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Played a good 1.5 hours or so of Hi-Fi Rush last night, it's decent so far! I love a good rhythm game, the art style and animation is stunning, and the combat seems to have more depth than you would initially expect as the world begins opening up. I'm not a fan of the platforming so far, BUT that might be user error; at the end of my play session last night, I noticed that my LG CX -- which usually automatically switches to Game Mode when I switch to the Xbox input -- actually was on Cinema Mode the whole time 😅 Looking forward to digging back in.

Then, I played maybe 2-2.5 hours of Tunic if my estimate is right. Just escaped the Dark Tomb. That game ROCKS. Really stoked to finally get through it after two prior failed attempts to get into the groove.

Sorry that I'm betraying the thread's ethos by actually playing games :cry:
 
If Switch 2 was 2023 I'd agree, but I kinda expect to see GB/GBC/GBA this year as N64 seems to be naturally winding down at the end of this summer unless Nintendo gets a lot more 3rd parties on board then I'm expecting. Almost every major N64 1st party game will be on Switch by the end of what's currently announced, even if Nintendo gets the rest of the Rare catalogue they're gonna have to announce the next system soon imo.
I don't have a list right now, but I remember that Nintendo has quite a lot of ganes to use for the N64 still, that are first party or something similar(Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I'll check later regardless). If Nintendo manages to reach an agreement with MS about Rare games, Nintendo would have a few megatons left, such as Perfect Dark and Banjo 2, alongside some minor beloved games that Rare did for the 64 like Conker. Every now and then Super Nintendo, NES and Genesis get games too, so there's that.

But you guys are also making an erronious assumption: That Nintendo will not allow have a "down" year with 2024 as they gear the Switch 2 with the best possible launch month/year for the system, and "sacrifice" a year, like 2018 was a "bad" year for many, to have a good transition to a new gen.

Plus, Nintendo could always sweeten the NSO deal by throwing a DLC in it, like TOTK DLC, or another new game's expansion, and so on.
 
Damn, the Dead Space remake is getting fantastic scores. 88 on OC, 89 on MC (probably going to settle in mid-to-high 80s). Best part is it's an EA title, so you can cop it for $20 in 3 months :)
 
February 7 - 8 - 9 seems to be the safest bet for a Direct, but... I'm wondering what will happen here in Fami if the only thing we get next month is a Kirby trailer + Octopath Traveler II demo tweet drop LOL.

Just imagine the chaos and despair...
My inner me:
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February 7 - 8 - 9 seems to be the safest bet for a Direct, but... I'm wondering what will happen here in Fami if the only thing we get next month is a Kirby trailer + Octopath Traveler II demo tweet drop LOL.

Just imagine the chaos and despair...
My inner me:
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Guess I'll die!
 
February 1st and 15th have low chance for a Direct. 15th or around it is possible but yeah as others said idk about it being near the Mario World opening. So that leaves the 8th which would be great. Next week is for smoke/rumours for hype I guess.
 
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Played a good 1.5 hours or so of Hi-Fi Rush last night, it's decent so far! I love a good rhythm game, the art style and animation is stunning, and the combat seems to have more depth than you would initially expect as the world begins opening up. I'm not a fan of the platforming so far, BUT that might be user error; at the end of my play session last night, I noticed that my LG CX -- which usually automatically switches to Game Mode when I switch to the Xbox input -- actually was on Cinema Mode the whole time 😅 Looking forward to digging back in.

Then, I played maybe 2-2.5 hours of Tunic if my estimate is right. Just escaped the Dark Tomb. That game ROCKS. Really stoked to finally get through it after two prior failed attempts to get into the groove.

Sorry that I'm betraying the thread's ethos by actually playing games :cry:
First boss was enjoyable, I love the minute details of everything playing to the beat of the ost. The grading system in the end reminds me of Viewtiful Joe, I can’t wait to see what else this game has to offer.
 
I didn’t watch the MS direct but did they really have a Bethesda focused direct without starfield lmao?
Mostly. 3 of the 5 games were from their studios. This was more of a “these are releasing soon so need to start promoting them” direct.
 
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Could quote more, but it's mostly just more repeated stuff.

Nate obviously gets it in so much as "don't hate the player, hate the game". TBH, I wish the game didn't work the way it does on YT. As an example, some of my favorite videos I have done recently are:


(actual news with future NSO speculation)

and

(discussion video about switch as a primary vs secondary system)

My favorite content I produce is technically my weekly podcast, but I get few complaints about that. The common theme you see in this stuff is that there is very little viewership of said content. The youtube game to grow and get viewership is kinda disgusting at times. I know, you can point to many of your favorite content creators and point to how "they didn't do this to grow" - but they also did other things that no longer work today. It's life.

As an example, Mike Odyssey is well aware (he's a friend of mine) that I disagree with almost every take he makes on patents. I cover them sometimes too, but I am aware that patents are mostly nothing burgers save some very rare instances. Most of them are stuff that's already been done, or stuff they experimented with and decided not to do. The only two recently have any remote interest to me, one of them around AI upscaling (which isn't big news or anything) and the other showing those wireless VR headsets along with extra phones doing AR all connected to a central device connected to a TV.

IMHO, it's probably just a concept they experimented with behind the scenes and will never release, but it's interesting - at least to me as interesting as the supposed ToTK patent about falling and shooting arrows etc - which may also be a scrapped idea.

YouTube is a silly place. I like to think most of my actual thoughts on stuff, most often expressed on my weekly podcast, are pretty based - but in the end, growing on social media is a bit of a game. And the game calls for extremely clicky headlines/thumbnails - riding out similar concepts and ideas that are trending in a moment - and hoping that in the end you can maybe use doing so, to build towards a longer term form of what you really WANT to do.

Mr Beast even outright - in his hiring stuff - straight up requires new employees to be amazing at clickbait. He's right out in the open about it. That's the largest content creator in the world. I am no Mr. Beast, but it's just... it's what the game is. I wish the game was play differently, or at least played like it was 5 to 8 years ago.

I will be honest and say I wasn't aware of the Blue Shell video before releasing my video. I saw Mikes video, talked to him about it, and decided I could do it myself too, and added some extra rumors in that he didn't have in his video. And yeah, that video got rightfully blasted in the comments by a dozen people and has my lowest like to dislike ratio in 3 months.

Sadly, it also has 9000 views, and gained me 60 subs. 3x the views of talking about real news like Goldeneye 007's date, and 8x the normal amount of sub growth. The game is disgusting.

Of course I am not required to play the game. But I actually DO enjoy making content and such. It's almost become one of those "necessary evils" that I hope one day I grow to a point that I can slowly phase it out. Time will tell I guess. Probably hit 100k this year over this stupid stuff.

That being said, no clue what's coming in the direct. The whole "direct leak" thing is just about restating known rumors that were already talked about previously on the channel basically. Nothing has leaked. January is a month of scraping the barrel.

I am sorry if it upset anyone. I don't really mean any harm. But I do create youtube content for a living. So, it's life. I definitely can't be exactly like Mike Odyssey though. He's a super nice guy, but he can block out all the negativity about it. Instead, I am here on a forum unrelated to my channel talking about it.

Thanks for the post. I don't watch much Nintendo YT, but enjoyed the insight.
 
I didn’t watch the MS direct but did they really have a Bethesda focused direct without starfield lmao?
They've basically said they're doing a Starfield focused direct. It would be like if the upcoming Nintendo Direct didn't show TotK and Nintendo put out a statement saying "we'll do a deep dive on TotK later".
 
I have the feeling, don't know why that Zelda Tears of teh Kingdom will be missing in action at the Next Direct.. even tho I would like to be wrong and would be a bad move, but what do you think on all of this?
If it's a Mini: Yes

General: No

My thought process is that Nintendo will simply not have a general again until they want to show more of Tears of the Kingdom.

Thankfully, they are running out of time.
 
I have the feeling, don't know why that Zelda Tears of teh Kingdom will be missing in action at the Next Direct.. even tho I would like to be wrong and would be a bad move, but what do you think on all of this?
I can easily see them doing a "looking forward to Zelda TotK? Tune in Feb/Mar XX for an indepth look at the game". It wouldn't feel like a mistake to do so imo.
 
I have the feeling, don't know why that Zelda Tears of teh Kingdom will be missing in action at the Next Direct.. even tho I would like to be wrong and would be a bad move, but what do you think on all of this?
For BotW there was a gap between the E3 demo until three months before release which is when we got a marketing blitz including the game awards teaser + showcase and the presentation trailer.

In about two weeks we're hitting three months before release, and I think that may be the minimum compressed timeframe in which to start the hype train.
 
I have the feeling, don't know why that Zelda Tears of teh Kingdom will be missing in action at the Next Direct.. even tho I would like to be wrong and would be a bad move, but what do you think on all of this?
I think it's there no matter what, even if it is a Mini. Obviously its presence will be lessened if that is the case, but I think they still show a trailer with a, "tune in this March for a full ToTK Direct!"
 
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Aside from Pokemon announcement (that are made by their own), usually February Direct is focused on games coming through late winter/spring/summer, sometimes early summer.

I imagine aside from more info of newest Zelda title (+ more updates from previous titles), they will announce whatever they have in store for april until maybe september.

If rumors are true, one announcement is very possible to be Baten Kaitos HD remaster/remake as it’s supposedly releasing this summer (august?). Afterwards, I expect they reveal whatever are april, june and july titles. My guess for them are Metroid Prime 1, F-Zero GX Remasters and a new 2D Mario.
 
Aside from Pokemon announcement (that are made by their own), usually February Direct is focused on games coming through late winter/spring/summer, sometimes early summer.

I imagine aside from more info of newest Zelda title (+ more updates from previous titles), they will announce whatever they have in store for april until maybe september.

If rumors are true, one announcement is very possible to be Baten Kaitos HD remaster/remake as it’s supposedly releasing this summer (august?). Afterwards, I expect they reveal whatever are april, june and july titles. My guess for them are Metroid Prime 1, F-Zero GX Remasters and a new 2D Mario.
Or they could announce a Holiday game (see Link's Awakening in 2019) or 2024 game if they need hiring for it (see Splatoon 3).
 
Could quote more, but it's mostly just more repeated stuff.

Nate obviously gets it in so much as "don't hate the player, hate the game". TBH, I wish the game didn't work the way it does on YT. As an example, some of my favorite videos I have done recently are:


(actual news with future NSO speculation)

and

(discussion video about switch as a primary vs secondary system)

My favorite content I produce is technically my weekly podcast, but I get few complaints about that. The common theme you see in this stuff is that there is very little viewership of said content. The youtube game to grow and get viewership is kinda disgusting at times. I know, you can point to many of your favorite content creators and point to how "they didn't do this to grow" - but they also did other things that no longer work today. It's life.

As an example, Mike Odyssey is well aware (he's a friend of mine) that I disagree with almost every take he makes on patents. I cover them sometimes too, but I am aware that patents are mostly nothing burgers save some very rare instances. Most of them are stuff that's already been done, or stuff they experimented with and decided not to do. The only two recently have any remote interest to me, one of them around AI upscaling (which isn't big news or anything) and the other showing those wireless VR headsets along with extra phones doing AR all connected to a central device connected to a TV.

IMHO, it's probably just a concept they experimented with behind the scenes and will never release, but it's interesting - at least to me as interesting as the supposed ToTK patent about falling and shooting arrows etc - which may also be a scrapped idea.

YouTube is a silly place. I like to think most of my actual thoughts on stuff, most often expressed on my weekly podcast, are pretty based - but in the end, growing on social media is a bit of a game. And the game calls for extremely clicky headlines/thumbnails - riding out similar concepts and ideas that are trending in a moment - and hoping that in the end you can maybe use doing so, to build towards a longer term form of what you really WANT to do.

Mr Beast even outright - in his hiring stuff - straight up requires new employees to be amazing at clickbait. He's right out in the open about it. That's the largest content creator in the world. I am no Mr. Beast, but it's just... it's what the game is. I wish the game was play differently, or at least played like it was 5 to 8 years ago.

I will be honest and say I wasn't aware of the Blue Shell video before releasing my video. I saw Mikes video, talked to him about it, and decided I could do it myself too, and added some extra rumors in that he didn't have in his video. And yeah, that video got rightfully blasted in the comments by a dozen people and has my lowest like to dislike ratio in 3 months.

Sadly, it also has 9000 views, and gained me 60 subs. 3x the views of talking about real news like Goldeneye 007's date, and 8x the normal amount of sub growth. The game is disgusting.

Of course I am not required to play the game. But I actually DO enjoy making content and such. It's almost become one of those "necessary evils" that I hope one day I grow to a point that I can slowly phase it out. Time will tell I guess. Probably hit 100k this year over this stupid stuff.

That being said, no clue what's coming in the direct. The whole "direct leak" thing is just about restating known rumors that were already talked about previously on the channel basically. Nothing has leaked. January is a month of scraping the barrel.

I am sorry if it upset anyone. I don't really mean any harm. But I do create youtube content for a living. So, it's life. I definitely can't be exactly like Mike Odyssey though. He's a super nice guy, but he can block out all the negativity about it. Instead, I am here on a forum unrelated to my channel talking about it.


You're cool man. Do what's best for you and don't mind the comments...
 
Or they could announce a Holiday game (see Link's Awakening in 2019) or 2024 game if they need hiring for it (see Splatoon 3).
Links Awakening was released in September, don’t think it was considered their holiday game. That year it was Luigis Mansion 3, that got the late october spot (that imo this year will be Pikmin 4) and LM3 wasn’t mentioned at 2019 february direct, directly got its spotlight at 2019 E3 showcase.

Yes, they can announce a 2024 title but if we are speculating that big 2024 titles are going to be for Switch 2, their isn’t any need to announced them so early.

The only thing beyond this summer they can show I think is a Prime 4 teaser (for late 2023 or 2024) if we are getting a Prime 1 HD + 4 combo.
 
Links Awakening was released in September, don’t think it was considered their holiday game. That year it was Luigis Mansion 3, that got the late october spot (that imo this year will be Pikmin 4) and LM3 wasn’t mentioned at 2019 february direct, directly got its spotlight at 2019 E3 showcase.

Yes, they can announce a 2024 title but if we are speculating that big 2024 titles are going to be for Switch 2, their isn’t any need to announced them so early.

The only thing beyond this summer they can show I think is a Prime 4 teaser (for late 2023 or 2024) if we are getting a Prime 1 HD + 4 combo.
I think Pikmin 4 will definitely release earlier. It's obvious that the late October spot for LM3 was because of halloween and also before Pokemon. I personally think that the Pikmin will be late August/early September release. Their Holiday game will be announce here or at E3.
 
For BotW there was a gap between the E3 demo until three months before release which is when we got a marketing blitz including the game awards teaser + showcase and the presentation trailer.

In about two weeks we're hitting three months before release, and I think that may be the minimum compressed timeframe in which to start the hype train.
Wisdom right here.

To bad it's NEVER COMING OUT!!11
 
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I didn’t watch the MS direct but did they really have a Bethesda focused direct without starfield lmao?
Nah, this wasn't the place for Bethesda Game Studios, Starfield and Todd, they will have (and deserve) their own event.
After all, Starfield is probably going to be the most important Xbox game of this generation.
 
Any credible rumors from Nate or anyone else about when the next direct is? I haven’t been following for a few months

What’s the longest time span between directs and when was the last direct
No rumors but we’re expecting early feb like normal, no reason not to
 
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Tbh they didn't really need it at this Direct. This was focused on H1 titles and Starfield very clearly isn't.
I must be behind because I thought it was slated for June.
They've basically said they're doing a Starfield focused direct. It would be like if the upcoming Nintendo Direct didn't show TotK and Nintendo put out a statement saying "we'll do a deep dive on TotK later".
Ah that makes sense
 
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Any credible rumors from Nate or anyone else about when the next direct is? I haven’t been following for a few months

What’s the longest time span between directs and when was the last direct
Longest time is of course the covid time. September 4th 2019 to February 17th 2021. The whooping 532 days or 1 year 5 months and 13 days.
 
You're cool man. Do what's best for you and don't mind the comments...
Comes with the territory. I don't sit up at night worrying about it. :p No matter what I do, there will always be peeps who don't like me or the content. It's life. I was just giving some insight into the stuff.
 
If Switch 2 was 2023 I'd agree, but I kinda expect to see GB/GBC/GBA this year as N64 seems to be naturally winding down at the end of this summer unless Nintendo gets a lot more 3rd parties on board then I'm expecting. Almost every major N64 1st party game will be on Switch by the end of what's currently announced, even if Nintendo gets the rest of the Rare catalogue they're gonna have to announce the next system soon imo.
I don't have a list right now, but I remember that Nintendo has quite a lot of ganes to use for the N64 still, that are first party or something similar(Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I'll check later regardless). If Nintendo manages to reach an agreement with MS about Rare games, Nintendo would have a few megatons left, such as Perfect Dark and Banjo 2, alongside some minor beloved games that Rare did for the 64 like Conker. Every now and then Super Nintendo, NES and Genesis get games too, so there's that.

But you guys are also making an erronious assumption: That Nintendo will not allow have a "down" year with 2024 as they gear the Switch 2 with the best possible launch month/year for the system, and "sacrifice" a year, like 2018 was a "bad" year for many, to have a good transition to a new gen.

Plus, Nintendo could always sweeten the NSO deal by throwing a DLC in it, like TOTK DLC, or another new game's expansion, and so on.

First Party N64 Games that we still don't have:

Rare published games that have not yet released on Switch:

If you take out the list of games that are not Sports/Disney licenses (which now include Star Wars)/Tetris (most likely)/Japanese-only releases (not that they couldn't come to NSO; they just won't leave Japan), we're left with:

Banjo Tooie (Rare)
Blast Corps (Rare)
Command & Conquer
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Rare)
Cruis'n USA
Cruis'n World
Diddy Kong Racing (Rare)
Donkey Kong 64 (Rare)
Hey You, Pikachu!
Jet Force Gemini (Rare)
Killer Instinct Gold (Rare)
Perfect Dark (Rare)
Ridge Racer 64
Starcraft 64
Super Smash Bros.

From that list, I think only Super Smash Bros. is guaranteed, and maybe one of the Cruis'n games. The Rare games (and oddly Starcraft 64 post-ABK purchase) are totally dependent if Microsoft continues to play ball, and even then unless Perfect Dark/Conker gets re-rated to Teen I doubt those games will make it over unless Nintendo is serious about offering a Maturity filter for the N64 app.

Third parties like Konami, Capcom, Atlus, THQ, and whoever owns the license to Midway Games now that they're defunct are the only way N64 releases can be carried forward into 2024 on its regular monthly release schedule (and so help me God if Nintendo starts stretching these releases to every two or three months going forward...)
 
First Party N64 Games that we still don't have:

Rare published games that have not yet released on Switch:

If you take out the list of games that are not Sports/Disney licenses (which now include Star Wars)/Tetris (most likely)/Japanese-only releases (not that they couldn't come to NSO; they just won't leave Japan), we're left with:

Banjo Tooie (Rare)
Blast Corps (Rare)
Command & Conquer
Conker's Bad Fur Day (Rare)
Cruis'n USA
Cruis'n World
Diddy Kong Racing (Rare)
Donkey Kong 64 (Rare)
Hey You, Pikachu!
Jet Force Gemini (Rare)
Killer Instinct Gold (Rare)
Perfect Dark (Rare)
Ridge Racer 64
Starcraft 64
Super Smash Bros.

From that list, I think only Super Smash Bros. is guaranteed, and maybe one of the Cruis'n games. The Rare games (and oddly Starcraft 64 post-ABK purchase) are totally dependent if Microsoft continues to play ball, and even then unless Perfect Dark/Conker gets re-rated to Teen I doubt those games will make it over unless Nintendo is serious about offering a Maturity filter for the N64 app.

Third parties like Konami, Capcom, Atlus, THQ, and whoever owns the license to Midway Games now that they're defunct are the only way N64 releases can be carried forward into 2024 on its regular monthly release schedule (and so help me God if Nintendo starts stretching these releases to every two or three months going forward...)
Donkey Kong 64 has GOT TO be on at some point though, and I feel like we gotta get some third party titles, it just wouldn't feel right to me if we didn't get Bomberman 64
 
I think Nintendo for sure gets DK64, Smash, and Banjo Tooie on NSO+EP. Maybe we see Nintendo and Microsoft be buddy buddy and get the rest of the Rare line up on there, but that still leaves N64 online running out of gas by the end of 2023.

Edit: I forgot about DKR, I think that's the 4th lock that'll come to NSO even if we don't get all of Rare.
 
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Donkey Kong 64 has GOT TO be on at some point though, and I feel like we gotta get some third party titles, it just wouldn't feel right to me if we didn't get Bomberman 64
For sure, I agree. Again, while Nintendo and MS have a working partnership, I think we could reasonably expect DK64, DKR, Banjo-Tooie and maybe one of Blast Corps/Jet Force Gemini/Killer Instinct Gold, but once this year comes to an end, we're probably getting sporadic releases in 2024 onwards depending on which third parties want to jump in.

Part of me would be unsurprised that if we get Gameboy NSO this year, they'll hold off on GBA until next year just to keep some kind of regular release schedule.
 
Played a good 1.5 hours or so of Hi-Fi Rush last night, it's decent so far! I love a good rhythm game, the art style and animation is stunning, and the combat seems to have more depth than you would initially expect as the world begins opening up. I'm not a fan of the platforming so far, BUT that might be user error; at the end of my play session last night, I noticed that my LG CX -- which usually automatically switches to Game Mode when I switch to the Xbox input -- actually was on Cinema Mode the whole time 😅 Looking forward to digging back in.

Then, I played maybe 2-2.5 hours of Tunic if my estimate is right. Just escaped the Dark Tomb. That game ROCKS. Really stoked to finally get through it after two prior failed attempts to get into the groove.

Sorry that I'm betraying the thread's ethos by actually playing games :cry:

You do know there's threads for those games / general games you're playing, right? Like you don't have to come into the Nintendo Direct Speculation thread and try to take it off topic for some reason?
 
In my perfect world ontop of all the Rare games we'd see brought to NSO+EP

The Bomberman games (64, 64 2nd, Hero)
The Castlevania games (64 and Legacy)
The Snowboard Kids games (1 & 2)
Ogre Battle 64
Quest 64
The Goemon games (Mystical & Great)

No hope for the Star Wars games (remasters on the eshop), Turok Games (remasters on eshop), Tony Hawk (licensing hell for music), anything from Capcom (likely gonna sell most of those classic games in collections eventually), or anything from Midway (seems like licensing hell).

Also even if all my wishes came true, that's still a best 1 more year before the N64 well is completely gassed.
 
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