a nintendo direct hasnt been announced just yet but that hasnt stopped fans from theorizing that we could be due for one very soonnow that were officially in summer game showcase season aka note3 a lot of people are keeping a close eye on nintendo hoping that theyll announce some kind of event soon nothing concrete has been revealed yet but theres a few reasons as to why people think were due for a nintendo direct soonfirst of all as pointed out by my nintendo news via nintendo every the nintendo direct webpage has seemingly been updated over the last couple of days this probably wouldnt seem like too big of a deal but as pointed out by the sources above this kind of thing tends to happen before the events live stream goes live now that the legend of zelda tears of the kingdom has been released the next big firstparty title is pikmin 4 which is set to release in july after this we have no idea what upcoming switch games are on the way from nintendo so it would make sense for the company to want to give fans something to look forward to for the rest of the year not to mention the fact nintendo tends to host some kind of presentation each summer whether its a partner showcase indie direct or gamespecific event in fact the last time we got to see what nintendo has in the pipeline was back in february 2023 so its about time that we got another update from the developer theres also been reports of early rumblings of a nintendo direct soon from industry insider giant bombs jeff grubb according to grubb hes heard that nintendo is planning some kind of event in july however he isnt sure what kind of showcase itll be eg partner direct mini direct etcjust like the website refresh claim above its best to take this with a grain of salt however its pretty much guaranteed that well be hearing from nintendo before the end of the year at some point we just need to be patient while we wait to hear from nintendo find out what other showcases are going on this week with our e3 schedule