The Joys and Cons, direct to you.
With the reveal of a new trailer for Bayonetta 3 along with a launch date announcement, Nintendo fans are looking back over the last couple of weeks with a question on their mind: Why didn’t the company bundle up this news with the third-party announcements from the Nintendo Direct Mini: Partner Showcase and deliver a full-fat Nintendo Direct?
In the time since the Partner Showcase — which, let’s not forget, featured some pretty impressive reveals and shadow-drops itself — we’ve had a Xenoblade Direct, the reveal of an entirely new Kirby game coming this summer, and the Bayonetta 3 news. We’ve also had reveals of a new Splatoon-themed Switch OLED, Joy-Con, and Pro Controller, and another a micro-announcement in the form of Pokémon Puzzle League coming to the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack. The latter perhaps isn’t Direct-worthy on its own, unless you’re the lovely Jon Cartwright (formerly of this parish), in which case it’s worthy of the ‘one last thing’ slot.
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