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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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Wait do you mean to tell me that Mario + Rabbids 2 won’t be at the Assassins Creed Celebration stream tomorrow?! UGH!! C’mon Ubisoft!

did i do it right?
 
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I guess the best way I’d describe my reaction to the Fire Emblem game is that I’m excited to see it. I dunno if I’ll like it, as it sounds like a Heroes-fied entry, for lack of a better word, but I’m definitely interested in seeing it in action.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s to Bayonetta what Xenoblade was to Splatoon. If Bayonetta is out in 2022, Fire Emblem goes to 2023. If Bayonetta gets delayed, Fire Emblem subs into 2022. There just isn’t much room to accommodate both games alongside Pokémon, Metroid Prime HD, Mario + Rabbids, and possibly Advance Wars and Zelda remasters.
 
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The staff post says not to ask insiders for reassurance but it doesn't say anything about asking insiders for Re:Insurance, an anime about a middle aged insurance salesman who gets isekaid to the middle ages where he must now make a living selling insurance to the nobility.
 
HockeyBird said:
The staff post says not to ask insiders for reassurance but it doesn't say anything about asking insiders for Re:Insurance, an anime about a middle aged insurance salesman who gets isekaid to the middle ages where he must now make a living selling insurance to the nobility.
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Ngl, I would watch the shit out of that. Does he get an obnoxious animal companion?
 
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HockeyBird said:
The staff post says not to ask insiders for reassurance but it doesn't say anything about asking insiders for Re:Insurance, an anime about a middle aged insurance salesman who gets isekaid to the middle ages where he must now make a living selling insurance to the nobility.
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Maybe he can use this newfound knowledge and get a noble to underwrite some policies on venereal diseases acquired in wagons to scam some other nobles out of money.

www.npr.org

GEICO may have to pay $5.2 million to a woman who got an STD in an insured car

The woman says a man infected her with HPV when they had unprotected sex in his 2014 Hyundai Genesis. She's now trying to enforce a large arbitration award.
www.npr.org www.npr.org
 
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coolcam52 said:


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This nonsense is why I got a PS5 and caught up with so many PS4 games I missed. As much as I love Switch, I need my JRPG fix and they all don't drop on Switch or drop later than other platforms at a higher price.

Wouldn't feel bad if P5 doesn't come to Switch (Until later), but I'd feel bad for Switch only users.
 
coolcam52 said:
If it's the 29th in the US then it'll be after the next investors meeting

also if it's the 29th in the US then it'd almost definitely be the 30th in Japan, only makes sense to hear 28th/29th depending on time zone if it's the 28th in the US
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I like this logic. Thanks for the reassurance.

I am concerned that the 28th is a Tuesday and there is that weird pattern where Directs are all on the same weekday for a year.
 
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John Omaha said:
I think it mostly has to do with the file size. Atlus doesn't want to release a physical game that requires a partial download, but also doesn't want to pay for a 32 GB cartridge that could fit Royal.
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Can't they just work on reducing file size? P5 vanilla is 16GB on PS3 and 18GB on PS4.
 
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Me suena tu madre
😝

algunos dichos sí me tienen mas perdido que un pedo
 
pld said:
I hope that not all surprises from the Direct have been leaked. It's always nice to have one.
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There’s always some sort of surprise, but if there’s ever gonna be a direct without one, it’d be this one. Xenoblade, Splatoon, Mario + Rabbids, Bayonetta, and Zelda will all likely get spotlights, possibly Pokémon as well, so it’s hard to imagine we’ll be getting a ton of new announcements. Those few slots could easily get sucked up by Metroid Prime HD, Fire Emblem, and the Zelda remasters.
 
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It won’t happen, but it’d be rad if this Direct was an hour long if it was just that jam packed with announcements and trailers.
 
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So we’re definitely reading Nate’s tweet as definitive, right? Hard to imagine he’d tweet that if he hadn’t heard something to that effect.
MondoMega said:
Also the date is out there in certain circles. It’s an Ubisoft game, so leaks really shouldn’t be much of a surprise, lol. I won’t be the one to say it but it’ll definitely publicly leak before they get to reveal it.


It isn’t.
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Like discord circles or do I just have the wrong friends?
 
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Kinda wonder if we’re gonna get a one-off differently branded showcase like “Nintendo Switch Spotlight 2017”

Something about this direct just feels different idk
 
Emily said:
Here is what I can share about the new Fire Emblem game.

  • Upcoming Fire Emblem is a new game, not a remake. Brand new story.
  • Collaboration between Intelligent Systems, Koei Tecmo and Gust (division of Koei Tecmo Holdings).
  • Gust heavily assisted with the visuals / graphics. Graphics are an improvement over "Three Houses".
  • Originally intended as an anniversary game to celebrate FE's 30th anniversary. The game has been finished for over a year.
  • Main character (main lord) has strange red and blue hair. His mother is a dragon.
  • New "Emblems" gimmick allows players to summon "FE characters from the past" for your squad.

I don't plan to share any more details about this game.

Many months ago, @NateDrake teased about "red and blue".
Everything Nate has teased about the upcoming Fire Emblem game has been accurate.
Please be kind to Nate. His information is good, and he cares about the Nintendo fan community.
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This is interesting. I’m a bit worried about the Emblems part but we have to see how it’s implemented.
 
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We're going to be seeing more intentional and unintentional leaks from now on. That's the problem when Direct dates leak so early compared to when they are supposed to air. That means that there are a lot of people with knowledge of its contents already, and also stores end up accidentally leaking unannounced games too.
 
So FE: Awakening had the spotpass units from the series history, you would get a character to pop up on the World Map and they would come with a team to battle that often reflect their teammates in their game (for exmaple Lyn might come with two cavalry, a bowman, a pegasus knight to represent the Lyndis League). Then Fates had some expy characters with Rhajat (Tharja), Caeldori (Cordelia) and Asugi (Gaius) as well as actual returning characters (Inigo, Owain and Severa with new names). They also had amiibo characters show up who could be recruited which I think SOV did as well.

So this idea about a FE with summonable returning characters isn't too wild to me, it's more about how much of a focus it gets and whether these crossover characters interact like the first Fire Emblem Warriors.
 
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ReyVGM said:
We're going to be seeing more intentional and unintentional leaks from now on. That's the problem when Direct dates leak so early compared to when they are supposed to air. That means that there are a lot of people with knowledge of its contents already, and also stores end up accidentally leaking unannounced games too.
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Random thought: Do we think it's possible that, many months ago when E3 was still theoretically happening, the Nintendo Direct was originally going to be tomorrow, as usual? And some games were penciled in to be announced/dropped on that day as a result? I wonder if some things like the Tactics Ogre Remaster appearing around now in the PSN store is some kind of vestigial date-match of a reveal in the Direct that's now taking place two weeks later and someone somewhere forgot to update the backend or something like that (and I wonder if we'll see more of the this week). Or, was E3 never a thing at all even theoretically and I'm PDOOMA'ing this?

It at least makes some logical sense in my head, but then again I am tired and about to go to bed.
 
SammyJ9 said:
Random thought: Do we think it's possible that, many months ago when E3 was still theoretically happening, the Nintendo Direct was originally going to be tomorrow, as usual? And some games were penciled in to be announced/dropped on that day as a result? I wonder if some things like the Tactics Ogre Remaster appearing around now in the PSN store is some kind of vestigial date-match of a reveal in the Direct that's now taking place two weeks later and someone somewhere forgot to update the backend or something like that (and I wonder if we'll see more of the this week). Or, was E3 never a thing at all even theoretically and I'm PDOOMA'ing this?

It at least makes some logical sense in my head, but then again I am tired and about to go to bed.
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Probably not, these kinds of conferences require lots of contracts signed
 
I'm still curious about the planned dating for this new FE game. Sounds like it was planned for a 2020 launch at one point, was that before Three Houses was set for 2019? Did they plan on releasing them 1 year apart? Did they develop them simultaneously?
 
If Persona 5 Royal ends up skipping Switch that would suck, but as I platinumed the PS4 version last year it wouldn’t be a big deal for me personally.

At this point I’m more interested in P4G and P3P; I’d love for those to get portable
 
coolcam52 said:
I'm still curious about the planned dating for this new FE game. Sounds like it was planned for a 2020 launch at one point, was that before Three Houses was set for 2019? Did they plan on releasing them 1 year apart? Did they develop them simultaneously?
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30th anniversary celebration stuff lasted well into 2021. Doubt this was planned for a release in 2020, an announcement at most.
 
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ReyVGM said:
We're going to be seeing more intentional and unintentional leaks from now on. That's the problem when Direct dates leak so early compared to when they are supposed to air. That means that there are a lot of people with knowledge of its contents already, and also stores end up accidentally leaking unannounced games too.
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yeah by the time this direct airs, we'll probably know everything about it. nice going, nintendo.
 
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Joe said:
I'm going to be perfectly honest: I don't understand all the impatience and anxiety around BotW 2. We got footage, a release window, and some ideas of new mechanics and the story, which is way, way more than what you can say for Metroid Prime 4. Bayonetta 3 also left people in the dark for way longer than BotW 2 did and I didn't see people panic nearly as much then as they do over BotW 2. I'm confident BotW 2 is in good shape and we'll see more of it when Nintendo is ready to show it off.
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I think it's a matter of audience size and release history. Bayonetta 1 and 2 didn't break 2 million sales, so although there's obviously people awaiting that game, when you compare that to Breath of the Wild's 25 million (!!) I think it's clear why Zelda's release is more vocally anticipated.

Metroid has a large mindshare among fans but doesn't have as large an audience as Zelda has either. And frankly there were many years of impatience and anxiety around Metroid. The reason why that's improved is because Nintendo's most recent big holiday release was Metroid Dread (2021), a critically acclaimed return to form.

Meanwhile, Zelda's most recent new mainline release was... Breath of the Wild (2017).
 
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