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Recently, multiple sources have reported that next week’s Nintendo Direct for February 2026 will actually be a Partner Direct. News of this format for the event first came by way of GameXplain and was later corroborated by insider Nate the Hate and publication VGC. As for when the Direct will officially take place, all three sources said that it should indeed transpire on February 5th.
If you aren’t familiar with what a Partner Direct is, it’s a variant of Nintendo’s traditional Direct format that instead focuses entirely on indie and third-party titles. This means that Nintendo won’t unveil anything about projects that are in the works at its studios. So if you were hoping to see a new 3D Super Mario game, or even a new Zelda installment, that won’t be showing up at this Direct.
That being said, Nintendo-published games can still potentially appear in this Direct if they happen to be developed by outside companies. A game like The Duskbloods, which comes from FromSoftware and is exclusively being published on Switch 2, will likely appear at this Direct. We’ve also seen titles like Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment in Partner Directs previously, as this game was created outside of Nintendo even though it used the Zelda IP. As such, if any other projects similar to this are in development, we could see them pop up during this Direct.
