Nintendo’s First Direct Showcase of 2024 Will Take Place This Week

Nintendo has introduced the 12 months’s first Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase, scheduled to happen February 21, at 6am PT (7.30pm IST). The showcase is confirmed to be round 25 minutes lengthy and can concentrate on video games coming to the Nintendo Switch within the first half of 2024. The occasion might be out there to look at on Nintendo’s YouTube channel on-demand. There are not any additional particulars out there concerning the video games that might be introduced on the Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase, however one might anticipate just a few surprises, particularly with Microsoft confirming final week that 4 Xbox-exclusive titles can be launched on PS5 and the Switch.

Nintendo confirmed its first showcase of 2024 in its put up on X. While the corporate didn’t present extra particulars concerning the contents of the Nintendo Direct, it stated that the showcase would function Nintendo Switch video games coming within the first half of 2024 from its publishing and improvement companions.

The announcement comes days after studies of Nintendo telling sport publishers that its successor to the Nintendo Switch might be delayed until the early months of 2025. Nintendo Switch 2 was anticipated to debut across the vacation season of 2024, however now the console might not arrive till March 2025 on the earliest.

Nintendo reportedly has a comparatively slim lineup of video games coming to the Switch this 12 months; analysts consider that the corporate is saving its largest first-party titles for the Switch successor. Fans have lengthy anticipated Nintendo to announce a sequel for Super Mario Odyssey, which got here out for the Switch in 2017. The Mario maker, nevertheless, is unlikely to take action till it reveals the next-generation Nintendo Switch.

Last week, Microsoft confirmed that 4 of its first-party video games can be launched on PS5 and Nintendo Switch. While the Xbox proprietor avoided naming the video games coming to Sony and Nintendo’s consoles, sources aware of the corporate’s plan have stated its unique titles going multi-platform embrace Hi-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves and Grounded. The upcoming Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase might see one or some of these video games confirmed for the Nintendo Switch.

Both Xbox and PlayStation have already held their first video games showcase of the 12 months. Xbox introduced Bethesda’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at its Developer Direct occasion early final month, whereas PlayStation offered particulars on over 15 video games at its first State of Play of the 12 months on January 31.