The subsequent Nintendo Direct is scheduled for this Wednesday, the corporate simply introduced. It is being billed as a “companion showcase,” with Nintendo saying it will exhibit Change video games coming within the first half of this 12 months from “our publishing and improvement companions.” It’s going to kick off on February 21, vivid and early at 9AM ET.
Whereas Nintendo holds these showcases regularly, this one is probably extra important than traditional. Final week, Microsoft made an expected but still surprising announcement that it will start bringing a few of its titles to “different consoles,” a phrase that is exhausting to not interpret as video games coming to the Change (and Sony’s PlayStation 5 as effectively).
Nintendo says it will be a 25-minute presentation, so there’s an opportunity we’ll hear about some video games from different builders, as effectively. However we’re all anticipating to see some information about what video games Microsoft goes to convey over to the Change. Microsoft solely stated that it will be bringing 4 video games to different platforms however did not identify them; the most recent rumors cite Hello-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves, Halo and Gears of Battle as probably choices to make the transfer.
This comes at a time when Nintendo would not have numerous its personal first-party video games scheduled for the platform (that we all know of, anyway). There’s additionally the looming specter of a Change 2 console; studies simply stated that the {hardware} is getting pushed back to 2025 after an anticipated launch in some unspecified time in the future this 12 months.
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