A solid Direct overall. Enough games are coming that Nintendo didn't bother to show their hand beyond summer.
The Tears of the Kingdom trailer was disappointing though. If Nintendo doesn't want to show us the game three months before release, then that isn't a good sign. Not for Zelda and perhaps also not for anything else they have in the works. They've made a sequel to Pikmin before a sequel to Super Mario Bros., after all. There are also a bunch of GC game revivals all of a sudden and anyone who has looked at sales history for an extented period of time will be aware that there's a rift inside Nintendo between pursuing NES/SNES style to game development approach and N64/GC style. The latter is what sinks Nintendo's fortunes every time they go for it, so 2023 has the potential to be the major turning point where optimism will be pushed aside and has to make way for the attitude "hope for the best, but expect the worst."
Nintendo's recent financial results did not bother me, but this Direct makes me wary of things to come. The lineup of the second half of the year better shows something that makes the upcoming stretch just a coincidental culmination of a variety of titles instead of the new normal.
Legend11 correctly predicted that GTA IV will outsell Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I was wrong.
