RUMOR: Nintendo possibly telling developers that it has delayed its annual June Direct

pedro702 · Apr 30, 2020

well so no direct this year, we get to know games as they come now like the old days xD im guessing 3rd party devs might want to start releasing trailers of their own on twiter or something.

James_ · Apr 30, 2020

We all saw this coming

right

deinonychus71 · Apr 30, 2020

And of course they won't announce it publicly, so around E3 people are gonna start asking for it again and Nintendo will just ignore them like they did for months before the mini.
I get it, there's a worldwide situation. This situation does not prevent a company from communicating its issues.

xbmcuser · Apr 30, 2020

I think they are accumulating games to release. They wont want PS5 and xbox to get all the limelight when they are released.
Roll on 2021

JuanMena · Apr 30, 2020

xbmcuser said:
I think they are accumulating games to release. They wont want PS5 and xbox to get all the limelight when they are released.
Roll on 2021

Games like Persona... Fire Emblem... Persona... did I said Fire Emblem?

chartube12 · Apr 30, 2020

deinonychus71 said:
And of course they won't announce it publicly, so around E3 people are gonna start asking for it again and Nintendo will just ignore them like they did for months before the mini.
I get it, there's a worldwide situation. This situation does not prevent a company from communicating its issues.

You are forgetting Nintendo’s new goal of being anti-consumer. As well as anti-announcement-ism ever since the PR failures of the pokemon company. Nintendo’s biggest investors want them to be the new ea with a stretch goal of being the new_disney/old_microsoft.

Sonic Angel Knight · Apr 30, 2020

Chary said:
The report also claims that the difficulties may stem from Japan's work culture relying on respectful face-to-face meetings, and that workers in the country are not prepared for a work-from-home lifestyle.

So these guys never heard of video calling and still use IRC or texting on their phones... even worst, E-MAIL for messaging?

Clearly working in the same room is a lot easier but it seems like they never tried working from home ever. That's the kind of thing people should prepare for in case stuff like THIS happens.

deinonychus71 · Apr 30, 2020

chartube12 said:
You are forgetting Nintendo’s new goal of being anti-consumer. As well as anti-announcement-ism ever since the PR failures of the pokemon company. Nintendo’s biggest investors want them to be the new ea with a stretch goal of being the new_disney/old_microsoft.

That's pushing it. But I do think they suck at communicating their issues properly.
And their pacing has always been awful the first half of the year. It's not just a covid thing.

relauby · Apr 30, 2020

This sucks, but it seems like whenever a Direct is cancelled (or at least thought to be cancelled, I don’t think they’ve ever officially cancelled one they already had announced) all the third-party stuff just sort of gets dumped out pretty much immediately, so if this is true we’ll probably be hit with a bunch of announcements soon anyway.

gaga941021 · Apr 30, 2020

why live

xatzimi · Apr 30, 2020

Strange Japanese business practices strike again!

Clydefrosch · Apr 30, 2020

so?

has anyone ever actually gained anything from knowing about releases 12-48 months in advance?

x65943 · Apr 30, 2020

Clydefrosch said:
so?

has anyone ever actually gained anything from knowing about releases 12-48 months in advance?

I need my BOTW 2 fix

DuoForce · Apr 30, 2020

This really is just a shitty year from Nintendo. My biggest fear was the June direct getting delayed. Hope they are just rumors and nothing else!

daddu3 · Apr 30, 2020

Oof... this is only going to make the drought of big announcements from Big Ninty's even longer after Xenoblade Definitve comes out.

In case rumor being indeed true in the end, may heavens be with them... cuz' luck won't be around to save them for now on like it did with the such a timing regarding sales of New Horizons.

ChaosEternal · Apr 30, 2020

Sonic Angel Knight said:
So these guys never heard of video calling and still use IRC or texting on their phones... even worst, E-MAIL for messaging?

Clearly working in the same room is a lot easier but it seems like they never tried working from home ever. That's the kind of thing people should prepare for in case stuff like THIS happens.

It seems that Japan tends to move pretty slowly when it comes to cultural changes. Knowing how to and actually shifting workplace culture are two very different things. Even initiatives from the Prime Minister have difficulty shifting workplace culture, as seen in the challenges his attempts to reduce chronic overwork among the Japanese working population have faced.

Sonic Angel Knight · Apr 30, 2020

ChaosEternal said:
It seems that Japan tends to move pretty slowly when it comes to cultural changes. Knowing how to and actually shifting workplace culture are two very different things. Even initiatives from the Prime Minister have difficulty shifting workplace culture, as seen in the challenges his attempts to reduce chronic overwork among the Japanese working population have faced.

I just think they prefer having them work at a office cubicle all day so they can keep tabs on them and make sure no one is slacking off and stuff. That's the worst kind of environment, being harrassed by supervisor or micromanaged.

Maybe I'm paranoid, everytime I hear about japanese work environment, makes me remember how sakurai got sick from working too much. Wondering if it was his own free will. Did he choose to work that much or was he doing crunch time for some other reason?

I just don't like thinking about it. Businesses... the less you can pay someone to do the most work, that's basically what people think which probably leaves bad impression.

ShadowOne333 · Apr 30, 2020

So Metroid Prime 4 release on 2022.
Pretty much that's all I care.
Anything else Nintendo outside of that and BotW sequel I don't give a fuck.

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