Welcome to a really quick summary of the latest Nintendo Direct hosted on Wednesday 12th April at a fairly late time in the evening for the UK. Written by Sam C Gittins.

Anyway enough from me and on with the games!

3DS Release Dates

Ever Oasis June 23rd 
RPG Maker Fes June 23rd
Devilish Brain Training July 28th
Hey! Pikmin July 28th     
Monster Hunter Stories Autumn
Miitopia 2017

Kirby 25th Anniversary

Team Kirby Clash DX free to start right now
Kirby's Blowout Blast Summer 2017
New multiplayer action game  Winter 2017

Amiibo

We're getting three more Zelda amiibo...

...and six more Super Smash Bros. amiibo

(a lot of empty wallets only half-way through 2017)

This section had the friendly commentator named Biff informing us of the following...

Different weapons include Glove, Multishot, Curving, Heavyweight plus more
Attributes when charged, Fire, Lightning, Wind, Ice and more
You can use currency in game to get more arms
Mix and match different arm types

New character MinMin "The Ramen Bomber" who can dodge and kick at same time, left arms changes into a dragon
Spring man, shockwave, deflect, counter-attack, health below 25% auto charged
A fight between these two characters was shown, there looks to be a decent amount of strategy involved

New 2 Versus 2 mode was announced, which looks hectic.

Release date of June 16th 2017 along with...

Neon Yellow Joy Cons
Joy con battery pack

Switch Release Dates

Neo Geo ACA Samurai Showdown IV available now

Mario Kart 8 DX April 28th
Puyo Puyo Tetris April 28th (Demo available now)
Ultra Street Fighter II May 26th
Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition May 12th
Disgaea 5 Complete  May 26th (Demo coming soon)
Fate/EXTELLA: The Umbra Star July 21st 2017

Summer 2017

Battle Chasers Nightwar
Namco Museum
Project Mekuru
Sine Mora EX
Sonic Mania 

Autumn 2017

Monopoly  (HD Rumble lets you feel the roll of the dice!)

Winter 2017

Sonic Forces 

2017

Payday 2
Rayman Legends: Definitive Edition




This section started out with an old-style presentation on Power Eggs.

Salmon Run is a new team-based horde mode where you Kill Salmonids to collect Power Eggs, so you work together in order to get as many as possible but watch out for the Boss Salmonid who will deal some massive damage. If you do get taken out then you have a Lifesaver Ink Ring which means you can get revived by your team mates, go for the Golden Eggs and send them back to Inkopolis for exciting rewards.

New amiibo, boy, girl, squid... saves your setup, you also get an amiibo friend in-game

Nintendo Switch album, share on social media
Previous amiibo support

Oh, and the game comes out on July 21st!

That's it for this fairly brief summary on what was a rather direct... erm Nintendo Direct. Let us know what you thought of the showing in our comments section below or on our forums.