The January 2017 event was, IMO, the last stage presentation they’ll ever do. At the time it absolutely showed, first hand, the limitations of that kind of event. It aired at like, midnight in North America’s Eastern Time Zone, and while they did broadcast it with realtime English dubbing, it was obvious that the moment someone went off-script (cough Suda51 cough) the translator/voice over struggled to keep up.
Only way I can see 3D Mario being a September Direct announcement is if they want to give the February Direct spotlight to Zelda and don't show Mario there instead.
Metroid Prime Remastered: 99%
Nope they were never debunked.
It was, in fact! Where people get mixed up is not 1,087°C, but rather 1,087 K
Now I hate TGS. It took my Spacworld away. I remember seeing all the cool Spaceworld announcements and sets and stuff in my GamePro and EGM magazines. Y'all remember magazines? They should bring back Nintendo Power too. I'd subscribe.
Simultaneous Space Worlds across the globe!
)Beeeeeeeg same. Let the Zeldas and Mario and Metroid Primes get their remasters; maybe Pikmins too, but I want my Custom Robo, Chibi Robo, Starfox Adventures, Double Dash and Melee available to me because they ain't gonna be getting remasters or new entries any damn time soon.
Switch is more than capable if Super Mario Sunshine is anything to go by; the biggest hassle will be storage space given the average gamecube game is about 1.2GB on average, but personally I think that could easily be rectified by using a Gamecube NSO applet as a shell that allows you to individually pick which games you want to download to your Switch for offline play.
That's my bet too, but maybe I'll change my mind if we don't have any concrete rumors over the next week.
Wasn’t Sunshine a purpose-built emulation/source-port hybrid? Or was that Galaxy? I don’t remember. I believe I remember someone who knows emulator stuff saying that, just because they did Sunshine, doesn’t mean Gamecube emulation is even remotely “easy.”
iirc Galaxy is the hybrid, and Sunshine is straight
Dunno if Nintendo would keep Apple's keynotes in mind for their planning, but a Direct with Splatoon 3 Single Player deets it's important to me, don't hurt me multi players, Zelda 2 it's NEVEAR releasing though and Metroid Prime they're probably sitting on this would be sweet.Rumors floating around that the Apple Event is on the 7th, with iPhone launching the 16th.
Apple reportedly plans iPhone and Apple Watch event for September 7
New chips, new cameras, and the death of the iPhone mini are all possibilities.arstechnica.com
I'm squarely in the 9/1 camp now. We still don't have any idea about the Splatoon 3 single-player campaign and they cheekily skipped right over that in the direct. That's easy enough to drop into a Direct the week before launch. They did this with Splatoon 2 when they dropped it onto the end of the ARMS direct a month before launch.
Still feeling like we'll see an Indie World next week, but I could easily see them rolling up indie stuff into the start of a general direct too.
Nintendo never does TGS which is why Space World used to happen.
It is, but barely. It’d require a lot of work/optimization/tricks to have a great, accurate emulation on a good selection of GC games.
Tokyo Game Show is more reliable a Direct-indicator than E3. Hey, it’ll give ‘em a place to put a launch trailer.
So are people (in this thread) looking at the week/days before TGS for a Direct?
They can do a Direct before Splatweek or shortly before TGS. It's not happening on Splatweek.
I certainly am. This thread isn‘t a monolith, some people think it’s August 31/Sept 1, some think it’s Sept 7/8, some think the week after.
Hey, I’d LOVE a Direct the week before. Less waiting for us! I’m still thinking Sept. 7.
Although TGS was really late last year, Nintendo had their Direct on September 23rd, which was before TGS but I wouldn't rule out them doing something AFTER TGS.
Most Nintendo partners will probably want to show the games they have made a deal with Nintendo to be shown in a Direct in TGS. That is why it always happens before
This is a tweet from NCL last year saying they wouldn't participate in TGS Online 2021, but still held a Direct beforehand.
Yea I don’t think they’d bump it a week either, but I think that plus Splat and the fact they still need to put the Splat Single Player details out there makes me think it comes the week before instead of days before launch. That gives anyone who’s on the fence and wants single player reassurances time to get a pre-order in before retailers start shipping it out.
I don't think we're going to get any more single player details. We've already gotten two trailers. That's all we need.
No, I need to know what’s up with the Smallfry we’re taking care of
Ah, yeah, Galaxy was the hybrid port/recompiled for Switch but you're right in that the Gamecube emulator NERD built was only good for Sunshine; I forgot that people did try injecting other ISOs into that emulator and none were successful.
