Smiles and Cries
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okay no new games but would it not be cool to get a real Bayo2 Trailer this time and not some lick her boots teaser?
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Wii U Direct Nintendo Games 2013.1.23 - Jan. 23rd, 9 AM EST, 2 PM GMT, 11 PM JP
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okay no new games but would it not be cool to get a real Bayo2 Trailer this time and not some lick her boots teaser?
Shikamaru Ninja
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Nintendo Directs do have a pattern of unveiling one new first-party game in most episodes. Maybe something new from EAD Tokyo!
not bitter.
just not blindly excited. no point. nintendo does this every time.
and if they do announce real new games, awesome. i'm just not getting my hopes up.
Kacho
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If they announce a release date for Wonderful 101 will you please be happy?
I'm only kidding.
In Shikamaru we trust
Oh, I know. I'm commenting more on his posting history rather than that specific post.
Lots of people just seem jaded now though. Not that I think that's completely unwarranted at this point.
Porcile
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I'd like to see more of The Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2. Would be an ok showing for me if they featured those two in detail. W101 has really gone off the radar.
IceDoesntHelp
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You sure?
I'm not necessarily expecting megatons, but I think a mid tier announcement or two is extremely possible. If you assume Nintendo is going to have at least something coming from June- September-ish, they have to announce those projects before E3.
GiantEnemyGoomba
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Please tell me you know something. You just got me really hyped. D:
Father_Brain
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The B2 and MH3G announcements actually broke via the JP Direct before they were mentioned at the US press conference. Going by how they handled Wii U launch announcements in Japan and EU, they seem to have mostly abandoned holding press conferences outside E3.
It's best to keep hype at reasonable levels, particularly given that E3 is still nearly five months away, but I don't think the use of ND as a platform here says that much.
Kacho
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Ah ok.
GregLombardi
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Also, Smash Bros. Wii U or death!
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
If they announce a release date for Wonderful 101 will you please be happy?
I'm only kidding.
Getting either a Bayonetta 2 trailer or The Wonderful 101 date/trailer would be all I want. Honestly. Just one of those things would make me happy.
I stand corrected.
Spieler Eins
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Well, if they don't at least have that it really just further confirms the worst possible scenario in which none of Nintendos team does well in handling that new HD technology...
Investor meeting is also coming up, so they have to respond to the underwhelming sales by announcing some stuff. The lineup is so bad, even some kind of eshop announcement would almost be exciting. The 3DS usually gets one of those in Direct shows, while the Wii U eshop didn't get a game since first week after launch or so. Terrible.
same
and on the other hand, pokemon xy, NSMB2, 3DS XL, crashmo, several other downloadable titles have first been revealed through nintendo directs.
the fact that they specify new games will be revealed unlike past wii-u related directs leads me to believe.. new games will be revealed
plus, at this point they have to know hosting another new ND only to show footage of the same 4-5 already announced games would do more harm than good.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Somebody said this is their usual scheduled Nintendo Direct, but that is incorrect. Directs happen during December and February (bimonthly), not January.
Dude. Don't joke about stuff like this.
Dude. Don't joke about stuff like this.
Spieler Eins
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NSMB2 was announced in an investor meeting. Until now, Pokemon has been the only real major title announced in a Direct. But Pokemon is also never announced at expos or anything afair.
It's usually minor stuff like downloadable titles, localisations or... nothing at all.
IIRC it was vaguely mentioned as a new 2D Mario title coming in the next fiscal year- the actual announcement was in a Nintendo Direct.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I hope Star Fox x Metroid is announced so I can finally be consumed by my suppressed Nintendo rage and go postal on this forum.
Smiles and Cries
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I want at the very least one of those. Like I said every game that launches before E3 should be fair game to show.
Exterminieren
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You continually deny it, but Nintendo Directs have seen far and away the largest announcements from Nintendo over the past year.
3DS XL
NSMB2
Indirect NSMBU and Zombi U confirmation
Final Gamepad design
Miiverse and Wii U OS
Pokemon X and Y
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate HD Ver. and Western localisation
Bayonetta 2 (debatable, but I certainly saw it announced in a Direct)
Professor Layton 6
Jam With The Band 3DS
eShop titles (Harmoknight, Fallblox, etc.)
Whereas E3 saw:
Pikmin 3 reconfirmation
Nintendoland
With the exception of Nintendoland, every single one of Nintendo's big-to-medium software announcements came through a Nintendo Direct. It's hardly a shock that people see them as the big thing!
A 2D Mario for 3DS was mentioned. By that logic, a Monolith Soft/Retro/Zelda/3D Mario reveal tomorrow wouldn't be an announcement because they've already been mentioned by Iwata/Miyamoto/Reggie/whoever.
Spieler Eins
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Yeah, but afterwards the first screenshots were randomly shown outside of a Direct too afair.
Smiles and Cries
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you would not be alone... add developed by the Other M Team lol
Metroid Killer
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Shenmue 3 published by Nintendo! Believe!
Kotaku: Nintendo Ninja confirms Cyberpunk Zelda made by Nintendo's new first party, Platinum Games.
Lately?
I don't expect anything but I'm not going to be mad with stark disappointment even before the event begins while shrugging it off as being "reasonable".
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
That is, you actually play as Zelda.
Spieler Eins
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We would have seen more at E3 if they had more ready to show off, surely. Pokemon still is the only major series up there, before that the XL was the biggest announcement... which still isn't a game. ,,Indirect ZombiU'' etc is also quite stretching it, lol. Monster Hunter and Bayonetta will do middling sales, so you should expect games of that calibre at best. Most of the time though it has been downloadable stuff and localisations, which is also good. But no way will there be 3d Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc. These will be at E3, even Miyamoto said his new IP would first be shown their whenever it's ready.
Often it has also been nothing, like the last general Direct that had nothing but delays for everything launch window.
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
PN04 published by nintendo, coming christmas 2013.
Everybody hide your postal codes.
Initially read that as Cyberpunk 2077....
My goodness that would make the Bayonetta 2 reaction look like child's play.
I wouldn't be too surprised if this was the case, they probably want to hype these upcoming games.
IceDoesntHelp
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3am EST...REALLY!?
See you guys at 3am. Going to bed, fuck work.
DURP! Don't know times apparently.
Exterminieren
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OBJECTION!
All of the major Nintendo announcements of the past year have been made at a Nintendo Direct. You can hardly point at 3D Marios or Zeldas and say they wouldn't be announced at a Direct, when they haven't been announced anywhere at all.
And yes, although they weren't given proper titles, NSMBU and Zombi U were shown off in their final forms on a Nintendo Direct.
Cheesemeister
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Usually, even if a Direct has a particular focus, it's not uncommon for there to be a little spell where Iwata delivers other news. RE might still get a passing mention, even though it won't be a principal focus.
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