https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1668967782254272512
Summer of Play is the Direct, see you in fall! isn't this what happened last summer too?
When I heard Team Rocket was getting merchandise, I was hoping for something cooler. This shit doesn't even look good enough to sell on Redbubble much less as merch. Who tf is paying 80 dollars for this shit besides actual morons?
Dude, you REALLY don't seem to grasp just how much Nintendo despises doing summer Directs. Turns out E3 was literally the only thing that made Nintendo get the frick up out of bed during the summer, at least for the past several years. I bet they're also getting the wheels turning on phasing out either the winter or fall general Direct too at this rate.
It's very obvious the Switch is unwinding at this point. Aside from some DLCs, the only first party game still on the docket is Pikmin. And that comes out next month.
That's essentially what the original plan supposedly was, that it'd be bundled into NSO. TotK has emboldened Nintendo too much, I'm really hoping it bites them in the ass with their next system. Only reason I have hope for this happening at all is because Furukawa is untested when it comes to propping up a platform without significant legwork being done for him beforehand.
Unwinding in the sense that they have no major plans sure but it's still far too early for a new console even for nintendo, they'll be content to let the switch drag along for at least 2-3 more years with minimal first party releases as they've done it the past when things get slow
>it's still far too early for a new console even for nintendo
We're in year fricking seven of the Switch. That's far from early.
Nintendo has never had two consoles of equal success launch right after each other, literally never so they're worried yes. But the Wii was a watershed moment for them, plus Switch in 2023 isn't doing nearly as bad as Wii in 2011.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I also have to add that people truly underestimate how arrogant Wii era Nintendo was. Even in the Switch era they always speak of the future and making sure things are stable, people like Iwata were told numerous times by numerous people the Wii money would not last and were ignored. They ignored the shovel ware problem, ignored the lack of serious Western support, ignored the lack of popularity in Japan, ignored the rise of smartphones taking away their whole market, ignored NoA scheduling things poorly, and ignored the general perception of the system as a fad. 2006-2008 was the time Wii actually did well, the last four years of its life were painful.
11 months ago
Anonymous
But new first-party software is drying up badly, and even they and their partner devs have clearly started to hit a wall with the Switch's hardware for the past few years. Trying to stretch the Switch out much more when it's already been stretched wafer-thin is not going to help their next system.
11 months ago
Anonymous
I've always made the argument that it isn't really hardware that will bite them, but software. So many Switch games are years old and still selling which while good overall, does not generate public perception of new and exciting things. I mean, look at that tour Nintendo is doing. What are they showing mostly? Games from years and years ago. It does not build consumer confidence.
Unwinding in the sense that they have no major plans sure but it's still far too early for a new console even for nintendo, they'll be content to let the switch drag along for at least 2-3 more years with minimal first party releases as they've done it the past when things get slow
Are you? Nintendo will absolutely drag out the system for a year or two then drop one final release which will release on the switch and their new system this has always been the case, they want to draw in all the gays who wait until a system is dead to buy it cheap as they always have
I hate this shit, especially because everyone else has fallen in line behind Geoff. The industry and its audience wants a big summer convention but Nintendo refuses to comply
>everyone else has fallen in line behind Geoff
And all geoff showed off at his own conference was a bunch of shovelware and mobile games, nintendo is in the right only showing when there's something worth showing
He was absolutely right and for Nintendo to still be mad he called a spade a spade two decades later just justifies the Western journalist dislike of them as a company
>Most successful Nintendo console since the NES heavily relies on third parties/courting exclusives >Most successful Zelda games of all time are also the ones that adapted various Western aesthetics and gameplay choices instead of rehashing A Link to the Past
You tell me. BoTW devs didn't say they were playing Nintendo games for inspiration, man
11 months ago
Anonymous
Except they literally did because BotW is TLoZ 3D.
Regardless of where they took some of their ideas from it was entirely based on providing a core TLoZ experience for the first time in almost 40 years.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Except they literally did because BotW is TLoZ 3D.
Except for the dungeons and items.
11 months ago
Anonymous
This is cope, the devs said they played Minecraft and Assassin's Creed. They went "frick we need to break the mold" and went from there. BotW was a reactionary work overall
11 months ago
Anonymous
Except they missed the biggest part of the "core experience". Even the original Zelda had meaningful item progression.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Nintendo's public relations direction is awful. Can't wait for 3 more months of complete silence from them.
>Except they literally did because BotW is TLoZ 3D
11 months ago
Anonymous
Don’t forget NSO shadow drops of games absolutely nobody asked for. Meanwhile the games that people actually are asking for like Pokemon gens 1&2, and more Rare N64 titles, continue to languish.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Frick everything to do with NSO >Paid online >Renting games that could be purchased on the Virtual Console >Shit library
11 months ago
Anonymous
Companies that have retro games that people want prefer to package them and sell them their selves, rather than share with Nintendo
11 months ago
Anonymous
GameFreak could have been putting out collections of their handheld library with QoL adjustments to tide their fans over until the next big release. But instead they keep insisting on a new $60 title every year with half the budget and staff they really need.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Pokemon gens 1&2
I still can't believe that nintendo/game freak hasn't released some sort of pokemon subscription service, I wouldn't agree with it but give gens 1-3 or later with some sort of vague promise of long term future platform support and they would be printing money even harder than they already are
11 months ago
Anonymous
This looks so much more fun than the absolute mediocrity of Nu-Zelda. Why couldn't that have been a game?
11 months ago
Anonymous
Will he ever turn back, or is he forever stuck as these chicken rat things?
11 months ago
Anonymous
>Why couldn't that have been a game?
It did, that's literally botw in 2d with a Zelda 1 aesthetic you moron.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Ah yes, because you can clearly see the overeliance of climbing and gliding and the shitty breakable weapons in the 2D Zelda game
11 months ago
Anonymous
You fricking moron
Look at this shit and tell me it isn't botw when everything you can do in it is in botw.
11 months ago
Anonymous
It's not BOTW. It's Zelda 1 with some physics added.
>"Why are you getting mad at a Japanese company only making weebslop lol didn't you know this is all Japanese companies make? What even is Mario or Donkey Kong"
I know Ganker loves to be contrarian but I truly do think he was the last major company figurehead that cared about creating quality games and not just raking in profit with shitty business practices, the guy even resisted mobile games for as long as possible
He also would not have let Pokemon SwSh release the way it did, at least not without something to make up for it after (like a substantial partial voucher for the DLC). I pick that game out in particular because I really think that was a lightbulb moment for Furukawa-era Nintendo, where that fat-faced yellow israelite saw just what an atrocious amount of laziness/incompetence and deception that Game Freak completely got away with for a cornerstone Nintendo-published release, and started taking notes.
I've always made the argument that it isn't really hardware that will bite them, but software. So many Switch games are years old and still selling which while good overall, does not generate public perception of new and exciting things. I mean, look at that tour Nintendo is doing. What are they showing mostly? Games from years and years ago. It does not build consumer confidence.
This is a good point. They've also potentially painted themselves in a corner with how severely they've leaned on ports for the Switch. They won't have the same benefit of mass-ignorance for Switch ports on Switch 2 that they exploited for WiiU ports and portquels on Switch.
Seriously, the rate games are developed now it better be Switch 2 has a banger library Nintendo spent half the switch gen developing because the switch is only good as a place to play a wide collection of games. It doesn't have as much of its own identity as it should >BOTW was a Wii U port >TOTK is a moderately changed version of that Wii U port, took over six years to release >Odyssey was great, and then absolutely no actual new Mario games besides Mario Maker 2 and a 3D world side mode came out >STILL no original Mario kart, unless the gay RC toy is counted >Smash Ultimate was announced five years ago, longer than the period between Smash 4's release and Smash Ultimate's release. Also, we don't know if there's going to be another Smash game developed by the same studio. Sakurai seems to be in semi-retirement spending all of his time as a Youtuber now >Pikmin 4 only comes out after at least 6 years of delays based on Wii U era interviews about 4. A longer release timeframe than Pikmin 2 on Gamecube and Pikmin 3 on Wii U, three generations apart >Retro Studios has been completely AWOL since Tropical freeze >nearly a decade since last original 2D singleplayer Zelda
was great, and then absolutely no actual new Mario games besides Mario Maker 2 and a 3D world side mode came out
What makes Odyssey disgusting isn't just how they opted to not follow it up (though still moronic with how well both it and the Switch sold), but how they left just about everything from the game to rot that wasn't related to Classic Donkey Kong (even though that was just one part of a larger game).
>What makes Odyssey disgusting isn't just how they opted to not follow it up
Why would you expect them to?
Nintendo usually only makes one entry per system.
3D Mario games usually don't sell 20+ million copies. Completely neglecting that momentum (to the point where Odyssey's "sister" Zelda game, BotW, has overtaken it) is a fantastically complacent and moronic move for their biggest self-made IP. Though then again it somehow took them 6 years to make a BotW sequel in the same world on the same hardware with the same assets and fidelity. Shit, an SMO sequel would probably be a herculean decade+ effort in that light.
The Switch is still selling better than the Wii at this point in their respective lifestyles.
It would make sense to have the Switch be their new handheld division. Smaller scope, lower price games meant to be played on the go. Meanwhile the Switch 2 gets all the AAA blockbusters.
Remember the OG Gameboy got like 8 years of support.
E3 is officially dead, consoles are outselling competitors, Zelda has extremely high sales worldwide, so they don't feel pressured to release a direct right now. Probably won't get one until Fall with a few AA first party IPs and indies. Switch 2 announcement Fall of 2024.
That's not what it says.
>Gankertard can't think critically
more news at 5
Yeah, alright, I think I won't be paying attention to Nintenslop.
Neither can you clearly. It's just Team Rocket themed merchandise.
literally says pokemon center in the name so it is just plushies or another merch, that doesn't get announced on directs.
They've rebranded the entire account. I don't think they'd to that for some merch
The pokemon brand makes most of its money off merch. Of fricking course they would do that for some merch.
Pokemon gets its own events.
However, usually when they do a Pokemon presents, we get something from Nintendo a week later.
Nah
I'm pretty sure they've done it before and the Masters account has the same profile picture so if anything it's to do with gachashit
moron
That's literally what it's for. They sent out the emails this morning.
Note, in particular, the "Twitter takeover" part.
stupid wanker
whats this, is jessie going to make shotas frick her butt hole?
>Pokeshit
It's literally nothing.
https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1668967782254272512
Summer of Play is the Direct, see you in fall! isn't this what happened last summer too?
No, this is the first summer of play outside of Japan
No, two weeks after not E3 they did a Xeno 3 Direct then later a partner showcase.
>pokemon center
this obviously has to do with a merchandise promotion.
>moron
>Spams soijaks after he was proven wrong
Predictable, fricking moron.
That's just for overpriced shirts.
frickin' hell man, I can just get one on redbubble or something
this is insane
the R stands for moron
When I heard Team Rocket was getting merchandise, I was hoping for something cooler. This shit doesn't even look good enough to sell on Redbubble much less as merch. Who tf is paying 80 dollars for this shit besides actual morons?
Dude, you REALLY don't seem to grasp just how much Nintendo despises doing summer Directs. Turns out E3 was literally the only thing that made Nintendo get the frick up out of bed during the summer, at least for the past several years. I bet they're also getting the wheels turning on phasing out either the winter or fall general Direct too at this rate.
It's very obvious the Switch is unwinding at this point. Aside from some DLCs, the only first party game still on the docket is Pikmin. And that comes out next month.
Don't forget Everybody 1-2 Switch, the sequel EVERYONE wanted, and totally wasn't shelved for being a fricking playtest/focus-test disaster.
The height of arrogance is charging even $30 for it, should be a giveaway instead
That's essentially what the original plan supposedly was, that it'd be bundled into NSO. TotK has emboldened Nintendo too much, I'm really hoping it bites them in the ass with their next system. Only reason I have hope for this happening at all is because Furukawa is untested when it comes to propping up a platform without significant legwork being done for him beforehand.
>it's still far too early for a new console even for nintendo
We're in year fricking seven of the Switch. That's far from early.
Nintendo has never had two consoles of equal success launch right after each other, literally never so they're worried yes. But the Wii was a watershed moment for them, plus Switch in 2023 isn't doing nearly as bad as Wii in 2011.
I also have to add that people truly underestimate how arrogant Wii era Nintendo was. Even in the Switch era they always speak of the future and making sure things are stable, people like Iwata were told numerous times by numerous people the Wii money would not last and were ignored. They ignored the shovel ware problem, ignored the lack of serious Western support, ignored the lack of popularity in Japan, ignored the rise of smartphones taking away their whole market, ignored NoA scheduling things poorly, and ignored the general perception of the system as a fad. 2006-2008 was the time Wii actually did well, the last four years of its life were painful.
But new first-party software is drying up badly, and even they and their partner devs have clearly started to hit a wall with the Switch's hardware for the past few years. Trying to stretch the Switch out much more when it's already been stretched wafer-thin is not going to help their next system.
I've always made the argument that it isn't really hardware that will bite them, but software. So many Switch games are years old and still selling which while good overall, does not generate public perception of new and exciting things. I mean, look at that tour Nintendo is doing. What are they showing mostly? Games from years and years ago. It does not build consumer confidence.
How could I forget a GOTY nominee?
A sequel for a game that should have been a pack-in because who honestly gave a shit about it?
Unwinding in the sense that they have no major plans sure but it's still far too early for a new console even for nintendo, they'll be content to let the switch drag along for at least 2-3 more years with minimal first party releases as they've done it the past when things get slow
No way the Switch has enough in the tank to last another 2 years.
delusional or underaged if you don't think it will
Even the Wii was retired after 6 years, and they didn't go an entire year with no releases.
The Wii was dead in Japan by 2009 and the US by 2010, but they still dragged its corpse for two years
Also this, Nintendo relies so much on shovel ware to pad out their Directs
>The Wii was dead in Japan by 2009 and the US by 2010
It was still getting games. Skyward Sword was 2011.
>7 years on the market
>Far too early even for Nintendo
Are you daft?
Are you? Nintendo will absolutely drag out the system for a year or two then drop one final release which will release on the switch and their new system this has always been the case, they want to draw in all the gays who wait until a system is dead to buy it cheap as they always have
I hate this shit, especially because everyone else has fallen in line behind Geoff. The industry and its audience wants a big summer convention but Nintendo refuses to comply
They can't show games if they stopped making them
>everyone else has fallen in line behind Geoff
And all geoff showed off at his own conference was a bunch of shovelware and mobile games, nintendo is in the right only showing when there's something worth showing
Starfield is their major competition whether they believe it or not
>a bunch of shovelware and mobile games
Sounds like a standard Direct to me.
Nintendo hates Geoff, and for good reason.
https://pastebin.com/wxMWac3w
He was absolutely right and for Nintendo to still be mad he called a spade a spade two decades later just justifies the Western journalist dislike of them as a company
Keighley says Nintendo needed to rely on third parties, was that true?
Keighley says Nintendo needed have their IPs """grow up""", was that true?
>Most successful Nintendo console since the NES heavily relies on third parties/courting exclusives
>Most successful Zelda games of all time are also the ones that adapted various Western aesthetics and gameplay choices instead of rehashing A Link to the Past
You tell me. BoTW devs didn't say they were playing Nintendo games for inspiration, man
Except they literally did because BotW is TLoZ 3D.
Regardless of where they took some of their ideas from it was entirely based on providing a core TLoZ experience for the first time in almost 40 years.
>Except they literally did because BotW is TLoZ 3D.
Except for the dungeons and items.
This is cope, the devs said they played Minecraft and Assassin's Creed. They went "frick we need to break the mold" and went from there. BotW was a reactionary work overall
Except they missed the biggest part of the "core experience". Even the original Zelda had meaningful item progression.
Nintendo's public relations direction is awful. Can't wait for 3 more months of complete silence from them.
>Except they literally did because BotW is TLoZ 3D
Don’t forget NSO shadow drops of games absolutely nobody asked for. Meanwhile the games that people actually are asking for like Pokemon gens 1&2, and more Rare N64 titles, continue to languish.
Frick everything to do with NSO
>Paid online
>Renting games that could be purchased on the Virtual Console
>Shit library
Companies that have retro games that people want prefer to package them and sell them their selves, rather than share with Nintendo
GameFreak could have been putting out collections of their handheld library with QoL adjustments to tide their fans over until the next big release. But instead they keep insisting on a new $60 title every year with half the budget and staff they really need.
>Pokemon gens 1&2
I still can't believe that nintendo/game freak hasn't released some sort of pokemon subscription service, I wouldn't agree with it but give gens 1-3 or later with some sort of vague promise of long term future platform support and they would be printing money even harder than they already are
This looks so much more fun than the absolute mediocrity of Nu-Zelda. Why couldn't that have been a game?
Will he ever turn back, or is he forever stuck as these chicken rat things?
>Why couldn't that have been a game?
It did, that's literally botw in 2d with a Zelda 1 aesthetic you moron.
Ah yes, because you can clearly see the overeliance of climbing and gliding and the shitty breakable weapons in the 2D Zelda game
You fricking moron
Look at this shit and tell me it isn't botw when everything you can do in it is in botw.
It's not BOTW. It's Zelda 1 with some physics added.
>morons Direct begging when the last few Directs were 90% JRPG ports and shovelware filler slop
It's been so fricking great
>"Why are you getting mad at a Japanese company only making weebslop lol didn't you know this is all Japanese companies make? What even is Mario or Donkey Kong"
>90% JRPG
not true, that was just that one direct that revealed pyra and project triangle
now is back to the usual one or 2 good anouncement with shit we already know, dlc and a bunch of filler indieshit
New Colosseum/Gale of Darkness style game where you play as team rocket PLEASE GAME FREAK PLEASE
It's for PoGo
>Pokemon Center
It's FRICKING MERCH AGAIN
yall are stupid af. nintendo only does actual directs in september and february and you hyped yourself up for nothing. lol
Prepare for trouble!
>Pokémon Center
This isn't a game, its a merch line.
>pokeslop and shovelware
metroid prime 4?
The Switch's swan song title, just like Samus Returns was for the 3DS.
He would've never let Nintendo skip June Vidya Season.
I know Ganker loves to be contrarian but I truly do think he was the last major company figurehead that cared about creating quality games and not just raking in profit with shitty business practices, the guy even resisted mobile games for as long as possible
He also would not have let Pokemon SwSh release the way it did, at least not without something to make up for it after (like a substantial partial voucher for the DLC). I pick that game out in particular because I really think that was a lightbulb moment for Furukawa-era Nintendo, where that fat-faced yellow israelite saw just what an atrocious amount of laziness/incompetence and deception that Game Freak completely got away with for a cornerstone Nintendo-published release, and started taking notes.
This is a good point. They've also potentially painted themselves in a corner with how severely they've leaned on ports for the Switch. They won't have the same benefit of mass-ignorance for Switch ports on Switch 2 that they exploited for WiiU ports and portquels on Switch.
Seriously, the rate games are developed now it better be Switch 2 has a banger library Nintendo spent half the switch gen developing because the switch is only good as a place to play a wide collection of games. It doesn't have as much of its own identity as it should
>BOTW was a Wii U port
>TOTK is a moderately changed version of that Wii U port, took over six years to release
>Odyssey was great, and then absolutely no actual new Mario games besides Mario Maker 2 and a 3D world side mode came out
>STILL no original Mario kart, unless the gay RC toy is counted
>Smash Ultimate was announced five years ago, longer than the period between Smash 4's release and Smash Ultimate's release. Also, we don't know if there's going to be another Smash game developed by the same studio. Sakurai seems to be in semi-retirement spending all of his time as a Youtuber now
>Pikmin 4 only comes out after at least 6 years of delays based on Wii U era interviews about 4. A longer release timeframe than Pikmin 2 on Gamecube and Pikmin 3 on Wii U, three generations apart
>Retro Studios has been completely AWOL since Tropical freeze
>nearly a decade since last original 2D singleplayer Zelda
was great, and then absolutely no actual new Mario games besides Mario Maker 2 and a 3D world side mode came out
What makes Odyssey disgusting isn't just how they opted to not follow it up (though still moronic with how well both it and the Switch sold), but how they left just about everything from the game to rot that wasn't related to Classic Donkey Kong (even though that was just one part of a larger game).
>What makes Odyssey disgusting isn't just how they opted to not follow it up
Why would you expect them to?
Nintendo usually only makes one entry per system.
3D Mario games usually don't sell 20+ million copies. Completely neglecting that momentum (to the point where Odyssey's "sister" Zelda game, BotW, has overtaken it) is a fantastically complacent and moronic move for their biggest self-made IP. Though then again it somehow took them 6 years to make a BotW sequel in the same world on the same hardware with the same assets and fidelity. Shit, an SMO sequel would probably be a herculean decade+ effort in that light.
There not gonna do anything interesting, anyway.
It's just gonna be Pokemon DLC, spinoffs, and rpg shovelware bullshit,
The Switch is still selling better than the Wii at this point in their respective lifestyles.
It would make sense to have the Switch be their new handheld division. Smaller scope, lower price games meant to be played on the go. Meanwhile the Switch 2 gets all the AAA blockbusters.
Remember the OG Gameboy got like 8 years of support.
This is my only hope for silksong news. Please nintendo. Please do something before july is over.
Anon you can just start you "leak" wishlist threads. You're gonna be doing it anyways the whole week.
What does the R stands for?
E3 is officially dead, consoles are outselling competitors, Zelda has extremely high sales worldwide, so they don't feel pressured to release a direct right now. Probably won't get one until Fall with a few AA first party IPs and indies. Switch 2 announcement Fall of 2024.
>Its just merch
Lame. For a second I imagined we were getting some sort of spin-off game where you play as a Rocket grunt, that'd be fun.
>Play as a Rocket Grunt
>Starters are Zubat, Rattata, Grimer
>Gameplay is standing in front of a door and losing to a ten year old’s Wartortle
>New Nintendo Direct
>No New Games featuring Romance with Monster Girls
>Why bother?
Why do Americans get excited for long advertisment of product to consoom?
>he
?
It's a futa.
because its fun to potentially see new exciting games?