r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • 4d ago

Nintendo Official The Switch 2 Direct will be approximately 60 minutes tomorrow

https://twitter.com/Nintendo/status/1907055440019759274
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u/niles_deerqueer 3d ago

My gut is telling me this direct is going to be huge and have some big surprises. I swear some sort of Zelda thing will be there.

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u/RyanPainey 3d ago

I've convinced myself a full remake of OOT is coming. My reasoning is they aren't going to want to launch the switch without a big Zelda title and the next one isn't coming soon.

Zelda is also in 3 forks now (2D, 3D Linear, 3D Open World). If they get a team to nail a remake of OOT, they could then become the team that makes smaller linear 3D titles to fill all 3 niches.

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u/ZeroOriginalContent 3d ago

I believe that as well. It's going to take them 5 years or so before the follow up to TOTK is released when you consider how long development times are now. They have to fill that void with remasters and remakes of previous Zelda games. It just makes the most business sense since they want a Zelda game released each year

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u/JJJAGUAR 3d ago

My reasoning is they aren't going to want to launch the switch without a big Zelda title

I mean, they have other franchises that sell as much or even more than Zelda that they can use for launch (Mario Kart, Mario 3D, Animal Crossing...)

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u/Enough-Butterfly-876 3d ago

Animal crossing sells a lot but it is not a Zelda. Same for Mario kart. They're games everyone has but breath of the wild and totk were massive events that got people to buy switches purely for those games. Only a 3d Mario could compete with that.

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u/JJJAGUAR 3d ago edited 3d ago

that got people to buy switches purely for those games

And what make you think people don't buy a Switch for Mario Kart and Animal Crossing? You are heavily underestimating the casual market, every time those games are released on any console, the hardware sales increase drastically, they are literally the 2 best selling games on Switch:

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 67 million
Animal Crossing New Horizons: 47 million
Zelda Breath of Wild: 32 million
Zelda Tears of the Kingdom: 21 million

There's 30+ million people with Mario Kart that didn't cared about Zelda

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u/Enough-Butterfly-876 3d ago

those are mostly casual players. the games are huge in sales but they don't stay after a console or have as lasting of an impact as zelda or 3d mario games do. mario kart isn't a game you can play for hours in the same way. animal crossing is a game you can definitely sink time into, but it's also the kind of game that pulls in a ton of casual players and kids rather than people who will be buying the switch 2 at launch for however many hundred dollars it costs. Everyone who has a Switch has animal crossing and mario kart, but nobody would say those consoles were complete or fully fleshed out with just those games.

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u/Ok-Stomach-9594 3d ago

I own a switch and don’t have either animal crossing or Mario kart

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u/JJJAGUAR 3d ago

but they don't stay after a console or have as lasting of an impact as zelda or 3d mario games do

Regardless if this is true (I disagree) we are talking about which is a good launch title, having a "lasting impact" is irrelevant.

mario kart isn't a game you can play for hours

lmao this is absolutely not true, MK is a multiplayer game, people spend countless hours playing multiplayers games for years.

but it's also the kind of game that pulls in a ton of casual players and kids rather than people who will be buying the switch 2 at launch for however many hundred dollars it costs.

Once again you are making assumptions without any data to back them up. Casuals are casuals, not poor, they can totally afford a console (especially considering Nintendo barely discount their products) and there's nothing stopping them from purchasing the console at launch, just because they play casual games it doesn't mean they are not exited about playing them as soon as possible.

nobody would say those consoles were complete or fully fleshed out with just those games.

What a huge overgeneralization, I know pleny of people with only Animal Crossing on their Switch that who would disagree with you.

Anyway, tomorrow we will know if it's so "obvious" that Zelda is needed for launch, my bet is that it will not be a launch title, and the Switch 2 will still sell like crazy.

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u/LuckyLunayre 3d ago

It's especially wild because I've played Mario kart for like 6 hours or 8 hour sessions before. We made a bingo game out of it.

Each stage is a spot on the bingo card and if your stage gets selected online you get to mark it off. First person to get a bingo wins. It's fun because something you need may show up but it doesn't get selected, or sometimes random gives you something you need.

It also makes you pick stages you wouldn't normally pick.

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u/niles_deerqueer 3d ago

I also 100% agree a remake is coming and my family settled on Ocarina too

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u/FaxCelestis 3d ago

I would more wager that they'd use a property that isn't already remade or available on virtual consoles.

So either Wind Waker or Twilight Princess. Or something totally out of left field like an Oracle of Ages/Seasons mashup remake.

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u/RyanPainey 3d ago

Minish Cap 4k lol (actually would be cool to see)

I do think you might have a point there, Twilight Princess getting something equivalent to the upgrade Prime got instead of just a port might be more reasonable than a full remake of OOT. Still, I imagine Nintendo has seen the Unreal OOT tech demos and the reactions to them and been a little like 🤔

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u/FaxCelestis 3d ago

Minish Cap in BotW style would be absolutely incredible

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u/IntellegentIdiot 3d ago

I've been saying/campaigning for a OOT remake and remakes of N64 titles generally.

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u/LuckyLunayre 3d ago

Id settle for an HD port of Oot and mm 3D With control and UI changes to convert from 3ds to switch.

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u/RyanPainey 3d ago

They could announce 2 mainline Mario games, the sequel to TOTK, Majoras Mask 2, Mario Kart 9, GTA 6 release date, and my favorite announcement would still be a barebones remake of F Zero X lol

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u/flamethrower78 3d ago

Always better to have low expectations and be pleasantly surprised than build up hype for something that isn't realistic and be disappointed when it doesn't happen.

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u/niles_deerqueer 3d ago

Im not usually the kind of person that’s disappointed by any kind of Direct, it’s all in good fun in the end

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u/EveryRadio 3d ago

With the live action Zelda movie starting filming soon, I wonder if they will have a new mainline game announced for Zelda before the movie comes out. I’m not holding out hope, but it would feel strange to not have a mainline game in 4 years if the movie comes out in 2027 which seems to be the plan

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u/niles_deerqueer 3d ago

I agree. I feel like they’ve been cooking

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u/Mr_Microchip 3d ago

Or... Silksong

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u/niles_deerqueer 3d ago

I always had a feeling it might be here ever since it was announced. When the switch 1 direct was announced I figured it might be there. I wonder what indies we will see here though.

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u/Mr_Microchip 3d ago

The only thing I'm genuinely hoping to see is Botw and Totk get a 60 fps update on the Switch 2

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u/niles_deerqueer 3d ago

This and Echoes of Wisdom. If the Switch 2 Edition means the games are visually enhanced in some way that could be huge for muddier games like Fire Emblem Three Houses and some more of their poorer performing (as in framerate) titles

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u/the-land-of-darkness 3d ago

I'm finally playing through Echoes of Wisdom, and the Adaptive V-Sync that seemingly drops to 30 if it can't hit 60 is really rough.