To Direct or Not To Direct: What Should Nintendo Do Next?

[Norion]

firebush03 said:

Norion said:

I think a video like this more than anything else shows why Nintendo shifting away from the direct format and towards social media posts would be a shame. 

Weren’t almost all of the Smash Ultimate DLC fighter reveals in non-General Direct presentations? Piranha Plant was in the Smash Ultimate Nov 2018 Direct, Joker was at TGA’18, Blythe was in a Sakurai Presents, Min Min & Steve were surprise dropped, Sephiroth was TGA’20, and Sora was in a separate Sakurai presentation.

I feel like this points more in favor of straying away from General Directs than anything— Nintendo is clearly capable of generating crazy hype without the need for all of these General Directs.

About half were announced during general directs but with this post I was referring to the direct format in general. My point is imagine if they had just tweeted out that announcement and uploaded the video of it on some random day instead of having it be part of a live event that tons of people were watching and recording their reactions to. It would've been a lot less fun basically.