Geno (♥♪!?): Return of the Starsend Savior

[Powerman293]

Here's the thing though, you're talking about a lot of professionals that got things horribly, horribly wrong if nothing major happens this week. These are people in the industry. Imran Khan is not some dude off the street. That's the thing here. This isn't Sabi doing a swing and a miss for the VGAS. This is virtually every professional who has reported on major Nintendo news in the last two years.

There's been crazier **** that has happened this year alone. I'm tired of these people having this info and getting this massive ego boost for teasing it. I'm sure the Gamexplain dudes on ResetEra love having their pride stroked by doing this all the time because they have friends at Nintendo and think they can always get the info ahead of time. Maybe it's time that they learn some humility and stop being so arrogant about everything. Maybe they should just be honest for once and shut up instead of putting on these pony show speculation videos if they know who the next character is gonna be anyways.

 

[Fatmanonice]

Alright, I need to go to bed so I'll say this: wait it out and if Murphy's Law has played out and literally an entire cavalcade of industry professionals was dead wrong, we can set up a GoFundMe campaign for a woodchipper and push kick me into it; deal?

 

[MattOnwheels]

https://twitter.com/keliosfr/status/1285071415373373442?s=21


Kelos thinks we'll be aight.

 

[Swamp Sensei]

For the record, I want to be wrong.

But I think we all got duped.

 

[AugustusB]

At this point, better to rest and expect nothing tomorrow. And if we get something really cool, then we may feel better.

 

[vivala]

Alright, I need to go to bed so I'll say this: wait it out and if Murphy's Law has played out and literally an entire cavalcade of industry professionals was dead wrong, we can set up a GoFundMe campaign for a woodchipper and push kick me into it; deal?

Appreciate the reassurance! You're right, it would be absolutely wild if this many insiders/industry folks were wrong, and if everyone does turn out to be horribly wrong, it's not on you so much as it is on something larger.

 

[Droodle]

Oh you know what else we'll probably get is a Doom Eternal release date. Those are the sorts of announcements I'm expecting.

Hopefully in the obligatory sizzle reel though, in a 10 minute direct; we ideally shouldn't be spending time announcing dates of ports of already released games.

No man, they mean third party. Here's who Nintendo considers partners.

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Just accept we aren't getting any first party stuff tomorrow and roll with it.

Yeah, but I'm honestly still willing to bet that we'll get a obligatory Pokemon DLC trailer. I'll drink water if it does't happen.

 

[Nicnac]

There's nothing we can do but wait, gang. 9 hours. Have a nap, walk a dog, eat some food, play some games. Pass the time. On that note I'm going to bed, it's like 6am here and I'm shattered.

 

[waterhasataste]

I'm really disappointed. At the same time though, I'm really curious as to what this is? Apparently, Nintendo cancelled an E3 presentation, waited about a month and half later and then decided to do a 10 minute mini direct? It's even shorter than the last Mini Direct but they decided to announce this one in advance and not the previous one. It's just such a bizarre choice that I really am curious what they're trying to do. I don't have high expectations at all though. If this is really the disappointment a lot of people are expecting, then Nintendo needs to get things together because it's extremely frustrating

 

[vivala]

Welp, time for bed I suppose. Happy Bakugan day, everybody!

And remember, we'll make it through this. Even if the direct is as bad as we feared. Even if a whole swathe of journalists and insiders was wrong about the rumored releases, we'll be fine.

 

[Shaboba]

Something I've seen a couple of other people say that I think is worth reiterating is that Nintendo took the time to announce this beforehand, which means they want people to know when it's happening and when to watch it. Perhaps that could be worth taking into account? Or maybe I'm just looking too hard for anything to be optimistic about haha

 

[Buzzwole]

You gotta wonder what their plans for E3 were to begin with. Like how much did the pandemic screw things up?
Were they even planning on doing E3 at all this year? Was this always going to be a really dry year or did the pandemic really mess things up this badly?

If we were meant to get a big E3 direct like always, then what happened to all the stuff they were supposed to announce during it?

This year has been so confusing. The way they've described this direct just makes me more confused.

 

[RuffyYoshi]

It's really weird for Nintendo to not show anything during E3 time like Sony did then follow it up 1.2 months with this. Here's to hoping that it's just bad wording and we get a rapid fire of neat things to see.

Otherwise they really screwed the pooch this year.

 

[TexasToast]

Just want to remind everyone that Joker’s reval trailer was a 1:41 minutes long so a smash reveal isn’t out of the realms of possibility also it will probably be a little over 10 minutes so don’t give up hope.

 

[Powerman293]

Welp, time for bed I suppose. Happy Bakugan day, everybody!

And remember, we'll make it through this. Even if the direct is as bad as we feared. Even if a whole swathe of journalists and insiders was wrong about the rumored releases, we'll be fine.

At this point, everyone in this thread should take all the Genoposting these people have done and throw its significance in the trash, even if you believe in all these hints.

 

[RingJ5]

It’s going to be really goddamn weird if Xbox has the best showcase of the month by doing basically nothing.

 

[KeyFortune]

Is this really the time? I'd just say let's see how this week unfolds first.

And yet before that, you said just wait for Monday and all that other nonsense. Stop stringing along these people please, and stop tricking them into believing you're some kind of insider, because you're clearly not, and most of the ones who actually are have either said nothing or were significantly wrong and blew their load too early, hyping people up for things that aren't real or remotely what they promised would happen.

 

[MattOnwheels]

This is like the final showdown at the end of a horror movie where the killer comes back for one last scare before the happy ending.

 

[Powerman293]

This is like the final showdown at the end of a horror movie where the killer comes back for one last scare before the happy ending.

So the games journos/"insiders" are the killers?

 

[Captain Fun]

Here's the thing though, you're talking about a lot of professionals that got things horribly, horribly wrong if nothing major happens this week. These are people in the industry. Imran Khan is not some dude off the street. That's the thing here. This isn't Sabi doing a swing and a miss for the VGAS. This is virtually every professional who has reported on major Nintendo news in the last two years.

What did Imran say?

 

[Buzzwole]

Something I've seen a couple of other people say that I think is worth reiterating is that Nintendo took the time to announce this beforehand, which means they want people to know when it's happening and when to watch it. Perhaps that could be worth taking into account? Or maybe I'm just looking too hard for anything to be optimistic about haha

On the other side of that argument though, they dropped this announcement only 10 hours before the video drops. If they really wanted people to get excited and tune in, they probably would have given people more of a heads up than only 10 hours.
People who went to bed at like 10pm Eastern don't even know this thing is happening because they announced it so late.

 

[waterhasataste]

Part of me is wondering if this is Nintendo trying to experiment with ways to announce stuff. Didn't the president of Nintendo mention that they may look in to alternative methods? It's labeled as a Direct but the format of this based on what we know is entirely different than any direct I can remember

 

[TenghsienYang]

As a general Mari

https://twitter.com/keliosfr/status/1285071415373373442?s=21


Kelos thinks we'll be aight.

Kelios is technically right. Affiliates also include Camelot (Mario Golf/Tennis series), DeNa (Nintendo mobile games), Good-Feel (the yarn Kirby/Yoshi games), Grezzo (Zelda ports/remakes), HAL (Kirby series), Intelligent Systems (Fire Emblem WarioWare, Paper mario), Next Level (Luigi's Mansion sequels), and Sora Ltd (Smash Bros).

Affiliate companies are different from subsidiaries. Nintendo generally has more control over their subsidiaries than their affiliates. Nintendo doesn't explicitly call them subsidiaries but "principal affiliate companies". Subsidiaries would include NDCube (Mario Party and Clubhouse Games), The Pokemon Company, 1-Up Studio (Super Mario Odyssey), Retro Studios (Metroid Prime 4, Donkey Kong Country Returns), and Nintendo EPD (Animal Crossing, BoTW).

Assuming this is what Kelios means, Smash isn't "disqualified" from this Direct, since it's Sora Ltd.

But given it's 10 minutes, definitely leaning towards it focusing more on third parties.

 

[cheeseseatbelt]

https://twitter.com/DrAwesome_x/status/1285068482493722624?s=19

so apparently it's 30 minutes and it's mistranslated??? take with a giant grain of salt...

edit: ok this was fake lol

 

[QQS]

So in the best scenario, we could still get some CGI trailer of fighter #7 with no gameplay, right? Maibe in the last 2 minutes. Don’t lose hope and even if they don’t show Smash DLC, Geno is more alive than ever

 

[pinshadow]

https://twitter.com/DrAwesome_x/status/1285068482493722624?s=19

so apparently it's 30 minutes and it's mistranslated??? take with a giant grain of salt...

The tweet LITERALLY has a 10 in it dude. Come on.

 

[TheShiningAbsol]

https://twitter.com/DrAwesome_x/status/1285068482493722624?s=19

so apparently it's 30 minutes and it's mistranslated??? take with a giant grain of salt...

The only "insider" he's sourcing is HotGirlVideos, and looking in the comments, I really don't think that's what she meant at all.

 

[MattOnwheels]

So the games journos/"insiders" are the killers?

No. The killer is the lack of a full direct/Geno.

 

[MonkeyDLenny]

https://twitter.com/DrAwesome_x/status/1285068482493722624?s=19

so apparently it's 30 minutes and it's mistranslated??? take with a giant grain of salt...

That guy clearly didn't get HGV69's joke....

 

[AceAttorney9000]

The one or two exciting things I'm hoping for from this Mini Direct are Bayonetta 3 news (come on Platinum Games, don't fail me now) and a Smash reveal (still possible, though definitely just a Terry-style trailer with no gameplay).

 

[Buzzwole]

Part of me is wondering if this is Nintendo trying to experiment with ways to announce stuff. Didn't the president of Nintendo mention that they may look in to alternative methods? It's labeled as a Direct but the format of this based on what we know is entirely different than any direct I can remember

Yeah I was wondering that too. Again, it could be because of the pandemic, but it seems like Directs have been getting less and less frequent.

I seriously don't get what's wrong with Directs though. I genuinely can't think of a better way to announce things to your customers. Hell, other companies have started copying the Direct format because its so successful. They have people literally begging Nintendo to release gigantic commercials to advertise to them. How do you do better than that?

 

[Tree Gelbman]

This is like the final showdown at the end of a horror movie where the killer comes back for one last scare before the happy ending.

I feel like it's more like the ending of Cult of Chucky where Andy is locked up, Nica has been possessed by Chucky and riding off with Tiffany, and Chucky has pretty much won.

Or the few Texas Chainsaw Massacres where the lead girl is like ''Oh my god I got away ya'll!" and Leather is like ''Hurp hurp rawr nope." and chainsaws her from behind.

But we'll see.

 

[pinshadow]

Well, there goes 2 minutes of the direct.

Seriously people, just accept that the insiders were blatantly wrong on this.

 

[Buzzwole]

Well, there goes 2 minutes of the direct.

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Seriously people, just accept that the insiders were blatantly wrong on this.

Wellp at least its a full video upload and not a livestream so I can skip stuff like this lmao

 

[MisterMike]

... well then. That was, uhh... not what I expected at all.

So from what I'm understanding here based on what everyone here has been able to extrapolate, it's a 10 minute Nintendo Direct with a slightly different name from normal, and a description that does an incredibly **** job at explaining what they're going to showcase.

Nintendo legit needs to either fire their PR team and replace them with a new one, or tell their PR team to do a better job at explaining **** next time because HOLY ****, that was an awful way to break this news. All you needed to say was:

"On 7/20 we'll be debuting a new #NintendoDirect Mini. We'll share a few updates on a small group of previously-announced #NintendoSwitch games, both from our development & from our publishing partners. Check out the full video release at 7am PT / 10am EST."

That's literally all they needed to say. Took me like a couple minutes to reword that into something that doesn't confuse the **** out of everyone. Why was it so hard for them to just say that?!

I guess in terms of expecations for me at this point, I'm not expecting much. Some DLC, some third party ports maybe, but not much. I think it's possible we still could get a Smash reveal, as that still counts as a "previously-announced #NintendoSwitch game", and if I'm being vrey optimistic I'd say we could be getting a proper reveal trailer for BotW2 the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. But again, I'm not planning on losing any sleep on this. I could still record a reaction video for this just in case, but I'd hate to waste time on this.

To those of you who are up before 7am PT / 10am EST, if anything good happens, particularly a Smash reveal, send me a DM with the word "Banana". I'd hate to get spoiled on something like that like I did with the ARMS reveal.

https://twitter.com/KeliosFR/status/1285066470125379584

Thank you, black sheep.

No man, they mean third party. Here's who Nintendo considers partners.

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Just accept we aren't getting any first party stuff tomorrow and roll with it.

Putting aside the fact that the quote is for the description of the Partner Showcase, there's no guarentee anywhere in the tweet that it'll only be third party stuff. Already announced Switch games could be anything from an indie game to BotW2.

Well, there goes 2 minutes of the direct.

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Seriously people, just accept that the insiders were blatantly wrong on this.

That doesn't necessarily mean that they're wrong yet, but uhh... yeah, 2 minutes is 20% of 10 minutes.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Well, there goes 2 minutes of the direct.

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Seriously people, just accept that the insiders were blatantly wrong on this.

who are they even?

 

[QQS]

319 on the thread, wow

 

[Tree Gelbman]

who are they even?

Pretty sure it's the Rogue Company game that was announced a while back. You know....the boring shooter that didn't look any thing special? That one.

 

[pinshadow]

who are they even?

It's some upcoming multiplayer game being made by Hi-Rez.

 

[Buzzwole]

Nintendo legit needs to either fire their PR team and replace them with a new one, or tell their PR team to do a better job at explaining **** next time because HOLY ****, that was an awful way to break this news. All you needed to say was:

"On 7/20 we'll be debuting a new #NintendoDirect Mini. We'll share a few updates on a small group of previously-announced #NintendoSwitch games, both from our development & from our publishing partners. Check out the full video release at 7am PT / 10am EST."

That's literally all they needed to say. Took me like a couple minutes to reword that into something that doesn't confuse the **** out of everyone. Why was it so hard for them to just say that?!

Yeah the way this was worded is abysmal. It sounds like they're trying to tell people not to get their hopes up, but its worded so strangely that I can't even tell. I mean doesn't EVERY direct have games from 1st and 3rd parties? Why is this one different?