{"id":45767,"date":"2025-08-05T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45767\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:50:08","slug":"surprise-nintendo-announces-indie-world-showcase-for-thursday-7th-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45767\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Nintendo Announces Indie World Showcase For Thursday 7th August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Jack_Goetz\" class=\"mention\" data-username=\"Jack_Goetz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Jack_Goetz<\/a> on what basis aside from you just deciding it?<\/p>\n<p>No one is realistically expecting anything major from an indie show cases within three months from the switch 2 release.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing is riding on this. It would be a great surprise if they announced something big, but realistically at best we&#8217;ll get a silksong release date. It&#8217;s supposed to have a playable demo at the next con so it should be getting close.<\/p>\n<p>Listen &#8230; It&#8217;s fine to anticipate. But you can&#8217;t shove un realistic expectations on people. You need to give devs time to actually put stuff together for the switch 2.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at past consoles the switch 2&#8217;s launch line up is pretty decent. DK Bananza even proved to be more of a hit than anyone expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"@Jack_Goetz on what basis aside from you just deciding it? No one is realistically expecting anything major from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,25886,137,376,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-45767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-indie-world","10":"tag-nintendo-switch","11":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}