I can understand many reasons for there not to be a Direct in March, but do you really think a Direct would take sales or marketing or messaging away from Animal Crossing?  I think the hype levels for AC:NH are about as high as they can be and there's almost no lukewarm reception to the title (outside those who "aren't into" the series).  Holding off a Direct for a week isn't likely to sway uninterested buyers anyway. The only way I can see this having merit is if something is releasing super quick (like in April or early May) that would make an AC fan flinch since they might not be able to buy both.  But, my gosh, this is Animal Crossing we're talking about here.  Whatever else is coming can wait...gotta get that island started right away.

I'm assuming you're speaking the truth, but I haven't looked it up yet.  Isn't there an investors meetup coming up soon?  So the window would be the week after?  Or are we assuming Nintendo will just report to investors (in this global climate) with empty hands and big promises for the rest of the year?  None of this is meant confrontationally.  It just seems weird to be holding their cards this close to their chest even with those with the most at stake.

Wait so it's fine to steal thunder from smaller games that need it more? You've explained exactly why it's thunder can't be stolen, because it's a big game. AC sales are not front-loaded and there's inevitably going to be games announced while it's still selling anyway, so whether the direct comes before or after AC makes no difference. Not saying it will happen next week, but there's no rule saying it can't.

Why make that distinction though? It's still a Switch exclusive and thus part of the reasons to own a Switch specifically. It's only fair n accurate that it's counted, I wasn't just desperately trying to make the list bigger haha.

I didn't suggest to do anything, and if you're still trying to suggest AC's thunder can be stolen, I think people care more about AC than your marketing school.

You needa stop ignoring the fact that it's a big game ergo people at large are aware of it, as well as the fact that this series sells on it's legs ergo Nintendo is inevitably going to talk about other games as it's selling.

Good for all those other game publishers, but we're specifically talking about Nintendo and Animal Crossing here, and Nintendo and Animal Crossing hold the most relevance in such a discussion, certainly more than your marketing school. Also if they did do a direct then, it would obviously promote Animal Crossing some more much like last year's E3 did for Mario Maker and one before that for ARMS.

Anyway I'm bored of this conversation over something that probably wont happen anyway. You wanna believe a direct next week would be noticeably bad for AC sales? That people who want the game are gonna see the direct and suddenly decide they don't want it anymore or forget it exist? Meh fair enough!

Uh yes? Why make a list based on whether or not Nintendo published it instead of one based on exclusives? I could better understand if it was Nintendo developed, but published? That's just odd to me.

Surely you know what implication means, or perhaps "stealing thunder" means something different to you than it does everyone else.

I think corona virus has more thing to do with this situation than Nintendo waiting AC release so it doesn't spread the attention for its big entrance or they actually have nothing ready to show (let's all agree that's absurd).

They are probably waiting the switch line production normalize so then bring all the news.

What's the point to announce new games, entice new people aboard with the hype if there's almost no HW available? Building a bigger userbase is more important for Nintendo right now

production started up again, and seems only to be a problem for the big spenders like Apple who will see a -10% decrease in total amount of deliveries.