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

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Bonejack said:
And for oddball efforts ... there's more series they can go back to instead of another NES cash-in.
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This I can relate to, hence why I hope it's a) actually pretty fun and b) leads to more remix style efforts but using different consoles as the base.
 
Derachi said:
I think the thing this ESRB listing is telling me, more than anything, is

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Not sure working at ESRB would tell him when NSO news will come out in the same day, or a Direct is coming soon (in less than a week)?

Unless there's a request from Nintendo to double check or confirm ESRB ratings before they go live with Direct, etc.
 
My big guess here even with the $30 price tag, is that this is a bonus game of sorts, something that slots in between stuff. Like this could drop next week in between Endless Ocean and Paper Mario or between Paper Mario and Luigi’s Mansion 2 for example. I just don’t see this as something that carries a month by itself even as we are nearing the end of the Switch life.

I know we’ve had a rougher year for some with more limited appeal games, but I think this is something where it wasn’t intended to be a big deal once the actual announcement happens. If we do get the alternative, like this is the big July game for example, then I think ok yeah feeling let down makes more sense. But in this limited state of info, I think we should see how this shakes out. This is just one piece of the bigger picture.
 
Derachi said:
I think the thing this ESRB listing is telling me, more than anything, is

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Nahhh he knew about the Peach Showtime overview trailer + demo, NSO drops, and I’m pretty sure one or two June Direct announcements weren’t rated at the time of the Direct. Good theory, but it doesn’t add up
 
Derachi said:
I think the thing this ESRB listing is telling me, more than anything, is

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Plot twist! Pyoro was the ESRB employee who leaked the Smash Bros for 3DS roster; they’ve been at this longer than we could’ve ever anticipated :O
 
Why would an ESRB employee know about the price of a game? This doesn't sound like something that the ESRB needs to make a rating on.
 
xghost777 said:
My big guess here even with the $30 price tag, is that this is a bonus game of sorts, something that slots in between stuff. Like this could drop next week in between Endless Ocean and Paper Mario or between Paper Mario and Luigi’s Mansion 2 for example. I just don’t see this as something that carries a month by itself even as we are nearing the end of the Switch life.

I know we’ve had a rougher year for some with more limited appeal games, but I think this is something where it wasn’t intended to be a big deal once the actual announcement happens. If we do get the alternative, like this is the big July game for example, then I think ok yeah feeling let down makes more sense. But in this limited state of info, I think we should see how this shakes out. This is just one piece of the bigger picture.
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I think it's possible that a hardware delay has pushed one or two summer titles back to autumn. Maybe Fire Emblem, if the remake of 4 is real, was July and is now September or October. So the original plan wasn't necessarily to bank on NWC to get the July spot, but Nintendo have to make do. It's certainly odd to me that they've no July title yet confirmed when they've always had something in that window on Switch.

Or maybe you're spot on and this is on the eShop next week, or in early June. Who knows!
 
if its being rated before nintendo has a chance to even announce it, im going to wager itll release soon, like a shadowdrop. has nintendo shadowdropped full digital games through tweets before?
 
Pretty funny but brutal. I assume this will be a random Twitter drop for next week and not part of some Direct, sadly.
 
Joey_XC said:
Ah see this is my problem with leaks, they set expectations too high sometimes.. like if we had no idea about this it would be a cool surprise, but with people thinking this was a Switch 2 tease, it seems disappointing in comparison

Having said that, I do enjoy the chaos of trying to decode a cryptic Pyoro tweet, I just think it does more harm than good - especially to a fan base that's so desperate for news right now!
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I got to disagree on this one. If Pyoro didn’t leak the reaction to this would be the exact same: “Nintendo has no games” “where’s Switch 2” “when’s the direct”
 
Y’know what regardless of quality I’m sure it’ll make for a fun gameplay video with friends, just gotta find the time to actually film it😵‍💫
 
If we are getting a Direct within the next week, I wonder where that puts the timing of the usual September one? Could that be push out in favourite of an October Switch 2 focused one I wonder.

Honestly give me this NWC NES game, few more GC/Wii/3DS remasters and i'll be happy for this year.
 
Not what I wanted to see to say the least. Guess it's back to where we were before on the Switch 2 front.

It doesn't help that there's nothing Nintendo related that I care about less than more NES games.
Derachi said:
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I would like if NWC NES Edition features pixel-art perfect remakes of the featured titles (SMB1, Rad Racer and Tetris) and not just emulated versions

And maybe more later they can release something like NWC SNES or even N64 editions.
 
More seriously on the Pyoro = ESRB thing: their knowledge of NSO drops, demos, and the more specific things like TTYD and LM2HD both getting their release dates on Mar10 Day definitely make me lean towards them living somewhere in Nintendo’s walls rather than getting it all from somewhere like a ratings board.
 
My biggest hope for this it's that they won't just repeat the games they had in NES Remix but add new ones. Remix 1 and 2 were fun and had most of the obvious picks but only scratched what the NES had to offer. Gonna need the sports games on this, Nintendo fam.
 
Dunks on the timing aside (there is slight possibility this is a project to cap off the Famicom 40th anniversary and the timing is coincidental) I think there's some good reasons why they are leading off with the NES... again (and also why SNES Remix never materialized).

  1. Obviously, the NES came first (hush G&W stans). There's no denying that is a logical starting point. People also recognize a good number of games in the catalog. The system also hung around for almost an entire decade so there's plenty of material they can pull from.
  2. Dovetailing with #1, the NES was the best selling Nintendo home console until the Wii came out. If you're trying to do a nostalgic release this is about as broad as they can go until the Wii generation hits their 30s.
  3. NES games are simple. This is not a knock on them, the system's library fully embodies that transitional period out of the early arcade experience of single screen games to the foundations that modern gaming is built upon. If you want to build a WarioWare-esque experience based around simple challenges/objectives the NES catalog is a great starting point
  4. The NES controller isn't intimidating. You have a D-Pad and 4 buttons. That's it. The challenges need to be easy to explain and understand even for people who aren't familiar with the source material as you only have a few seconds to understand the challenge and how to do it. You give someone the SNES Pad which has twice as many buttons and things get a lot more complicated. To go back to the WarioWare comparison most of those games are built around one or two buttons. The NES fits that philosphy almost to a T.
  5. NES games are hard. This is a byproduct of the arcade transition where games were designed to eat quarters at a steady clip, but also the medium was still just figuring stuff out at the time. I'm not saying that the games on later Nintendo systems are cakewalks, but the "Nintendo Hard" perception exists and they are clearly trying to tap into that with the NWC branding.
 
I'm not playing in the amateur Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition. Nintendo World Championships: Wii U Edition is where true Nintendo champions are born.
 
ITSMILNER said:
If we are getting a Direct within the next week, I wonder where that puts the timing of the usual September one? Could that be push out in favourite of an October Switch 2 focused one I wonder.

Honestly give me this NWC NES game, few more GC/Wii/3DS remasters and i'll be happy for this year.
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NWC doesn't necessarily need to be announced in a Direct; if it's like Everybody 1-2 Switch last year, it could be announced a month or so before it releases. It might be sandwiched between Paper Mario and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD in early June, and so could even be out before the next Direct.
 
MisterSpo said:
NWC doesn't necessarily need to be announced in a Direct; if it's like Everybody 1-2 Switch last year, it could be announced a month or so before it releases. It might be sandwiched between Paper Mario and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD in early June, and so could even be out before the next Direct.
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This is what I'm thinking; a $30 game is absolutely the kind of thing that could easily just be a tweet like "hey this exists, it's out in like a month or so" regardless of whether there's a direct anytime soon
 
MisterSpo said:
NWC doesn't necessarily need to be announced in a Direct; if it's like Everybody 1-2 Switch last year, it could be announced a month or so before it releases. It might be sandwiched between Paper Mario and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD in early June, and so could even be out before the next Direct.
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It's probably the major game for July or August.

Nintendo doesn't need to announce their H2 games in a Direct, they can easily announce them on social media like NWC presumably. Especially if this year is light/suffering from an unnecessary drought.
 
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The one style of rapid fire game collection competition that I’ve recently been involved in, and wish Nintendo did officially at some point, is a randomiser / shuffle challenge where the games shuffle at seed determined random intervals and the objectives persist the next time the game rolls around until you clear (or fail / elect to pass) it. Don’t think the NWC NES will do this but it’s an optimistic thought for the future, I guess?
 
prizna said:
I wonder when we can expect to hear about it from Nintendo
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I think there’s a tiny window where they could do a Direct next week but PR is going to be going full-tilt on TTYD very soon since that releases on the 23rd.

So something 5/7-5/9 and then all bets are off for May.

Edit: And that would line up with the earnings call, etc. theory that people had previously.
 
shoptroll said:
Dunks on the timing aside (there is slight possibility this is a project to cap off the Famicom 40th anniversary and the timing is coincidental) I think there's some good reasons why they are leading off with the NES... again (and also why SNES Remix never materialized).

  1. Obviously, the NES came first (hush G&W stans). There's no denying that is a logical starting point. People also recognize a good number of games in the catalog. The system also hung around for almost an entire decade so there's plenty of material they can pull from.
  2. Dovetailing with #1, the NES was the best selling Nintendo home console until the Wii came out. If you're trying to do a nostalgic release this is about as broad as they can go until the Wii generation hits their 30s.
  3. NES games are simple. This is not a knock on them, the system's library fully embodies that transitional period out of the early arcade experience of single screen games to the foundations that modern gaming is built upon. If you want to build a WarioWare-esque experience based around simple challenges/objectives the NES catalog is a great starting point
  4. The NES controller isn't intimidating. You have a D-Pad and 4 buttons. That's it. The challenges need to be easy to explain and understand even for people who aren't familiar with the source material as you only have a few seconds to understand the challenge and how to do it. You give someone the SNES Pad which has twice as many buttons and things get a lot more complicated. To go back to the WarioWare comparison most of those games are built around one or two buttons. The NES fits that philosphy almost to a T.
  5. NES games are hard. This is a byproduct of the arcade transition where games were designed to eat quarters at a steady clip, but also the medium was still just figuring stuff out at the time. I'm not saying that the games on later Nintendo systems are cakewalks, but the "Nintendo Hard" perception exists and they are clearly trying to tap into that with the NWC branding.
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Just want to let you know, the Wii generation is in their 30s.

The NES generation is in their 50s and are probably looking to retire soon.

Which is why it is so disappointing it's NES games repackaged again. Nintendo caters to the NES generation so much, while every other generation, especially the GC and Wii generation, gets crumbs. That's not to mention that people who grew up with the 3DS are now the main demographic of gamers.
 
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