I love this reveal for so many reasons.  First, I find the origami angle to be hilarious.  It's paper, but "Now in 3d"!  LOL.  I also love how Nintendo can just unveil their second biggest game of the year so far without a direct or anything.  Like a boss.

Most importantly this all gives the impression that they have plenty more games coming this year.  I didn't think I would see any new releases this summer, especially not first party physical releases.  I figured we'd get a direct in a few months and nothing until that time.  Nope.  Nintendo is just going to drop this game on us 2 months ahead of time, because they have way more other stuff to put into their next direct.  That's awesome.

Funny thing is I still haven't played Super Mario RPG.  Time to dust off the old SNES mini and give it a play first.

Could be worse. They could go back to the Super Paper Mario formula... *shivers*

We got tweets about Nintendo's Q&A with investors last week. The English transcript should go up on Nintendo's corporate website within the next seven ways. One thing that Nintendo said is that their forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2021 assumes that all games can be launched as planned, so the current state of things is that all games are on schedule. That's why I am not surprised that we are getting a July game.

Now for my personal interpretation of what has been happening: What has not been going according to Nintendo's plan is that E3 got cancelled and that home office work made it harder for them to put together a Direct of the usual E3 Direct quality. The Direct in March covered everything up until the week before E3 (51 Worldwide Games releases on June 5th), then the E3 Direct was supposed to cover the rest of 2020. That Direct isn't happening though, so Nintendo will likely roll out the minor announcements in non-Direct fashion over the coming weeks, Paper Mario being the first one because it's the game closest to release. Cancelled Direct doesn't mean cancelled or postponed games, Twitter announcements don't mean that the next proper Direct will be super-stuffed.