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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST5| Uncharted Territory: Drake's Deception

When is the next general full-length Direct?

  • June

    Votes: 130 38.0%

  • July

    Votes: 40 11.7%

  • August

    Votes: 15 4.4%

  • September

    Votes: 129 37.7%

  • October

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • November

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • December

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • January

    Votes: 13 3.8%

  • February

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Never

    Votes: 11 3.2%
  • Total voters
    342
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I’m definitely really excited for the next Direct especially with Prime 4 having a strong chance to appear as the next huge game to look forward to with Zelda out, but a good part of me is just so overly content with the big parade of awesome games hitting over the next two months. I’m still wrapping up Advance Wars (11 War Room maps left!) and then we have Zelda tomorrow, Final Fantasy XVI and Rain Code in June, and then Trails Into Reverie and Pikmin 4 in July. Real chance the next five alone carry me through August into September, but then we have other cool stuff too in June/July like We Love Katamari, Street Fighter 6, and Ghost Trick to enjoy not to mention Mario Kart Wave 5 DLC likely in there too. Just an endless buffet of riches right now for video game fans.

All of that said, I am very curious what the Fall is looking like. We have Armored Core and Starfield in there, big undated stuff like Spider-Man and Alan Wake, and some smaller stuff like Disgaea and Boundless Trails, but everyone including Nintendo is largely pretty secretive about what’s going on in the back half of this year. Wild to think of all of the potential this year still has.
 
xghost777 said:
I’m definitely really excited for the next Direct especially with Prime 4 having a strong chance to appear as the next huge game to look forward to with Zelda out, but a good part of me is just so overly content with the big parade of awesome games hitting over the next two months. I’m still wrapping up Advance Wars (11 War Room maps left!) and then we have Zelda tomorrow, Final Fantasy XVI and Rain Code in June, and then Trails Into Reverie and Pikmin 4 in July. Real chance the next five alone carry me through August into September, but then we have other cool stuff too in June/July like We Love Katamari, Street Fighter 6, and Ghost Trick to enjoy not to mention Mario Kart Wave 5 DLC likely in there too. Just an endless buffet of riches right now for video game fans.

All of that said, I am very curious what the Fall is looking like. We have Starfield in there, big undated stuff like Spider-Man and Alan Wake, and some smaller stuff like Disgaea and Boundless Trails, but everyone including Nintendo is largely pretty secretive about what’s going on in the back half of this year. Wild to think of all of the potential this year still has.
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Yea with most people having a big backlog, the wait is not excruciating this time (especially with Zelda). But the excitement will always be on the back burner.
 
A few possibilities:

1 - No hardware for a year means it's business as usual--There are games coming out the second half of the year and they will be announced in a June direct, as normal.

2 - While the hardware is not coming out for a year, it will be announced sooner which will impact marketing plans for the summer. A big presentation diving into new games in Fall or Winter means there is little point in doing a direct in June, especially if a selling point of the new hardware is backwards compatibility (plays best on Super Switch!).

3 - Between those extremes, maybe the new hardware is not announced but because Nintendo is so focused on the future the current offerings are lacking enough that they don't feel a full general direct is warranted. Nintendo tweets out a couple of GameCube remasters and calls it a day.

Partner direct is likely no matter what for contractual reasons.
 
The translsated Q&A from Nintendo is now available and one of the answers was below (emphasis mine).

In terms of software, we will release a variety of new titles, starting with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Pikmin 4. We also plan to release paid add-on content for Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet as well as Splatoon 3, all of which we released last year.
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Nothing that wasn't already obvious, but confirmation that Pikmin 4 and DLC won't be the only new titles we see.
 
RaymondBryce said:
The translsated Q&A from Nintendo is now available and one of the answers was below (emphasis mine).



Nothing that wasn't already obvious, but confirmation that Pikmin 4 and DLC won't be the only new titles we see.
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Didn’t they have this language last quarter too? I’m having deja vu because I feel like that kicked off a big long discussion and speculation about new hardware or something to that effect.
 
shoptroll said:
Didn’t they have this language last quarter too? I’m having deja vu because I feel like that kicked off a big long discussion and speculation about new hardware or something to that effect.
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It's a variation on a statement that appears all the time in this kind of things, but I guess reading the doomer predictions over the last few months means Nintendo has to remind people that, as a videogame company, they do actually plan to release videogames.
 
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Didn’t they have this language last quarter too? I’m having deja vu because I feel like that kicked off a big long discussion and speculation about new hardware or something to that effect.
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Are the you thinking of this quote?

However, there are titles under development for Nintendo Switch, and new titles will continue to be proposed going forward
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That was just a generic statement about new Switch titles being propsoed. This time he is confiming that a variety of new titles will release after Pikmin 4.
 
The Q&A all hits on the usual points, with some new emphasis on movies for obvious reasons. There are actually a handful of interesting questions this time, including investors asking about how new hardware will affect annual playing users, about whether Nintendo believes they can achieve more than 140 to 160 million hardware sales if IP expansion efforts are successful, and whether Nintendo viewed the long period between NX's announcement and Switch's release as a strategy to repeat in the future. There's a question which asks if new hardware is even necessary if annual playing users continue to increase.

Each and every time Nintendo's response is largely non-specific, and reiterates what we already know their strategies are right now. One bit of very specific info we get is that people are currently playing classic Mario through NSO in slightly greater numbers. The only reason "we will continue to release new games" seems significant is because the extremely online community has convinced itself - with the help of some journalists - that Nintendo were going to significantly dial back software support for Switch after Zelda. Nintendo go on to say they won't rely on new games alone, and they also make no promises as to the number or nature of releases that are planned from this point on.

It's not all that revealing. Nintendo will continue to release games. They want more people to view their characters and buy their products. They will announce new hardware at the appropriate time. They want Nintendo Accounts to maintain long-term relationships with customers. They want annual playing users to remain high when any hardware transition happens, and are preparing for this challenge. In other words, they're doing the stuff they should be expected to do.
 
Won't bother to link it, but I had earlier predicted the terf game would be featured in the June direct. It just got delayed till November so I'm throwing that prediction out.
 
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I am taking a break after playing Zelda for about twelve hours (maybe a little more) and popped in here to see if indeed the game had brought this thread to a stop. I am not disappointed.
 
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Man I was already intrigued about DK's future but Return To Krocodile Isle got me on a high

Is K.Rool a popular enough character outside of smash (and the dkc fandom but i mean is his ballot victory indicative of a general popularity or more smash fan centric) that he'd be worth hyping cause I can imagine a trailer that opens with an in game cutscene then shows gameplay then ends with another ingame cutscene that's a shadowy figure in a chair (the one from DK64) and he turns around and its K.Rool and that ends not just said trailer but possibly the entire direct (maybe would be better as a start since Prime 4 100% has the end slot if it's ready to show itself)

But it might kinda just be like gameplay with the narrator and Kremlings show up during said segments which is a sign enough rather then being so grandiose
 
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Could you please provide any context for why you're posting these particular games? Are these the two games you'd like to see most in the next Direct?

Boy, i know i would love to see a Partners in Time remaster/remake. My favorite game in a series i love.
 
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Wow, the forum is even slower than I expected. Not that I'm complaining!

Anyway, this short segment from Kit & Krysta is a good watch, I recommend it. They don't share anything groundbreaking to people like us but it's a nice frame of reference for the possibilities this summer.

 
If Nintendo decides to do a 2022 2.0 on us in 2023 here's how I think they will do it.

So far, later in May there will likely be a new trailer for Pikmin 4, a release date reveal for Baiten Kaitos 1 & 2 HD and maybe a Pokemon Home update.

June will give us a Pikmin 4 direct then it will be followed up with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 5 released with Diddy, Funky, and Dixie as playable characters, they will also have a release date reveal for Splatoon 3's Side Order DLC and a final major update for Nintendo Switch Sports and then ending June with a Partners direct.

July will give us a shadowdrop reveal of F-Zero GX remaster coming in October.

August will give us a Pokémon presents revealing the release date of SV DLC Part 1 (October) & 2 (December) and then ending off with a gameplay reveal of Detective Pikachu 2 coming in early Spring 2024.

September will see a proper general direct with the release of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass Wave 6, the reveal of new Nintendo games like a Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door remaster releasing after this direct was over like Metroid Prime 1 remaster in the February 2023 direct, a FE4 remake coming in early Spring 2024, and then ending off with a gameplay reveal of Metroid Prime 4 coming in late Spring 2024.

October will see the reveal of Nintendo Switch 2 coming in Summer 2024 with 4 new Switch 2 exclusive Nintendo titles revealed to be coming in 2024.

Finally in late November there will be a direct dedicated to the DK expansion in Super Nintendo World Tokyo.
 
Raccoon said:
Wow, the forum is even slower than I expected. Not that I'm complaining!

Anyway, this short segment from Kit & Krysta is a good watch, I recommend it. They don't share anything groundbreaking to people like us but it's a nice frame of reference for the possibilities this summer.

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Didn't they make the same video last year
 
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They could skip a June Direct this year for all I care because I'll still be playing Zelda lol

And then Pikmin shortly after
 
I think it's just going to come down to how strongly Nintendo feels about their second half lineup. If they have some smaller games and one or two bigger games to balance it out, they will do a full Direct. If they only have the smaller stuff they will tweet out their GameCube remasters, NSO updates, and DLC and call it a day.
 
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Have we considered an early August Direct? Would be just before Gamescom and six months from the February Direct. It would also lead well into Nintendo Live. That way they have two Directs that are perfectly spaced from each other per year. I wouldn’t be opposed to it. Two great Directs vs three good ones.
 
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Have we considered an early August Direct? Would be just before Gamescom and six months from the February Direct. It would also lead well into Nintendo Live. That way they have two Directs that are perfectly spaced from each other per year. I wouldn’t be opposed to it. Two great Directs vs three good ones.
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Possible, but I feel like they'll keep it more like last year and just do small things here and there before TGS. I think that's the only real constant, there will be a Direct before TGS: Sometime before September 21st.
 
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Look before the fiscal report I felt yeah maybe no June direct but now like... 15 million, I'm sorry hardware thread, is way too high for Switch 1 alone if there is new hardware this year. It will not hit that if they announce, and I know they went "oh it probably won't hit it" but even as a goal, it's ridiculous. And if it's not this year they aren't announcing it before September imo. But 15 is too high to not have a 2d mario or something, I think TOTK + old Mario game boost with movie isn't quite enough (and I'd wager TOTK, well it will do great, heavily targets the existing ownerbase), but with a new game on top... maybe. But why just reveal it on twitter, like there's no reason when COVID was why they ever did that kinda thing, unless its genuinely the only thing they have to announce.

We are at minimum getting 2d mario announced before Pikmin 4 releases, I'd bet money.

So I'm still thinking something, but perhaps there's some weird reason that it ends up being not a direct
 
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Look before the fiscal report I felt yeah maybe no June direct but now like... 15 million, I'm sorry hardware thread, is way too high for Switch 1 alone if there is new hardware this year. It will not hit that if they announce, and I know they went "oh it probably won't hit it" but even as a goal, it's ridiculous. And if it's not this year they aren't announcing it before September imo. But 15 is too high to not have a 2d mario or something, I think TOTK + old Mario game boost with movie isn't quite enough (and I'd wager TOTK, well it will do great, heavily targets the existing ownerbase), but with a new game on top... maybe. But why just reveal it on twitter, like there's no reason when COVID was why they ever did that kinda thing, unless its genuinely the only thing they have to announce.

We are at minimum getting 2d mario announced before Pikmin 4 releases, I'd bet money.

So I'm still thinking something, but perhaps there's some weird reason that it ends up being not a direct
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I'd even argue we're getting two big games in H2. Mario and maybe something like DK? But not even one additional big game will be enough to hit that crazy 15M target.

All-in-all, 100% there's a direct next month.
 
I mean there's "100% a direct" until there isn't, idk

But the information we have doesn't make sense if there isn't
 
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If we are truly nearing the end of the Switch, I'm predicting 2D Mario, DK, and Metroid Prime 4 will be the last big three Switch games. It would be a great send off.
 
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If we are truly nearing the end of the Switch, I'm predicting 2D Mario, DK, and Metroid Prime 4 will be the last big three Switch games. It would be a great send off.
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I actually think that, much like with Wii U, a new Paper Mario will be one of the Switch's last titles.
 
Making a dumb bet on whether these teams show up in any summer presentations (if we even get any), which includes things like Pokemon Presents. I limited it to first-party teams and close affiliates. Feel free to use the template if you want.

  • EPD 3: Yes - Tears of the Kingdom DLC. I feel like Nintendo intentionally held off on a pre-release announcement due to how secretive they were about the base game to begin with.
  • EPD 4: Yes - Ring Fit Adventure 2 and/or Rhythm Heaven. Everybody's 1-2-Switch? Stinky Horse? Never heard of it.
  • EPD 5: Yes - Splatoon 3: Side Order.
  • EDP 7: Yes - Tomodachi Life? I think something is definitely coming soon as Toru Minegishi was credited under the group almost a year ago, despite working on Splatoon 3.
  • EPD 8: No - I think at least one of their two known games will show up this year, but not until September.
  • EPD 9: Yes - Mario Kart 8 BCP Wave 5.
  • EPD 10: Yes - Pikmin 4 and new 2D Mario.

  • Monolith Soft: Yes - Tears of the Kingdom DLC
  • NDcube: Yes - They pump out games at least every 2/3 years due to their collaborations with CAProduction and others. Some Super Mario Party leads (including Tatsumitsu Watanabe) have been absent since that game.
  • Retro Studios: Yes - It's time to see Prime 4, especially with Prime Remastered out.
  • Next Level Games: No - Too early since Strikers ended its content roll-out.
  • Nintendo Software Technology: No - There's obviously been something in the works since Bowser's Fury, but I don't think we're seeing it yet.
  • 1-UP Studio: Yes - Will probably show up on at least one of the EPD predictions unless they're too busy with the EPD 8 games.
  • iQue: No - Honestly, I wasn't even going to include this because we don't really know anything they've worked on besides the emulation for 3D All-Stars

  • Intelligent Systems: No - Engage DLC was recently released and I don't expect the rumoured FE4 remake to be revealed until September at the earliest. Also feels too early for a new WarioWare and Paper Mario (not too sure about the supposed TTYD remaster) and Pushmo/Pullblox unfortunately seems to be on ice.
  • HAL Laboratory: Yes - I still think that the staff absences we know about could indicate another release from HAL, but nothing Kirby-related. Likely a smaller game like Boxboy and Part-Time UFO. Could easily not show up until later in the year or even possibly next year.
  • Game Freak: Yes - Scarlet/Violet DLC.
  • Grezzo: Yes - But the twist here is that I think Jet Dragon (or whatever it ends up being called) will be self-published or at least not by Nintendo.
  • Good-Feel: No - With their self-published game completely disappearing, having long gaps between releases, and Covid, I'm not expecting another first-party game just yet.
  • Arika: Yes - Tetris 99 has essentially been an maintenance mode for at least a year now, only getting a handful of new themes. Most of the leads on both the EPD and Arika side haven't worked on anything since Super Mario Bros. 35. Pac-Man 99 lists an "Arika 99 Team" in the credits, so the series will probably continue. A possible shadowdrop in the next direct?
  • Arzest: Yes - OK, hear me out. Balan was a complete disaster and I can't imagine Square going back to Arzest anytime soon. Nintendo on the other hand have had a long partnership with the company, even if there games aren't exactly revered. As to what the game is, who knows?
  • Camelot: No - Super Rush released two years ago and I don't see their next game being revealed until it's close to launch. Not to mention that they're probably the only Nintendo affiliate that has actually gotten smaller in the last few years.
  • Creatures: Yes - I feel like Detective Pikachu 2 has to be at least shown this year.
  • indieszero: Yes - Has consistently been releasing Nintendo games every 2-3 years for a while now. I did a breakdown around a week ago that indicates that another one has probably been in development since Big Brain Academy.
  • MercurySteam: No - Too early for Metroid 6. Not much else needs to be said.
  • PlatinumGames: No - I'm pretty sure that Astral Chain 2 is happening, but two Bayonetta games recently released and Platinum has other games in development, so it feels too early.
  • Spike Chunsoft: Yes - More of a TPC affiliate than anything else, but it's been a while since the last Mystery Dungeon and that was a remake. Not to mention that copyright information from earlier this year on that Pokemon site.
  • Vanpool: No - Just released Return to Dream Land Deluxe.
  • Bandai Namco: Yes - There have been reports that Nintendo has commissioned a number of remasters. We know Namco has been working on one since at least September/October 2021. Not expecting Pokken and definitely not Smash.
  • Koei Tecmo: No - Unless Buddy Mission: BOND gets localized, nothing for this year. Three Hopes was only last year and if KT is involved with the next FE, Nintendo probably wants to give Engage more room to breathe.
 
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I'd even argue we're getting two big games in H2. Mario and maybe something like DK? But not even one additional big game will be enough to hit that crazy 15M target.

All-in-all, 100% there's a direct next month.
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I don't know if people don't think there won't be a direct. It's about what the direct will be; general, mini, or partner. You can't say 100% either way lol
 
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Completely random prediction not based on anything: NST has been co-developing the Donkey Kong game since Bowser’s Fury wrapped, and it will be a game for the original switch that we will see this summer alongside the 2D Mario in the same kind of synergy we saw in the movie
 
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N75 said:
Making a dumb bet on whether these teams show up in any summer presentations (if we even get any), which includes things like Pokemon Presents. I limited it to first-party teams and close affiliates. Feel free to use the template if you want.

  • EPD 3: Yes - Tears of the Kingdom DLC. I feel like Nintendo intentionally held off on a pre-release announcement due to how secretive they were about the base game to begin with.
  • EPD 4: Yes - Ring Fit Adventure 2 and/or Rhythm Heaven. Everybody's 1-2-Switch? Stinky Horse? Never heard of it.
  • EPD 5: Yes - Splatoon 3: Side Order.
  • EDP 7: Yes - Tomodachi Life? I think something is definitely coming soon as Toru Minegishi was credited under the group almost a year ago, despite working on Splatoon 3.
  • EPD 8: No - I think at least one of their two known games will show up this year, but not until September.
  • EPD 9: Yes - Mario Kart 8 BCP Wave 5.
  • EPD 10: Yes - Pikmin 4 and new 2D Mario.

  • Monolith Soft: Yes - Tears of the Kingdom DLC
  • NDcube: Yes - They pump out games at least every 2/3 years due to their collaborations with CAProduction and others. Some Super Mario Party leads (including Tatsumitsu Watanabe) have been absent since that game.
  • Retro Studios: Yes - It's time to see Prime 4, especially with Prime Remastered out.
  • Next Level Games: No - Too early since Strikers ended its content roll-out.
  • Nintendo Software Technology: No - There's obviously been something in the works since Bowser's Fury, but I don't think we're seeing it yet.
  • 1-UP Studio: Yes - Will probably show up on at least one of the EPD predictions unless they're too busy with the EPD 8 games.
  • iQue: No - Honestly, I wasn't even going to include this because we don't really know anything they've worked on besides the emulation for 3D All-Stars

  • Intelligent Systems: No - Engage DLC was recently released and I don't expect the rumoured FE4 remake to be revealed until September at the earliest. Also feels too early for a new WarioWare and Paper Mario (not too sure about the supposed TTYD remaster) and Pushmo/Pullblox unfortunately seems to be on ice.
  • HAL Laboratory: Yes - I still think that the staff absences we know about could indicate another release from HAL, but nothing Kirby-related. Likely a smaller game like Boxboy and Part-Time UFO. Could easily not show up until later in the year or even possibly next year.
  • Game Freak: Yes - Scarlet/Violet DLC.
  • Grezzo: Yes - But the twist here is that I think Jet Dragon (or whatever it ends up being called) will be self-published or at least not by Nintendo.
  • Good-Feel: No - With their self-published game completely disappearing, having long gaps between releases, and Covid, I'm not expecting another first-party game just yet.
  • Arika: Yes - Tetris 99 has essentially been an maintenance mode for at least a year now, only getting a handful of new themes. Most of the leads on both the EPD and Arika side haven't worked on anything since Super Mario Bros. 35. Pac-Man 99 lists an "Arika 99 Team" in the credits, so the series will probably continue. A possible shadowdrop in the next direct?
  • Arzest: Yes - OK, hear me out. Balan was a complete disaster and I can't imagine Square going back to Arzest anytime soon. Nintendo on the other hand have had a long partnership with the company, even if there games aren't exactly revered. As to what the game is, who knows?
  • Camelot: No - Super Rush released two years ago and I don't see their next game being revealed until it's close to launch. Not to mention that they're probably the only Nintendo affiliate that has actually gotten smaller in the last few years.
  • Creatures: Yes - I feel like Detective Pikachu 2 has to be at least shown this year.
  • indieszero: Yes - Has consistently been releasing Nintendo games every 2-3 years for a while now. I did a breakdown around a week ago that indicates that another one has probably been in development since Big Brain Academy.
  • MercurySteam: No - Too early for Metroid 6. Not much else needs to be said.
  • PlatinumGames: No - I'm pretty sure that Astral Chain 2 is happening, but two Bayonetta games recently released and Platinum has other games in development, so it feels too early.
  • Spike Chunsoft: Yes - More of a TPC affiliate than anything else, but it's been a while since the last Mystery Dungeon and that was a remake. Not to mention that copyright information from earlier this year on that Pokemon site earlier this year.
  • Vanpool: No - Just released Return to Dream Land Deluxe.
  • Bandai Namco: Yes - There have been reports that Nintendo has commissioned a number of remasters. We know Namco has been working on one since at least September/October 2021. Not expecting Pokken and definitely not Smash.
  • Koei Tecmo: No - Unless Buddy Mission: BOND gets localized, nothing for this year. Three Hopes was only last year and if KT is involved with the next FE, Nintendo probably wants to give Engage more room to breathe.
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I'd agree with a lot of this. I suspect EPD 10's games - Pikmin 4 and especially Mario - plus Zelda and Pokemon DLC might be major focuses for the second half of this year. I've barely scratched the surface with Zelda, but I'm really hoping Nintendo return to their abandoned 'Second Quest' idea from Skyward Sword (I don't want to say too much in case this spoils stuff for people; like I said, I've only done the opening tutorial area, but I think I've got a sense of what could work as an expansion). I'd hope for a meaty expansion from EPD 3 this time, but who knows. My suspicion for EPD4 is they work together with indieszero on something for later this year; I think EPD4 will also be working on an early title for new hardware. I think Intelligent Systems might turn up; perhaps only in a supervisory capacity for a Paper Mario remaster, but with FE Engage having been largely finished back in 2021, and with WarioWare and Origami King having wrapped up in 2020, IS have had time to get something together. A new eShop only game from them would be interesting, but it's not clear if they're doing anything like that these days. Similarly, if HAL turn up, I'd hope for another small scale eShop title from HAL Egg.

I'd expect the Pokemon DLC and anything like Detective Pikachu and a Spike Chunsoft game to be in a Pokemon Presents, but I'd also guess that takes place by the end of June so that any Pokemon titles for the second half of the year or early 2024 are announced and accounted for.
 
N75 said:
Making a dumb bet on whether these teams show up in any summer presentations (if we even get any), which includes things like Pokemon Presents. I limited it to first-party teams and close affiliates. Feel free to use the template if you want.

  • EPD 3: Yes - Tears of the Kingdom DLC. I feel like Nintendo intentionally held off on a pre-release announcement due to how secretive they were about the base game to begin with.
  • EPD 4: Yes - Ring Fit Adventure 2 and/or Rhythm Heaven. Everybody's 1-2-Switch? Stinky Horse? Never heard of it.
  • EPD 5: Yes - Splatoon 3: Side Order.
  • EDP 7: Yes - Tomodachi Life? I think something is definitely coming soon as Toru Minegishi was credited under the group almost a year ago, despite working on Splatoon 3.
  • EPD 8: No - I think at least one of their two known games will show up this year, but not until September.
  • EPD 9: Yes - Mario Kart 8 BCP Wave 5.
  • EPD 10: Yes - Pikmin 4 and new 2D Mario.

  • Monolith Soft: Yes - Tears of the Kingdom DLC
  • NDcube: Yes - They pump out games at least every 2/3 years due to their collaborations with CAProduction and others. Some Super Mario Party leads (including Tatsumitsu Watanabe) have been absent since that game.
  • Retro Studios: Yes - It's time to see Prime 4, especially with Prime Remastered out.
  • Next Level Games: No - Too early since Strikers ended its content roll-out.
  • Nintendo Software Technology: No - There's obviously been something in the works since Bowser's Fury, but I don't think we're seeing it yet.
  • 1-UP Studio: Yes - Will probably show up on at least one of the EPD predictions unless they're too busy with the EPD 8 games.
  • iQue: No - Honestly, I wasn't even going to include this because we don't really know anything they've worked on besides the emulation for 3D All-Stars

  • Intelligent Systems: No - Engage DLC was recently released and I don't expect the rumoured FE4 remake to be revealed until September at the earliest. Also feels too early for a new WarioWare and Paper Mario (not too sure about the supposed TTYD remaster) and Pushmo/Pullblox unfortunately seems to be on ice.
  • HAL Laboratory: Yes - I still think that the staff absences we know about could indicate another release from HAL, but nothing Kirby-related. Likely a smaller game like Boxboy and Part-Time UFO. Could easily not show up until later in the year or even possibly next year.
  • Game Freak: Yes - Scarlet/Violet DLC.
  • Grezzo: Yes - But the twist here is that I think Jet Dragon (or whatever it ends up being called) will be self-published or at least not by Nintendo.
  • Good-Feel: No - With their self-published game completely disappearing, having long gaps between releases, and Covid, I'm not expecting another first-party game just yet.
  • Arika: Yes - Tetris 99 has essentially been an maintenance mode for at least a year now, only getting a handful of new themes. Most of the leads on both the EPD and Arika side haven't worked on anything since Super Mario Bros. 35. Pac-Man 99 lists an "Arika 99 Team" in the credits, so the series will probably continue. A possible shadowdrop in the next direct?
  • Arzest: Yes - OK, hear me out. Balan was a complete disaster and I can't imagine Square going back to Arzest anytime soon. Nintendo on the other hand have had a long partnership with the company, even if there games aren't exactly revered. As to what the game is, who knows?
  • Camelot: No - Super Rush released two years ago and I don't see their next game being revealed until it's close to launch. Not to mention that they're probably the only Nintendo affiliate that has actually gotten smaller in the last few years.
  • Creatures: Yes - I feel like Detective Pikachu 2 has to be at least shown this year.
  • indieszero: Yes - Has consistently been releasing Nintendo games every 2-3 years for a while now. I did a breakdown around a week ago that indicates that another one has probably been in development since Big Brain Academy.
  • MercurySteam: No - Too early for Metroid 6. Not much else needs to be said.
  • PlatinumGames: No - I'm pretty sure that Astral Chain 2 is happening, but two Bayonetta games recently released and Platinum has other games in development, so it feels too early.
  • Spike Chunsoft: Yes - More of a TPC affiliate than anything else, but it's been a while since the last Mystery Dungeon and that was a remake. Not to mention that copyright information from earlier this year on that Pokemon site.
  • Vanpool: No - Just released Return to Dream Land Deluxe.
  • Bandai Namco: Yes - There have been reports that Nintendo has commissioned a number of remasters. We know Namco has been working on one since at least September/October 2021. Not expecting Pokken and definitely not Smash.
  • Koei Tecmo: No - Unless Buddy Mission: BOND gets localized, nothing for this year. Three Hopes was only last year and if KT is involved with the next FE, Nintendo probably wants to give Engage more room to breathe.
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I fully agree with the list, with the exception of mercury steam. I know this year we have had prime remastered and hopefully we will see prime 4 soon, but I think we can see a port of Samus returns before Metroid 6. Maybe next year as 2023 is metroid-filled.
 
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