As rumors swirled {that a} Nintendo Direct was on the horizon, shock, one is! Introduced early this morning, the Direct shall be prime time February eighth on the East Coast beginning at 5PM and lasting round 40 minutes.

In response to the announcement tweet, the Direct will deal with video games slated for the primary half of 2023. That ought to cowl video games like Octopath Traveler II (not that Sq. Enix has reminded anybody about that sport that’s due on the finish of February), probably Pikmin 4, and naturally, the hotly anticipated Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. However one (i.e., me) hopes that the Direct may even characteristic, lastly, at lengthy torturous final, a launch date for the delayed and seemingly deserted Advance Wars remakes.

Nintendo simply launched its quarterly earnings assertion through which it states the Change has offered over 120 million models, making it the third-bestselling console of all time. However regardless of that, in line with a CNBC report, the corporate’s downgrading its forecast for {hardware} and software program gross sales in 2023 as a result of lower than stellar vacation efficiency. Provided that the Change is getting up there in years in comparison with its competitors, mayhap a brand new system is on the horizon, one which is likely to be teased at tomorrow’s Direct?

We’ll discover out tomorrow at 2PM PT / 5PM ET on YouTube.