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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST3| Speculate Chronicles 3

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Awesomegames23 said:
The cost of a Direct seems like a very small hurdle and every company puts money into advertising, I don’t think money/time is a factor here. The September Direct/Switch Pro speculated reveal seems like the culprit to me.
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As far as we know producing Directs is more time consuming then one might think
 
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Sir. Stop using me as a source.
 
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chocolate_supra said:
Someone asks if they should read a manga or play a game, and a Famiboards user suggests they play the game.

...truly this forum is lost
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Yeah seriously. Fuck Famiboards. We should start our own gaming forum where folks don't play games. Destroys the vibes.
 
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Ibrahim said:
The title of this thread is keep evolving like a god damn Pokemon
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Maybe Furakawa considers Nintendo Directs an Iwata-thing, and he's moving away from them to do his own thing. Frankly they've been shit from pretty much when he took over, and I stopped getting hyped for them months ago. And in principle it's fine. I just wish his own thing wasn't the random Twitter drops that he seemingly took with him from The Pokemon Company.
 
Now that it is becoming increasingly likely that Nintendo is launching Drake in 2023, I'm not really seeing a good argument for a pro over a successor.
Sony has already shown you can do a successor and still have cross gen support, most of their games have still released on the PS4.
To me doing a pro in 2023 instead of a successor with cross gen support only does three things
1)Makes Drake sell a lot less hardware because most switch owners don't care about games resolution, as long as they can play them.
2)Holds back Nintendo's big 25+ million sellers because they have to be able to run on the 2015 switch hardware.
3)Forces Nintendo to stretch this generation out until 2025 if not 2026. Whether you like to admit it or not sales have been slowing down rapidly, and while they're still good now they probably wont be in 2024 without a new console.

Whereas with a sequel with cross gen support, the only potential negative is that the profit margin on hardware specifically drops. But Nintendo is making such a ludicrous amount of profit right now that I hardly see this as a concern, and they're gonna have to bite that bullet eventually no matter what.
 
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spekkeh said:
Maybe Furakawa considers Nintendo Directs an Iwata-thing, and he's moving away from them to do his own thing. Frankly they've been shit from pretty much when he took over, and I stopped getting hyped for them months ago. And in principle it's fine. I just wish his own thing wasn't the random Twitter drops that he seemingly took with him from The Pokemon Company.
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Please let's not do the "Direct are over" narrative.

Not again
 
spekkeh said:
Maybe Furakawa considers Nintendo Directs an Iwata-thing, and he's moving away from them to do his own thing. Frankly they've been shit from pretty much when he took over, and I stopped getting hyped for them months ago. And in principle it's fine. I just wish his own thing wasn't the random Twitter drops that he seemingly took with him from The Pokemon Company.
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Furukawa took over in June of 2018... If he wanted to get rid of Directs he would've done so a long time ago.
Directs aren't going away, relax. We had one like 5 months ago, wait for September.
 
spekkeh said:
Maybe Furakawa considers Nintendo Directs an Iwata-thing, and he's moving away from them to do his own thing. Frankly they've been shit from pretty much when he took over, and I stopped getting hyped for them months ago. And in principle it's fine. I just wish his own thing wasn't the random Twitter drops that he seemingly took with him from The Pokemon Company.
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Furukawa isn't stupid. He knows directs are a huge marketing tool. Nintendo is not going to give that up, ever.
 
spekkeh said:
Maybe Furakawa considers Nintendo Directs an Iwata-thing, and he's moving away from them to do his own thing. Frankly they've been shit from pretty much when he took over, and I stopped getting hyped for them months ago. And in principle it's fine. I just wish his own thing wasn't the random Twitter drops that he seemingly took with him from The Pokemon Company.
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Is this parody?

February's Direct was a banger, and a Mini Partner Showcase had two announcements I've literally been waiting for since the Switch launched.

Content aside, the big boy Direct from February has over 5 million views on youtube. They remain an effective way to get commercials in front of many, many eyes. Not to mention trend on social media from announcement to airdate. They are a marketing firm's wet dream.
 
So I guess they really built a treehouse set only for Live a live, what a strange day for all the workers "let's show a game for 30 minutes and then let's go home"
 
spekkeh said:
Maybe Furakawa considers Nintendo Directs an Iwata-thing, and he's moving away from them to do his own thing. Frankly they've been shit from pretty much when he took over, and I stopped getting hyped for them months ago. And in principle it's fine. I just wish his own thing wasn't the random Twitter drops that he seemingly took with him from The Pokemon Company.
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This makes no sense. I’m also baffled by people acting like they weren’t just as insufferable with Iwata’s Directs as they are now or that somehow those Directs were leagues better.
 
spekkeh said:
Maybe Furakawa considers Nintendo Directs an Iwata-thing, and he's moving away from them to do his own thing. Frankly they've been shit from pretty much when he took over, and I stopped getting hyped for them months ago. And in principle it's fine. I just wish his own thing wasn't the random Twitter drops that he seemingly took with him from The Pokemon Company.
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Yeah let's stop with the conspiracy theories especially after we had 2 smaller directs last month and a bigger direct in february
 
If Drake is a successor then the lack of directs right now makes sense, because they're saving some key games to announce until they've shown the hardware. If, for example, 3D Mario is exclusive to Drake, they cant really show 3D Mario before showing the Drake first.
 
"Directs are over" talk and "Pro vs Successor" talk on the same damn page when everyone should be poyo'ing their asses off 😠
 
BobNintendofan said:
If Drake is a successor then the lack of directs right now makes sense, because they're saving some key games to announce until they've shown the hardware. If, for example, 3D Mario is exclusive to Drake, they cant really show 3D Mario before showing the Drake first.
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I do believe that hardware next year is causing the lack of big announcements this Summer. Can't really show the games how they would like if the hardware is not announced yet.

Nintendo is walking a tight rope to not hurt sales of current Switch.
 
not to belabor the point but a fervent yikes at certain comments, really not thrilled to have read that here today
 
E3 was cancelled and so they don't feel the need to do a summer direct. That's it. Anyway, the Kirby game looks cute. Not for me, but good is see HAL going in on the 3D.
 
BobNintendofan said:
This is really stretching it, considering they did in fact have a direct. They just didn't show first party games, probably because they don't have a lot of first party games to show in a direct, just some smaller things to drop on twitter.
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We had plenty of Directs with the first party updates and announcements being scarce like E3 2018.
 
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The Kirby game looks cool. I could see myself playing it if it has matchmaking.

Looking ahead to the rest of the year, my Switch purchases are going to be Pokemon, Metroid Prime if that's real, and this Kirby game unless it's FTP or included on NSO. That's pretty freaking bleak. Thank god for my backlog..
 
I didn't mean to imply that Directs were fully over, I meant that we're not getting the same frequency as before and quite clearly some announcements are not being saved up for Directs anymore either. Just wanted to comment on how I felt Directs have been in a decline since the new CEO took over. Anyway, feel free to disagree.

Then again, I also believe this is one of the main current culprits.

Soralink91 said:
I do believe that hardware next year is causing the lack of big announcements this Summer. Can't really show the games how they would like if the hardware is not announced yet.

Nintendo is walking a tight rope to not hurt sales of current Switch.
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They could have easily filled a Direct with games that we know of should release soon. Kirby now, updates on Splatoon and Xenoblade, Pokemon, Mario Kart courses, Bayonetta, Metroid Prime Remaster, BOTW. Maybe Fire Emblem, certainly the Musou just released. Combine that with the partner direct, and you have a hype filled hour long mega Direct.

Instead what we see is the partner direct spun off, small Directs for Xenoblade and I'm sure Splatoon. Kirby and fire Emblem musou twitter dropped. And not enough really to fill another direct based on the things we can expect. This could be explained by two things:

1. Nintendo management is not as interested anymore in combining their first party games in a large direct.
2. Some games like BOTW, MPR, Bayonetta, are purposely held back because they're part of a next gen blowout.

Honestly, I think it's both these things.
 
Directs are absolutely not over, and honestly I wouldn't even say we're at the point where a summer Direct is entirely ruled out, but I'd be shocked if we weren't back to the normal schedule by September.

That said, I can't entirely shake the feeling that they're clearing a bunch of more minor announcements to make way for an imminent hardware showcase. There's probably a reason Nintendo is acting so weird right now, and that remains one of the more straightforward explanations.
 
We've had a consistent schedule of Directs going back all the way to 2017, only times they veered from that is in 2020 due to COVID and this year no June Direct because E3 got cancelled
 
Give us what we want Nintendo.

Jesus Christ.

We just want to see the Horse host of the 1-2 switch sequel!

We need memes. We running out
 
spekkeh said:
I didn't mean to imply that Directs were fully over, I meant that we're not getting the same frequency as before and quite clearly some announcements are not being saved up for Directs anymore either. Just wanted to comment on how I felt Directs have been in a decline since the new CEO took over. Anyway, feel free to disagree.

Then again, I also believe this is one of the main current culprits.


They could have easily filled a Direct with games that we know of should release soon. Kirby now, updates on Splatoon and Xenoblade, Pokemon, Mario Kart courses, Bayonetta, Metroid Prime Remaster, BOTW. Maybe Fire Emblem, certainly the Musou just released. Combine that with the partner direct, and you have a hype filled hour long mega Direct.

Instead what we see is the partner direct spun off, small Directs for Xenoblade and I'm sure Splatoon. Kirby and fire Emblem musou twitter dropped. And not enough really to fill another direct based on the things we can expect. This could be explained by two things:

1. Nintendo management is not as interested anymore in combining their first party games in a large direct.
2. Some games like BOTW, MPR, Bayonetta, are purposely held back because they're part of a next gen blowout.

Honestly, I think it's both these things.
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For BotW specifically I think they're just going to give it its own direct. Same thing with Splatoon. And without BotW and Splatoon, and potentially holding back other games for a drake announcement I can easily see them not having enough to run a direct right now.
 
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spekkeh said:
Maybe Furakawa considers Nintendo Directs an Iwata-thing, and he's moving away from them to do his own thing. Frankly they've been shit from pretty much when he took over, and I stopped getting hyped for them months ago. And in principle it's fine. I just wish his own thing wasn't the random Twitter drops that he seemingly took with him from The Pokemon Company.
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SirShorse said:
We've had a consistent schedule of Directs going back all the way to 2017, only times they veered from that is in 2020 due to COVID and this year no June Direct because E3 got cancelled
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E3 being cancelled, even if we assume a full on grudge with Geoff, doesn't really explain the weirdness. They can and do host Directs without a broader event like E3 all the time.
 
spekkeh said:
Maybe Furakawa considers Nintendo Directs an Iwata-thing, and he's moving away from them to do his own thing. Frankly they've been shit from pretty much when he took over, and I stopped getting hyped for them months ago. And in principle it's fine. I just wish his own thing wasn't the random Twitter drops that he seemingly took with him from The Pokemon Company.
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over 5 years into a console and new game announcements slow down
Well guess which other consoles this happened to?
Yeah all of them, every single one. It's normal because they have to make games for the new console, but cant show them until the new console is unveiled. It literally happens every time. But this time everyone is convinced we aren't getting a new console until 9 years into the console's life (why?) so everyone acts confused and bewildered by a normal trend.
 
BobNintendofan said:
over 5 years into a console and new game announcements slow down
Well guess which other consoles this happened to?
Yeah all of them, every single one. It's normal because they have to make games for the new console, but cant show them until the new console is unveiled. It literally happens every time. But this time everyone is convinced we aren't getting a new console until 9 years into the console's life (why?) so everyone acts confused and bewildered by a normal trend.
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The previous direct was one of the biggest in terms of quantity of new announcements. It’s not like we’ve been in a particularly long drought.
 
BobNintendofan said:
over 5 years into a console and new game announcements slow down
Well guess which other consoles this happened to?
Yeah all of them, every single one. It's normal because they have to make games for the new console, but cant show them until the new console is unveiled. It literally happens every time. But this time everyone is convinced we aren't getting a new console until 9 years into the console's life (why?) so everyone acts confused and bewildered by a normal trend.
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because Furukawa said time and time again that they expect to support the Switch for longer then just 5-6 years.
 
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BobNintendofan said:
over 5 years into a console and new game announcements slow down
Well guess which other consoles this happened to?
Yeah all of them, every single one. It's normal because they have to make games for the new console, but cant show them until the new console is unveiled. It literally happens every time. But this time everyone is convinced we aren't getting a new console until 9 years into the console's life (why?) so everyone acts confused and bewildered by a normal trend.
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We're literally getting several major games this year and we got a giant game coming next Spring. Game announcements haven't slowed down. Chill out.
 
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