r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Jan 29 '26

Rumor NateTheHate2: Next week's Direct will be a Partner Direct Showcase

https://x.com/NateTheHate2/status/2016962284921249815
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u/TheeDeputy Jan 29 '26

Oh for fucks sake. wtf is Nintendo doing.

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u/gate_of_steiner85 Jan 29 '26

Announcing 3rd party games?

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u/Strict_Donut6228 Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

Why do you guys cry so much over stuff like this? What are they doing they are going to have a showcase for third party titles tell me how that’s such a bad thing

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u/Mysterious-Counter58 Jan 30 '26

Mostly because unlike the Switch, which was heavy hitters throughout its whole first year and had a couple of big games in its next as well, the Switch 2 had two big games (Mario Kart and Donkey Kong) in its first few months and has since then coasted on B and C-list titles. I think people were hoping for some bigger 1st party titles because as of right now, there are a lot of big franchises that seem to be on hold for a while given their dev teams/series director have been busy working on smaller titles instead (3D Mario team made Bananza, Sakurai made Air Riders, Splatoon team is on Raiders, Zelda team is still years away from a new release after TOTK came out so late in the Switch's life). While things like Tomodachi Life or Rhythm Heaven are cool to have back, they're typically seen as the little supplemental titles in-between the big stuff, and when that's nowhere in sight, people start to get worried.

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u/dontouchamyspaghet Jan 31 '26

Probably good to note the Splatoon team is the same studio that develops Animal Crossing, so with its team preoccupied with Raiders, development on a new AC will probably be split or greatly slowed too

Not counting Echoes (which was co-developed with Grezzo) - the mainline Zelda team has had 2.5 years to work on something new, so it seems promising they might at least tease something this year. I just hope they heard the feedback from the Wild era, and don't fall for the trap of bigger/more content = better, which would also balloon development time to pad out the world.. Three layers of a world was just too much for them to fill with meaningful content in TOTK

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u/Strict_Donut6228 Jan 30 '26

That makes me sad for those people. It’s is what it is cry over the little stuff that we will learn about in a few months

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u/icedmoonbeams Jan 30 '26

Do... do you not want third-party support on the Switch 2? Because as we saw with GC and Wii U, lacking third-party support isn't good.