How To Watch The March Nintendo Direct
Today's Nintendo Direct will focus on new Nintendo Switch and 3DS games.
Nintendo will be streaming a new Nintendo Direct later today. The briefing will last roughly 30 minutes and focus on new titles for the Nintendo Switch and 3DS that will launch this year, including new details for Mario Tennis Aces. The Nintendo Direct for March 8, 2018, goes live at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET on YouTube and we've embedded the live stream for you below.
Be sure to let us know what you think of the new announcements over in Chatty. If you haven't joined the best community in gaming, do so asap!
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I hate that this starts at 4:00 my time, worst, possible.
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Asde from missing the live stream, it shouldn't be an issue since it will probably be less than 30 minutes, and available to watch nonstreaming on youtube shortly after it's done.
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I like watching it live, it's just annoying because I won't be able to watch it but I'm sure I'll see all the threads about it.
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Metroid Prime 4 available Tuesday.
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Luigi's Mansion please
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this dude gets me: "If you don't announce Virtual console and new Joy-Con with cross shape d-pad, we may lose motivation for developing Bayo 3. Understand, Ninty?"
https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/971756643938545670-
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before he had my indifference. now he has me at https://i.imgur.com/VtOVCW7.gif
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Another disappointing Nintendo Direct! Can't say i'm surprised
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"huh, a tennis game. That's cool I guess"
You can play as a chain chomp
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Super Mario Sluggers, it was pretty good although I never owned it.
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CAPTAIN MUTHA FUCKEN TOAD BITCHES!
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I love 3dvworld, lot more fun than Odyssey
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I am fine with this. Better than fine, it's great. Give me all these awesome home console games that I can play on the train. Give them to me all over my face.
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I wouldn't mind xenoblade chronicles X to get a port either tbh
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Was the campaign in 1 different from the campaign in 2?
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Quite, similar design philosophies though of course, the end boss was done soooooo much better in Splatoon1 though.
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This did not occur two days ago precisely for the reason you just stated:
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=37301639
lol. Even called the local GameStop so as not to waste my time after work. Then I saw the post about the direct and figured I’d wait.
I’m the reason the world doesn’t have SM3DW. I can feel Hiroshi Yamauchi’s scornful look from video game heaven as I type this
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Man Little Nightmares is a pretty bad game
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I'm super hyped for Mario Aces. I love tennis.
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Yeah this might actually get me to finally buy a splatoon game
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Was hoping for a Hollow Knight date, alas
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I thought the fire was gonna be diablo
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I want a giant burning logo to follow me around.
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SUPAAAAA SMAAAAASHHH BRUDDAAAAS
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Great way to end the video with the Splatoon troll
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With them teasing Smash now that means they are now free to do a Smash Invitational at E3 like they did a few years ago.
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Surprised that they didn't show anything on that Yoshi game.
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Did they say anything about Virtual Console shit?
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Source: my ass
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Link?
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It was ages ago because they pushed their paid online back multiple times before finally settling on a release date.
Virtual Console is meaningless in 2018. Companies release classic games on their own now. Capcom is releasing Mega Man themselves. Hamster has been releasing a bunch on their own.
They said that they’re releasing games every month and that the first three will include SMB3. If SMB3 is part of the subscription then it is very safe to assume that it will be how they distribute classic games going forward.-
It's a question of quantity. If their only strategy for classic games is adding a game or two per month to the online service, that's still a pittance compared to the vastness of their first party library alone. They wouldn't even commit to anything beyond NES games. They aren't going to add online features to their whole back catalog, they should at least sell the rest as one-offs like always. Plus there are lots of companies that permitted their games to be on VC but will never bother to re-release them on their own.
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Except Neflix as a company understands how the internet works. I can not say the same for Nintendo.
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Lol what a bunch of shit. Keep your shitty ports like Little Nightmares and let's get cracking on the stuff people want.
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It was a *fine* direct. I just think it's ridiculous that they haven't said anything about Virtual Console yet.
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Splatoon 2 campaign, Captain Toad with more content, NMH3, a new Mario sports game that actually looks good, Smash in 2018 confirmed, its more than fine.
I also want VC but I have a dozen other machines to play Super Mario World on. Again, we won’t hear about it until we get close to the launch of the paid online service. That’s clearly where they’re going to dump the classic games-
Lets be honest the real disappointment here is WHERE'S ANIMAL CROSSING NINTENDO
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Did anyone else see; was that a Nier level during that NMH3 footage?
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And my 3DS continues to get more use than my switch, woo!
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Didn't the show that on the 3DS during one of the treehouse events?
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Smash will be the first re-release that I get since MK8. I'm certain it'll be the Wii U version with the 3DS stages added and the Squid Kid character (gender will be a color swap). There's no way it would be ready this year and be a completely new game otherwise.
I'm glad people will be able to play the 2014 GOTY, Captain Toad. I'm fine with my Wii U copy, one extra level and passive co-op isn't enough to get me to double dip. I'm not going to get DKC:TF either since I already have it and the additions don't warrant a new purchase, same with Bayonetta 1 and 2.
Aces looks aces and Octopus Transformer (I can't believe they're sticking with the name) continues to look impressive.
I think the new Warioware compilation is my favorite thing on the 3DS side, nice that original, Touched, and Twisted can be in the same package. The other 3DS remakes feel like safe bets rather than going for a new entry in their respective franchises. Maybe new games for those will be on the Switch instead for better marketing.-
The Link shown in Smash teaser was the BotW version, so if anything it's not a direct port.
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I would be surprised if Smash is just a port. I hope it's not. Too hard to tell from what they've shown.
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They don't need to make a new game, the current one has so many stages and characters, Cloud and Bayo are still shaking up the meta, it's still very viable and popular. Seems like a lot of work to out-do an already massive game. An enhanced port with the extra character or two, the 3DS stages, some new songs, boom. An entirely new game would have to have a roster that was just fucking insane to compete with the current one.
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I'd be surprised if it wasn't. But not "just" a port since it has at least one new character. There's really nothing at all wrong with the gameplay or graphics of the previous game, it just needs some fresh content and to be on the Switch. The only real improvement I want is better online netcode.
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HAL Laboratory is listed as the developer, not Bandai Namco. We know that BOTW Link is in the game as well as the Inklings. From there, who knows, but the game has probably been in development since DLC stopped on the Wii U/3DS version two years ago.
There's room for a single player mode, and at worst they can roll in the mode that was in the 3DS version but on on Wii U. I suspect that game balance will be pretty close to Smash 4, it'll be more iteration than the upending Brawl was from Melee and 4 was from Brawl, but we'll probably know for sure at E3.-
Three years isn't long enough for a completely new Smash, especially if we hadn't heard anything yet. There would have been character reveals and voting and all that nonsense by now if it were coming out in less than 9 months.
The only thing that makes sense is an iteration on the current engine and roster, with maybe some more balance tweaks, the latest patch was less than a year ago.-
Despite coming out only two years after first game, Splatoon 2 runs on a new engine that was more optimized to the Switch and has a crapton more content and modes. They turned that game around very quickly.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the gap between Brawl and Smash 4 was as long as it was partly because Wii had an absurdly long lifespan, plus Sakurai made another game in between. Three years to do an iterative release with some new characters and modes seems believable. We already know BOTW Link and Inklings are in there, and who knows, maybe Mario in this game has Cappy.
Between that and the fact that a different studio is making it I would't be surprised if its closer to Splatoon 2 than Mario Kart 8 DX in terms of iteration. I don't think it'll be as clear a sequel but there's enough clues saying that it won't be a DX style port either. We'll see!
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The long lifespan of the Wii definitely makes it seem like it took a while, development on Smash 4 didn't take that long really, actually 2 years would be about right. And the Splatoon 2 turn around time definitely shows it can be done.
If this game is all HAL/Sora and not a joint effort with Bandai or a bunch of other companies like Smash 4 was in order to get it done so quickly, then it could indicate either style of game. A DX style game wouldn't need a lot of help anyways, and a new engine/sequel would be better handled by Nintendo and their second parties with the experience from Splatoon.
I can't believe they started the hype and speculation on this already. Here we are thinking this was the year of Metroid Prime 4.
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I like Nintender.
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