Well, that was a bust... Probably one of my least favorite Nintendo Direct presentations of the recent years. To be fair, my hopes and dreams can run wild, but I've went into this mainly expecting ports, remasters, and already announced titles, but still got disappointed. Seeing Metroid Prime 4 in action again was nice, but it wasn't awe-inspiring or able to carry the Direct. More on this title in a separate post, where its section was the only interesting one for me personally.
You can now treat digital games like game cards, which is a quality of life feature coming eight years too late, but better late than never. However, it won't make any difference for me, because I buy all my Nintendo Switch games as cartridges whenever I can.
They ended things with Tomadachi Life: Living the Dream coming to Nintendo Switch next year and a special announcement by Shigeru Miyamoto that wasn't a game. For a second I thought that we might get an update on the Zelda movie, but it was just a new app, Nintendo Today. It's essentially a day calendar, which Nintendo will use to communicate news, game-related content, and so on. Well, this is effectively what they are already doing on X and other social media platforms, so I don't see the value (yet).
But this is what they brought Miyamoto on the stage for? That's how they are ending this Nintendo Direct, which potentially was the last and final Direct dedicated to the Nintendo Switch? A news platform where they will show you the Nintendo Switch 2? It's such a low note...
The bright side is that they seem to be dedicated to support the Nintendo Switch even going into 2026 with games like Tomadachi Life, so all the things that you may have hoped for today can still happen further down the road.
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