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Nintendo Direct for September 13, 2022

Last posted Sep 14, 2022 at 05:55AM EDT. Added Sep 12, 2022 at 11:42AM EDT
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The Direct will be 40 minutes and Nintendo says the primary focus will be on games releasing this winter season, but we can probably expect some stuff that'll come out within a year or so as well. Also should note that Nintendo's UK channel specifically won't be livestreaming the Direct "out of respect for the Queen's passing" but I' pretty sure people in the UK can just watch the US livestream instead.

Two of the biggest rumors floating around are 1) this might be where Switch ports of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess HD finally get announced (it's been a year since Skyward Sword HD so Nintendo won't have separate remasters battling for attention, plus Breath of the Wild 2 is likely not releasing until late 2023 at the earliest so they probably want to put out something to hold Zelda fans over), and 2) supposedly an HD remaster of Metroid Prime running on the engine Retro Studios has created for Prime 4 might be shown off and get a surprise November or December release date. If either of these rumors turn out true I'll be quite pleased, but I'm just curious in general on what we'll see since there's so many possibilities for both sequels and even new announcements.

One of the only things I think is a "guaranteed" thing to be confirmed is we'll finally get a proper date for Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot Camp (it got delayed out of it's original April 2022 date due to the war in Ukraine), and my guess is early 2023.

Finally! The sequel to Breath of the Wild has an official title! I was hoping for at least more footage, but since there's a release date I can at least expect when there might be more.

One thing I'll comment right away is there was a shockingly high number of farm sim and farm sim/RPG hybrids shown here, which was one thing that stood out as a bit odd.

The biggest highlights IMO were:

-Fire Emblem Engage coming in January 2023 (a new mainline entry where you can call upon older protags in a way that lets face it looks like Stands from Jojo)
-Octopath Traveler 2 (Team Asano has been busy huh?)
-Fatal Frame 4 is finally being officially localized after a decade and a half and is getting a Switch remaster
-Next wave of N64 NSO games confirmed with Pilotwings 64, all three N64 Mario Party games, both Pokemon Stadiums (curious how they'll work without the transfer pack functionality), 1080 Snowboarding, Excitbike 64, and the biggest one of them all being Goldeneye 64 is finally seeing it's first ever official re-release in 25 years, and will have online multiplayer
-Atilier Ryza 3 coming out next February
-Pikmin 4 finally confirmed to be releasing next year (likely a late release)
-Tales of Symphonia Remastered coming to Switch next year
-Kirby's Return to Dreamland is getting a Switch remake for February 24, 2023
-And the big closer: the sequel to Breath of the Wild finally has a name and date:
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is releasing May 12, 2023

Outside of Fatal Frame 4's localization+remaster announcement and a couple JRPG announcements, the smaller "headline" stuff was pretty low key with a lot of reminders on previously announced games and like I said earlier a lot more farm sims or farm sim/RPG hybrids than I expected (Rune Factory was super ahead of its time wasn't it?). The bigger stuff however was a lot of stuff people have been waiting on which is awesome.

I will grant I'm also surprised by a lack of announcements on some stuff like no Advance Wars date (guess Nintendo decided they're not gonna talk about it until next year), and yes I was surprised by nothing on a WWHD or TPHD port BUT given Tears of the Kingdom is confirmed for May next year I'm 100% fine on those ports not coming anytime soon (they can save those for 2024 now). Also looks like the rumors of anything Metroid Prime related was either bogus or just simple wishful thinking.

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