Every theory of a delayed direct just contradicts itself.

Unless we somehow still get the Direct dropped today now the Xbox news are out(which can happen), the Direct was just... Never meant to come today. As simple as that.
 
LukasManak22 said:
On another note, imagine Nintendo execs doing podcast. That would be fun as hell, as these guys are not just the "corporate suits" they seem to be funny guys a lot of the times. Would be great honestly.
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I want them to cut out all laughter and then have a narrator who just comments "(laughs)" each time someone laughs.
 
Furukawa just send me this lol:

このXboxのポッドキャストは、過去10年間で大手ゲーム会社による最大の侮辱かもしれない。私は文字通り画面に向かって「ファックユー」と叫んだ。彼らがビジネスアップデートになると言っていたのは知っていたが、彼らが作り出した誇大広告のせいで、何か画期的なことを発表するのだと思った。こんなことは絶対に許されない。彼らが文字どおり実質的なことは何も語らないとわかった以上、パートナー・ダイレクトを遅らせるべきではない。

Translated into English it means:

This Xbox podcast might be the biggest insult by a major gaming company in the past decade. I literally screamed "FUCK YOU" at my screen. I knew they said it was going to be business update but the hype they created made me think they were just going to announce something groundbreaking. Absolutely unacceptable to do this to us. Once they knew they will tell literally nothing substantional we should not delay the Partner Direct.
 
NintendoMariah said:
You don’t think so?

Even thought when Phil was asked what games and he said they would be announced later etc etc ?

It all fits the narrative
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So if the direct was supposed to happen before Microsoft announced these things, why delay it if the games would've been on there?
 
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Gamer_G said:
There is actually no way Nintendo delayed a Partner Showcase because of that
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Why are people still saying this? This is supposed to be a Partner Direct, the Xbox games will be there. Direct cannot come before a presentation where they refused the name the games.
 
You really think the Direct will be shadowdropped at 23:00 CEST? Yeah sure… Cone on Guys we have to move on and touch some grad or play videogames😂
 
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ZephyrPhoenix said:
did we really just get a potential direct delayed over random gibberish for a dying console?
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All three consoles on the market are declining in growth, but notably I wouldn't go out on a limb to say a Partner Showcase would have been more worthwhile than the Xbox podcast, even if it didn't say much of value.

Honestly it was so milquetoast I very much doubt it could have impacted a Direct for whatever reason. Then again I never believed in a Partner happening this month.
 
9-Volt said:
They decided to have the announcements early because of the rumors, this was an emergency thing. And it changed everything. This was supposed to be in late February.
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If that was the case then the Direct would never have been scheduled for today, they were always going to have a business update this month and if they wanted that first then the Direct would have been end of Feb/early March.
 
9-Volt said:
They decided to have the announcements early because of the rumors, this was an emergency thing. And it changed everything. This was supposed to be in late February.
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If this was supposed to be late February, and they wanted to announce it before revealing the games on the Direct, then the Direct was never meant to be today anyways.

I mean, it's pretty clear that this podcast was pushed forward. Microsoft probably has games to be shown on the Direct so they knew the date from the start.

Also I have to say, the whole rumor and speculation cycle for this Direct was weird. It could be as weird as that March 26th 2020 Mini. It's not that out of the realm of possibility that the insiders did know there was a Direct coming but weren't told the date. Once Guaraná and Brazil spilled the beans, people followed them because it would line up with what they heard, but they didn't heard the 15th specifically.

Grubb saying his source didn't know the date of the Direct but knew of talks about delaying it because of the Xbox Podcast(I mean delaying from when since they didn't know the date?) just strikes me as weird. I don't even know why he brought this up since he only said he knew of a Direct but didn't say it was on the 15th.
 
MrMiyamoto said:
I do feel the suddenness of the Xbox podcast response could be a factor. They had to throw out that PR move fairly quickly because the rumours were getting all stirred up and Xbox influencers were starting to swear off the platform -- people were worried that Xbox was going full third-party and all sorts of things.

I don't see it as a screwed over last minute deal, but a "oh, we were going to announce a couple of these through the Nintendo Partner Direct, get their PR on the line see if we can negotiate a delay of a couple hours/days so we can sort out this emergent problem in our base and not compromise the messaging". I think it's possible that the announcement through a Nintendo Direct wasn't seen as a big deal until the rumours started riling people up.

Microsoft and Nintendo are not very directly competitive with each other for the most part -- their American headquarters are next door neighbours to boot -- so I don't see it as even implausible.

Could still have been that the Direct was scheduled for next week for a while now though and that news just never touched any leakers or insiders too.
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I can actually see this. Like, with the dooming about Xbox becoming the next Sega, if a couple XB games showed up in a Direct it woulda fueled the fire like crazy.

So it's not that Nintendo delayed the Direct because of the magnitude of the Xbox podcast, but rather Xbox wanted to get a message out ahead of the Direct so that the presence of XB games in the Direct wouldn't blow shit even more out of proportion. That makes sense.


Marce-chan said:
Come on guys, we can just accept that insiders got the date wrong. There's nothing wrong with that and nobody is safe from being fed wrong info.
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If this is the case, I wanna know how multiple insiders across different countries all get fed the exact same wrong date from their own separate sources.
 
Furukawa finds out how much of a wet fart the Xbox Podcast was after accepting Nintendo of America's concerns about it and delaying the Direct

Furukawa: Have Nintendo of Europe killed.
Nervous intern: But sir that wasn't--
Furukawa: DO AS I SAY

 
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