February Nintendo Direct REACTION! + Helldivers 2 DOMINATES

Press X Join the Press X Discord: https://discord.gg/MAXtvmv2rw Topics: Nintendo Direct: Partner Showcase reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ER2hl7HUWI https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240221740542/en/Nintendo-Direct-Partner-Showcase-Features-Surprise-Releases-and-Details-on-New-Nintendo-Switch-Games Sources: Nintendo Switch 2 will now launch in 2025 (Bloomberg: “March 2025 at the earliest”) https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-could-now-launch-in-2025-its-claimed/ As of LAST year, Jeff Grubb had heard Nintendo was looking to have Metroid Prime 4 marketing assets together for May 2024 https://twitter.com/JeffGrubb/status/1760441008364367878 Sony Interactive Entertainment will not release “any new major existing franchise titles” before March 31, 2025 https://www.gematsu.com/2024/02/sony-interactive-entertainment-will-not-release-any-new-major-existing-franchise-titles-before-march-31-2025 This excludes new IP like Concord Xbox games are now on Switch and PS5: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/02/21/new-platforms-new-players-xbox-games-switch-playstation/ HiFi Rush getting physical for Xbox and PS through Limited Run https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1760375574550237222 Nate the Hate: New, unannounced Banjo-Kazooie game is “being reworked from its original vision & scope,” but it's sounding like it's “for the better” https://www.resetera.com/threads/xbox-game-studios-bethesda-abk-ot29-the-temple-of-doomers.807216/page-351?post=119267862#post-119267862 Crazy Taxi reboot is reportedly planned as AAA live-service game, inspired by Fortnite and GTA Online, but Crazy Taxi remake allegedly planned too https://twitter.com/MbKKssTBhz5/status/1759683123921518868 Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree launches June 21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8k8R0Q2ubY Baldur’s Gate 3 update https://baldursgate3.game/news/patch-6-now-live_108 Questions from Discord: brasop: If Nintendo farmed out the next mainline Pokemon game to another developer, who would you like to see make it? Joe: When do you think the PS5 Xbox console generation will end? 2 years or so? It feels like it barely got started, maybe I'm just doing COVID math. Joe: What's some of your favorite video game development company names? What we’re playing: Mary: Persona 3 Reload, Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore John: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth 🐉 (Finished), Wild ARMs Greg: Apex Legends, Halo Infinite Brett L: Assassins Creed: Odyssey Brett M: Mr.Shifty (beat) Baldur’s Gate 3, Persona 3 Reload, Soul Hackers 2, Halo Infinite (campaign), Wolfenstein: The Old Blood