I don't know, I don't really feel like this thread was made too early. While maybe in hindsight, just to make sure it stayed more active in the lull time before everything, it could have been made a little later, it is fairly possible that with how different things are this year, the thread would've been made a lot closer to when the direct airs opposed to the month or so before like usual, limiting a lot of the speculation and discussion we could of had about it. As some have already mentioned, after the whole diabolical that the February Direct/Partner Direct Speculation ended up being, with a lot of undeserved hate being aimed towards those that usually are the ones that speak about Nintendo Direct dates, it's possible that many people are going to stay on the down low for a while, even if they know anything just to avoid that happening again. In a lot of ways, I feel like we are really lucky that Brazil mentioned what they were hearing.
I also just, generally, do feel like with how different Nintendo is planning for this year to be, it's just possible that it's harder to pinpoint when the Direct will happen because this isn't a usual months for them. If anything, I feel like we should go off the past Indie World schedule if we want to put any dates down for timing predictions (and this doesn't even account for a possible Indie World that would likely be this week if everything goes to plan with our thinking). Also, being that at some point before December 31st, 2024, we are expecting some sort of reveal of the next Nintendo console that is beyond what we probably get at the investors meeting next month, it's possible Nintendo has made it harder for information to leak out, meaning we won't find out information weeks before but maybe a week or couple of days before, which then draws me back to if we waited for more solid information, it's possible this thread would've just been up for around a week or so. A lot of this is speculation on my end, and Nintendo making things more secure doesn't mean exactly that true Direct rumors shouldn't of started by now but I just think we still need to give it more time.
I said in a post earlier that if we don't hear anything by this coming Sunday, then I'd start to feel like it's possibly not this month (unless they want to do a Tuesday Direct on the 30th LOL) but I don't really think there's a reason to doom yet! Speculation is always fun and I do think this thread started at a good time as the expectation when it started on Super Mario Day was that the next larger information drop Nintendo would be doing, likely containing those games featured on March 10th, would be in a Direct!! There hasn't really been anything that's happened (outside of the fact that nothing has happened) that really has changed that idea!
