Ok this was awful. Not even dates from upcoming games? Really?

My expectations were low after revealing it was a mini, but what they showed is not even worth of a mini.

They could have uploaded separate videos for the SMT content, tweeted the additional dlc for Cadence and called it a day.

This is a microscopical direct, idk why they bothered to do this

I expected nothing and got it, i think. SMTV not being cancelled is a good thing.

Hmm...

On the one hand the rumors were true.
On the other hand the video was only 8 minutes and for partners only.
But then again they said more updates are coming soon.

This didn't have many games I was interested.
But on the other hand it did have Cadence of Hyrule with a physical version coming with DLC.
So it does have 1 game that I'm going to buy.

Overall I give this video a 4/10 mostly for shortness, but I am looking forward to whatever other updates they have coming soon.

Well, at least SMTV has a release year, and great to see it'll be a simultaneous WW release, didn't expect that.

Also, not shocking the video has more dislikes than likes.

From the sequences they showed, Nocturne while a bit too clean in the HD side, seems to be mostly intact, hope the voice over in the trailer wasn't official, cause Nocturne doesn't need voice acting.

I'm cautiously optimistic that they won't fuck around with Nocturne too much.

V doesn't look like complete trash yet so, das also a plus, seems like a sort of repeat of Nocturne, while that is a double edged sword, it should be more good than IV at the very least, I also can't tell if that is Kaneko's artstyle with the main character, if they actually brought him back from the dead it may actually be a decent SMT since, frigging Strange Journey.

DLC for Cadence looks great.

Well, nothing interested me. Too bad.

I really wish we could see more Nintendo games.

I don't mean to go too far off topic here, but I'd like to challenge some of this post. I think it's dangerous mixing the word "objectivity" into any personal assessment of a video game. 

I believe Smash Bros. is an excellent series and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate deserves a 9/10. But that has everything to do with how I prefer games to be designed, my musical tastes, my flexibility on online multiplayer, my philosophy on content and value, etc. It's a matter of personal taste. If most people concur with me, then I have struck a cord with a popular opinion, not an objective truth.

You can objectively catalog what a game contains and dispassionately measure its performance, but once you determine the importance of something or assign value to a component, you have thrown objectivity out the window.

Happy to continue this conversation on a wall, since it's pretty far removed from the OP  

Big meh on this one. Don't really care for SMT much but I know a lot of people do so enjoy the Nocturne remaster and V. Nintendo still has no games dated for the rest of 2020, so that's a bummer.

So my guess is that they’re changing their Direct formula, instead of one big general Direct every 4 months, they’ll split them and do smaller one on different themes.

We already have the Smash and Pokemon direct covering these series and we also have the Nindies for indies developer.
If the Partner Showcase focus on 3rd party announcements and if the keep the Treehouse format they used with Paper Mario every time they want to focus on a specific game, I don’t see why they couldn’t have a 1st party focused Direct in the mix.

If it means more frequent, but also more focused announcements, I think it can be interesting.