The Nintendo Direct, announced this Wednesday, is all about third-party games.

Nintendo Switch Manufacturer Announces Presentation of Nintendo Direct Partners which will take place on Wednesday February 21 V 15:00 (Spanish Peninsula time). The digital event will “focus” on video games developed and published by companies outside the company, the Japanese company said. Mario And The Legend of Zelda.

The video, which will be published on the Nintendo Spain YouTube channel, will be approximately 25 minutes which will announce games from Nintendo’s “development and distribution partners” that will be available on Switch during first half of 2024.

On February 21 at 15:00 (Peninsula time) we will publish on YouTube #NintendoDirect

: A partner presentation of approximately 25 minutes will highlight the games from our development and distribution partners that will be available #NintendoSwitch in the 1st half of 2024.

👉: https://t.co/9P4ngydw0A pic.twitter.com/YW0nTzkrOj— Nintendo Spain (@NintendoES) February 19, 2024

Nintendo released to date there are five Partner Exhibitions, which have so far been classified as Nintendo Direct Mini, a slogan that does not quote from this environment. The first of them took place in July 2020, the year of the coronavirus pandemic, and in the same year three more digital events of the same format took place. The last broadcast dedicated to third-party games took place in June 2022. From 2019 to 2023 there was always a main Direct in February, except in 2020, where the video was dedicated to Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

We will see games from large and medium publishers, no indie

It is unknown what games will be showcased at the event, but it is expected that it will be games from large or mid-sized publishers such as Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Square Enix, SEGA and Atlus that will release Unicorn Overlord March 8.

This may be where we’ll see the first games from Xbox Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks that will no longer be exclusive to the Xbox ecosystem. It is known that four games from these publishers will be released on Switch and/or PlayStation; two of them are games as a service. There are rumors that they will HiFi Rush, Pentiment, Sea of ​​Thieves And Groundedalthough there are doubts which of them will make it to the Nintendo machine and which to the Sony one.

Because it focuses on games from developers and publishers of a certain size, it It is unlikely that we will see independent games here. has already been announced and is highly anticipated, since these games already have the Indie World format. On the other hand, it is worth remembering that Hollow Knight: Silk Song was shown at the traditional Nintendo Direct.