Predict the Next Direct (Winter 2020 Edition)

[Jumpin]

Lonely_Dolphin said:

Jumpin said:

1. Your lack of reading comprehension is not my issue. You need to fix that yourself.

2. You're being obtuse. There's nothing difficult to understand about an annual general look into the future accompanied by possible a general holiday lineup look - thus the 1-2 General Directs. This is detailed in my post above - simple enough for a child to understand.

3. Your premise is false. Nintendo's frequent posts of general directs during the Wii U era is NOT associated with a period of great success, rather the stiffest  decline and failure they had ever seen since entering the video games industry. Conversely, Nintendo's standard of 1-2 general shows per year paradigm during the SNES to end of the Wii/DS eras was often met from mild to absolutely stunning success. During the Switch era, when they lowered the frequency of general directs and began focusing on more immediate software launches, and this correlates again to an ascent of Nintendo's fortunes.

4. Where do I post that I would rather they didn't announce BotW2 or Prime 4? You literally just made that up.

5. Why are you arguing with my post if you agree that they don't need more than 1-2 General Directs per year? That's kind of the point of my post.

6. It's silly to think Nintendo doesn't have games. We already know that in 2020 we are getting Animal Crossing New Horizons, Xenoblade Chronicles DE, probably Breath of the Wild 2, probably Bravely Default 2, probably Bayonetta 3, and probably the Detective Pikachu game - that's literally already better than their 2018 lineup, and arguably better than their 2019 lineup. Metroid Prime 4 I imagine is much further out due to developmental purgatory; and that's only Nintendo Published games. On Switch, Nintendo has a history of announcing software anywhere from months before launch (like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Mario Maker 2, and Ring Fit Adventure) right down to the day of launch (like Tetris 99).

1. But then...

2. That doesn't answer my question. You did not detail how the 3rd and 4th direct would distract anymore than the 1st n 2nd direct. Again, Nintendo has already been doing most of what you said between 4 directs a year, so yes, I don't understand why you think cutting down to 1-2 will make any difference besides putting more stress on devs to meet deadlines.

3. You raise Wii U, I raise GameCube. Of course I'm referring to the Switch, the most recent thus relevant system which had 4 directs in 2017 (counting the presentation) 2018, and 2019 as well actually, which I thought had 3 but is actually 4 after checking.

4. What is this: "It’s complete BS that games need 1+ to years of hype." I mean yeah it's true, but in spite of that, Nintendo still announces games years off on occasion such as the aforementioned Metroid and BotW2. The rest of your post does mention still announcing games for the future so this wasn't my best point I'll admit.

5. I didn't agree with only needing 1-2 directs specifically, I said the number of directs doesn't matter, only the games do.

6. I'm explaining why the number of directs doesn't matter, I didn't say Nintendo doesn't have games, that remains to be seen lol.

1. Huh?

2. Yes it does. It's your own fault you don't understand that 4 is greater than 1. The norm is that companies do 1 general update a year, and sometimes they do a holiday season showcase. This has always worked, and when that update is placed in the dead period opposite the holiday season, then it has the lowest effect on distracting from current and upcoming products. I have repeated this multiple times, if you can't comprehend that holiday seasons only come once a year, I can't help you.

3. Which are fewer than the Wii U era. And they're doing even fewer now and sales have been high prior to Coronavirus.

4. OK.

5. My central point is that more than 1-2 general directs are not required per year. 1 to update on future games and 1 to showcase the holiday season lineup.

6. OK.