Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary Direct

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The_Liquid_Laser said:

To add to this discussion, I just want to say 1) I do think Nintendo has at least one more first party game for this year and 2) I doubt it is Breath of the Wild 2.

The reason is that this is the most I've ever seen Nintendo celebrate a Mario Anniversary year.  For example, what did they do for the 25th Anniversary, 2010?  They released Mario Galaxy 2 and also 25th anniversary collection which was just a SNES port of Mario All Stars.  That 25th anniversary collection really required zero work, even less than this 3D collection coming this year.  This year we're getting the things from this video plus Paper Mario.  That is actually a whole lot of Mario in one year.  I've never seen Nintendo treat an anniversary year with so much fanfare.  I don't know if this is a reflection of Furukawa's leadership or not, but whatever the reason Nintendo is putting a lot more attention into celebrating this Mario Anniversary.

Next year is Zelda's 35th anniversary, and Nintendo has already been heavily pushing Zelda on Switch with the huge success of BotW (Link's Awakening, Cadence of Hyrule, Hyrule Warriors, etc...).  At this point I'm expecting Nintendo to have some sort of Zelda Direct next year that is kind of like this Mario Direct.  If they are focusing so much on Mario this year, then I'd expect them to give Zelda similar treatment next year.

Skyward Sword HD, baby! Let's go!