Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase confirmed for this week, following Xbox multiplatform announcement

The showcase will focus on third-party games

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ANintendo DirectPartner Showcase has been confirmed for later this week.

In an announcement earlier today, Nintendo confirmed that the Partner Showcase, which focuses on third-party releases rather than Nintendo’s own produced games, will take place on Wednesday, February 21.

The 25-minute video will focus on “Nintendo Switch games coming in the first half of 2024 from our publishing and development partners.” Rather than a stream, the showcase will be released viaYouTube, at 06:00 PT/09:00 ET/14:00 GMT.

A #NintendoDirect: Partner Showcase is coming! Watch on-demand via YouTube on 21/02, 15:00 CET, for around 25 mins of info focused on #NintendoSwitch games coming in the first half of 2024 from our publishing and development partners.Stay tuned here: https://t.co/GznH9vVUBD pic.twitter.com/TBjfasyseAFebruary 19, 2024

Nintendo’s announcement comes off the back of arecent Xbox multiplatform announcement, in whichMicrosoftconfirmed that four of its games would be coming to new platforms. Xbox bossPhil Spencerdidn’t announce what those games would be, stating that the privilege of revealing new partnerships lay with the developers, but it’s thought that several of those games would be coming to Nintendo.

Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment are understood to be the first two the gamesreleasing on Nintendo Switch, with Sea of Thieves and Grounded also thought to be coming to new platforms. Those games seem less likely to play nicely with the Switch hardware, but it’s certainly possible that they could make the jump. There’s no guarantee that Nintendo is directly involved with any of these multiplatform deals, but some rumors suggested that the company had delayed its Direct specifically because of theXbox podcastlast week.

Theseupcoming Nintendo Switch gamesprobably won’t be shown off this week, but we can still be excited about them anyway.

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