It's not "anti-Nintendo", it's honesty.  They showed a grand total of ZERO games of interest to me.  I WANT reasons to buy a Switch, but they're not giving me any other than Fire Emblem.

8/10, By IGN standards.

Some cool games. Nice that Final Fantasy games are back where they belong. Diablo is cool. Cities Skylines and Civ is cool.

Smash is cool too, but not new.

I was expecting one more heavy hitter though. What are all EAD divisions doing? Making DLC?

EDIT: Oh yea, DaemonXMachina looked really cool. Like a more stylish version of 90's mech games. If they do that one right it could become my favourite game of the generation.

IF they do it right.

Didn't gamefreak say this was a core/mainline game when it got revealed?

Well I guess the first one is just a matter of tastes. Maybe it will do so good with people into mech games.

though honestly, everything about it looked unappealing to me.

No, noooooo! They said *AND* a mainline game will come out. The mainline game comes out next year! (you can rejoice now)

https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/391981-pokemon-lets-go-core-game-not-spin-off

You replied with:

"Didn't gamefreak say this was a core/mainline game when it got revealed?"

To which your article says:

"But yes, Pokemon Let’s Go is a core game, and no, Pokemon Let’s Go is not a mainline game. Got it?"

I'm not really sure what the purpose of separating mainline and core game is. I guess I just assumed core and mainline were the same thing. It is pretty much a spin off though. Anyways, my bad, I guess I was incorrect. Sorry about that. 

10/10 - Easily the best direct since E3 2013! Wonder why they didn't just make this their E3 direct, but eh who cares about that now, this more than makes up for that blunder! Wasn't perfect of course, the online segment while it had cute animation didn't provide anything we didn't already know, but I expected as much.

From a personal perspective, naturally Luigi's Mansion 3 and Animal Crossing are the biggest highlights, but I also loved the Final Fantasy stuff, loved finally seeing Yoshi's Crafted World, liked the look of Town and seeing more Daemon X Machina, and of course, Isabelle in Smash! Getting version 4 for Splatoon 2 is good though the trailer was hella vague, but learning that Mario Tennis Aces will get more than just character updates was a neat surprise. 3DS had nothing of interest for me but thankfully it was short.

Business wise the direct is equally as awesome and makes Nintendo's future look hella bright! The new bundles will likely be hits during the holidays, plus NSMBUD releasing in January all but confirms the 20m shipped goal will be met. 2019 software line-up is already looking just as good as 2017's imo and it's not even 2019 yet! Switch will absolutely dominate next year! Begrudgingly to admit, the payed online will also be making Nintendo millions of free cash. Just have to hope they put that money to good use.

I know that. Though if this is my ranking, why would I rank it based on other people's preferences rather than mine?

Well yeah I did use other people's preferences when it came to the seven FF games, but that was because I'm not educated enough on that matter to make a judgement myself.

Then what would even be the point of this thread, if everybody had to rate this being more introspective? All the scores would be the same, and the thread would be useless.

The point is to express your own opinion, not the consensus's. The consensus will show up by itself in the poll and when you read replies back to back.

I loved this direct, 10 :)