188: The Expectations for Nintendo Direct Are Out of Control
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
The Kit & Krysta Podcast
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Hello and welcome to episode 188 of the Kit & Krysta Podcast! We are still thinking about the big Nintendo Direct last week and we want to dig deeper into people's reaction to the Direct. Tons of games were announced and Nintendo shared a lot of news but somehow, there are fans who still don't seem very excited about what's to come. Why is this? Is the Nintendo Direct formula, something that Nintendo started 10+ years ago, still working to meet Nintendo's goals when there are so many expectations placed on these presentations? We dig into the history and the original goals of a Direct and examine if it's still working for Nintendo. Also in this episode, we're playing a handful of new indie games and we discovered some new details about Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 on Nintendo Switch 2. We wrap it all up with questions from our wonderful Patreon subscribers. All this and more is coming right up!
0:00 - Settle on in!
9:07 - Nintendo Direct expectations are out of control
54:16 - Games we are playing
1:17:20 - News news news
1:34:39 - Questions from our Patreon community
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| 0:00.0 | Today, last week's Nintendo directed some huge numbers, but there are some cracks that have emerged. |
| 0:16.6 | There's some fan comments and sentiment that just isn't as positive as I think Nintendo would |
| 0:22.7 | want it to be. |
| 0:23.7 | So it's got us thinking, does Nintendo need to overhaul this formula? |
| 0:27.6 | Is it time to rethink the Nintendo Direct? |
| 0:32.0 | There have been a lot of things that have happened so far in the Switch 2 generation that |
| 0:37.2 | have been a little counterintuitive. And this is another one of them. It's like, you know, people are screaming, drop the price in a live stream. And at the same time, everything's breaking records, everything's selling out. And I think this is another one that we're going to talk about today where this Nintendo Direct shattered all these records, did more than the Apple Conference and so on. |
| 0:56.0 | But as longtime watchers, as long time participants |
| 1:00.0 | in creating Nintendo Directs, I think we've seen some things. |
| 1:03.0 | It's like, all right, is this working as well for Nintendo |
| 1:07.0 | as they want it to be? |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | Is the kind of playbook that they've been following as perfect as it once was? |
| 1:14.9 | Or is it time to maybe introduce some new elements to it? |
| 1:17.7 | That's true. |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.4 | Nintendo Direct has been around for 10 plus years. |
| 1:21.1 | The world has changed in 10 plus years. |
| 1:24.2 | So, yeah, we want to talk about like like, the current sort of landscape of how people want |
| 1:29.7 | to get information from Nintendo, and is Nintendo Direct still kind of satisfying that need |
| 1:34.4 | and meeting people where they are right now. |
| 1:36.7 | So it's an interesting conversation because I, I myself, have seen the struggle, sort of |
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