>>736609727
Nigger we had one in feb

Nothing, it's selling like hot cake why release games?

BUY $100 WORTH OF CHAMPIONS MICROTRANSACTIONS PLUS A PRE-ORDER FOR YOSHI AND THE MYSTERIOUS BOOK CHUD!!!!!!!

>announcing new Star Fox unceremoniously outside a Direct

Yeah, why?

>>736609727
They're waiting for IS to finish Fire Emblem.

>>736610294
No need to put too much into marketing when your fans does it for you

>>736609727
I'm convinced they really did put out a mandate to shove in open worlds to all their games and now the poor reaction to Mario Kart and Metroid Prime has led them to delay everything to downplay the open worlds, supposedly this already happened during development a bit with Metroid

Tendies are still slurping up the Switch 2 like hogs so games aren't necessary.

>>736609778
>(Slur) we had one in February

XXXXD

>>736609727
>What the hell are they waiting for?
For Tomodachi Life and Yoshi to get out of the way. They're filler games but Nintendo wants to give them a boost by having jack shit in people's minds until after they're out.

>>736609727
I know launch years for consoles are historically bad. How fuck did they drop the fucking ball with this launch this hard. The design for the switch 2 was finalized in 2021. By Nintendo own admission some of these games had preproduction start as far back as 2019. I know dev cycles are 3-6 years depending on the scale of the project. Even if you didn't start active development until 2021. That should mean something you have something to show for it by now. Where are the fucking games? The primary system seller is Pokemon Pokopia. Seriously. is that seriously all you have fucking have!?

>>736611932
Open world for Nintendo is like live service games for Sony

>>736609727
Unironically, they're being held hostage by Toby Fox not yet having Chapter 5 ready to go gold with a release date trailer.
This is the dog's revenge for Chapters 3&4 being held hostage by the Switch 2 delay.

>>736609778
This. Partner Showcases don't supplement or foreshadow General Directs. They replace them.
The General will most likely be in June. Get over it, OP.

>>736609727
You just got a PS3 game last week

>>736609727
They were waiting for the Mario Movie to have its run in theaters and to effectively finish up with the Mario 40th celebration. Now they are moving onto the Zelda 40th. So prepare for most of the announcements in the direct being Zelda related. It will either be the end of this month, or they will just delay it to June. In either case, the first trailer shown should be for the Zelda movie.

>>736609727
Nintendo has been open they are moving away from directs as they "find them a hassle".

>>736614158
They have that recent app, but it's a bust because they keep fucking copyright striking people who discuss the news shared on the app.

Has this game finished getting all the post launch updates so the game can become playable?

>>736609778
No we didn't.

more than anything I want them to start revealing games that aren't just comfycore/toddler shit for millennial women or their very young children.

>>736610294
I genuinely wonder if they want the on-rails game to bomb so they can justify going the open world sloppa route when the adventure game inevitably sells better because it was featured in a direct.

>>736613493
I played a few minutes of MKW the other day at a demo kiosk and was baffled by how boring it was. How is it that world traversal is more fun in Zelda than a game which revolves around using vehicles? Even Zelda feels faster

>>736613830
The Nintendo Today app has a thingie in which you collect a different mario galaxy card each day which runs for like 10 more days, they might start moving on from the movie then.

>>736616295
There's a lot of possible explanations for why they've been holding off on a Direct for so long. They're all so fucking stupid (not the people proposing them as theories).

>>736609727
They're waiting for their last few spring releases to come out so they don't get buried under the announcements of new games. Especially since the Mario movie came out and everything with Mario's name on it has had a giant sales boost so the back catalog is thriving. What would be the point of premature advertising outside of faggots that don't do anything besides compulsively whine about not being perpetually advertised to?

>>736618934
We're asking for just three Directs in a year and you're saying that's unreasonable and "perpetual advertising". In the console's first year.

>>736609727
why would they announce a direct for a flop console?

>>736619417
>even the WiiU got Directs
oof, that's not good for ol' Switch 2...