Despite a scare in the motherland, the show must go on.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/71884/nintendo-direct-partner-showcase-to-air-july-31
Third parties will be coming directly to us tomorrow.
A Partner Showcase Direct will air tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET / 6 a.m. PT. The show will run for 25 minutes.
The show will go ahead despite an 8.7 earthquake off the coast of Japan that triggered tsunami warnings for the entire Pacific Rim.
On one hand, it's good to see a showcase like this. It will probably have a fair amount of Switch 1 stuff so it probably has more relevant content for someone like myself who doesn't have a Switch 2.
But as a partner showcase it will not have the one thing I want to know and that's the Metroid Prime 4 release date. Or frankly the release date for any Nintendo first party games for the rest of the year aside from Pokemon. Is there a reason they're not giving us these dates? Has everything fallen so behind that the rest of the 2025 lineup is up in the air and could move to 2026? I'm especially worried about Metroid because not only do I not want yet another delay but I fear that if it moves too far into the future that they'll decide to not bother with the Switch 1 version. Another delay is a potential cancelation.
So hooray for the Partner Showcase but at this exact moment that isn't what I want, which hurts my enthusiasm for it.
On one hand, it's good to see a showcase like this. It will probably have a fair amount of Switch 1 stuff so it probably has more relevant content for someone like myself who doesn't have a Switch 2.
But as a partner showcase it will not have the one thing I want to know and that's the Metroid Prime 4 release date. Or frankly the release date for any Nintendo first party games for the rest of the year aside from Pokemon. Is there a reason they're not giving us these dates? Has everything fallen so behind that the rest of the 2025 lineup is up in the air and could move to 2026? I'm especially worried about Metroid because not only do I not want yet another delay but I fear that if it moves too far into the future that they'll decide to not bother with the Switch 1 version. Another delay is a potential cancelation.
So hooray for the Partner Showcase but at this exact moment that isn't what I want, which hurts my enthusiasm for it.
So now that the Direct has come and gone, Hyrule Warriors also has no proper release date. Is this like a new Nintendo thing, where they won't commit to a release date until the last minute? Or are both games in risk of a delay? It just seems odd for Nintendo to have two games that are supposed to come out in 2025 but still have no release dates when we're almost in August. They're not going to release something in late December as they'll want everything available in time for Christmas. If either game was coming in August they would have announced a date by now. So we've got about a three month window where these would come out if they stick to 2025.
