This year’s first Nintendo Direct will take place Wednesday morning at 9AM ET, and, according to Nintendo, the 25-minute presentation will feature Switch games “coming in the first half of 2024 from our publishing and development partners.”
It was a pretty obvious guess that a Nintendo Direct was on the way. Not only have Microsoft and PlayStation shared their upcoming release schedules, but taking a look at the dates of the last handful of Directs revealed that Nintendo is fond of the first week of February.
After weeks of speculation and back and forth, including a dataminer report that all but confirmed the rumors, this Direct might be the time when Tango Gameworks announces that Hi-Fi Rush will make its Switch debut, especially given that Microsoft’s Xbox boss Phil Spencer has confirmed that four Xbox-exclusive games will come to other platforms like the Switch and PS5.
In the highly unlikely category of possible announcements, you might note that it’s been five years since Nintendo announced Metroid Prime 4 was being rebooted and shunted over to Retro Studios — the same studio that worked on Primes 1-3.
It has been seven years since Nintendo announced that Metroid Prime 4 was in development so maybe there will besome movement on that front, or maybe Nintendo’s holding on to it in preparation for the inevitable Switch 2 announcement.
You can watch Nintendo’s February Direct on February 21st, at 9AM ET/6AM PT.
