Nintendo Direct September 2025: 3 video games you most likely will not see

There’s an enormous Nintendo Direct arising on Friday morning, but it surely is perhaps 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 sport 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 speak in regards to the video games you almost certainly will not be seeing on Friday morning.

One factor I need to say up entrance is that I might love to be unsuitable about these. I like these video games and franchises as a lot as the subsequent man! However endurance is vital on this planet of gaming.

The subsequent Legend of Zelda sport

‘Echoes of Knowledge’ was solely a couple of 12 months in the past.
Credit score: Nintendo

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 throughout the Change 1 years, particularly close to the top, as Tears of the Kingdom and Echoes of Knowledge launched inside 18 months of one another.

That is exactly why I do not suppose it is time to see the subsequent sport on this legendary collection simply but. There was a six 12 months 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 stated all of that, I’m able to eat crow if essential. It ought to be famous that Nintendo teased Tears for the primary time solely a few years after Breath got here out. An enormous Change 2-exclusive Zelda tease can be a hell of a “yet one more factor” on the finish of this Direct.

The subsequent massive Tremendous Mario sport

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

It appears actually weird that there is a massive shiny new Nintendo console out and we have not heard a peep in regards to the subsequent mainline Tremendous Mario platformer. Just about each Nintendo house console ever made has gotten a giant, correct Mario sport inside a 12 months of launch, which suggests the sport is normally, , introduced by the point the console comes out. That isn’t 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 staff that made Tremendous Mario Odyssey, the famed plumber’s final 3D platforming journey. It is a great sport that scratches the 3D Mario itch, however clearly, it isn’t a Mario sport. I am assured there will likely be a giant 3D Mario sport for Change 2 sooner or later, but when the Bananza staff is liable for it, we’d have to attend some time.

That stated, Nintendo might even have had one other staff engaged on Mario’s subsequent journey this entire time. It is not fully implausible to suppose 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 unsuitable.
Credit score: Sq. Enix/Steam

Last Fantasy IX, a beloved RPG for the unique PlayStation, had its twenty fifth anniversary this 12 months. Coinciding with that had been studies 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 wherever else since then, as at the least one leaker has recommended the challenge is in hassle.

I might like to see this come to fruition as a result of FFIX is among the few video games within the collection 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 unsuitable many instances earlier than, so contemplate this an try at reverse-jinxing the sport into existence.