With Hollow Knight: Silksong Finally Released, Nintendo Direct Viewers Are Looking for a New Game to Hope For and Then Get Disappointed Over

There's little than 24 hours to spell until a large Nintendo Direct, but there's thing precise antithetic this time. Yes, Hollow Knight: Silksong has yet been released — leaving fans searching for a caller crippled to pin each their hopes and inevitable disappointment on.

With a Metroid Prime 4: Beyond merchandise day seeming reasonably assured, fans are suggesting immoderate of Nintendo's second-tier bid to anticipation for next. This includes Star Fox (missing successful enactment since 2017's Star Fox 2), Golden Sun (sunset successful 2010) and F-Zero (which has lone seen the bitesize merchandise of F-Zero 99 since 2004). And what astir Mother 3?

Of course, tomorrow's Nintendo Direct volition apt diagnostic non-Nintendo games too. Is it clip to anticipation for quality connected Beyond Good & Evil 2, Ubisoft's space-set sequel that present holds the Guinness World Record for the video crippled longest successful development? You ne'er know. (You astir apt bash know.)

This week's large Nintendo Direct airs tomorrow, Friday September 12, astatine 6am Pacific, 9am Eastern oregon 2pm UK time. It's acceptable to beryllium a bumper show, too, with an hr of announcements — and instrumentality hopes of immoderate large reveals by Nintendo are high.

Beyond this twelvemonth (and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is inactive slated for 2025, past we checked) we cognize comparatively small of what Nintendo has cooking for Switch 2. There's spinoff Splatoon: Raiders and FromSoftware exclusive The Duskbloods. But beyond those, Nintendo's plans for the aboriginal stay nether wraps.

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The timing of a Direct time is besides absorbing — arsenic galore fans person pointed retired — arsenic it comes connected the eve of Super Mario Bros.' 40th anniversary. Nintendo celebrated the game's past large day with a bid of peculiar launches, including the time-limited Super Mario 3D All-Stars Collection.

Could we spot thing akin announced time (hopefully including Galaxy 2)? Or a glimpse of the adjacent large 3D Mario game? Or however astir immoderate quality connected adjacent year's Super Mario Bros. Movie sequel? Tune successful time to find retired what is there, arsenic IGN reports live. (No 1 suggest Silksong 2.)

Earlier this month, a erstwhile Nintendo worker claimed that the institution knew it nary longer needed to make arsenic galore caller franchises — arsenic fans were already waiting agelong capable for caller entries successful existing series, which could simply beryllium adapted to acceptable caller gameplay styles.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social