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[color=#000080]Because they delayed it (see posts earlier) and we got no new date atm...[/color]

@DrHouse64 I think you are confused? Miyamoto personally worked with Rare a LOT, supervising their projects, giving them lots of ideas to improve their games, and pushing them to be better. In fact, about DKC specifically:

Miyamoto (IGN Interview, 2010) Wrote:The first point that I want to make is that I actually worked very closely with Rare on the original Donkey Kong Country. And apparently recently some rumor got out that I didn't really like that game? I just want to clarify that that's not the case, because I was very involved in that. And even emailing almost daily with Tim Stamper right up until the end. source

Nintendo owned half of Rare through the 90s, and worked very closely with them. This is one of the main reasons that Rare games were as good as they were in the 90s! The Rare devs talked about this in their post-mordem interview with Eurogamer in 2012.

Eurogamer Wrote:However, in time it became clear that everyone had underestimated how much of the studio's success was down to Nintendo's gentle steering. "It seemed like Microsoft was really a novice in the games industry and for some time they left us to try and see how things worked," Cook explains. "They wanted hit games for their console and since they weren't sure how to go about it they trusted Rare to do what was necessary. The problem here was that Rare was a very long way from the very corporate structure of Microsoft and when Rare had made games it wasn't in isolation from Nintendo but as a creative partnership.

"The kind of support that Nintendo offered wasn't available at Microsoft because Microsoft hadn't the experience. Ed Fries was aware of this, he was a very understanding person and wanted to foster studio culture and allow studios like Rare to build a space for themselves inside the Microsoft structure. Microsoft had a strong corporate identity and was very successful so it was only a matter of time until they applied their tried-and-tested corporate success to their new studio acquisitions."

Without Nintendo's guidance, Rare struggled to make games of the quality they once did. They may have been able to find their own footing in time, but when they weren't being immediately successful, Microsoft started asserting their corporate structures, leading to all of their talent leaving. And so, Rare as it was was dead.

Well I guess not everything written on the internet is true after all

[color=#000080]I think we can sadly consider the Nintendo Direct dead by now. Nintendo resumed publishing on all his channels with news that would probably have been in the Direct... Soooooo that's a little bit odd from them... =/[/color]

Pretty sure there is a lot of stuff that hasn't been said yet

Eh ? There's not much happening on Nintendo channels now. Most videos are launch trailers.

[color=#000080]Yeah, but things like the Pokemon Let's Go! Switch bundle, kind of thing that would have surely been in a Direct...

But nevermind, I spoke too early, it's back on September 14th at midnight (Paris time): https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/1039876332413444096
By the way, they also announce that Nintendo Switch Online launches on September 19th (18th for North America): https://twitter.com/NintendoEurope/status/1039876932098314241[/color]

This is kind of sudden for Nintendo Switch Online, considering we didn't got a proper presentation of it yet. I guess this direct will do so.

[color=#000080]Well, I got pretty disapointed by this Direct. Maybe after they delay, I started to expect too much of it?

Luigi's Mansion 3 was a very good surprise at the beginning, really caught me off-guard. But then, nothing extraordinary really showed up. Nintendo 3DS got some Wii games port, and Switch some from Nintendo Wii U.
The Final Fantasy games are nice news anyway.
Not very much explained from the Nintendo Switch Online Service, and France got back this awful off-voice... ^^'

New Animal Crossing, good for those who waited for it... But why Marie in Smash? She was good enough as an assist trophy, now Waluigi is gonna be very pissed off ! X)

And big games like Metroid Prime 4, Golden Sun (as some were expecting), Bayonneta 3, Fire Emblems... Nope, nothing.

That's only my opinion though, it wasn't gonna be the big deal anyway...[/color]

Quote:And big games like Metroid Prime 4, Golden Sun (as some were expecting), Bayonneta 3, Fire Emblems... Nope, nothing.

I know the Switch has been out for quite without a true Fire Emblem game, but honestly, I think they need to put the brakes on that franchise to focus on other IP. The 3DS exploded with 4 (5 counting DLC) games alone. Like, chill Nintendo. Not to say I don't want FE: The Three Houses next year, but dang, slow down with all the FE.