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That's a little sad Uh, and that is that nintendo Supposedly not only doesn't have a nintendo direct plan for june, which was announced by venture beat a long time ago Uh, they apparently do not have uh nintendo direct coming at all now This is according to jeff grub who works at venture beat games beat etc Uh, he put up a report today talking about you know What to expect from the big three big three and other major companies for the rest of 2020 Uh, and he just basically talks about things that we mostly already know like how sony and microsoft's handling the events for Uh, there's platforms and all that jazz But what's interesting is that he expands upon his previous report that nintendo won't do a direct in june by saying that Nintendo isn't going to do a direct at least at all There's there's absolutely zero plans internally at nintendo to make a nintendo direct this year Or right now even in the future Although obviously, you know that could change once everyone goes back to work and they're not working from home Uh nintendo plans to announce all of the first party games in the same way that they announced paper mario the origami king Which is essentially social media and youtube They're just going to drop announcements and that is what it is and obviously nintendo will gauge How that works throughout the year how the sales are impacted all that jazz to make future decisions they I have told other companies that are making things To not wait for direct And to just announce the game in any other way they feel fit So like if there's like ubisoft has a partnership with nintendo on something They're not going to be like hey ubisoft you should wait until we have a direct no They're not going to try to control how how games are announced for switch They're just going to say you announce it any way that you see fit. Don't wait for us um So yeah, uh as for obviously what we have to expect venture beat Has proved to report it on obviously the pikmin 3 deluxe news that we talked about on saturday The 3d mario remasters which have been around for a while the super mario 3d world deluxe That was a rumor to drop at the same time that paper mario seemed to confirm because paper mario was part of that original report Um as for any surprises they might have beyond that obviously we have to wait Um nintendo could be waiting until they do directs it could be waiting just because they don't have anything We don't know we don't know if it's just going to be mario remasters and pikmin 3 carrying the way With with mario 3d world ported as well or if there's going to be other things Obviously nintendo keeps that stuff close to the vest I obviously have hopes for breath of the wild to this year even though With everything going on it's probably a 2021 title at this point. Uh still you never know now What I want to talk about with all this that's that's the news in a nutshell Is is this the end of nintendo directs? Is this like the beginning of the end? See nintendo was has been ahead of the curve for some time, right? When they stopped doing the live in person Presentation at e3. Uh, they were the first company to do that To just stop doing that and they replaced it with digital events and nintendo directs Which they had already been doing nintendo directs they just expanded it to their e3 show So nintendo has been ahead of the curve there now We've seen a lot of companies mimic what nintendo was doing in particular to console companies Obviously, we have inside xbox from microsoft and state of play from playstation and both inside xbox and state of Play seem to happen more often Than you know a nintendo direct. They're a lot more consistent. They're easier to predict when they're going to occur And that's that's good. That's good for those companies They took what nintendo has done and kind of normalized it and annualized it to a point Where people know what to expect and when to expect announcements nintendo It sometimes gets in kind of a flow where for like a couple years They'll they'll do things at a consistent pace and then the third year just completely changes and obviously right now We're in the midst of they've only given us two individual game directs, which were to announce dlc And then they have given us one mini direct Which gave us some a slew a smattering of announcements But nothing that really made people jump out of their chairs per se unless you're me and your superintended jala Which is now in delayed. So I mean that's that that happened I think that Nintendo is still going to be highly successful without directs. I don't think that nintendo needs a direct To hype things up and to get people to buy products I think paper mario this summer july 17th is going to sell like gangbusters It's going to probably become the best selling paper mario game of all time And I think we're going to see whenever they decide to drop the announcements for pickman 3 that it'll end up Outselling the wii u version of pickman 3. I think the mario remasters are going to sell really well I think super mario 3d world is going to sell really really well I mean we already saw a new super mario Will you deluxe sell 6 million units? So we know these are all going to be really big sellers And I think what's going to happen is nintendo is going to see that sales don't seem to be impacted by not putting together massive directs and just dropping trailers and stuff randomly On social media that nintendo is going to be kind of ahead of the curve again Where they don't need big Showings to showcase stuff. They could just announce things when they feel like announcing them and they can announce them by themselves There are some things that probably are negatively impacted by this as an example Less eyeballs on some smaller scale games potentially But again, you know the sales numbers are going to bear out if that's even the case if they can just announce some of these smaller games Even indie world games, you know through twitter and and in youtube and see the sales Still say hi since they get individual attention instead of getting buried by bigger titles It's going to be kind of a An experimental year for nintendo as a lot of their employees. I think all of them actually are working from home Now um, if these games do sell really well, that does mean uh, that nintendo could reevaluate whether nintendo directs are worth Doing as much hype as they drive as excited as they get as much attention as they might take for a day or two on the internet They might find that they get actually more attention by dropping things individually throughout the year And uh, never knowing when nintendo is going to announce something you could wake up one morning and they could be dropping uh brand new news about the next switch or You could wake up and they could drop new news about a brand new indie title They could be dropping news about Breath of the Wild 2 or Metroid Prime 4 could be shown off just randomly we don't even know when it's gonna happen and Some people are prefer this method of course because it means every single day of the year is a chance to be excited for Something from nintendo or something coming to nintendo's platform or for a new platform from nintendo Other people will look at it as I like to know when to expect announcements so I could take time off and prepare Maybe you know set up live streams and all that jazz like we do here It's good to have a little bit of warning, but uh, you know Maybe nintendo's going to find that method of marketing just isn't as effective or more effective than just dropping things on twitter And it's a lot easier and cheaper for nintendo to not have to put together a video production to do this so This this begs the question is nintendo going to be ahead of the curve and just be dropping things individually on twitter and facebook and all this stuff and just give up traditional nintendo directs and all that and I think as a consumer as as a nintendo fan The idea of thinking that will that that nintendo could do away with those big general nintendo directs is a little bit sad Because what was cool about having multiple big nintendo directs throughout the year whether it was two three or four of them Uh was it was kind of like having three or four individual E3 like events like nothing's quite like E3 because they expanded with the nintendo treehouse stuff Which is crazy and awesome and amazing But being able to have a major, you know 30 potential 30 to 45 minute direct You know three four times a year was exciting Even if you ended up being disappointed you always knew well, maybe the next one that comes around in a few months I'll be even more excited for So there was always this excitement built around them and a lot of hype and I enjoy hype. I enjoy excitement. I enjoy You know knowing that hey a directs coming and we should get really really pumped about it now having this news That there's no directs coming that nintendo's not even planning a direct that you know Maybe they get one by the end of the year, but probably not is kind of a Watching the way the industry has conducted itself and nintendo has conducted itself kind of go by the wayside In favor of just dropping things randomly on social media. Basically nintendo is youtube in it You guys have no idea what video i'm going to make you have no idea if i'm going to drop a video one day You have no idea how many videos you're going to get you have no idea What the topics are going to be or what kind of video is it going to be a news video? Is it going to be a podcast? Is it going to be? Um an editorial piece you guys don't know you don't know until it just drops and that's what nintendo's doing We don't know what day what time Um what franchise whatever they're going to talk about we don't know nintendo's just going to Drop it and uh, they're going to see if that's a great way for marketing versus what they've traditionally done So I hope this is not the end of nintendo directs and it's important to know that jeff grubb at venture beat Is not saying it is the end of directs and that they Could even hold back certain big games until they're going to have a direct Um, he is noting that they just don't have any plans for it and they're going to keep announcing things the way they announced paper mario and uh I think the way they announced paper mario has I mean it's got to be viewed viewed as a success Um, you know if i'm just looking over here on youtube I mean that paper mario trailer is is insane with its numbers right now Um, you know, I think it's got like we have 4.1 million views of that trailer on nintendo's channel That's just nintendo's trailer. That's not including all the live reactions That's not including other re uploads of that trailer by some outlets I mean i'm sure the views of this point are probably closer to 6 million If you start including all the extra videos if not more and that's huge That's huge numbers for nintendo For a game like that's more than some paper mario's have sold So clearly the strategy is going to work and this paper mario is going to be super Sell super well in comparison to other paper mario games. I think nintendo Um is going to end up being done with directs I think that you know if we're lucky and this is a big if We still get one per year and that'll be at e3 next year But then this assumes that e3 comes back even though they're planning to come back It doesn't mean all the companies are going to support it And this presumes that nintendo is going to want that same sort of presence They usually have at e3 again in 2021 again a lot of unknowns because that's over a year from now And who knows what's going to happen between now and then So I think right now the only information we can go off of is we haven't had a general direct We're almost halfway through the year and we haven't had a general direct And now we have a reporter coming out saying look, they're not going to be doing a direct anytime soon And there's no plans for no talks not even a whisper inside nintendo of a direct Which tells you that maybe nintendo's done with them And as we see them drop more and more these individual announcements And those individual announcements keep dominating the day and taking all this attention And getting millions and millions and millions of views on youtube and other platforms You're going to see that nintendo might decide they don't need directs anymore And if that's what happens Farewell 2019 the last year that we got real Honest to goodness general nintendo directs. Heck, I don't even know if a minis in the cars a mini we got You might as well put that one in the memory bank because that could be the last one of those we get to Anyways folks, uh, you guys let me know what you think about this Do you want nintendo directs to come back? Do you think nintendo's new way of dropping things? Largely because of the pandemic is actually a better method of advertising than traditional directs Games maybe get more individual attention that could dominate the day You know what paper mario have outshined a bunch of other things that maybe we could talk about on other days I don't know. I'm really confused. I don't know what to think. I want to know your guys's thoughts on this I'm torn between i'm getting rid of directs and keeping directs. I'm not sure which way to lean Uh, but maybe you guys can make a better argument forward down in the comments below for me Anyways, thank you guys so much for tuning in be sure to enter our giveaway and I will catch you guys in the next video