It would be surprising if there weren't a direct of some kind about Nintendo Online, so I figure this is a good time as any to final talk about it at length and in detail. Naturally, I would expect this to touch on aspects like the games that supposedly come with the package as well as things like special discounts ... which would most likely affect mainly indies once again, which in turn would be an avenue to talk about those again for a little bit.

@tourjeff "some games that they are cooking for the first half of next year" I highly doubt it. Seriously, I don't see why they would want to talk about games that are still like 6+ months away now.

The strategy is pretty obviously all about Smash, Pokemon and indies going into the holidays this year, backed by some low-effort-low-risk products like Mario Party. I feel like in terms of the latter, we will probably hear about one or two more low profile AAA/1st-party titles like Mario Party, but that is about it.

It's too bad that 2017 cannot be endlessly repeated, but we all know that wouldn't be happening. When they teased a new Metroid Prime with nothing but a literal teaser video, this much became painfully obvious. It's not like Nintendo to officially reveal games years and years ahead of release, with exactly nothing to actually show for it other than a promise of sorts.

I'm not interested in neither Smash nor Pokemon, but I still have plenty of other gamess to play and yes, plenty of them are indie titles (like Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Bad North, Into the Breach to name just a few recent ones). It just is what it is.

It's not even a Nintendo issue. I just bought Spider-Man for PS4, but other than that, I am only really interested in RDR2 for the rest of the year. I'll probably not even be able to get around to play RDR2 before next year so ...

@Cobalt No doubt about that, but it's also true that the Nintendo Switch is not even 2 years old. The PS4 has (most likely) not even 2 more years ahead of it - as a Sony's primary platform that is, obviously it's not going to disappear when the PS5 is launched. Also, the 3rd-party AAA support for Switch will never rival that of the PS4. The Ps4 in terms of 3rd-party is just one revenue stream besides X1 and PC... it's just not going to happen. I mean, it does happen for the Switch as well, it's not PC+X1->PS4, but PS3+360+Mobil->Switch, which ... well...

@TheFanatic That sounds like a pretty decent E3 Direct showing, so it is most certainly the polar opposite of what one should and would reasonably expect out of a random direct in early September I cannot fathom I single reason, why they would choose tomorrow to redirect attention away from the likes of Smash or Pokemon to far-off titles like Metroid Prime, which I don't see happening in 2019.