Nintendo Direct January Prediction Thread.

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What I expect:

Detailed trailers about games that we already know that are coming: Kirby, Yoshi, Fire Emblem, Metroid Prime 4, Bayonetta games, and Project Octopath. (Might be a couple of other games I forgot, but you get the idea.)  There will probably be one other new game from an established franchise.  They may tease some of their really big guns like Pokemon or Animal Crossing, but I don't think those games will be ready yet for an elaborate full scale reveal.

There will be a spinoff game of some sort that no one asked for (think Captain Toad or Metroid Federation Force).

They will save the full reveal of the online service for E3.

They will have a few new 3DS games to show.

The biggest surprise will be the huge amount of third party games coming to the Switch, especially Japanese third party games.  The vast majority of these will be ports of old games, although some will also be simultaneous releases for Switch and other consoles.  It won't be "Switch exclusives" that will make this presentation memorable.  Instead it will be that the Switch will just have so many games coming to it.  Even if these games are old or available on other consoles, the sheer number of them will still impress.