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The long-awaited delayed Nintendo Direct is finally here. At 11 pm UK time, or 3 pm PT, we'll be getting a 35 minute glimpse into what Nintendo has in store regarding future Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS titles. Stay tuned, as GBAtemp is covering every reveal live as it happens, and after it ends, we'll highlight the biggest announcements from the Direct.

Twitch
Nintendo UK Stream

Event Start

It begins...

Good news, Luigi is alive after the last direct. Luigi's Mansion 3 has been announced for next year! They're saving more info for a later direct.

Upcoming 3DS games:
Kirby's Epic Yarn 3DS port.
There's new abilities and minigames, and a new difficulty mode.
Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn launches 2019.

Bowser's Inside Story will have a little Bowser JR mode, launches Jan 11.

3DS version of Luigi's Mansion has 2 player local co-op. Oct 12 release.

YoKai Watch Blasters is getting some post launch content. New creatures, with the Sept 27 update.

Focusing on the Switch now:

Splatoon 2 update, gets a anime-styled intro as a joke showing off some new gameplay. More info coming soon on the labs.

Mega Man 11 footage. Oct 2.

Mario Tennis Aces will be getting a new update, with Birdo and Shy Guy, Paratroopa, and Petey Piranha. More to come later. Co-op challenge mode online with friends on Sept 19.

Capcom Beat em Up bundle, with Final Fight, King of Dragons, Captain Commando, Knights of the Round, Warriors of Fate, Armored Warriors and Battle Circuit. Online play. Sept 18. Pre purchase now.

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. Nabbit and Toadette mode. Luigi U as well, for free. Launches January 11.

Katamari gets HD treatment. Katamari Reroll.

Oh yeah, Nintendo Online is a thing, and now we get a look at more details.

Five features of membership: online play, NES games, cloud save data, smartphone app.

Official wireless NES controller Joy Cons, which have rails on the side to charge on the Dock. They'll cost $60.

Pokemon Let's Go. HMs are gone, replaced with secret techniques that only Pikachu or Eevee can learn.

Diablo 3 launch date. Nov 2.

Super Mario Party gets a gameplay trailer, with special minigames that require multiple Switch systems. 80 new minigames that have never been seen before. There's a singleplayer mode as well. Oct 5.

Game Freak is working on a new RPG game. Working title is Town. Has cell shaded graphics.

City Skylines is headed to the Switch. Both DLC packs are included. Launches today.

Daemon X Machina shows us some new details. You can defeat enemies to steal their abilities and weapons.

There's the confirmation of Yoshi's Crafted World. Lets you play levels backwards. Has local co-op. Spring 2019.

Tabletop games like Carcassone, Lord of the Rings Living Card Game, Pandemic are all coming to the Switch with local and online multiplayer. Catan and Munchkin also headed to the Switch as well.

Civ VI confirmation. Nov 16 launch.

Starlink gets more Star Fox promotional footage. Oct 16.

Warframe launches Nov 20. Just Dance, Team Sonic Racing, and FIFA 19 third party titles shown.

World of Final Fantasy gets a Switch port with additional content.

Final Fantasy Dungeon Chocobo's Tale gets a localization on the Switch. Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon.

Final Fantasy 12. 2019.

Smash is getting a LE system.


Isabelle for Smash. Nintendo is a troll.

Trailers

Spoiler: Trailers

Highlights

• Luigi's Mansion 3 will be coming next year for the Switch.
• Kirby's Epic Yarn is getting a 3DS port next year.
• New Super Mario Bros. U comes to Switch.
• Katamari Damacy 1 gets remade in HD as Reroll. Winter 2018.
• The Switch is getting some tabletop games like Carcassone, Settlers of Catan, and Pandemic are coming to the Switch with local and online coop.
• Yoshi's Crafted World confirmed.
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles gets online multiplayer in the remake that was totally a surprise.
• World of Final Fantasy Maxima launches Nov 6. (Revamped port of World of Final Fantasy)
• Final Fantasy VII, IX, and X, X-2 and XII are headed to the Switch next year. Notable lack of VIII.
• Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Everybody, localization of a Wii game, this Winter.
• Switch SSB bundle. Links to pictures are above.
• Isabelle joins Smash.
• ANIMAL CROSSING 2019.
• Assassin's Creed Odyssey will hit the Switch as a Cloud streamed title.

 

[Taleweaver]

Wow...I wasn't anticipating much since they had a direct with releases not too long ago. But this is pretty astonishing. Ninty certainly wasn't joking or overestimating when they said after E3 that more games were coming. Wow!


What surprises me most is Civilization 6 and (especially) City skylines. Seriously curious how they'll turn out.
EDIT: not so good, apparently.

And aside that...those virtual board games are like a wish coming true. I've said before that these were a booming genre, and those are some of the best coming on this platform!
Munchkin is the weirdest surprise. To my knowledge (and google-fu), there never was a munchkin video game before*.

always good to have a few arguments that might convince my girlfriend into getting a switch...

The board games. Carcassone, Catan and Pandemic? The real thing is better and more fun, but if the AI is good it's nice for a small game in-between. Sounds good.

I'm assuming that these are ports of the mobile versions. In that case, Carcassonne and Catan have solid AI's (my girlfriend plays these games a lot on her phone**). Pandemic doesn't have one. While that is obviously a miss, this really is a co-op experience***. Meaning: you really should be playing it with friends.



*as much as I love munchkin, I seriously doubt the humor will translate well into the digital realm
**note: carcassonne recently has a new version. I accidentally dabbled into this one yesterday (it was on a humble bundle not too long ago), but while at least serviceable, I can't yet say just how brutal the enemies might become
***more so: pandemic is pretty much THE co-op game. It's no overestimation to say that pandemic is to co-op games what Mario is to platformers)

 

[Rabbid4240]

New Super Mario Bros. U
Deluxe ...

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I wasn’t even happy, all they did is replace 2 characters!

RIP Blue Toad 2009-2018
Replaced by a knock-off waifu

 

[Jonna]

Wow...I wasn't anticipating much since they had a direct with releases not too long ago. But this is pretty astonishing. Ninty certainly wasn't joking or overestimating when they said after E3 that more games were coming. Wow!


What surprises me most is Civilization 6 and (especially) City skylines. Seriously curious how they'll turn out.

And aside that...those virtual board games are like a wish coming true. I've said before that these were a booming genre, and those are some of the best coming on this platform!
Munchkin is the weirdest surprise. To my knowledge (and google-fu), there never was a munchkin video game before*.



I'm assuming that these are ports of the mobile versions. In that case, Carcassonne and Catan have solid AI's (my girlfriend plays these games a lot on her phone**). Pandemic doesn't have one. While that is obviously a miss, this really is a co-op experience***. Meaning: you really should be playing it with friends.



*as much as I love munchkin, I seriously doubt the humor will translate well into the digital realm
**note: carcassonne recently has a new version. I accidentally dabbled into this one yesterday (it was on a humble bundle not too long ago), but while at least serviceable, I can't yet say just how brutal the enemies might become
***more so: pandemic is pretty much THE co-op game. It's no overestimation to say that pandemic is to co-op games what Mario is to platformers)

Cities Skylines is out already, and it has a horrible framerate.

 

[RedoLane]

My main highlight was the Capcom Beat 'em up Bundle, for sure!
Final Fight? Knights of the Round? BATTLE CIRCUIT!? BRING 'EM ALL IN ONE PACKAGE!
And so they did....and it comes out next week....this is just too glorious for my Beat 'em Up passion.. :'D

 

[jacksprat1990]

Pretty underwhelming I think.

 

[dude1]

I feel like some intern or Reggie mislabeled the tape and this was supposed to be our E3 direct.
while what we got at E3 was supposed to be a smash direct or treehouse.

 

[Taleweaver]

Cities Skylines is out already, and it has a horrible framerate.

Damn.

(oh, well...at least they tried)

 

[dude1]

Pretty underwhelming I think.

I was thinking about the same then I remembered the E3 one & suddenly this was pretty good.

 

[KingVamp]

Why not? It's $20 for a year and I want to play SSBU online. Some of those NES games could be fun for online play too.

Because if it bombs hard enough, they would never think about pay online ever again. If anything, the NES online games should be its own service. Pay walling the whole online isn't needed for that.

I've got to say. Nintendo has the best rollercoaster of the year. It's so enjoyable to see the enjoyment in the Nintendo Subreddit for Animal Crossing. Nintendo trolled people HARD!

Yeah, a better troll than the King K. Rool reveal. If I remember correctly, it doesn't help that they went overtime with this Direct.

 

[Xzi]

Because if it bombs hard enough, they would never think about pay online ever again.

This might've been valid logic before all their competition implemented something similar, but they aren't going to back out of it now. If too few people sign up they'll just make the benefits more numerous and attractive.

 

[Exannor]

Does anyone know if the old luigi version will be for N3ds only or all 3ds'? I remember playing that game on my gamecube and I have a feeling as though it will be for n3ds only

 

[KingVamp]

This might've been valid logic before all their competition implemented something similar, but they aren't going to back out of it now. If too few people sign up they'll just make the benefits more numerous and attractive.

And if people actually show restraint and keep not buying their online, stop buying games they plan to play online heavily and see increasing wait times to find people online, they will eventually get the message. This "other companies are doing, so let's not fight this at all" mentality is nonsense.

 

[Xzi]

And if people actually show restraint and keep not buying their online, stop buying games they plan to play online heavily and see increasing wait times to find people online, they will eventually get the message. This "other companies are doing, so let's not fight this at all" mentality is nonsense.

Well I meant that more as: a boycott was already attempted for both paid XBL and PSN, and it didn't work either of those times. The popularity of XB360 at a time when PSN was free is really what set us down this path to begin with. Regardless, $20 for a year is absolutely negligible to me, and Switch is the only modern console that has games I want to play online. Pretty much all of Sony's online games are also on PC.

 

[H1B1Esquire]

So...I guess I'll buy two or three Switch consoles. Damn, 'tendo...keeping me broke-ish.

 

[KHEOPS]

Jonna

Cities Skylines is out already, and it has a horrible framerate.

they have to work on a performance patch
I'm downloading,Cities Skylines (2.14go) , but I'm also downloading bastion(996mo) ,final fantasy pocket 15 hd
the games are released, quietly at nintendo, no advertising, nothing on tv

 

[waveathon]

still waiting for a new Fatal Frame game...

 

[Rabbid4240]

Why were people unironically asking for fortnite. It's already on the fucking console.

 

[Spider_Man]

What's this more of the same shit as before and more Wii u ports.

This system again can only be something the fanboys defend.

It's been well over a year and Nintendo have failed to get its foothold on the third party aaa support.

Can guarantee it will end very soon and will be left to the same usual silverware shite once sony and Microsoft release it's next systems.

 

[KHEOPS]

Retroboy and others

I wouldn't worry about nintendo
They were there before us, and they will be there after us.
Nintendo does not sell loss-making consoles like its competitors.
Nintendo has AAA+a, it has always been the case but in insufficient number
(Assassin creed is an AAA but multi support, would you prefer to play it on a ps4? Xbox? Or on a real gaming machine that is the PC? On the other hand, played zelda botw on ps4 and xbox, you can wait a long time)
And if I know that the exclusivities of a console e. g. on ps4 uncharted, etc....
And throw the rest away because I have a computer....
How many games are really ps4 exclusive?
Well, apart from little independent games, there's nothing...
And is it smarter to play a ps4, indie games that have hardware that is useless? Or played the indie games on switch? Stardew valley? Hollow knight? Little nightmare,limbo? Etc... Of course I play my switch it's made for that, which is not the case ps4 xbox one.

Nintendo has always had inferior hardware against the competition nothing new here
You're talking about the.ps5 or xbox From the future, but they'll never compete against the switch, it's a nomad laptop, sony didn't do better with his vita as far as I know?...against the 3ds...
Or the.wii in front of the ps3?
In short, stop believing that nintendo is a mega-billionaire company, there are a little more than 5000 at nintendo, by comparison just the sony polyphony digital studio (which only makes big turismo) are more than 600 almost 1/8 th of the total staff of nintendo, is it worth talking about microsoft?

the truth, and that's my point of view.

Spoiler: About nintendo

N64 has revolutionized the 3d platform
And pushed handling in a 3d environment where no one could compete at the time
They created the dpad for better ergonomics

Zelda botw has pushed the ingeniosity of the gameplay in the open world to its limits, not a hollow sandbox game, redundant, like 99.9% of open world games
A reference, that every programmer tries and will try to reach for years, a lesson in a nintendo way, like n64 and mario in his time
I stop there, there's still so much to say, I'm not a fanboy, just recognize the facts, the truth is good to say, good karma

 

[Classicgamer]

Finish porting the rest of the Wii U Nintendo!

I know I’m not he only one who greatly enjoyed Color Splash!!