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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST4| Tears of the Speculation

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bellydrum said:
Oh my god the best thread is back

If this one is anything like the last one I don't think I can handle it
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Thread coming alive after a dormant sleep:

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MisterSpo said:
2023:

NEW STUFF -
Fire Emblem Engage (Intelligent Systems)
Bayonetta Origins (Platinum)
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (EPD)
Pikmin 4 (EPD)
Style Savvy (Syn Sophia)
Detective Pikachu (Creatures Inc)
Animal Crossing: Party Plaza (NdCube)

OLD STUFF -
Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe (Vanpool/HAL)
Metroid Prime HD (Retro Studios)
Advance Wars 1&2 Reboot Camp (WayForward)
F ZERO GX HD (Tantalus)

DLC STUFF -
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Monolith Soft)
Mario Kart 8 DX (EPD)
Switch Sports (EPD)
Splatoon 3 (EPD)
Pokemon Scarlet/Violet (Game Freak)
Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope (Ubisoft Milan)
Fire Emblem Engage (Intelligent Systems)
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (EPD)
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Tears of the Kingdom, Pikimin 4, X3/S3 DLC, and the old stuff is a pretty damn good year in my book. I don't know why, but I have zero hype for Engage even though I absolutely loved Three Houses.

What about Tomodachi Life? I have zero clue if a team is even free to have been working on it, but I cannot imagine it skipping a generation considering how well it sales.
 
This is the first time I have ever been Team January in one of these polls.

Just to much smoke for something not to be announced soon.
 
I said February earlier but I'm not counting out January. Just need a cryptic tweet or something to get the hopium going!
 
I feel like it's going to be February again, perhaps early in February like it was in 2022. January seems too early because of Engage, whereas February only has Return to Dream Land Deluxe. Also expecting a Pokemon Direct in February detailing SV DLC and possibly announcing a new spin-off.
 
There’s one Nintendo partner that I’ve been very curious about recently: CA Production. Well I guess it’s more accurate to call them an NDcube partner since the Hudson Soft days. They’ve been a co-developer for pretty much every Mario Party. What some may not know is that Mario Party games, especially ones released within the last decade, are an extremely collaborative effort. Pretty much every game has outsourcing these days, but CA Production staff as well as those from other companies like Smileboom, T’s Music, and Will Co. Ltd. have lead positions. It’s probably one of the reasons why NDcube can pump out releases so regularly.

What’s interesting is that Clubhouse Games was the first project that CA Production led development of in a long time, so I’m wondering if they’ll get a chance to do so again soon. It’s just hard to tell who works where as there’s so much crossover between the games. We know that the director also had a design lead position on Superstars.
 
Yaay I missed this thread, it was really fun to keep up with the chaos in the previous one LMAO

Eventhough I'd love to be proven wrong by a direct happening in Jan, I think they'll do one once FE Engage is out of the way.
But I don't have a real basis for it lolol.
 
Tbh if the leak of the Zelda themed OLED is real, I expect it to be reveled soon.
There are two possibilities:
  • they’ll do the announcement of the OLED only (like they did for the Splatoon one)
  • they’ll announce it with the first real Zelda trailer -> then a direct (at least a Zelda direct) is soon.

Also, directs have always been the day of/day after my uni exams lmao
So direct on the 10th or 11th of January it is
 
With the recent Metroid Prime stuff popping up I think a Mini Direct is happening in January to fill the Q1/Q2 Gap then we get a big main Direct around E3 time which probably will be the last one with big announcements for NSW in its life cycle.

Im also believe we get a dedicated Zelda ToTK Direct in February will be the start of its big marketing push with a lot of gameplay info followed by Press Event/Treehouse Live similar to E3 2016.
 
Joe said:
In my opinion, January is a bit too early for a general Direct. I don't expect anything non-game-specific before Fire Emblem's release.
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There’s a whole-ass week in January after FE comes out, though.

#January4Lyfe
 
the_marmolade said:
With the recent Metroid Prime stuff popping up I think a Mini Direct is happening in January to fill the Q1/Q2 Gap then we get a big main Direct around E3 time which probably will be the last one with big announcements for NSW in its life cycle.

Im also believe we get a dedicated Zelda ToTK Direct in February will be the start of its big marketing push with a lot of gameplay info followed by Press Event/Treehouse Live similar to E3 2016.
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This fits in perfectly with Nintendo wanting to change their marketing method too that Kit and Krysta talked about last year
 
Skittzo said:
What smoke is there besides the Metroid thing
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I guess just the Metroid rumor from a seemingly credible source that delivers information pretty close to the actual reveal.

But also maybe the Zelda OLED leak, which admittedly could be announced whenever. But, I personally think they are going to go heavy on Zelda marketing in Feburary and beyond, hence the need for a Direct mini in Janurary to reveal everything else in Q1 that is not Zelda. Also it could help further advertise Engage.

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Basically what the_marmolade said.
 
SofyTrancy said:
Tbh if the leak of the Zelda themed OLED is real, I expect it to be reveled soon.
There are two possibilities:
  • they’ll do the announcement of the OLED only (like they did for the Splatoon one)
  • they’ll announce it with the first real Zelda trailer -> then a direct (at least a Zelda direct) is soon.

Also, directs have always been the day of/day after my uni exams lmao
So direct on the 10th or 11th of January it is
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the_marmolade said:
With the recent Metroid Prime stuff popping up I think a Mini Direct is happening in January to fill the Q1/Q2 Gap then we get a big main Direct around E3 time which probably will be the last one with big announcements for NSW in its life cycle.

Im also believe we get a dedicated Zelda ToTK Direct in February will be the start of its big marketing push with a lot of gameplay info followed by Press Event/Treehouse Live similar to E3 2016.
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Do we have any crumbs or insiders saying that a direct is actually coming, outside of us assuming we will get one in the new year (Jan/feb), other than that Prime rumor the other day? :p
 
Dark Cloud said:
All the rumors for remasters and still no rumors for Paper Mario TTYD remaster. That has to be like a top 5 requested remaster for Nintendo.
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But like how many of the people requesting it are actually just Arlo with various different fake moustaches?
 
320 said:
Do we have any crumbs or insiders saying that a direct is actually coming, outside of us assuming we will get one in the new year (Jan/feb), other than that Prime rumor the other day? :p
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If it’s any consolidation, Markamoro says it’s going to be a great 2023!
 
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Chrdmart said:
This fits in perfectly with Nintendo wanting to change their marketing method too that Kit and Krysta talked about last year
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More like we are winding down on Switch First Party support so we need to fulfil publisher agreements on marketing their games. This year going to be a lot different I think we get 1x Mini Direct (January and September/October 2023) and 1x Main Direct (June 2023). One of the Mini will be Partner Showcase.
 
I’ve also started thinking that Toru Minegishi being listed as currently being part of EPD 7 on the Splatoon 3 Ask the Developer interview isn’t a mistake, as the Japanese version does the same. The franchises that group oversees are 2D Metroid, Rhythm Heaven, and Tomodachi Life. Metroid would be weird since Dread came out last year, so maybe one of the other two or possibly a new IP.

Though I’ve kind of convinced myself that if Rhythm Heaven ever came back, it wound be under EPD 4 since the director/sound director and programming director have recently worked on those titles (Brain Training, Big Brain Academy, Switch Sports). It wouldn’t be the first time that a franchise moved out of EPD 7. We saw it happen with WarioWare.
 
Magic-Man said:
That reddit leaker only talks about games when they're close to being revealed, right? So we have three options here. Mini Direct next week, Metroid reveal trailer next week, or the rumor is BS.
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I know they did the hint for the name of Zelda before. Did they give the hint when the direct was announced or before the direct was announced
 
the_marmolade said:
More like we are winding down on Switch First Party support so we need to fulfil publisher agreements on marketing their games. This year going to be a lot different I think we get 1x Mini Direct (January and September/October 2023) and 1x Main Direct (June 2023). One of the Mini will be Partner Showcase.
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I don't think there's going to be a noticeable difference in the number of games released, even though I expect the number of re-releases to be at least four games and the number of new releases to be lower than this year; and I expect we'll get lower budget and spin off stuff like Bayonetta Origins, too (Style Savvy, Detective Pikachu, etc) rather than many new 'mainline' games.

I think it's important to remember that Nintendo don't want software to decline during a hardware transition. That was an important factor behind their reorganisation in the middle of the last decade. If they allow software to decline, and they don't do enough to keep the user base active, then their revenue and profit correspondingly declines. That's what they really want to avoid (folks can go back and check their statements at the NX discussions for this information).

Switch is 95% of their business, and so keeping Switch stuff going - even if it's with spin offs, re-releases, DLC, and third-parties rather than numerous EPD titles - is absolutely in their own interest. There's no home/handheld split in their revenue stream any more. So, long story short, I don't expect any huge changes in their marketing. With E3 happening, I wouldn't be too surprised if we still end up with general Directs across February, June and September. It's actually February I'm least certain on, given Zelda is there in May.
 
Magic-Man said:
That reddit leaker only talks about games when they're close to being revealed, right? So we have three options here. Mini Direct next week, Metroid reveal trailer next week, or the rumor is BS.
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More than three. We could have a full direct, a mini direct, a random trailer, a twitter direct (i.e. a week of Twitter announcements), or a conference.

Or nothing, as you said.
 
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