Nintendo will offer a taste of the games coming to Switch in a Nintendo Direct on Wednesday, it said in a tweet Tuesday. The Feb. 8 livestream will include “roughly 40 minutes of information” about titles launching in the first half of 2023, a lineup that includes the highly anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
When does the Nintendo Direct start?
The Nintendo Direct livestream starts at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET on Wednesday, which converts to 10 p.m. GMT or 9 a.m. Thursday AEST.
How to watch the Nintendo Direct
The event will be streaming from Nintendo’s YouTube channel. We’ve embedded the YouTube link above, so you can watch right here.
What games will Nintendo show during its Nintendo Direct?
The majority of Switch owners are eagerly awaiting The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the sequel to 2017’s Breath of the Wild, which got a trailer during last September’s Nintendo Direct. It’s out on May 12, so we can expect details about that game’s story and gameplay mechanics.
Pikmin 4 is scheduled for release in 2023, so Nintendo will likely give us a look at the colorful real-time strategy game and narrow down the release date.
The Switch sold 122.55 million units overall as of the end of 2022, the company announced its latest earnings report on Tuesday, putting it ahead of the PS4 and making it the third best-selling console of all time. It’s now behind only the DS (at 154 million) and PS2 (155 million).Despite hitting this milestone, Bloomberg noted Nintendo missed console sales targets toward the year’s end. Company boss Shuntaro Furukawa didn’t answer questions about its next console, it noted. Last year, VGC reported that Furukawa said that a smooth transition to the next generation of hardware is “a major focus” for the company — we can expect to get a firmer sense of its plans this year.
