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The long-awaited delayed Nintendo Direct is finally here. At 11 pm UK time, or 3 pm PT, we'll be getting a 35 minute glimpse into what Nintendo has in store regarding future Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS titles. Stay tuned, as GBAtemp is covering every reveal live as it happens, and after it ends, we'll highlight the biggest announcements from the Direct.

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Event Start

It begins...

Good news, Luigi is alive after the last direct. Luigi's Mansion 3 has been announced for next year! They're saving more info for a later direct.

Upcoming 3DS games:
Kirby's Epic Yarn 3DS port.
There's new abilities and minigames, and a new difficulty mode.
Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn launches 2019.

Bowser's Inside Story will have a little Bowser JR mode, launches Jan 11.

3DS version of Luigi's Mansion has 2 player local co-op. Oct 12 release.

YoKai Watch Blasters is getting some post launch content. New creatures, with the Sept 27 update.

Focusing on the Switch now:

Splatoon 2 update, gets a anime-styled intro as a joke showing off some new gameplay. More info coming soon on the labs.

Mega Man 11 footage. Oct 2.

Mario Tennis Aces will be getting a new update, with Birdo and Shy Guy, Paratroopa, and Petey Piranha. More to come later. Co-op challenge mode online with friends on Sept 19.

Capcom Beat em Up bundle, with Final Fight, King of Dragons, Captain Commando, Knights of the Round, Warriors of Fate, Armored Warriors and Battle Circuit. Online play. Sept 18. Pre purchase now.

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. Nabbit and Toadette mode. Luigi U as well, for free. Launches January 11.

Katamari gets HD treatment. Katamari Reroll.

Oh yeah, Nintendo Online is a thing, and now we get a look at more details.

Five features of membership: online play, NES games, cloud save data, smartphone app.

Official wireless NES controller Joy Cons, which have rails on the side to charge on the Dock. They'll cost $60.

Pokemon Let's Go. HMs are gone, replaced with secret techniques that only Pikachu or Eevee can learn.

Diablo 3 launch date. Nov 2.

Super Mario Party gets a gameplay trailer, with special minigames that require multiple Switch systems. 80 new minigames that have never been seen before. There's a singleplayer mode as well. Oct 5.

Game Freak is working on a new RPG game. Working title is Town. Has cell shaded graphics.

City Skylines is headed to the Switch. Both DLC packs are included. Launches today.

Daemon X Machina shows us some new details. You can defeat enemies to steal their abilities and weapons.

There's the confirmation of Yoshi's Crafted World. Lets you play levels backwards. Has local co-op. Spring 2019.

Tabletop games like Carcassone, Lord of the Rings Living Card Game, Pandemic are all coming to the Switch with local and online multiplayer. Catan and Munchkin also headed to the Switch as well.

Civ VI confirmation. Nov 16 launch.

Starlink gets more Star Fox promotional footage. Oct 16.

Warframe launches Nov 20. Just Dance, Team Sonic Racing, and FIFA 19 third party titles shown.

World of Final Fantasy gets a Switch port with additional content.

Final Fantasy Dungeon Chocobo's Tale gets a localization on the Switch. Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon.

Final Fantasy 12. 2019.

Smash is getting a LE system.


Isabelle for Smash. Nintendo is a troll.

Trailers

Spoiler: Trailers

Highlights

• Luigi's Mansion 3 will be coming next year for the Switch.
• Kirby's Epic Yarn is getting a 3DS port next year.
• New Super Mario Bros. U comes to Switch.
• Katamari Damacy 1 gets remade in HD as Reroll. Winter 2018.
• The Switch is getting some tabletop games like Carcassone, Settlers of Catan, and Pandemic are coming to the Switch with local and online coop.
• Yoshi's Crafted World confirmed.
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles gets online multiplayer in the remake that was totally a surprise.
• World of Final Fantasy Maxima launches Nov 6. (Revamped port of World of Final Fantasy)
• Final Fantasy VII, IX, and X, X-2 and XII are headed to the Switch next year. Notable lack of VIII.
• Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon Everybody, localization of a Wii game, this Winter.
• Switch SSB bundle. Links to pictures are above.
• Isabelle joins Smash.
• ANIMAL CROSSING 2019.
• Assassin's Creed Odyssey will hit the Switch as a Cloud streamed title.

 

[KingVamp]

Lots of RPGs this year and next

- Final Fantasy VII
- Final Fantasy IX
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy X-2 (not a fan)
- Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age

What year is this again? There hasn't been a mainline FF game on a Nintendo console since the 90's.

FF15 Pocket Edition

Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn is the 9th Kirby game to be released on the 3ds (14 if you count virtual console games). There was no reason for this to be on the 3ds. It's a fucking Wii game. It would have been perfect for the switch.

They probably want do a new Kirby game for the Switch instead. That said, I still think they should be porting these games to both systems.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Cheap indeed.

 

[the_randomizer]

FF15 Pocket Edition

They probably want do a new Kirby game for the Switch instead. That said, I still think they should be porting these games to both systems.

Sorry, but FFXV is...eeeeh.

 

[magico29]

Garbage, garbage and more garbage.
We dont need retro games, we need brand new games and not same B S.

 

[sarkwalvein]

Sorry, but FFXV is...eeeeh.

Quite sure they preserved the quality storytelling in its whole (totally broken) fashion.

 

[BiggieCheese]

I’m a little skeptical of Luigi’s Mansion 3 so far, I didn’t really like Dark Moon’s mission format and how there was multiple mansions, and it looks like this is at least keeping the latter since some of the rooms Luigi was walking in were dramatically different from each other.
The 3DS remake of LM look’s really bad too, graphically anyways; the 3DS could do much better than that. It’s kind of a shame to see that since the original Gamecube version was one hell of a graphical showcase for the console, Nintendo’s pretty much going to end the 3DS’s run with a whimper instead of a bang with games that look worse than considerably older games like Resident Evil Revelations, Kid Icarus Uprising and Ironfall.

 

[Deleted User]

we need brand new games and not same B S.

Did you watch the direct? Or are you just cherry picking because you didn't like any of the new games that were shown?

 

[the_randomizer]

Quite sure they preserved the quality storytelling in its whole (totally broken) fashion.

Good thing I never played it

 

[chirogan]

Kirby Epic Yarn will be for new Nintendo 3DS family Systems only.

I guess it is time to ditch the old System and get the best out of the new system.

 

[Rabbid4240]

FF15 Pocket Edition

They probably want do a new Kirby game for the Switch instead. That said, I still think they should be porting these games to both systems.

Me too. But they should've ported Kirby's Return to Dream Land to switch. Now THAT is the better Wii game by far.

 

[KingVamp]

Looks like this going be the closes thing I get to a new Custom Robo.

 

[saulopp]

So much ports... Nintendo misunderstood the concept of a "portable device"

 

[Kioku]

Looks like this going be the closes thing I get to a new Custom Robo.

Honestly the only "reveal" that has me hyped. I'm all for them supporting the 3DS.. but there's a lot they're taunting Switch owners with, here. I have a 3DS but I have no inclination (let alone intention) to play it. This is the one time where I wish Nintendo would have lied about support... Oh well.. ;/

 

[chartube12]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/09/13/discover-the-legacy-of-final-fantasy-on-xbox-one/

Announced just minutes after the Nintendo switch announcement lol.

 

[Kioku]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2018/09/13/discover-the-legacy-of-final-fantasy-on-xbox-one/

Announced just minutes after the Nintendo switch announcement lol.

Well, then I have no reason to buy on Switch. :v They'll look and run far better on my One X. Starting to lose steam here for my Switch. More excited about homebrew than official support.

 

[KingVamp]

Sorry, but FFXV is...eeeeh.

Forgot World of Final Fantasy too.

 

[jahrs]

Woot luigis mansion 3 sign me up i love the luigis mansion series

 

[KingVamp]

Well, then I have no reason to buy on Switch. :v They'll look and run far better on my One X. Starting to lose steam here for my Switch. More excited about homebrew than official support.

Personally, I rather have these games at home and on the go.

 

[kumikochan]

So basically 3 game anouncements for the switch. Hmmm mediocre at best. Looking forward to animal crossing tho

 

[Pluupy]

I'm confused about that Chocobo Mystery Dungeon game. They said it was a remake of the "wii game", but the Wii game was Chocobo's Dungeon Labyrinth of Time and doesnt look like what was displayed. Am I to assume this new one is a remake of the original Chocobo Mystery Dungeon game which wasn't localized?