Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase Set for February 21, Will Feature Switch Games Coming First Half of 2024

Nintendo has introduced the 12 months’s first Nintendo Direct: Associate Showcase, scheduled to happen February 21, at 6am PT (7.30pm IST). The showcase is confirmed to be round 25 minutes lengthy and can deal with video games coming to the Nintendo Change within the first half of 2024. The occasion shall be accessible to look at on Nintendo’s YouTube channel on-demand. There are not any additional particulars accessible in regards to the video games that shall be introduced on the Nintendo Direct: Associate Showcase, however one might count on a couple of surprises, particularly with Microsoft confirming final week that 4 Xbox-exclusive titles can be launched on PS5 and the Change.

Nintendo confirmed its first showcase of 2024 in its publish on X. Whereas the corporate didn’t present extra particulars in regards to the contents of the Nintendo Direct, it stated that the showcase would function Nintendo Change video games coming within the first half of 2024 from its publishing and improvement companions.

The announcement comes days after experiences of Nintendo telling sport publishers that its successor to the Nintendo Change shall be delayed until the early months of 2025. Nintendo Change 2 was anticipated to debut across the vacation season of 2024, however now the console could not arrive till March 2025 on the earliest.

Nintendo reportedly has a comparatively slim lineup of video games coming to the Change this 12 months; analysts consider that the corporate is saving its greatest first-party titles for the Change successor. Followers have lengthy anticipated Nintendo to announce a sequel for Tremendous Mario Odyssey, which got here out for the Change in 2017. The Mario maker, nevertheless, is unlikely to take action till it reveals the next-generation Nintendo Change.

Final week, Microsoft confirmed that 4 of its first-party video games can be launched on PS5 and Nintendo Change. Whereas the Xbox proprietor avoided naming the video games coming to Sony and Nintendo’s consoles, sources acquainted with the corporate’s plan have stated its unique titles going multi-platform embrace Hello-Fi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of Thieves and Grounded. The upcoming Nintendo Direct: Associate Showcase might see one or a few of these video games confirmed for the Nintendo Change.

Each Xbox and PlayStation have already held their first video games showcase of the 12 months. Xbox introduced Bethesda’s Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle at its Developer Direct occasion early final month, whereas PlayStation offered particulars on over 15 video games at its first State of Play of the 12 months on January 31.