@Raccoon I think speculation calmed down mainly because our needs were all slowly met over July and no one doubts there will be a Splatoon Direct rather than people don’t like Splatoon. For the former part, the biggest questions walking into July were where was new hardware (there was none), where were the new games we wanted from a June Direct (we got Kirby), where was our DLC (we got Mario Kart, Strikers, and New Volleyball Moves), where was our Bayonetta 3 info (new trailer and release date), and what’s up with Pokemon (we got it). We also got two cool new games to play in this time with Live A Live and Xenoblade and the latter is a colossal feast for the ages that everybody and their grandmas should play.
So yeah most people are happy right now. Like I really want Splatoon, it and Bayonetta 3 are probably the last huge extra hype releases of the year for me (not counting Trails From Zero which I’m mainly super hyped about for other people to play), but it’s hard to be hungry with speculation when I’m so full elsewhere lol.