3 video games you in all probability will not see on the Nintendo Direct September 2025

There’s an enormous Nintendo Direct developing on Friday morning, but it surely may be helpful to decrease your expectations only a tiny bit.

To be clear, I am not saying the Direct will not be nice or something. However on the finish of the day, it is a online game announcement livestream, and the realities of recreation improvement imply that the factor you are most enthusiastic about merely may not be prepared to indicate but. Video games take a very long time to make, and Nintendo entered the Change 2 period having only recently launched new video games in a few main franchises.

With that in thoughts, let’s discuss concerning the video games you probably will not be seeing on Friday morning.

One factor I wish to say up entrance is that I’d love to be fallacious about these. I like these video games and franchises as a lot as the subsequent man! However persistence is vital on the planet of gaming.

The following Legend of Zelda recreation

I hate to be the bearer of unhealthy information as a result of I do not know anybody personally who likes or cares about The Legend of Zelda greater than yours really. Zelda followers like myself ate good through the Change 1 years, particularly close to the tip, as Tears of the Kingdom and Echoes of Knowledge launched inside 18 months of one another.

That is exactly why I do not assume it is time to see the subsequent recreation on this legendary sequence simply but. There was a six yr hole between Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, and the latter solely got here out just a little greater than two years in the past. Having mentioned all of that, I’m able to eat crow if essential. It needs to be famous that Nintendo teased Tears for the primary time solely a few years after Breath got here out. A giant Change 2-exclusive Zelda tease could be a hell of a “one more thing” on the finish of this Direct.

The following large Tremendous Mario recreation

What is that this cool man as much as?
Credit score: Nintendo

It appears actually weird that there is a large shiny new Nintendo console out and we’ve not heard a peep concerning the subsequent mainline Tremendous Mario platformer. Just about each Nintendo dwelling console ever made has gotten an enormous, correct Mario recreation inside a yr of launch, which suggests the sport is normally, you realize, introduced by the point the console comes out. That’s not the case with Change 2 and there is a good cause for that.

In case you did not know, Donkey Kong Bananza was made by the workforce that made Tremendous Mario Odyssey, the famed plumber’s final 3D platforming journey. It is a fantastic recreation that scratches the 3D Mario itch, however clearly, it isn’t a Mario recreation. I am assured there can be an enormous 3D Mario recreation for Change 2 in some unspecified time in the future, but when the Bananza workforce is accountable for it, we would have to attend some time.

That mentioned, Nintendo might even have had one other workforce engaged on Mario’s subsequent journey this complete time. It is not utterly implausible to assume we’ll see what’s subsequent for Mario within the Direct, however I am not relying on it.

Last Fantasy IX remake

It might be a bummer if these rumors turned out to be fallacious.
Credit score: Sq. Enix/Steam

Last Fantasy IX, a beloved RPG for the unique PlayStation, had its twenty fifth anniversary this yr. Coinciding with that have been reviews from credible sources {that a} remake of the sport is in improvement. In reality, lots of people I do know figured it will present up within the final Nintendo Direct again in April, but it surely did not. It additionally hasn’t proven up in any kind anyplace else since then, as at the very least one leaker has urged the undertaking is in bother.

I’d like to see this come to fruition as a result of FFIX is among the few video games within the sequence I’ve by no means performed, however I simply have a sense we can’t see it on Friday, and perhaps not ever. I have been fallacious many instances earlier than, so take into account this an try at reverse-jinxing the sport into existence.