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News Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase announced for June 28th

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Skies said:
Yeah those have been basically confirmed by previous insider posts. Persona 5 is probably the biggest one in question.
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Well the thing is, I'm not sure when those were confirmed

The standout from that tweet for me is Nier, but I think the "game from 2018" hint was out there at that point and I do remember some people guessing Nier for that
 
Hoping for any of the following...

Mario + Rabbids 2
GoldenEye
Tomb Raider isometric games
Tomb Raider reboot trilogy
Arkham collection
Portal collection
Persona 3/4/5
More Ace Attorney
 
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As someone who only uses their Switch for third-party games if they're JRPGs or indies that are released day-and-date with other platforms, I'm still kinda excited for this Direct. The last ones had a lot of interesting stuff I cared about, like Melody of Memory, Fuser, and the SaGa Collection. I'm sure I'm forgetting bigger (for me personally) announcements too.
 
9-Volt said:
Yeah, most famously Immortals Fenyx Rising and Tales of Vesperia. Two Point Hospital has doubled what it sold on PS+Xbox combined, lol
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Ok, it's just weird how you can say "most 3rd party games" when we don't really ever get platforms splits. And when we do get it, it's region based, as in how games are doing in certain countries like UK and US and so on, but we never really get platform split for most games so it's weird to say 3rd party games sell best on Switch when pubs and devs don't give out the platform splits.

Last platform split I read was Stardew Valley which was PC > Console if I recall correctly. 20 million where 13 is on PC.
 
NabiscoFelt said:
I feel like people overestimate how much others are willing to get a whole other console to play a game. Or people who might not be interested in a game on a stationary console but would be if the game was portable

Like, I'm really interested in Persona 5 R, and have been for a while, but I haven't played it yet since

A. Never got a PS4 and couldn't grab a PS5

B. I'd have never finished a game like that on a stationary console anyways
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Yup, for some of us it's difficult to make time for gaming on home consoles which is why the portable nature of handhelds is so alluring. I love RPGs but the length of this genre makes it difficult for me to make any meaningful progress on home consoles. Meanwhile on handhelds I can take out my system whenever I have free time and complete a mission or two before going back to what I was doing before.
 
NabiscoFelt said:
Well the thing is, I'm not sure when those were confirmed

The standout from that tweet for me is Nier, but I think the "game from 2018" hint was out there at that point and I do remember some people guessing Nier for that
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That same guy who posted about the 2018 game later posted a gif that heavily suggested Nier Automata. He is also the one that stated Persona will be there.

M&R2 is a given considering the gameplay showcase on the 29th.
 
bellydrum said:
Wheres this Nier confidence coming from? I wanna be confident!!
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I'm not gonna try to go back and find it all when the thread is moving this fast, but someone who is apparently reliable said a new game was coming that was originally 2017-18, and that he wouldn't say what it was but he'd soon post an image that everyone would recognize. And then a little while later posted a picture of Yoko Taro in his mask.

1UP inc. said:
reggie feels anime
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fuckin lol
 
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Terraforce said:
I actually didn't realize that. But you're arguing something entirely different from what I was proposing initially.
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I'm saying that the premise of your argument ("Bayonetta 3 can be part of a Partner Direct because it's not a first party game") is flawed.

I don't know if it will be featured in the Direct because I don't think Nintendo has rules that are set in stone about which games can be part of these. But if there is a rule ("no first party games in Partner Directs") then Bayonetta 3 wouldn't be featured in a Partner Showcase, that's all.
 
Scrawnton said:
Said it before but if Mario + Rabbids releases in (let’s say October), then I doubt we have any more surprises for this year in regards to first party. Nintendo probably views Splatoon 3 (sept), Mario + Rabbids (Oct) and Pokémon (nov) as a rock solid fal line up. Toss Advanced Wars out in December and Nintendo is set (from their point of view).
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It would be funny if Advance Wars got pushed to December. Means it went full circle considering it was initially supposed to release December of last year.
 
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Two minutes of Tactics Ogre, twenty-three minutes of ports of games I've probably already played
mazi said:
automata being ported without replicant would be such a weird move
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It makes sense because Automata is an amazing game while Replicant... not so much
 
As someone who only play third-party on PC/PS5 that's not a direct for me.

Though I hope we have Silksong release date. Will check it out later.
 
I just wanted to hear about the next Fire Emblem 😔

It can still be a good presentation, but I'm not hopeful that the new game announcements that would get me really excited have much of a chance to show up. A new Ace Attorney or Mega Man would be as exciting as any first-party announcement in a general direct could be.
 
Yeah, I know I'm coming from a privileged perspective since I'm able to own a Switch and Xbox, but 3rd party on Switch generally does so little for me because of game pass. Can't get excited about Automata when it's been on Game Pass for like 2+ years. But Mario + Rabbids and any surprises have my interest
 
NabiscoFelt said:
I feel like people overestimate how much others are willing to get a whole other console to play a game. Or people who might not be interested in a game on a stationary console but would be if the game was portable

Like, I'm really interested in Persona 5 R, and have been for a while, but I haven't played it yet since

A. Never got a PS4 and couldn't grab a PS5

B. I'd have never finished a game like that on a stationary console anyways
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I did a poll related to this (with analysis included in my link) and I was really surprised at how few people answered the poll with the option about how they have other platforms for third party games. I think a lot of people making this assumption, including myself from before I held the poll, are doing so because for literal decades "just go buy x platform if it has a few games you want" was the thought process of most enthusiasts on a forum like this. But that was prior to both the Switch's portability being such a huge draw and prior to ecosystems making people more locked in to a given platform.
 
Skies said:
That same guy who posted about the 2018 game later posted a gif that heavily suggested Nier Automata. He is also the one that stated Persona will be there.

M&R2 is a given considering the gameplay showcase on the 29th.
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Right, I'm aware of all that, but the GIF that hints at Nier was posted two days after that Syluxhunter tweet. Not sure when the interview was posted but they'd have to be going solely off the 2018 hint if it was after that interview

Again, like I said the tweet is most likely correct, I'm just trying to figure out if the guy could've had legit info or if it was all just reasonable guesses (I don't think it was the ol' "post a bunch and delete fake info" trick, that only works with new accounts that no one hears of before the events)
 
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39Subrosia said:
I just wanted to hear about the next Fire Emblem 😔

It can still be a good presentation, but I'm not hopeful that the new game announcements that would get me really excited have much of a chance to show up. A new Ace Attorney or Mega Man would be as exciting as any first-party announcement in a general direct could be.
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Good news, the next Fire Emblem just came out three days ago ;)
 
It doesn't make sense to me to reveal the Succ in July/Aug/Sept if it's not releasing until March 2023, and it's very hard to imagine releasing in 2022 when Zelda has been pushed to Spring. What would they launch with? It can't be a new Mario game, with BotW2 following so closely behind. In 2017, Mario and Zelda were separated by 8 months. Plus that would put 2 Mario games in the same Holiday season.
 
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GamerJM said:
Expected. I'm mostly curious what's gonna be happening with Fire Emblem then. I would expect a Summer (July or August) Direct at some point because of it. Otherwise there are four possibilities, all of which I would have said are very very unlikely a couple weeks ago:

-The Fire Emblem leaks were real and it is treated as a part of this because it's developed in collaboration with KT and Gust. I'm a huge doubter on this one. Three Houses was treated like an internal first-party title despite all the help KT provided. We didn't even know KT provided that much help until the game released and someone looked through the credits iirc.

-The Fire Emblem leaks were real but they're giving it maximum three months time of marketing between September and December. Idk, that just seems like an extremely short range of time. It's not unprecedented, but I thought they usually like to do four for a release that significant. It would mean they'd give it less than Three Hopes.

-The Fire Emblem leaks were real, but the part about it hitting 2022 was not. I guess this wouldn't be that unusual at all, stuff gets moved around a lot. It would mean that either the FE4 remake was also moved, or they're giving us two mainline games in one year (which they have done before for US release schedules in 2005 with Sacred Stones and Path of Radiance, but that was a long time ago when games had more condensed release schedules and Nintendo also seemed less concerned with games cannibalizing each other).

-Fire Emblem leaks, both from the Discord server and NateDrake, were all wrong. There is no FE. There never was. KT and Gust were busy with other projects. Intelligent Systems put all their resources towards Paper Mario. The screenshots were doctored or taken from some mobile knock-off. Nate got his wires crossed somewhere. This is the most unlikely, the most outlandish of them all. If this were true then the fake screenshots would be legendary. I cannot stress just how unlikely this possibility is. I might as well not list it. The only reason I did is because it is still technically a possibility with the knowledge we have.
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I'm leaning toward the third option personally. Besides, I recall someone (Nate?) saying that before 2022 fiscal year (so up to April 2023) was very likely, but 2022 calendar was uncertain. I think 2022 is extremely unlikely now, but early 2023 is very possible. Well, if we get any news before October anyway.
 
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