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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST2| Fami's Summer Gameguess

When will the next Direct air?

  • It's going to be in May! cHaOs!

    Votes: 11 4.3%

  • Patterns, man. 14th of June, 2022. The usual.

    Votes: 211 81.8%

  • Nintendo will be weird again, early July.

    Votes: 23 8.9%

  • Nintendo's Twitter Direct's will be the norm, Septermber 2022.

    Votes: 6 2.3%

  • Geoff the Summerman will add it to Summer Gamefest

    Votes: 7 2.7%
  • Total voters
    258
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Everyone has different preferences of course but with Fire Emblem, I really miss the maps and overall gameplay of Conquest. I wouldn't miss it so much if the Fates games were on Switch.
 
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@Disclaimer @DunningSmith @Amadeus @DecoReturns

Don't worry, there are a ton of new characters. You can summon past characters from FE history, but past characters aren't the majority of the cast.

MondoMega said:
I don't really believe they could've ever gotten this out for the 30th anniversary to be honest; at best announced in the same way Three Houses was in 2017. April 2020 - April 2021 is just too soon after Three Houses.

Rest of the info is likely solid but gut feeling tells me the anniversary connection might be more of an assumption on Emily's source based on the past characters returning. Just doesn't add up 🤷‍♀️
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To be clear, my sources aren't making any assumptions. This game has been finished since late last year.

A possible theory on why they might be sitting on this game: Post-launch DLC.
 
Emily said:
  • Main character (main lord) has strange red and blue hair. His mother of him is a dragon.
  • New "Emblems" gimmick allows players to summon "FE characters from the past " for your squad.
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Sounds like a cool concept for the next Smash character! 😛

Thanks for sharing details about it here! Im looking forward to seeing how the new artstyle and graphics look with Gust aiding on the visuals.
 
Emily said:
@Disclaimer @DunningSmith @Amadeus @DecoReturns

Don't worry, there are a ton of new characters. You can summon past characters from FE history, but past characters aren't the majority of the cast.



To be clear, my sources aren't making any assumptions. This game has been finished since late last year.

A possible theory on why they might be sitting on this game: Post-launch DLC.
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Thank you for your info Emily, much appreciated.
I'm not normally a fan of asking insiders for more information, so feel free to ignore if you don't want to share more.
Just a little question: Is the "summoning past characters" aspect intervowen into the story and thus mandatory, or is this more like a optional thing?
 
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Emily said:
To be clear, my sources aren't making any assumptions. This game has been finished since late last year.
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That's reassuring for the validity of everything else, but i'm still skeptical about the anniversary tie. At least releasing in that period; if they wanted to announce it then and release it in H2 2021 (pre-covid of course), that's a lot easier for me to believe.

Summoning past character was a thing in Awakening but that was optional side content and paid DLC; the way you've described it here makes it seem like a core mechanic and i'm not totally enthused about that even if the main cast is new characters. It's the same feeling Sonic Frontiers once again reusing past zones for the cyberspace stages gives me; I just want something totally fresh. Curious to see how it goes though; I think i'd prefer something like TMS where they don't totally resemble their original appearance.

Just hope this one is a single game with a single main story route; after Fates and Three Houses I am tired of split routes. Hope we see it in two weeks time!
 
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My guess is Nintendo won't show the new FE at this Direct cause of Warriors just then releasing, but I do hope we see it in September rather than having to ride out the obligatory season pass for Warriors.
 
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Emily said:
@Disclaimer @DunningSmith @Amadeus @DecoReturns

Don't worry, there are a ton of new characters. You can summon past characters from FE history, but past characters aren't the majority of the cast.



To be clear, my sources aren't making any assumptions. This game has been finished since late last year.

A possible theory on why they might be sitting on this game: Post-launch DLC.
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I think it's likely that they already had other games scheduled and this is just in their release queue, but because they have a lot of releases now on the same console, that queue may get a bit too long sometimes. They probably wanted to wrap up with Three Houses with Three Hopes and then release this. Since Nintendo can always aford to sit on finished games due to the amount of games they release, they aren't in a hurry.
 
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At first I thought that Fire Emblem would release in 2022, especially when Nate said that Mario+Rabbids could have been delayed to next year. But now that it's still on track for this year, I think 2022 might be a little too packed for Fire Emblem, I imagine it will be announced this month and release in February 2023
 
Amadeus said:
At first I thought that Fire Emblem would release in 2022, especially when Nate said that Mario+Rabbids could have been delayed to next year but now that it's still on track for this year I think that 2022 might be a little too packed for Fire Emblem, I imagine it will be announced this month and release in February 2023
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We already have a FE release soon and Bayo3 is probably in October, with September and November already occuped. December could see AW1+2 and then who knows? If we don't see it this month, we should see it in the September Direct I think, at least with a vague 2023 release date.
 
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"Edelgard".
"I knew sooner or later you would show up. I made mistakes and...people were hurt".
"I'm not here to talk about Fodlan".
"Then what are you here for?"
"I need your help"
"With what?"
"What do you know about the Fire Emblem-verse?"

"I'm sorry Byleth"
"I hope you understand. The greatest threat to our kingdom...is you!"

"Things just got our of haaaannnd"
 
Amadeus said:
At first I thought that Fire Emblem would release in 2022, especially when Nate said that Mario+Rabbids could have been delayed to next year. But now that it's still on track for this year, I think 2022 might be a little too packed for Fire Emblem, I imagine it will be announced this month and release in February 2023
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Mario + Rabbids 2 has a locked in release date internally so it's hard to think of where Fire Emblem could slide in that's far enough away from it. Totally different audiences but still a genre overlap. Definitely can't be anywhere before December i'd say.
 
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Nate said that he would either drop his predictions in one week or two weeks.
TonyBaduy said:
Considering Nate's info still points (as far as he has let us know) that the succ is planned to release in this FY, I wonder if it could be announced soon before, or at, this Direct, for a holiday launch. The other alternative would be to announce it in January to release it in March, but that'd be too rushed, they didn't even try that with the Switch, as it was announced months before it's complete unveiling with a video that showed us it's switching capability. Teasing it in October would cut short the OLED sales by an unknown amount, as many OLED sales are to replace old Switches, so people would just rather wait it out a few more months to get the succ, thus I believe that if there is a time to announce it is soon and the launch would probably be this holiday.

Nintendo could get away with the Switch because the Wii U was dead and the 3DS was marketed as a handheld, while the Switch as a home console, thus no overlap, but this time is entirely different, there is an overlap and they'd probably want to keep their sales up during the holidays. We will have to wait and see, but I hope the succ is announced and released this FY.
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He said that the predictions would either drop this week or next week. Also, the cyberspace embargo ends on June 29th btw.
 
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Hidden04 said:
Nate said that he would either drop his predictions in one week or two weeks.

He said that the predictions would either drop this week or next week. Also, the cyberspace embargo ends on June 39th btw.
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June 39th is a weird date for an embargo (lol), also, I wasn't talking about Nate's predictions, but previous leaks.
 
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Dark Cloud said:
Idk if a September to February or March is enough time for Nintendo and Fire Emblem.
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January to April was enough time for Echoes in 2017, but that's a remake so different expectations. Personally thinking it'll get a reveal this month and release in Early 2023.
 
FE is a borderline 5m+ seller franchise with Three Houses, I’d imagine Nintendo wants with the next entry to make sure it grows even more and it becomes a franchise that can compete in sales versus even KH/DQ, so I’d expect for it to be shown in two directs
 
MondoMega said:
January to April was enough time for Echoes in 2017, but that's a remake so different expectations. Personally thinking it'll get a reveal this month and release in Early 2023.
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I’m torn on it. If it’s coming early 2023, then I don’t see Nintendo waiting until September to announce it. I see them saying they will announce it in June. They will show more in September and that’ll take you to the release.
 
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How did I not realize June 28th was a Tuesday? I’m kinda leaning towards a 12PM EST show with Treehouse now for whatever reason
 
Blue Monty said:
FE is a borderline 5m+ seller franchise with Three Houses, I’d imagine Nintendo wants with the next entry to make sure it grows even more and it becomes a franchise that can compete in sales versus even KH/DQ, so I’d expect for it to be shown in two directs
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They need some worldwide appeal for the game though. FE is still mind numbingly anime and sometimes not in a good way. Artstyle needs to be something between traditional and anime (GBA era had the best artstyle) and they need to lose that ambiguous setting and go back to pure medieval world.

Gameplay is ace as always, so no need for changes there.
 
MondoMega said:
I don't really believe they could've ever gotten this out for the 30th anniversary to be honest; at best announced in the same way Three Houses was in 2017. April 2020 - April 2021 is just too soon after Three Houses.

Rest of the info is likely solid but gut feeling tells me the anniversary connection might be more of an assumption on Emily's source based on the past characters returning. Just doesn't add up 🤷‍♀️
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Emily said:
@Disclaimer @DunningSmith @Amadeus @DecoReturns

Don't worry, there are a ton of new characters. You can summon past characters from FE history, but past characters aren't the majority of the cast.



To be clear, my sources aren't making any assumptions. This game has been finished since late last year.

A possible theory on why they might be sitting on this game: Post-launch DLC.
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On release/announcement timing, Three Houses was 'announced' as Fire Emblem for Switch in early 2017 as a 2018 release despite the fact that full production was only just beginning, with the conceptual work for the game having been done back in 2015.

Perhaps this is another concept that was fleshed out an earlier stage, with the intention of creating a new game to celebrate the anniversary, which they returned to with an over-optimistic development timeframe? Either way, I'd be chuffed if we got this in 2022; Xenoblade has moved up the schedule to an earlier spot, so it's time to give the Mainstream Gaming Audience another Anime Sword Fighter franchise to complain about.

I, however, will eat until I am incapable of moving.
 
Emily said:
Don't worry, there are a ton of new characters. You can summon past characters from FE history, but past characters aren't the majority of the cast.
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So Fire Emblem is reusing characters from the past, Mario Kart is reusing tracks from the past, Mario Odyssey reused worlds from the past.

I would love if Zelda also reused dungeons from the past as non-canonical hidden dungeons.
 
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Dragoncaine said:
I just want to expand Dong, man. Where's my leader of the bunch?
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I wish we had just a bit more info on the new FE, though I'm glad we can at least confirm its mostly a new cast and not returning characters as major characters. I just want to know a bit more about how it all works lol. I guess we'll have to wait on that
 
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Cubs017 said:
Oh no…with characters from the past coming in they wouldn’t do gatcha mechanics or micro transactions…right? Right?
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they have FEH already, I can literally guarantee they will not do it in a mainline game
 
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It’d be nice to get rumors on Nintendo IP’s we haven’t seen in a while instead of the same old IP’s Nintendo churns out 1-2 times a system lol. I fear for my F-Zero predictions…
 
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Cubs017 said:
Oh no…with characters from the past coming in they wouldn’t do gatcha mechanics or micro transactions…right? Right?
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Nintendo wouldn’t allow it on their console games, they have shown to be against that practice for their full-priced games. DLC/Expansions for sure it will get and maybe there is free gacha mechanics like XC2 but when you sell your games at 60$ for years there is no need of MTX (it even is bad for Nintendo because it hurts their image)
 
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Prime 4/Bayo 3/BoTW2 aside Nintendo's usually been pretty good having a short time between announcement and release so if the new FE is in the Direct I could totally see it releasing this year even if Three Hopes also gets DLC (which I kinda don't think it will but that's a separate topic.)

The story stuff shared also makes me wonder if it's going to be set somewhere in Heroes' world.
 
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MisterSpo said:
Nintendo in late 2021 just finishing the development of games and then being like "uuuhhh now what"
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How many games have been completed since last year? New Fire Emblem and Metroid Prime Remaster. Goes to show you how long they’re willing to sit on games. I’ve felt since Covid Nintendo has games jammed up in their offices. There’s a backlog and they have to figure out how to release them.
 
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