A Nintendo Direct Mini quietly dropped today, focuses on third party titles only

Rail Fighter · Aug 26, 2020

I was wrong, there's a Kingdom Hearts for the Switch. :rofl2:

Pipistrele · Aug 26, 2020

Memoir said:
Here's a thought for ya. If COVID is hindering development now, what is Nintendo's excuse for 2017, 2018, and last year?

Nintendo dropped some of its most acclaimed games in 2017 and 2018, what are you even talking about lol

mathew77 · Aug 26, 2020

huma_dawii said:
Friday Direct

There will be no 'Friday Direct' this week, I guess.

banjo2 · Aug 26, 2020

Memoir said:
Here's a thought for ya. If COVID is hindering development now, what is Nintendo's excuse for 2017, 2018, and last year?

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Fire Emblem: Three Houses? Link's Awakening? Luigi's Mansion 3? Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

huma_dawii · Aug 26, 2020

mathew77 said:
There will be no 'Friday Direct' this week, I guess.

Don't know, if not im sure it will happen the first week of September.

mathew77 · Aug 26, 2020

huma_dawii said:
of September.

In September — yes, this month — no, most probably.

Jayro · Aug 26, 2020

Nerdtendo said:
What games were you promised?

Bayonetta 3, Metroid Prime 4, and BotW 2.

supergamer368 · Aug 26, 2020

wartutor said:
Fuckin retard. Its bad enough every company in the fucking world is using covid19 as a god damn excuse for everything now retarded ass fan boys are using it for them. Last i checked most people are still working. Either in factories or from home. If they cant do there fucking job fire them and find someone that can and quit making excuses.

Please do not use that word to refer to me. Covid is a genuine excuse as many people cannot access where they usually work during this time. I would prefer video games getting delayed over people getting sick and dying personally. I honestly don't care when these games come out, I have plenty of other things to do with my time and you should find better things to do as well.

Nerdtendo · Aug 26, 2020

Jayro said:
Bayonetta 3, Metroid Prime 4, and BotW 2.

I mean... we've had confirmation that development is going steady on all of those games. All three were announced way early into development and we probably won't see them for ~3 years

gabisenk · Aug 26, 2020

supergamer368 said:
Please do not use that word to refer to me. Covid is a genuine excuse as many people cannot access where they usually work during this time. I would prefer video games getting delayed over people getting sick and dying personally. I honestly don't care when these games come out, I have plenty of other things to do with my time and you should find better things to do as well.

It's not about doing anything else, it's not even about not caring for covid either. It's about the fact that there's a huge gap in the game development. I have other consoles to play and other options other than the switch. But for the other people that don't they simply don't have any games to play this year. Don't lecture on people what to do also, they just want to play something new on the switch. They get angry since nintendo does not seem to deliver on what was promised

MeitanteiReborn · Aug 26, 2020

I did not expect the Taiko games, especially for them being 6 year old (Space-Time Adventure) & 4 year old (Mystery Adventure) 3DS games.
A really pleasant surprise! I am definitely excited for those.

deinonychus71 · Aug 26, 2020

supergamer368 said:
Please do not use that word to refer to me. Covid is a genuine excuse as many people cannot access where they usually work during this time. I would prefer video games getting delayed over people getting sick and dying personally. I honestly don't care when these games come out, I have plenty of other things to do with my time and you should find better things to do as well.

I really don't approve the language, but their argument about covid is valid. This is being used as an excuse and does not necessarily mean Nintendo was going to do better without it.
Yeah, in the IT industry we did get impacted. But honestly? In the end we all still have to put up the work, like everyone else. And clients don't exactly care about covid when it comes to getting what they want on time anyway. AND we can still be safe by doing so remotely.
Sure, it's different in Japan, it's different everywhere. but Nintendo is seemingly the only one that cannot get their shit together this year, even after so many months into it. New-gen is releasing, this year. It baffles me that people genuinely believe covid is just fatality and companies can't find ways around it.

And sure, people can be understanding about delays. To a point. Delays are fine, they were expected when E3 was cancelled. We're now months past E3. Delays are fine, the horrible communication around it is not.

"There's nothing to communicate if the games aren't ready" is what a lot of people would say. Yes there is. And there was. 1st party were shadowdropped while arguably lesser games (- for the main nintendo audience -) were given their own presentation. Heck, a 1st party presentation was even used as bait to tease a new game which ended up being Bakugan.

They've been banking as much as possible on all the good faith accumulated the last few years on the Direct brand to get them through the year. And by doing so, they've damaged the Direct brand. If you're fine with that, sure, totally fine.

On my side, I'll treat Nintendo exactly as I'll treat any other company. If they don't perform or communicate the way I like, I'll make it known. They're free to ignore it or not, but I won't apologize or feel bad because I dislike the way they're going with their communication and don't want to see that trend repeat itself next year.

gabisenk · Aug 26, 2020

Nerdtendo said:
I mean... we've had confirmation that development is going steady on all of those games. All three were announced way early into development and we probably won't see them for ~3 years

It's funny since people predicted that they would take 1 year at first, then, and now 3 years..... I understand that Metroid Prime 4 suffered development hell, especially since Nintendo went out and even admiting and apologising for it. I doubt that MP4 will even come this generation honestly. But BOTW2 and Baynetta 3 have no excuse...WTF? Especially regarding BOTW2 since it's the same engine. It has to be spectacular if it takes them this long

_v3 · Aug 26, 2020

Nice, picking up the Taiko pack day 1, and maybe the Kingdom Hearts one as well.

peteruk · Aug 26, 2020

Was honestly under the impression that this was a gaming site and not a site for preaching

I wish they had a fishing rod emoji on this site

Delerious · Aug 26, 2020

Part of me is still hoping for a Golden Sun collection at some point. But my dreams seldom ever come true. For now, just gonna have to settle with FF:CC. Patiently waiting for Square to announce SO2 on the Switch as well.

NoNAND · Aug 26, 2020

But i have to say.
This indie direct was amazing.

Nerdtendo · Aug 26, 2020

gabisenk said:
It's funny since people predicted that they would take 1 year at first, then, and now 3 years..... I understand that Metroid Prime 4 suffered development hell, especially since Nintendo went out and even admiting and apologising for it. I doubt that MP4 will even come this generation honestly. But BOTW2 and Baynetta 3 have no excuse...WTF? Especially regarding BOTW2 since it's the same engine. It has to be spectacular if it takes them this long

from E3 2017 I always thought MP4 would take 3-4 years. The restart on development pretty much restarted that timer in my head.
As for BOTW 2. It was announced to be "in development barely a year ago. I would expect a game like that to take 2-3 years from start of development to release. Assuming it was 6 months into development when it was announced (which is generous), it would still be about a year put from release.
I'm not sure about Bayo 3. I don't know enough about platinum games to comment.

Xzi · Aug 26, 2020

Memoir said:
Here's a thought for ya. If COVID is hindering development now, what is Nintendo's excuse for 2017, 2018, and last year?

Why would they need an excuse for 2018 and 2019? IIRC there was a new AAA game (or two) out every month for those two years, and nearly every month in 2017 too. Hell, even in 2020 they've released more first-party games than Sony or Microsoft...not sure why the bar is set so much higher for Nintendo than it is for their competition. COVID has definitely had an impact across the board.

wartutor · Aug 26, 2020

supergamer368 said:
Please do not use that word to refer to me. Covid is a genuine excuse as many people cannot access where they usually work during this time. I would prefer video games getting delayed over people getting sick and dying personally. I honestly don't care when these games come out, I have plenty of other things to do with my time and you should find better things to do as well.

Yeah just read that didnt mean to call u a retard it was suppost to say retarded. My accidental omission of the ed on the end changed the context in a way i didnt mean for my apologies

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