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Nintendo streamed a Nintendo Direct on the night of the 9th. The broadcast covered an open-world-style expansion for the new Kirby title, a trilogy of Zelda remakes, the revival of Yo-kai Watch, and new info on Layton, but with few major surprises, some on 5ch called it “possibly the worst Direct ever.” Others pushed back, pointing to the Switch 2 port of Monster Hunter Wilds and the high concurrent viewer count as proof the content itself wasn’t bad — opinions in the thread were split.
What people said
What kind of audience is even watching this lol, 1.5 million people.
A Nintendo Direct is just too much for someone on as high a level as me.
Show me a 5090 then
Guess that means it's delayed
That's not gonna beat our GTA6, is it~? lol
Don't need some censored 30FPS version lol
I'll wait for the PC version where you can use mods
Still, Switch 2 is the one that'll sell the most software overall, right?
GTA6 will sell, sure, but aside from that there's no other platform with a title that sells regardless of hardware lol
Was there even anything worth mentioning in State of Play?
Bad how? A show that name-drops movies with barely any actual games, plus wall-to-wall interviews — can't beat that lol
Only inside your own head lol
They need to grow overseas hardware sales, but this holiday season is looking rough.
Well, it's early morning in the US, and something like 3pm in Europe.
This time slot just naturally skews toward Japanese viewers
Thanks for the lackluster Direct, everyone.
How many Sony first-party titles even hit 5 million anyway?
The previous Kirby game, Discovery, sold 7 million though…
Guess you can't cope unless you call it "leftovers"…
Trash that lost to an indie game — Hollow Knight
Sounds like you haven't played either one
There are way worse ones out there
Ending on the already-announced Ocarina of Time remake as the finale would've gotten slammed even harder
If anything, this was the first reveal of the Zelda remake, so it barely escaped being a letdown
There were a few other things that caught my eye too
Guess it depends on the person — mainly the folks waiting for a new Mario
Personally, the new Kirby alone made me pretty happy
Even if it was the worst ever, the concurrent viewer count is still off by an order of magnitude
Guess they just don't like it being harder to astroturf there
That one actually landed with quite an impact
Also didn't expect Layton news this soon — caught me off guard
Well, something everyone assumed was dead is coming back(?), so of course some people would get hyped…
…wait, it's young people hyped over this?
I do think this Direct had something for a lot of different crowds
The only ones disappointed are probably the ones banking on one specific thing, like Smash, Splatoon, or 3D Mario
Getting excited about more "leftovers" — that's the same thing that happened back in the Wii U days lol
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Background and key points of this discussion
Nintendo Direct is a program Nintendo streams periodically to announce new titles and information, and this installment aired late on the night of September 9, 2026 (Japan time). The thread’s main point of contention was “whether there was any real surprise”: some argued that the Switch 2 port of Monster Hunter Wilds had already been announced beforehand and so lacked shock value, while others countered that the sheer number of announcements — including new Kirby content and further details on the Zelda remake — was still substantial. There was also a claim that Japan’s concurrent viewer count was roughly double the US broadcast’s, though it was noted this was likely influenced by broadcast timing — early morning in the US and early afternoon in Europe, versus nighttime in Japan — making it hasty to read this purely as a popularity gap. Note that figures cited in the thread, such as Kirby’s sales numbers, are individual posters’ claims and have not been confirmed against official figures.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch Hardware & Industry (Console Wars) board thread “[Sad News] Is this Nintendo Direct possibly the worst one ever…?“.
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