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Here is What Went Down at the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct

Here is What Went Down at the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct - Article

by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 July 2021 / 2,807 Views

The E3 2021 Nintendo Direct included 40 minutes of reveals, announcements, trailers, and more. 

Some of the highlights from the Nintendo Direct include the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, new 2.5D game Metroid Dread, Mario Party Superstars, DLC for Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, and WarioWare: Get It Together!.

You can view the full E3 2021 Nintendo Direct below:

Check out links to the news and announcements from the E3 2021 Nintendo Direct below:


A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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15 Comments
INCITATUSBR (on 15 June 2021)

it was good, but it seems Nintendo is holding the great games for the next year...

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Well except Dread which is surprisingly soon.

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Kakadu18 INCITATUSBR (on 15 June 2021)

It's more games than I expected though. Kirby could end up just getting another small spin off this year sadly.

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Greenfox Kakadu18 (on 16 June 2021)

This may not be the case. Executives and members of HAL Laboratory assured that they want to celebrate the company's 40th anniversary with merchandising, books, a new HAL Egg game, and a new Kirby, the most ambitious in the franchise, all by 2021 or early '22.

If I'm not mistaken none of this has happened yet, and there is no further information about it. It could be that HAL Laboratory now wants to rebrand, separating their announcements from the Nintendo Direct and making their own HAL Direct? Imitating, of course, the Pokemon Company's system.

It's just a possibility, maybe a simple anniversary delay is more likely, but it doesn't seem impossible to me, it would be a smart move.

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Kakadu18 Greenfox (on 16 June 2021)

Well hopefully they release that 3d Kirby game this year, but if not they will release a smaller title instead and the ambitious Kirby game launches next year.

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SvenTheTurkey Greenfox (on 16 June 2021)

There could just be an announcement for a Kirby game even without a direct. Didn't Nintendo do that for paper Mario last year? Drop the trailer on YouTube on a random day and let the internet do the advertising.

So if an intelligent systems game of a Mario franchise can do that, I don't see why a Kirby game couldn't do the same. Direct or not, I never rule out surprise announcements.

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Greenfox SvenTheTurkey (on 16 June 2021)

Yes, it is another possible option. I have the feeling that this Nintendo E3 was very powerful in its first half, but its end was cut short, as if a last surprise was missing before or after Zelda, a Splatoon 3 that closes the show well. What fits me the most in this gap is this huge Kirby (3D or not).

Maybe Nintendo wants to replicate the same move as with Pokemon Legends: wait until Sony and Microsoft have already shown their cards to present the game and give it more visibility.

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SvenTheTurkey Greenfox (on 20 June 2021)

I agree the direct almost seemed to fall off at the end. Zelda for 2022 wasn't exactly the announcement we were looking for, so I was definitely expecting the "one last thing". I don't know if Kirby would have been that game, but I do expect a surprise this year at some point.

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SvenTheTurkey INCITATUSBR (on 16 June 2021)

I feel like they already had so much announced that there weren't really any surprises. Metroid is the exception. A lot of the other announcements were ports/multiplatform.

Just seemed kind of average to me. But I probably had my hopes too high. And I thought it was kind of weird they didn't even mention a couple games coming out soon. Disgaea and no more heroes are the two I can think of although they did have NMH at the treehouse.

And botw2 being next year was kind of a bummer. It's going to be a bit of a slow year it seems unless they announce another game 2-3 months in advance like Mario golf.

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siebensus4 (on 15 June 2021)

I guess Pokémon is then the big holiday title this year? Well, Switch will sell even without any (other) big holiday title... We have Zelda and Splatoon 3 next year...

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Shiken siebensus4 (on 15 June 2021)

For me, it is SMTV. Close enough to holiday to be my big game.

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AJNShelton siebensus4 (on 16 June 2021)

And Mario + Rabbids

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Signalstar (on 15 June 2021)

Neat presentation but nothing mind blowing. Awesome how they focused on the games!

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super_etecoon (on 15 June 2021)

It’s all about that Dread!

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Legit (on 17 June 2021)

I'm excited for smt 5 and nmh3

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