Pokemon Direct - June 5th 2019 @6am PT/9am EST/2pm BST/10pm JST

[super_etecoon]

I will concur with and restate what others here have said:

this could be very good news for Nintendo's E3 Direct, or very likely not such great news for all of us having to hear the same story twice.

I am really hoping for the former. Certainly the info dump that we got on Mario Maker 2 would have really helped to fill about 2-3 minutes, and I'm assuming that Pokemon will be the same. If there are 4-6 minutes of awkward filler and mediocre reveals I would much rather they have swapped those portions. But if it's just an amazing Direct and they've moved those games out of the way to make room for some cool third party titles or first party titles then Nintendo are really hitting on all cylinders this year.

It somehow makes Nintendo's E3 that much more relevant, especially in terms of PR strategy.

Oh...and regarding the Pokemon stuff so I'm not completely off topic in this thread:

I've never played a Pokemon game before and maybe this Direct will do for me what the Mario Maker Direct did for many others, which is to get them hyped when at first they were "meh." I don't really hold out hope for that happening and it would have to be a pretty stellar Direct since the reveal certainly didn't get me that excited. Mostly I'm afraid anyway that once Animal Crossing releases the only thing that could pull me away would be Metroid in some form.