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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST4| Tears of the Speculation

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Cerlinho said:
Are we expecting GB/GBA games this time?
GCN looks like a fever dream. Maybe in Switch 2
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If what Nate said is true about the GB/GBC player being ready for a couple of years now, I have to imagine that we will get those games this year. I don't think Nintendo wants to go two years without adding another system to the plan. GBA is a toss up, but I think that is an expansion pack add on a year or so after GB/GBC.

Gamecube is a Switch 2 thing at best.
 
Even if Nintendo puts out fuckingnothing.gif for all of July through December... they do still have The Sequel to Breath of the Wild, a game that will probably be great and massive and attention-sucking. Any and all whiners can and will be instructed to touch Hyrulean grass
 
CyberWolfJV said:
Are we going to see articles of the caliber of "another damn Donkey Kong game" again? Even if.. you know, it's been so long since the last game, and this hypothetical game has the potential to be just as big as a new Mario game?

Because I will say.. I'm pretty tired...
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Honestly I think we need to stop getting angry at games journalists before anything's actually happened. Right now we're throwing hypothetical games at some hypothetical games journalist, asking the hypothetical question "do you think this is a major game," and then assuming the hypothetical answer of "no."

It's all a bunch of hypotheticals and it's really not worth being tired about it tbh.
 
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This "No major releases after Zelda" rumor is useless because it's so vague. Major release could be spun to mean anything by anyone. There are already different interpretations of what it means in this very thread
 
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
You have 7 months to fill up after TotK.

One of them will be Detective Pikachu 2.
Two of them could be Prime 1 Remake (if Prime 4 is late 2024 or sooner) and Pikmin 4 (if it isn't delayed to 2024)
Then you can probably fill in the other four with various outsourced titles and the big DLCs for Pokemon and Xenoblade

Nintendo had months where Torna and Pokemon Sword/Shield DLC were the big releases of this month so this all seems plausible.

But would still expect a 2D Mario as well.
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They both had company of other releases though - so they're not likely to be the lone release for the month unless right next to a month with a big release
 
Josh5890 said:
If what Nate said is true about the GB/GBC player being ready for a couple of years now, I have to imagine that we will get those games this year. I don't think Nintendo wants to go two years without adding another system to the plan. GBA is a toss up, but I think that is an expansion pack add on a year or so after GB/GBC.

Gamecube is a Switch 2 thing at best.
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Also, I hope for the "transfer Pak" things to be true since we're getting pokémon Stadium this time! Maaaaaybe some reveal on the Pokémon Presents later in this month?
 
Look, to the majority of the world, Mother 3 is not a major release.

But for us, it would break the internet.
 
Magic-Man said:
IMO, 2D Mario makes the most sense this year because of the movie and the fact that we currently don't have any Mario games announced for this year. There's always at least two Mario games in any given year (if not more). What current options do we have? 3D Mario is probably being saved for the next system, Mario Kart is still getting DLC, it's too early for another Paper Mario or Mario Party, and Strikers/Golf/Tennis already have games on Switch. 2D Mario and another game (Baseball?) make the most sense.
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Not only that but don't we know that the team who worked on 2D Mario games is working on something. We know that both the Mario teams have been hiring for games since 2020, no?

I always thought that knowledge was one of the bigger reasons behind 2D Mario speculation(along with the movie), but I could be misremembering the info we have lol.
Josh5890 said:
Let's say that Zelda is the last major game of this year (10+m seller) and Switch 2 is Spring 2024. The rest of the lineup could look something like this.

June- Mario Sports (Please be baseball), Splatoon 3 DLC
July- Pokémon S/V DLC, Pikmin 4
August- F-Zero GX HD
September- Star Fox, GB/GBC NSO library
October- Metroid Prime 1 HD
November- Mario Party Superstars 2 (let me believe), Pokémon S/V DLC
December- Advance Wars: Reboot Camp

Ok, so Mario Party is probably close to 10m, but this would all be really solid for the second half.
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Oh you sweet child lol. Gonna be upset when ndcube announces Animal Crossing Festival 2 instead.
 
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Plum said:
Honestly I think we need to stop getting angry at games journalists before anything's actually happened. Right now we're throwing hypothetical games at some hypothetical games journalist, asking the hypothetical question "do you think this is a major game," and then assuming the hypothetical answer of "no."

It's all a bunch of hypotheticals and it's really not worth being tired about it tbh.
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I'm not angry about it.
 
Hocot8 said:
Not only that but don't we know that the team who worked on 2D Mario games is working on something. We know that both the Mario teams have been hiring for games since 2020, no?

I always thought that knowledge was one of the bigger reasons behind 2D Mario speculation(along with the movie), but I could be misremembering the info we have lol.

Oh you sweet child lol. Gonna be upset when ndcube announces Animal Crossing Festival 2 instead.
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I still have my Animal Crossing amiibos so checkmate!
 
Hocot8 said:
Oh you sweet child lol. Gonna be upset when ndcube announces Animal Crossing Festival 2 instead.
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Given how often I see the pack-in amiibo sitting on shelves, I can't imagine the original Amiibo Festival did well.

But I think there is actually potential for a game like that to be cool, it mainly got roasted because the Wii U didn't get a mainline Animal Crossing and that's what people wanted lol.
 
I forgot Octopath 2 is this month.

I don’t know if I should wait for a price drop. It’s not exclusive so I think it might drop faster. But I also do want to play it. I’ll probably be done with fire emblem by then as well.

Decision decisions.
 
Josh5890 said:
If what Nate said is true about the GB/GBC player being ready for a couple of years now, I have to imagine that we will get those games this year. I don't think Nintendo wants to go two years without adding another system to the plan. GBA is a toss up, but I think that is an expansion pack add on a year or so after GB/GBC.

Gamecube is a Switch 2 thing at best.
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I gave up and bought a bunch of GB/GBC games on the 3ds recently so when this gets announced, you're all welcome for my sacrifice.
 
DecoReturns said:
I forgot Octopath 2 is this month.

I don’t know if I should wait for a price drop. It’s not exclusive so I think it might drop faster. But I also do want to play it. I’ll probably be done with fire emblem by then as well.

Decision decisions.
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I would get it for launch, but I already have enough JRPGs on the docket, plus the Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster pre-order.

I will definitely get Octo 2 at some point this year.
 
matthew93 said:
Apologies if this has been posted already but I was listening to Jeff Grubb on last of the Nintendogs and he mentioned that he had heard of a possible Direct next week. By no means is this confirmation but he had heard rumblings of suggestions pointing to late next week.
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I checked this btw, don't have an exact timestamp and don't know the words used verbatim but I think he said something along the lines of "Everything I've heard points to the week of the 6th, somewhere late in that week"
 
Weebos said:
Given how often I see the pack-in amiibo sitting on shelves, I can't imagine the original Amiibo Festival did well.

But I think there is actually potential for a game like that to be cool, it mainly got roasted because the Wii U didn't get a mainline Animal Crossing and that's what people wanted lol.
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Oh it didn't but people do have those cards. Those cards were hunted down during the height of New Horizons. Some of those cards were being sold for extreme prices on ebay too lmao.
 
Cerlinho said:
Are we expecting GB/GBA games this time?
GCN looks like a fever dream. Maybe in Switch 2
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My current thinking is that NSO is going to get GB games, while Expansion Pack members will get GBA and also PC-Engine/TurboGrafx16 games. That said, new NSO console additions have historically always happened in September and I don’t think they’re gonna change that.

I feel like GCN games are frankly too big and too much work to simply make a one-emulator-fits-all solution like the currently existing NSO apps. What I think they’re gonna do there is create a new brand of GameCube Remasters (called like, “GameCube Classics”) and sell them a la carte. These won’t be simple ports either. It’s not THAT much work to get GameCube games, who, aged graphics aside, tend to be much more in-line with a modern video game in terms of content and structure, to feel like a good-looking, complete-enough product to sell again, maybe for a reduced price. For example, I think Wind Waker HD and Twilight Princess HD could eventually come to Switch under this potential sub-brand. We could also see the HD port of Super Mario Sunshine re-appear under this sub-brand, along with those rumoured Metroid Prime and F-Zero GX HD Remasters. There’s plenty of potential there, and I think we’re at exactly the right time in the 20-ish year window where kids who grew up with the GameCube have disposable income and nostalgia.

I think they could tie this GameCube Classics brand into NSO too, by offering a Bluetooth GameCube controller only to subscribers to purchase, and maybe offering NSO+EP subscribers a substantial discount on the individual releases.

Bonus funtime prediction I don’t actually think will come true: they’ll sell GameCube Classics physically and the case spines will be GameCube Indigo instead of red
 
Barely Able said:


Kat usually is on this, so might get some more insight on this.
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I honestly suspect Nintendo told the E3 organisers that the event doesn't fit their marketing and product plans for 2023, and that's where the 'no major games after Zelda' and 'lighter second half' reports have come from. As has been said, I find it bizarre to think (that even if it were true) Nintendo would be up front about that with an external actor instead of trying to put a neutral or positive spin on the situation.

Either that or Nintendo are putting out a dieting game later this year and that somehow got confused with 'light software slate'.
SirShorse said:
I checked this btw, don't have an exact timestamp and don't know the words used verbatim but I think he said something along the lines of "Everything I've heard points to the week of the 6th, somewhere late in that week"
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Next week seems pretty reasonable, all things considered.

Nintendo Fasting Sim will be revealed for a winter 2023 release, confirming the lighter software slate.
 
Linkstrikesback said:
I gave up and bought a bunch of GB/GBC games on the 3ds recently so when this gets announced, you're all welcome for my sacrifice.
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Josh5890 said:
I bought a GBA and DS game on the Wii-U the other night. We share the burden.
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Still holding out but will buy the rest of that stuff the end of this month. Have lost of the GBA games already (thanks ambassador status) but might get some particularly hard to justify the physical price DS games. Plus my 3DS DLC/games. Gonna be an expensive month
 
Josh5890 said:
If what Nate said is true about the GB/GBC player being ready for a couple of years now, I have to imagine that we will get those games this year. I don't think Nintendo wants to go two years without adding another system to the plan. GBA is a toss up, but I think that is an expansion pack add on a year or so after GB/GBC.

Gamecube is a Switch 2 thing at best.
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I do think we'll see all the Gameboys added at the same time. The only way I don't see GBA happening with the other Gameboys is if GBA is coming at the same time as the GC and Nintendo makes a big deal about the two apps being able to link together. I could see that being a selling point of why NSO on Switch 2 is even better and worth $50 per year since Nintendo will probably drop the $20 tier
 
Dark Cloud said:
I can understand the thought in some peoples mind a 2D DK isn’t a major release, but sheet that’s a huge release for me.
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And this is something I always found funny. Like 2D DK and Mario alike are both multi-million sellers with high ceilings. They'll absolutely be "major". Just not in the same way the hardcore base sees Re-Prime and Prime 4.
 
Captain Falcon said:
I’ll be honest, if all I got was the following games this year, I’d be ecstatic:

  • Tears of the Kingdom
  • Pikmin 4
  • 2D Mario or DK (holiday title)
  • Metroid Prime Remastered
  • F-Zero GX Remastered
And that seems very reasonable if not likely. Nintendo will have some title of significance to anchor the holiday this year and it won’t be an Ultra Smash type game given the size of the install base.
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Let's not forget, if the rumours are true, Baten Kaitos remaster/remake will be this year.

If anything, I'm beyond satisfied and dare I say spoilt? Especially coming from the 3ds. We even got 3rd party ports that I dreamed of such as Persona and Nier.
 
Mario and his hairy friends are definitely major. That does not matter if they don't release this year

If they do, we can all hoot and holler and point and laugh at Dring and Robinson. I believe Dring's and Robinson's commentary as it pertains to E3 is shaky, even if they are correct in their augury as it pertains to Nintendo's release schedule
 
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