Wednesday’s Nintendo Direct will focus on upcoming third-party releases

The subsequent Nintendo Direct is scheduled for this Wednesday, the corporate simply introduced. It is being billed as a “accomplice showcase,” with Nintendo saying it’s going to exhibit Change video games coming within the first half of this yr from “our publishing and improvement companions.” It’s going to kick off on February 21, vivid and early at 9AM ET.

Whereas Nintendo holds these showcases regularly, this one is doubtlessly extra important than normal. Final week, Microsoft made an expected but still surprising announcement that it might start bringing a few of its titles to “different consoles,” a phrase that is onerous to not interpret as video games coming to the Change (and Sony’s PlayStation 5 as nicely).

Nintendo says it’s going to be a 25-minute presentation, so there’s an opportunity we’ll hear about some video games from different builders, as nicely. However we’re all anticipating to see some information about what video games Microsoft goes to carry over to the Change. Microsoft solely stated that it might be bringing 4 video games to different platforms however did not title them; the most recent rumors cite Hello-Fi Rush, Sea of Thieves, Halo and Gears of Struggle as probably choices to make the transfer.

This comes at a time when Nintendo would not have a number of its personal first-party video games scheduled for the platform (that we all know of, anyway). There’s additionally the looming specter of a Change 2 console; reviews simply stated that the {hardware} is getting pushed back to 2025 after an anticipated launch in some unspecified time in the future this yr.