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News Nintendo Direct announced for September 13th (7 AM PT, 10 AM ET, 3 PM BST, 4 PM CEST)

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Christo750 said:
I feel like Nintendo usually wants a game of their own next to Pokemon for November. it was Luigi's Mansion in 2019, Smash in 2018, Mario Odyssey in 2017. I'm surprised we didn't see anything from them for that time frame.
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Definitely, pretty strange they didn't show anything for Fall. My money is on Zelda remasters via Twitter in the next month or two - they're probably saving Metroid for MP4 marketing cycle unfortunately.
 
Christo750 said:
I feel like Nintendo usually wants a game of their own next to Pokemon for November. it was Luigi's Mansion in 2019, Smash in 2018, Mario Odyssey in 2017. I'm surprised we didn't see anything from them for that time frame.
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they always do, its actually bizarre that people legit forget this every year.
 
Mr Doggo said:
Yeah but see that's the problem. Dread, in an audience that very much loves jrpgs still managed to outsell or sell similarly the popular jrpgs of the system such as xenoblade and fire emblem. And lets be real, why wouldn't they end with metroid if they ended a direct with xenoblade lol.
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses has gone on to sell 4 million copies; its sales are comparable to Dread. We'll also have to wait and see how Xenoblade Chronicles 3 does, but it's not true to pretend that Dread is noticeably bigger commercially, especially versus Three Houses.
Thunder84 said:
Neither Theatrhythm or Octopath II are exclusive.
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Amazing that the morning has been so long and full of RPGs I already forgot Octopath 2 leaked for Steam before it was announced, even though I predicted the announcement and expected it to be in the Direct.
 
I’m sure it’s been said already, but this Direct felt very focused on the Japanese market, which has a big trade show this week. Things like Metroid (which doesn’t do well there) can always come later in a tweet.

Very clear that they are holding software for the next switch, and the next switch will be backwards compatible.

Zelda looks great. Just enough to wet our beaks until a blowout next year.
 
Another thing that I noticed is that despite Square being heavily featured here, there was no mention of the FF Pixel Remasters.

I wonder if they're going to be come at all, now seemed like a really time for them to show up.
 
Pikmin 4, Kirby, amd the N64 games were the only things that particularly interested me. The Direct just wasn't to my tastes, but that's fine. There's always next time
 
Skittzo said:
To be fair, announcing just 1 remaster instead of 3 is preferable to me. I'm not sure why everyone is so upset that there weren't more older games announced here.
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they didn't announce the correct remasters basically. metroid and zelda are all that exists for a good chunk of the forum so it's not that shocking of a reaction.
 
I think people need to realise though that the lead up to this Direct was headlined by ‘Zelda Blowout’ key to this was the WW/TP HD Remasters were mentioned by Jeff Grubb and his partner on their podcast.

Jeff Grubb also mentioned Metroid Prime Remaster coming this holiday

When these were the big things leading into this Direct you can see why people are disappointed. Are these games real? I personally don’t know what to believe but I would very much like them to be.

In terms of first party, this wasn’t great, Pikmin 4 was great to have re-confirmed but they showed nothing of it. Zelda finally got a date but we only got 10 seconds of new actual footage if that. Yet another Fire Emblem and another Kirby which is fine for those that like them. Mario Strikers update still not addressing the core problem with the game (lack of modes) is also disappointing. Coming off the fact they skipped a general at E3 and (maybe this is our fault) I think this should have been a bigger Direct in terms of reveals than what we got.
 
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9-Volt said:
Really? A link to that please? Tweet didn't mention multiplayer but I assumed so.
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GoldenEye 007 Coming To Nintendo Switch Online & Xbox Game Pass | James Bond 007

The iconic Bond video game GoldenEye 007 is to be released for Nintendo Switch Online and Xbox Game Pass. As first announced during the latest Nintendo Direct broadcast, the Nintendo 64 classic is coming soon to the console’s Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Switch Online service. Microsoft also confirmed...
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Xbox version has wide screen and improved controls, but no online. It's also free if you own a (digital?) copy of Rare Replay. Of course mine is retail...

NSO gets online play.

Eh...I honestly wish one of them just got the best version since I have both consoles. This isn't ideal at all.
 
Christo750 said:
I feel like Nintendo usually wants a game of their own next to Pokemon for November. it was Luigi's Mansion in 2019, Smash in 2018, Mario Odyssey in 2017. I'm surprised we didn't see anything from them for that time frame.
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There is a major, exclusive Mario title sat in October with Bayonetta 3 coming the week after. Sparks of Hope might be Ubisoft, but it's still a Mario game that's likely going to shift 5 to 10 million copies, coming a month after an EPD franchise (Splatoon 3) which has likely cleared 5 million on the launch weekend.

There's no other title because Nintendo already have the big sellers lined up, even if they haven't made Sparks of Hope themselves.
 
KingOnion said:
Dude, they’re making educated guesses and chasing the high of the one time they got something right. Not putting their neck out there.

Predicting a direct in September isn’t too hard considering there has consistently been a September direct and it’s right before TGS. Otherwise, ‘insiders’ are just hurting the reception of these announcements from hardcore fans since the set false expectations.
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I think there is a difference between clout chasers and insiders who are also active in the videogame industry/scene in some way. But like with everything there are always bad actors that find some footing on small news outlets (Markomaro, SamusHunter)

Nintendo is somehow plugging leaks more and more efficiently. So what we hear might actually have been true at one point but change later, the information is dated or was simply intentionaly shared by Nintendo to create confusion or to find the source of the leaks.

Insiders DO have to stick their neck out in the sense that they put their reputation on the line with what they share beyond their usual offering of content.
 
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I gotta say. They announced the Golden Eye game exactly how I envisioned a while back lol.

Like the start up screen and everything.

I was really happy even if I didn’t care much for the n64 game.
 
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MisterSpo said:
Fire Emblem: Three Houses has gone on to sell 4 million copies; its sales are comparable to Dread. We'll also have to wait and see how Xenoblade Chronicles 3 does, but it's not true to pretend that Dread is noticeably bigger commercially, especially versus Three Houses.

Amazing that the morning has been so long and full of RPGs I already forgot Octopath 2 leaked for Steam before it was announced, even though I predicted the announcement and expected it to be in the Direct.
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses has gone on to sell 4 million copies; (3 years after launch) its very much comparable to dread, and if that isnt the case why are we saying dread isnt larger than xenoblade considering it had an opening that was twice as large as xenoblade 2's opening? And while xeno3 selling better than 2 will be something easy to predict, it would need to be a huge change for it to outsell dread like that.
 
I didn't believe any of the rumours for a minute but that was just not for me sadly.

I find a lot of JRPGs tedious, rote, overwrought, melodramatic and samey, visually. We had a whole bunch of them, and a whole bunch with a farming twist. Like.. did Nintendo decide there was a theme for September?

I'm astounded Nintendo have allowed themselves to get such a poor end of the bargain with regards to GoldenEye. People are excited now, but when the Xbox version releases, that is the only version a lot of people (including myself) are going to care about.

I'm not excited about games like RE2 and Village that are cloud only and can be played on other consoles for a fraction of the price. I'm not excited about the Tales port or the update to Crisis Core, a remaster of a PSP game from 2007. Out of 8 new N64 NSO releases, 5 of them are Mario Party and Pokemon Colleseum games.

The biggest crime of the direct for me is lack of diversity, the pacing and the nonsensical nature of some of it... why bring Miyamoto out to mention the Mario movie but not show even an image to tease anything? Why mention the new Hollywood park if you have nothing to say about it? Why announce Pikmin without a proper trailer or gameplay? Why is the Zelda trailer effectively a logo reveal?

I thought it was an awful waste of 40 minutes, personally. Respect that other people loved a lot of it, but it just wasn't for me.
 
Mr Doggo said:
Fire Emblem: Three Houses has gone on to sell 4 million copies; (3 years after launch) its very much comparable to dread, and if that isnt the case why are we saying dread isnt larger than xenoblade considering it had an opening that was twice as large as xenoblade 2? And while xeno3 selling better than 2 will be something easy to predict, it would need to be a huge change for it to outsell dread like that.
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I've lost track of what the discussion is here, and maybe I made my point poorly: my point was more than Metroid and Fire Emblem especially on Switch so far occupy a similar sales level and it's not crazy that Xenoblade joins them. Looking back, I don't think I expressed that effectively at all.
 
Think I'm gonna settle on an A- for this direct. Lots of stuff I absolutely cannot wait for (Fire Emblem Engage, Octopath Traveler II, TotK, Rain Code) and some other pleasant surprises as well (Mario Party on NSO, Return to Dreamland Deluxe, Pikmin 4, etc).

Pacing wasn't great, but I'm still pretty content overall. Liked it more than all of last year's directs, at the very least.
 
6/10 direct. Some great content, but the presentation itself was so bad. Pikmin 4 and Tears of the Kingdom reveals felt obligatory instead of inspired and exciting, wtf? No Metroid crushed me, and even Zelda ports would've softened the blow. And I love Pikmin and Zelda, so the fact that both showed here and this was still a very weak direct is shocking. Fire Emblem looked pretty good but that's never a day 1 for me, either. NSO was nice, the Goldeneye situation is hilarious lol

We wait for Jan/Feb for the Drake reveal. You can tell they're holding back.
 
Also just want to recognize that basic NSO sub has gotten next to nothing this year, they're really pushing people towards the Expansion Pack.
 
I'm starting to think that if Nintendo is really holding back so many Switch games for Drake, that means Drake is actually just a better Switch and not a new-gen/successor. Why hold back Switch games for a new console if that console has its own exclusive titles? A new gen exclusive title would be much more interesting that an improved old-gen title.

At the same time, at this point I think Drake HAS to be a successor, so it's very possible that they are not holding back any games and this is just a bad time for first party Nintendo games.
 
MagiCarbo said:
Did anybody else notice how early this Direct aired. Most main Directs stream at 6 p.m. in the west, but I guess they wanted to avoid overshadowing tonight's State of Play, which took that time slot.
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How would they know and why would they care?
 
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I started doubting Prime for this direct when Emily had the “why does prime remaster have to be announced in a direct, it can be dropped on Twitter” comment lol

Think Grubb just took the L on it being a holiday release I guess
 
I really liked the direct. I've always said that Fire Emblem alone would make a Direct for me and this delivered.

Fire Emblem, Theatrhythm, Octopath II, Zelda getting dated, new game from the DanganRonpa team, and Pikmin 4 are all very notable announcements that I didn't expect. Early 2023 is already shaping up to be very damn strong.

That being said, it is.....bizarrely low on 2022 announcements, and it certainly wasn't what I expected. I liked it more than what I expected given that of the three rumored Gamecube remasters, Twilight Princess would have been the only one I'd ever buy, and even that I can just play on Wii U instead. So basically, not what I expected, but I ain't complaining :p. I'm honestly probably more of a JRPG fan than a Nintendo fan outside of a few series (Smash/Zelda/Pokemon/Fire Emblem), though, so take that as you will.
 
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6/10 direct. Some great content, but the presentation itself was so bad. Pikmin 4 and Tears of the Kingdom reveals felt obligatory instead of inspired and exciting, wtf? No Metroid crushed me, and even Zelda ports would've softened the blow. And I love Pikmin and Zelda, so the fact that both showed here and this was still a very weak direct is shocking. Fire Emblem looked pretty good but that's never a day 1 for me, either. NSO was nice, the Goldeneye situation is hilarious lol

We wait for Jan/Feb for the Drake reveal. You can tell they're holding back.
 
-Fire Emblam taking a step back towards Fates after Three Houses course corrected
-NSO was just N64
-Everything was Harvest Moon
-unnecessary Pikmin Bloom explanation

+That one anime detective game
+Zelda

Overall, not bad, but not for me.
 
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If you told me yesterday that Pikmin 4 was going to be at this Direct but not a single mention of Metroid I would have told you to get outta here.
 
MisterSpo said:
Fire Emblem: Three Houses has gone on to sell 4 million copies; its sales are comparable to Dread. We'll also have to wait and see how Xenoblade Chronicles 3 does, but it's not true to pretend that Dread is noticeably bigger commercially, especially versus Three Houses.

Amazing that the morning has been so long and full of RPGs I already forgot Octopath 2 leaked for Steam before it was announced, even though I predicted the announcement and expected it to be in the Direct.
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I would add that Nintendo gets additional revenue from Xenoblade and Fire Emblem when you consider that those games have DLC expansions. Nintendo would rather market a game that can go on to sell more game than a game that cannot, all else being equal.
 
Lol I really thought my expectations of GB/GBC NSO, Prime remake, Fire Emblem, Zelda ports, and BOTW 2 full trailer were fairly conservative
 
Lol I really thought my expectations of GB/GBC NSO, Prime remake, Fire Emblem, Zelda ports, and BOTW 2 full trailer were fairly conservative

EDIT: site is slow, I somehow double posted, sorry
 
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Phendrift said:
I started doubting Prime for this direct when Emily had the “why does prime remaster have to be announced in a direct, it can be dropped on Twitter” comment lol

Think Grubb just took the L on it being a holiday release I guess
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It was the anniversary that he may have been obsessed about, which is understandable. He forgets how Nintendo doesn't make sense 90% of the time haha.
 
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