I fucking LOVE Directs.
Before every single one people go “F-Zero! Animal Crossing! Some other standard IP!” Then Nintendo go “er, yeah, here’s something amazingly hatstand bananas like a cardboard construction set” and people go “oh. Oh. OH! WOOOOOAH”
Deciding to largely not give a fuck about E3 and mostly announcing games when they’re four months away from release has been a revelation.