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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST8| Press Your (Nintendo Direct) Luck!

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a new direct speculation thread??????? 🤩

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If they are saving software for Switch 2 then I think they don’t really need to release that much for the end of the year. Maybe the Zelda ports. Switch doesn’t need a big holiday game. It’s got enough evergreens to carry it over.
 
terribleidiot said:
If they are saving software for Switch 2 then I think they don’t really need to release that much for the end of the year. Maybe the Zelda ports. Switch doesn’t need a big holiday game. It’s got enough evergreens to carry it over.
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They aren't saving software for Switch 2, they're saving system selling software for it. This doesn't include Metroid or Fire Emblem, and maybe not DK either.
 
The aroma of a new direct spec thread. 🍵

I’m honestly of two minds: April makes more intuitive sense to me for Ninty to do a Direct or equivalent for announcements, but at the same time they may well be content to coast on just TTYD May / LM2 June, forsake April and have the super blowout in June for both Successor(?) and calendar H2 2024…
 
I can see a Nintendo Direct to unveil the end of year line-up. And take advantage of May and June to present upcoming games at length via Nintendo Treehouse :)

I hope Brazil, Necro or Nate will be able to confirm a Direct next month in the next few days or weeks.
 
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My expectations for the rest of the year:
July: Fire Emblem 4 remake
August: not yet announced eshop
September: not yet announced retail
October: Metroid Prime 4
November: not yet announced retail
December: nothing

I'd expect everything for the test of the year to get outlined in an April direct that very well could happen.

Three Houses was a July launch and being a remake I don't think needs a huge marketing window. I do expect it for very late July, hence why i think they would keep something low key for August.

Prime 4 is their big game they would want out near the holiday, but just before the holiday shopping season kicks off. Sorta like Wonder was last year.

Hard to really say what the unnacouned stuff could be. Maybe som remasters or games from series we haven't seen yet (tomodachi, rhythm heaven, new ip?). Maybe some random spinoff no one saw coming. Maybe even something bigger than people would expect?

There was a lot of confidence that Nintendo had nothing left in the tank after Tears last year (ignoring Pikmin 4 rudely). Then Wonder popped up outta nowhere plus all the other games we've gotten since then.
 
Chie said:
Three Houses was a July launch and being a remake I don't think needs a huge marketing window. I do expect it for very late July, hence why i think they would keep something low key for August.
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Not to mention Engage, an actual new entry, only got four months from its official announcement to release. A threeish month time for FE4R is totally reasonable as a potential timeframe
 
terribleidiot said:
If they are saving software for Switch 2 then I think they don’t really need to release that much for the end of the year. Maybe the Zelda ports. Switch doesn’t need a big holiday game. It’s got enough evergreens to carry it over.
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Nintendo is NOT going a holiday season without a new Switch exclusive
 
Personally speaking I'm expecting Metroid Prime 2 being shadowdropped in april, with a smaller chance for Luigi Mansion 1 port....
With the smallest and smallest possibillity an eshop release of Mother 3 (Yes, Im copping).

The next Nintendo direct makes sense in June, with a Switch 2 announcement in early July. Atleast thats the timeline I'm hoping for.
But please Square Enix.... Start talking about Dragon Quest 3 HD2D... I want it so bad...., Please give it to meeeee.
 
Certain combinations of an April General Direct, June Switch 2 Presentation, and 2025 Switch 2 release make sense to me, but all 3 gives me some pause. It feels more likely that either Switch 2 is announced later (with the next Direct being in June as per usual) or it releases earlier.
 
Never been here so early for a direct speculation thread, but I'm here and ready for the chaos!!

My heart wants to believe in the April direct rumours but I just feel like a June direct makes more sense.. either way these next few weeks/months should be fun!
 
Main thing I could see happen this year is a Switch hardware price drop, get the lite down to £99/$99 permanently in order to have a decent last Christmas before the newer hardware arrives. Maybe even bring back the budget software line and permanently drop the price of early software like Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey.
 
There are enough third party stuff to fill a full general Nintendo Direct right now. Maybe even more, if Nintendo is to show fewer first party games.

Like, that Yu-Gi-Oh Early Days collection. Maybe reveal more games and online functions.

Or Front Mission 3. Though 2 was re-revealed during June Direct last year.

Asano also could reveal this new Bravely project very soon...
 
Now that we have release dates for all the announced 2024 games, I'm really excited for the next direct! We basically know of no second half game. The only other announced Nintendo game is Prime 4 which we don't even know if it's 2024. I start to feel it is though. But even without Prime 4 I would still be very excited!

EvilChameleon said:
Seeing as I'm launching this thread on Mario Day, if we do indeed get a Mario sports game in this next direct, what sport will it be?​
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Mario Wave Race
 
ZaSpai said:
Not to mention Engage, an actual new entry, only got four months from its official announcement to release.
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While it was "only" a spin-off, Three Hopes was given the exact same treatment. (Or rather, Engage was given the Three Hopes treatment?) Three Hopes was announced in February and released in June.

ZaSpai said:
A threeish month time for FE4R is totally reasonable as a potential timeframe
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Definitely. I say they do what Three Hopes and Unicorn Overlord have done - Announcement Trailer (April), reminder trailer (May), gameplay teaser information* (June), and then demo drop (early-to-mid July, roughly two weeks before the game releases). Alternatively, they could do an announcement trailer in the next Direct, the teaser stuff in May and early June, and then the Demo is a shadow-drop during the June Direct.

For an added bonus, make the demo about Sigurd, Edigan, and Quan during their school days. (This is also the perfect place to introduce an Avatar or Player Character, if there's going to be one.)
 
April as a Direct window makes a certain amount of sense. It's well timed to advertise the first 3 Nintendo titles for the new fiscal year, as well as to announce anything that launches between July and the end of 2024, therefore covering the bulk of the new fiscal year. If it happens, it could well be the last Switch 1 dedicated event.

I'd expect Nintendo to announce next-gen hardware before their next fiscal briefing in early May, so having their Switch 1 titles announced before that would be a useful way of indicating their hand for the new fiscal year to investors. Any new console announcement in May would be the bland "we plan to launch a new console by the end of this fiscal year" spiel, so that Nintendo can include it in their guidance for the new fiscal year, ahead of a reveal in June. On that last point, though, I wonder if a full reveal has been pushed back accordingly, assuming the 2025 delay is true. Nintendo might want to hold off given that delay, or they may just go for June so that third parties can start announcing software too.

I can buy the idea that April for Switch 1, June for Switch 2 was the plan, but unsure if that pans out given the apparent hardware delay.
 
Yeah with everything that went on with the switch 2 reveal/release getting pushed back, it feels like Nintendo's plans are all up in the air so I have a hard time putting too much trust in some of the rumours. Even if they are based on information that was true at the time, we've seen how much plans can change, and with new hardware on the horizon its very difficult to follow patterns.

I could definitely see them sticking to a June reveal, even if the release was pushed back to 2025, but who knows
 
SammyJ9 said:
ABBA intensifies
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SLIPPING THROUGH MY FINGEERS
The Captain said:
People trusted the process and manifested TTYD remake.

People will trust the process once again and manifest Kid Icarus Uprising remake

It’d be funny if it kept working but not for Metroid, also very sad🥲
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The Process is manifesting so many things, that someone will always be disappointed (Mother 3, Kid Icarus, Zelda Remasters, Prime)
 
Use_the_Falchion said:
While it was "only" a spin-off, Three Hopes was given the exact same treatment. (Or rather, Engage was given the Three Hopes treatment?) Three Hopes was announced in February and released in June.


Definitely. I say they do what Three Hopes and Unicorn Overlord have done - Announcement Trailer (April), reminder trailer (May), gameplay teaser information* (June), and then demo drop (early-to-mid July, roughly two weeks before the game releases). Alternatively, they could do an announcement trailer in the next Direct, the teaser stuff in May and early June, and then the Demo is a shadow-drop during the June Direct.

For an added bonus, make the demo about Sigurd, Edigan, and Quan during their school days. (This is also the perfect place to introduce an Avatar or Player Character, if there's going to be one.)
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Kinda forgot that (on the Japanese side at least; international peeps stay losing) both W3H and Engage had rather regular tweet updates after the... first month post announcement? They definitely could repeat that (but I hope they make a more concerted effort on the international side, getting to learn the FE4 cast for the first time localised would be something to behold if not limited to Japan)

A prologue doing academy days with Sigurd / Eldigan / Quan would be interesting, but I wonder if they'd take an Echoes approach and go for Turnwheel memory styled maps (also that might apply for the 'seen while waiting on the title screen' events too)
 
A direct speculation thread is almost as good as a new direct.
I’m kind of split on the next directs though.
The april general and june switch 2 reveal makes a lot of sense but I think june might be a bit too early for a big presentation if the console releases in march 2025, and I don’t see Nintendo doing only a small teaser in June like october 2016 teaser.
At the same time doing the general direct for h2 in june to announce a game in july feels a bit too late.
As far as games go, fe4remake in September and metroid prime 4 november, 2024 is the true year of the 4.
For the rest I think windwaker hd in july, nothing in august and 0 idea for october, either a mario sport game or mario party.
The new Dk game doesn’t exists
 
I think April and June are too optimistic. I can see there being a mini/General in April or June, but I expect the Switch 2 reveal to be much later. September or October precisely.
 
What I think is great is that a few months ago we were all talking about the end of life of the switch, and then for a few weeks about the depression of the 'delay' of the switch 2.

But finally, I find myself in the situation of waiting impatiently for the next Nintendo Direct hoping for a crazy second half with Metroid Prime 4, a new Donkey Kong game, maybe even unexpected things like F-Zero, Kid Icarus, Todomachi or Starfox.


Nothing weird or crazy happened, just two games just received dates for May and June. And that’s enough for the hype to start all over again. Find it both wonderful and terrifying.
 
OctoSplattack said:
Personally, I'm not sure about there being both an April and a June Direct. If the system isn't dropping until next March, then having a full Direct dedicated to mostly Switch 2 stuff in June seems a little weird. Part of me thinks they'll just have the one Direct sometime before mid-June and just show the system as the "one last thing" at the very end, so third parties are able to throw the Switch 2 logo into the end of their trailers during Summer Games Fest.
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I think this is what we're looking at. An April Direct put together fairly late in the day for Switch stuff for the rest of the year, they maybe drop a "We are working on new hardware" with maybe a logo at most in the summer, then no usual June Direct with a proper reveal in September before another blowout in January as per 2017.
 
if we already had a partner direct just recently and we know (first party) games coming up until june, why wouldn't an august direct make more sense than april~may?
 
If we do get a Direct next month, do you all think that's the only General we get this year? I've been thinking about this for a little bit and considering some of the different options that Nintendo could do but, as we all have noted, we are on a much different timeline now compared to past years.

To me, the most likely scenario with a Direct next month would be that Direct followed by the official acknowledgement (either in or right before the annual investors meeting) of next generation hardware. I was considering maybe this happening in the Direct where they do use a re-reveal of Metroid Prime 4 as the "One Last Thing" where the end card has both console logos on it as well but I do feel like if Metroid Prime 4 does show up, it's to say it's out this holiday. It is crazy to me that I didn't actually think this was possible in February but now I do think it could happen nonetheless! After this though, I don't really know what could happen. I still feel like June may be a little early for a E3 type blowout for the console, though it could happen like in 2010 for the Nintendo 3DS but I do feel like with the April Direct, it does make it where no matter where the next Direct falls, unless it's September or later, they feel too close to each other (April to June feels close, July to September feels too close?).

The other scenario I did consider is maybe they do a middle ground Direct between what we are thinking in May and then maybe the traditional September Direct? The one thing I do feel sure about is a April/May Direct with the information we have now because when looking at past June Directs, they've never announced and dated a game for earlier than September in any of them (WarioWare: Get it Together) unless I am misremembering and I just can't see them taking off July, August, and possibly much of September right now. We will definitely know more when this next Direct does air (mainly if we get an October/November game announced in it)! I guess my high-in-the-sky thought is maybe we do get April/June back-to-back Direct with April revealing up to September and then the June one revealing October and November with maybe a slight tease at what's next in 2025! I apologize for typing a lot here, just glad the thread is back!! :)
 
kasparov77 said:
if we already had a partner direct just recently and we know (first party) games coming up until june, why wouldn't an august direct make more sense than april~may?
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This is something I've been thinking about but the only thing that's holding me back is that possibly means there's a larger gap between July and October than we all think since August would probably only allow for them to detail an October and/or November game! Though, I also think a shadowdrop in an August Direct would also work to provide some content between those months, especially with an earlier August Direct!
 
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I just realized we are almost halfway through March already which means a potential April direct is actually only a few weeks away!!

I feel like April in my head has always been a long way off, but we're actually really close 😮
 
I trust Brazil but also I can't reconcile Nintendo having a Direct in April when they have all of H1 slated already. June would make a lot more sense.

Right now, I'm thinking we will see MP2+3 in August, MP4 in October and Donkey Kong in November, but announcing those things in April makes no sense.
 
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