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Nah dude it applies to everyone (and if it doesn't apply to you let it be known so I can block you please )

What in the hell?!

Still just 2025, but today's teaser trailer from the Direct:

WOAH PATAPON?!

Sakurai has retweeted the Direct announcement: Interesting...can't remember him going that before. What could it possibly mean? A new Smash game for Switch, obviously UFO 50 is a great shout! Some announcements of other big indies of last year like Minishoot' Adventures and Tactical Breach Wizards coming to Switch would make sense to me too. Maybe the next chapter of Deltarune, too?

Chris Dring of the newly minted The Game Business dropped this piece the other day about multiple AAA publishers having plans to delay out of 2025 to avoid GTA VI (not remotely unexpected). And then comes Devolver...

More of the Doomsday cast have yet to be revealed: I'd guess like there might be some location shoots where leaks might've been a concern, so they got ahead of it with these announcements...maybe? Who even knows anymore

Great pic Think I preferred the old logo. Video to recap the announcements too: A lot of names missing, but I imagine some are being held back to be a surprise and others for Secret Wars? No Spidey seems a bit crazy but I guess Spidey 4 is going to explain that (and probably pull Tobey and Andrew back in, too). Probably post-Secret Wars, I imagine. Soft reset and then we get a Mutants Saga with the new X-Men at the fire. That's what's confusing me about the plans for Doomsday and Secret Wars, though, honestly. They keep saying it's a new beginning but everything we hear and see - such as with this casting announcement - feels like it's a final, final hurrah for Marvel stars of yore, from before the MCU, such as with the OG X-Men cast.

Biggest one yet (they ended on RDJ by the way)

I mean yeah, who wouldn't want to say they slapped the greatest footballer of all time, H-o-T? I think I'd rather have a kickabout with him, but hey, you do you

I'm pretty sure they're shooting Doomsday and Secret Wars back-to-back like they did Infinity War and Endgame, so I could see it being the case that they're just getting every name which could easily be spoiled across the two films out in the open? If they could barely keep No Way Home's returning characters under wraps, I feel like there's no way they'd be able to do it with so many more names added to the credits. And can we just talk about the budget for these films? Like seriously? RDJ probably asked for half a billion to come back and I wouldn't be shocked if the Russos were getting a crazy amount too. I'm surprised that there are even going to be other actors in this, to be honest. More seriously: revealing names one by one...logically they should be ending on RDJ as Doom, but we already know that he's returning. A lot of these castings are already very big (some people complaining about spoilers lol), but I wonder if there could be a new casting announcement at the end of all of this? Anyways, move on to Spidey already and give me Tobey and Andrew back (again) please

Welp. Here's some gameplay footage. Guess this is just another way he could fight the allegations...

Monthly games are: Available 1st April.

Marvel have started a random livestream which so far has just been a chair with Chris Hemsworth's name on the back: Doomsday cast? UPDATE - Vanessa Kirby's chair has entered the frame. UPDATE 2 – Anthony Mackie's chair has entered the frame. UPDATE 3 – I cba to do anymore updates UPDATE 4 – friend mentioned Endgame. I just checked and we're 23 days away from being as far from Endgame as Endgame was from Iron Man 3 (the start of Phase 2). Urgh. Gross. All kinds of existential gross.

The Triple-i Initiative returns Thursday 10th April at 17:00 BST. The note next to Untitled Studio made me chuckle

I think it really depends on if they're planning on releasing two separate SKUs of Prime 4: If there are separate Switch and Switch 2 SKUs planned, and it's coming at the launch of the Switch 2, then yeah, I think you could feasibly save it for the Switch 2 Direct. If there aren't and only a Switch SKU is planned, I think you show it off tomorrow and it is used as the example in the Switch 2 presentation of some hypothetical next-gen boost being applied to backwards compatible games. Obviously, Nintendo have had games launch simultaneously on two platforms with separate SKUs before on systems which technically had backwards compatibility, and even some that didn't, but the potential for "boosts" to certain games and these Directs only being a week apart makes me think they'll do anything they can to not muddy the waters. Or maybe they willingly do that anyways. I mean, it is Nintendo. I'm leaning towards it being the latter. I don't think the OG Switch gets mentioned in the Switch 2 Direct outside of talk about backwards compatibility and a potential boost to performance for select games. Prime 4 is going to be a prime (heh) candidate to showcase that. Besides that, yeah, I'm just going to throw out there what I mentioned in the other thread: I think a couple more games releasing for NSO as you guys have mentioned makes complete sense, too. To go back to the well asking for more ports, something for Prime 2 and/or 3 makes sense here to me with 4 on the horizon. Hell, I could see a repeat of 2023's Feb Direct where they get shadow-dropped on the eShop after the Direct. Would be a nice little stinger after showing Prime 4!

With the official announcement of tomorrow's Direct confirming it as a Direct proper and being 30 minutes long, I've got to admit, my hype and expectations for this Switch 2 Direct have risen a good bit in the last 15 minutes The board will have been cleared. I'm ready to be dazzled

Well, there it is. 30 minutes long, livestreamed. Nintendo, The Kings of Left Field, zig instead of zag in a big way one final time this gen, announcing what will be seen as a swansong presentation for the original Switch. And thus begins what will surely go down as one of the most hype weeks of Nintendo news ever. My body isn't ready, but let's do this

Pyoro is back and saying that tomorrow's Direct won't be a Partner or Indie event: That leaves general Direct or a Mini... Worth noting that a number of Direct Minis have been announced the day of or shadow-dropped in the past.

Pretty sure I got attacked by coyotes on my way to Mexico when I played Red Dead, during what was clearly meant to be the moment (musically) when that transition was happening Totally killed the vibe but gave me a good laugh

Yeah, 14:00 GMT / 15:00 BST in the summer has generally been when they drop news of general Directs for a little while now, though if it's under different branding then it might go up at a different time – for example, last year's Partner Direct got announced at 22:00 GMT. So I guess we'll know by tonight at the latest, because I'm with you, I'd be pretty shocked if they shadow-dropped this. Before rumours of this started going around I was thinking they'd drop the Switch 2 Direct runtime sometime today, but I figure they'll just give it a little bit of lip service to close the Direct out if that's happening tomorrow?

1 week remains.

Art book incoming: