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Issy van der Velde

"They are really feelin' the pressure": Former Nintendo staff think today's Direct, just 6 days before the Switch 2 Direct is a "bad idea strategically"

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There's a Nintendo Direct happening later today, which you can keep up with on our live blog, but it's not got anything to do with the Switch 2 Direct that's happening next week. Two former Nintendo marketing leads think the company is "feelin' the pressure" during the transition between their two consoles.

Krysta Yang and Kit Ellis (Nintendo of America's former senior manager of creator relations and original content, and former director of social media marketing and original content, respectively) posted a video to their YouTube channel sharing their predictions for what this Direct will contain as well as explaining why they think it's happening now, just days before the Switch 2 Direct.

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