After 25 uninterrupted years, E3 will not be held this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, companies like Microsoft have confirmed that will keep going with their own conferences in digital format. We assumed that Nintendo also, but everything seems to indicate that it will not arrive in time.
The portal VentureBeat claims the big N is informing developers and publishers that there will be no Nintendo Direct in June 2020. Nintendo has been broadcasting these videos with lots of ads for its games within the framework of E3 every year since 2013, but this time the thing has become quite complicated according to the sources.
The move to telecommuting by the company is proving to be more costly than originally thought, and that is why short-term plans have had to be delayed. At VentureBeat, they blame it on a Japanese work culture that still has a hard time adapting to new technologies (ironically, taking into account Japan's vision of the West as a technological mecca) and a late-warning state in the Japanese country. East he declared just a couple of weeks ago at the national level, before I was only in several provinces.
The future is still uncertain. It is expected that if there is another Direct, it will surely take place a couple of months later, in late summer. In any case, Nintendo has not yet commented on this. We will be attentive to what the company has to communicate in the coming days or weeks.
Recall that VentureBeat, as well as other media of the stature of Eurogamer and VGC, recently echoed that Nintendo was going to announce remastering classic Mario games for Switch during Direct June. The thing seems that will wobble a little more than anticipated. Will they announce them separately or will they wait for the next Direct?
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