A Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase will air tomorrow

nme.com:

Nintendo has announced that a Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase is scheduled for February 21, focusing on titles launching in the “first half of 2024” from its external partners.The event will be hosted on the official YouTube channel at 2.00pm GMT (6.00am PST/7.00am MST/8.00am CST/9.00am EST).

Approximately 25 minutes of information and footage of these games is expected to air, making this the longest Partner Showcase in the history of the console.Naturally, there is a significant amount of speculation from fans about whether or not Microsoft titles like Hi-Fi Rush will show up in the Showcase.Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s CEO of Gaming, confirmed that four titles are on their way to rival consoles though he stopped short of revealing which ones they were.

Fans are fairly sure that Tango Gameworks‘ Hi-Fi Rush is inbound as dataminers found files that related to a potential Switch release.Players are also assuming that Penny’s Big Breakaway is going to appear in the Partner Showcase because the platformer is expected to arrive in “early 2024” for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.Further fuel to this fire has been added by the fact that previews of the game were published at the start of the month, with Kotaku Australia praising it as “a simple pleasure”.Ubisoft assured that there would be “more news” for Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition at the start of this year too, following an accidental reveal of the game in November 2023.The leaked ESRB rating of the 20th Anniversary Edition showed that the game was arriving for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.