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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%
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Alright, I'm going to respond to my own prompt now, and I'm going to deviate very heavily from the timeline I laid out for the last one. I'm a speculator at heart, not an analyst.

To start, I'm going with a general Nintendo Direct on this Thursday, June 15. It will be announced tomorrow morning in US time, giving us an agonizing two day wait until it airs. Additionally, I'm going with the September Direct airing timing for no other reason than it working better with my work schedule this week.

That's all fluff though. Let's get into the meat and potatoes, as it were.


Nintendo Direct: June 2023

Xenoblade Warriors
Surprise! The cold open is the Nintendo Warriors game that only a few had anticipated. While it hasn't been long since Three Hopes, I think that the timing could work out if we assume that it was held after completion. October 13, 3023

Koizumi
How was that? Let's get into oUr FiRsT bAtCh oF NiNtEnDo sWiTcH HeAdLiNeS

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Mario Party 11
Yes, we're doing this. Restarting the series right where we left off in 2015, Mario Party 11 will probably actually take after Super Mario Party or even Superstars. Incidentally, the latter's baffling exclusion of the former in its gallery makes me believe a new game will be numbered 11. September 8, 2023

Farmfuck
Welcome to Farmington, the sleepy town where you've just moved in Farmfuck, the new relaxing farming game from Square or Namco or something. Gather materials, craft using recipes, and otherwise funnel your dwindling time on Earth into an experience that is as banal as it is exhausting. October.

Rabbids DLC
Oh my god, they made another one of these? I don't know or care what it'll be like or when it'll come out.

OTHER STUFF
I'll be checking Discord at this point.
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Koizumi
How was that? Here's Miyamoto, he's kinda like my boss or something.

Pikmin 4 segment
I expect a Miyamoto-led segment with a brief explanation of the game's loop, setting, story, and controls. What does dandori truly mean? I think it's important that they get fresh eyes on these details to expand the Pikmin audience rather than targeting existing fans.

Tezuka jumpscare
Hello everyone, I'm Takashi Tezuka, shadow king of Mario. Today I'd like to talk about the Mario Bros. It's been about forty years since the Mario Bros. arcade game, and Mario has changed a lot in that time. We've made many 2D Mario platformers, and most recently games where players can make Mario courses themselves. However, today I'd like to show you the Mario that we made. Please take a look.

Super Mario Bros. & Co.
This will be a 2D Mario with a 3D art style focused on physical materials and realistic and beautiful baked lighting. Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad all appear in signature Mario overalls (TEZUKA: with this new art style we thought it'd look a little silly for Princess Peach to run and jump in a dress), all working for the titular Super Mario Bros. & Co. The game starts out with urban levels and proceeds underground, to the countryside, to the coast, and beyond. November 17, 2023

God damn it it's Koizumi again
I hope you all like Mario. Wahoo! Headlines!

[headlines]
A high speed racer returns
Yeah, we're doing F-ZERO GXDX and fuck yeah it's a shadowdrop. Physicals will ship with the new Joy-Con colors, which are not just timed for the (presumably limited) Everybody 1-2 Switch. F-ZERO looks good but the music is still rough.

RPGeezers
Envious of the young and spry, the evil Googlamesh has used his archaic magic to turn the denizens of the fair kingdom of Pruneberry into cantankerous elderly forms. Slowly travel the world and seek out the strongest among the artifically aged population to join your party and banish Googlamesh to bed with a warm glass of milk. 2024

Other stuff again

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass
God, I don't care. Check the thread, they've all guessed the tracks that'll be in. Call me for the final wave with Kyoto Kartway.
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Koizumi
Well, how was that shit? We're almost done with today's Nintendo Direct, but first we have a message from Mr. Aonuma, producer of the Legend of Zelda series. Mr. Aonuma?

Mr. Aonuma time
Hello everyone, I'm Mr. Aonuma, producer of the Legend of Zelda series. Today I have some updates to share about the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. Zelda has sold a bajillion copies, so I'd like to thank the dedicated fans. I'm glad that our work paid off. Later this year we'll release a free update for the game that includes a more difficult Master Mode and some other tweaks to the experience. This will be the only planned update for the game as we move on to our next grand adventure. However, please take a look at these.

GANONDORF AND ZELDA AMIIBO
These amiibo figures of Ganondorf and Princess Zelda will be available later this year. You can use them to get new gliders for in the game. I hope that everyone buys two of each and that I get a commission on them. Thank you everyone.

Koizumi returns
How was that? The next segment will be our last announcement. Please take a look.

Metroid Prime 4: Isolation
Whatever, it's been long enough since that Alien game, we'll be fine. It's four syllables! The game looks great somehow, easily as good as Metroid Prime Remastered, and is coming on October 27, 2023.


Goodness, that was almost as exhausting as the 18 month timeline. I hope you all enjoyed reading! Here are a few notes:

  • Splatoon 3 Side Order seems unlikely to appear based on it having just been teased in February
  • I've thought Mario would open the Direct for ages, but I now see it as something that they'll want to preface with a developer like Pikmin 4
  • In fact, I snuck in a lot of developer segments. This wasn't really intentional, but it feels appropriate for what was once E3 season, doesn't it?
  • Xenoblade Warriors is based entirely on Xenoblade Chronicles 3 being prominently featured in the marketing of the current eShop sale, but it also feels appropriate and perfect to open a Direct
  • I'd have loved to put 2D Mario in September but the sale also featured Mario Party. I wanted both, didn't think they would be in consecutive months, and don't think Mario Party can carry November
  • No idea what this unhinged schedule means for Pokémon spinoffs, if anything
  • Tomodachi, Fire Emblem 4, and Thousand Year Door are all getting saved for later. Maybe September!
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Man I thought Nintendo was tightening up their announce-to-release windows but apparently they're opening with a game releasing a century millennium from now /s

Edit: I promise I can math
 
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chocolate_supra said:
Since one of my biggest problems with AoC was the way it undermined the backstory of BotW, and one of my biggest problems with TotK is how it undermines the timeline of a good chunk of the Zelda series overall, it sure would be funny if TotK gets its own AoC and then the way that AoC undermines TotK's backstory is by making it make sense in the wider Zelda lore again 🤣
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Ah, I get that coming from that perspective. But I'm past the point of caring about any timeline. It's all about vibes at this point, and the TotK vibes are my jam. I just want to spend so much more time with these characters, "canon" or not.

Phendrift said:
Honestly it’d probably be called

Hyrule Warriors: The Imprisoning War, if it takes place in the past depicted in TOTK.

Iirc there was nothing considered the Upheaval in the past, that was the present day event that we actually experienced in TotK

But yeah, there absolutely room to milk that in another HW lol
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That's true. Honestly, I'd fully expect the game to pull another AoC and just throw the whole kitchen sink/both time periods in there. So either would work.

But yeah, with the way TotK is exploding, and the fact that AoC is easily the best selling Musuo ever... you'd think it'd be an obvious choice.
 
Anyways I'm now unreasonably excited for Xenoblade Warriors

Time to create the endless now so I can play it in 1000 years
 
Starphanluke said:
Ah, I get that coming from that perspective. But I'm past the point of caring about any timeline. It's all about vibes at this point, and the TotK vibes are my jam. I just want to spend so much more time with these characters, "canon" or not.



That's true. Honestly, I'd fully expect the game to pull another AoC and just throw the whole kitchen sink/both time periods in there. So either would work.

But yeah, with the way TotK is exploding, and the fact that AoC is easily the best selling Musuo ever... you'd think it'd be an obvious choice.
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Oh yeah, there’d have to be even more timey wimey shit than AOC lol.

Anyone who’s not Zelda, Ganondorf, Rauru, Sonia, Mineru or the four unnamed sages would have to be pulled back in time. Including our Link. Hell they’d probably pull the BotW Champions who weren’t even in TOTK back too while they’re at it, the movesets are made and they’re popular enough.

Honestly it’d be kinda cool if they went an HW Legends route with it. Original campaign and roster + the new stuff
 
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Brofield said:
Can I get a vibe check in here? How are we feeling for ~10 hours from now?
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I give a 15% chance for announcement tomorrow, 10% for Wednesday, and a 75% chance for next Tuesday. IIRC, don't all Directs in a given year (not including E3) typically fall on the same day of the week? Since the Feb direct was on a Wednesday, wouldn't the next Direct be as well?
 
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chocolate_supra said:
This game has been a curling monkey paw since the beginning so I wouldn't be surprised 😅
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So I was checking Nintendo's previous NA E3/Summer sales start dates


2017:
Direct on 6/14
Sale on 6/13

2018:
Direct on 6/12
Sale on 6/14

2019:
Direct on 6/11
Sale on 6/11

2021:
Direct on 6/15
Sale on 6/15

2022:
Direct on 6/28
Sale on 6/23

2023
Direct on 6/??
Sale on 6/12


If the pattern holds up, I think we get our announcement tomorrow
 
i hope, i truly hope nintendo chooses mp4's subtitle well. Dont come to me with some bs like "revelations, origins, odyssey, isolation, outrage, corruption, echoes, inquisition, extraction, destruction" The problem is that subtitles have to feel "powerful" and that's where the trouble begins.

Ideally, remove the "4" as well.
 
I said it elsewhere but if we get a new Hyrule Warriors I want it to be more like Hyrule Warriors 1 and draw from the whole series and not be TotK centric. Like you can have the story be TotK centric, but just go crazy and bring everyone in.
 
Mandos said:
You assume it’s a new dynasty warriors and not something else. Sometimes they let things simmer
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In this case, it's largely because series producer Suzuki basically promised that this year would be the year for an announcement. If trends hold up, that translates to looking at TGS in a few months.

The only reason I could see him breaking that kind of vow is if Suzuki somehow goy the "dream" to make a Star Wars Musou land in his lap within the last few years. Otherwise...I think the designated Nintendo-collab Musou effort can wait a year or so.
 
shoptroll said:
Seriously, y'all I'm full right now.
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This is where I've been at for over a year, lol. Ever since the end of 2021 I haven't been starved for games, in fact I can't keep up with even the ones I seriously want to play, let alone those I'd give a try if I had the time to/had a free spot, hah. I'm still caught in early to mid 2022, looking at what I'm playing right now. :'D
 
Mirev said:
I feel Pokémon this week, Nintendo the next one.
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Tbh Idk.
I think that if they want to do a Pokemon Presents, this is the best moment to do it and usually Pokemon Presents are before Nintendo Directs.
But idk, the sales starting on Monday instead of Tuesday was sus + sales week = direct week… so…
 
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Andre3333456 said:
I don't think that a Xenoblade Warriors will be revealed until like 2024.
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The Musou priority is probably fast-tracking Hyrule Warriors: TOTK edition at this point, which would likely sell a good amount more than even a mainline Xenoblade game would.

I don’t know KT’s development pipeline well though, maybe they’re capable of handling a bunch at once.

Spin-offs also make sense when the main series takes a while between entries. Monolith’s managed to put out a fuckton of XC content on their own. XC2, Torna, XCDE, XC3 and Future Redeemed all hit in the time between BotW and TotK.

But yeah, as awesome an idea that Xenoblade Warriors would be, I’m not sure the sales potential justifies it. Hell do we even know if Three Hopes was considered a success? Don’t really remember it making that much noise, which is a shame because I quite liked it through an “alternate retelling” of Three Houses lens. Always down to spend more time in Fodlan with those characters.
 
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HockeyBird said:
Since we're all bored and looking for ways to avoid playing our games, let's talk about the last one or two announcements that you want to see that would "complete" the Switch library for you personally. We've seen 3D Mario, 3D Zeldas, Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, return of 2D Metroid, even Pokemon Snap. But what's left? Obviously Nintendo isn't going to bring every single one of their franchises to the system with a new entry but what are your one or two unannounced games that you think are missing from the Switch Library.

For me personally, it's

-Brand new, original 2D Zelda
-A revival of an old Nintendo IP but with a take on it (Think Kid Icarus: Uprising)

2D Zelda goes without saying. I love the 3D games but it's always nice to a more compact Zelda experience which the 2D games have provided. It's been nearly 10 years since A Link Between Worlds and I would like to see another original 2D game soon. As for the old Nintendo IP revival, I just think it's cool when an old franchise is brought back in a fresh way. I really didn't enjoy the original Kid Icarus games but Uprising was a lot of fun and I thought it was a good to bring back those characters and world.
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New 2D Zelda, new Donkey Kong, and new Wario Land would complete Switch for me.
 
if there is going to be a direct this month, i strongly feel it will be announced next Tuesday so it can be away from all these other announcements
 
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Mango said:
I don't think we'll get anything this month but if we do it'll be a partner direct.
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I would happy anyway tbh, I had already received the two first-party games that I was waiting for (Fire Emblem Engage and Tears of the Kingdom) so I wouldn't mind a partner direct next.
My next most anticipated games are Professor Layton (but I doubt I'll see the game in a showcase before the beginning of 2024) and Metaphor (I don't expect this to come to switch at all).
Also I want to see the next Team Asano game (please be Bravely Third. PLEASE.)
 
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Are we gonna do the Triangle Strategy update means no Direct this week because wouldn’t it be in there? Or are we happy that, like Everybody 1-2 Switch, isn’t a very Direct-type deal (Especially if they have another HD2D game brewing)?
 
Mr Doggo said:
i hope, i truly hope nintendo chooses mp4's subtitle well. Dont come to me with some bs like "revelations, origins, odyssey, isolation, outrage, corruption, echoes, inquisition, extraction, destruction" The problem is that subtitles have to feel "powerful" and that's where the trouble begins.
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Metroid Prime: FUCK
 
Mr Doggo said:
i hope, i truly hope nintendo chooses mp4's subtitle well. Dont come to me with some bs like "revelations, origins, odyssey, isolation, outrage, corruption, echoes, inquisition, extraction, destruction" The problem is that subtitles have to feel "powerful" and that's where the trouble begins.

Ideally, remove the "4" as well.
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Echoes sounds cool!
Metroid Prime 4: Echoes of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
It rolls off the tongue!
 
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