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Nintendo Direct on April 12 (3PM PT, Switch/3DS, mainly Splarms)

Is there a countdown? Would be cool to put one in the OP to avoid people coming a day early aha.

Neoxon handily made one a page or two ago:

Here's a countdown for the OP.

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Seems we have a real problem with time. What if it actually was today but something altered our timeline? What if in a parallel universe Nintendo presented Chrono Break and it broke the space time continuum? How else can you explain all these confused people?
 
Why are so many people mixing up the dates

Not sure, but I only realised I'd made the same mistake about 10 hours or so ago :P
In my case I'd looked at the date on what I thought was monday and thought "ooh tomorrow", but it'd crossed over the midnight line so I was actually looking at today's date... because my sleep times are messed up like that :3
 
My optimistic predictions

Ever Oasis trailer
Pikmin 3DS trailer
MK8 Deluxe talk, online multiplayer at launch, more features to be discussed at E3
Arms trailer showing 4-6 more characters
Arms - End of May release date
Splat2n trailer
Splat2n - June release date
Smash 4 Switch announced, new invitational tournament planned for E3
I feel ARMS may be early June while SplaToon 2 is probably July or August.
Would be ideal if it was late May and then July but I'm not too sure
 
Would I be crazy to hope that ARMS has a story/single player mode?

It's at the very least going to have a Smash-style 'classic' mode, probably more.

If Nintendo had even a bit of common sense they'd take inspiration from the Wii Sports Resort swordfighting game or the Nintendoland Zelda game, with your character automatically moving forward as they fight enemies, just with a lot more content.
 
I'd almost argue you'd be crazy to not expect it. Remember what happened with splatoon and people weren't sure that'd have a single player initially :P

I wanna say that they expressly stated that there would be a singleplayer mode, but considering that this game is in some sense a "fighting game" as opposed to a shooter, that single player mode might take moreso the form of an arcade mode than a long story mode.
 
Almost 3 years since this and still nothing :(
I dunno, looks like the crowd member making the request got something :P

I genuinely think at the time Nintendo was confident they were bringing Mother 3. Like the rumors have said now they probably moved it over to Switch. If it's the VC version it could be used to launch VC.
Mayhaps, then again it might've just been robot chicken's animators having some always-topical fun :3

I wanna say that they expressly stated that there would be a singleplayer mode, but considering that this game is in some sense a "fighting game" as opposed to a shooter, that single player mode might take moreso the form of an arcade mode than a long story mode.
Oh, yeah, I mean, I assumed when people were talking about single player they meant something substantial rather than simply 'any single player content at all' XD
 
as someone whose birthday is april 12 i'm very not impressed w all the people who dont know when apr 12 is

anyways announce support for my roy amiibo in splat2n for my birthday thanks nintendy
 
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