It's not a new game and won't be commercially big, so I still wouldn't call it major by any stretch.

But I'll stop bothering you guys, best if I just avoid posting about this stuff for a bit.

Trials of Mana and Minecraft Dungeons are both slated for April, and they will probably both do pretty good. Minecraft Dungeons is a wildcard though.. who knows.. but it's Minecraft after all..

To call Trials of Mana not significant is just an uninformed opinion. Nintendo gave it a spotlight in their E3 presentation and the direct after that. That makes it significant.

Though, after those two games it's getting really really sparse with dated games.. W101 in May and Fairy Tale in June are the only ones I can come up with and those arent really significant titles. Nintendo should start putting some dates up soon. Very soon.

I guess Sakurai abandoned the fighter pass vol. 2 since nothing he has not announced the upcoming fighters at this point. /s

I don't even know if Nintendo employees from Japan are even permitted to come back yet to their respective offices in Kyoto and Tokyo.
Plus, for the General Directs, usually we see Koizumi or Takahashi presenting with a green screen behind them. I don't think they can do that at home.

And as Sakurai noted, he cannot even show presentations to developers who are part of Fighter Pass Vol. 2. Do you think there's anything different for Nintendo employees to be able to work at their offices or even meet reps from third party developers and their offices?

No need to apologize man, I was just having a moment where all the stress of everything caught up with me and I lost my cool. It's my bad.

Animal Crossing has reached new horizons, bro. When was the last time a machine sold 300K+ units in a week during a non-holiday period in Japan?

Switch sales next week are gonna crash down to almost nothing, this must have wiped out almost every bit of stock they could muster given the current manufacturing shortages.

Top 30:

[NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 1,880,626 (New)
[PS4] Nioh 2 (Koei Tecmo, 03/12/20) – 26,140 (118,032)
[NSW] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Nintendo, 03/06/20) – 21,954 (206,893)
[NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 17,608 (3,527,528)
[NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 12,116 (1,321,931)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 12,095 (2,829,353)
[NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 10,647 (3,612,919)
[NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 7,505 (731,308)
[NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 7,467 (3,349,417)
[NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 6,580 (1,375,417)
[NSW] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (NIS, 03/19/20) – 6,280 (New)
[NSW] Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (Nintendo, 12/27/19) – 5,188 (181,813)
[NSW] My Hero One’s Justice 2 (Bandai Namco, 03/12/20) – 5,095 (22,092)
[NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo, 06/28/19) – 5,093 (878,995)
[NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 4,856 (1,546,362)
[NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (01/11/19) – 4,700 (801,983)
[NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo, 10/31/19) – 3,856 (620,141)
[NSW] Mario & Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (Sega, 11/01/19) – 3,179 (290,098)
[NSW] Tsuri Spirits Nintendo Switch Version (Bandai Namco, 07/25/19) – 3,043 (409,606)
[PS4] Subnautica (Playism, 03/19/20) – 2,762 (New)
[PS4] Winning Post 9 2020 (Koei Tecmo, 03/12/20) – 2,483 (10,528)
[NSW] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva MegaMix (Sega, 02/13/20) – 2,418 (76,877)
[NSW] Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition (Limited Edition Included) (Square Enix, 09/27/19) – 2,396 (500,402)
[NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 2,391 (458,252)
[NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 2,333 (2,082,275)
[PS4] Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (Limited Edition Included) (Atlus, 02/20/20) – 2,273 (149,898)
[NSW] Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (Limited Edition Included) (Atlus, 02/20/20) – 2,088 (65,653)
[NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 1,908 (1,712,532)
[NSW] Just Dance 2020 (Ubisoft, 03/12/20) – 1,787 (4,320)
[NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Nintendo, 09/20/19) – 1,683 (274,208)

NSW - 26

PS4 - 4

https://gonintendo.com/stories/357871-japan-famitsu-sales-for-march-16-22-2020-top-30

Define crashing day down 2 almost nothing  

hw might be roughly between 75k-100k and that’s pretty good

This is ok. 

Nintendo had a super busy Q3/Q4 last year and now they're slowing down now. The reality is they will continue selling off old software because they've created the perfect Nintendo box/family entertainment system with a good backlogue of titles for people to visit. There's only so much anyone should expect them alone to deliver.

People who want a wide variety of major releases have the option of the PS4. I've stopped expecting Nintendo to compete in that compartment. 

Wow, those were 29 minutes of nothing.

Did the Japanese Direct announce anything else?They usually feature some games not present in the rest of the regions.