Nintendo has announced it will livestream a The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct next week, followed by a second general Nintendo Direct.<\/p>\n
The Zelda presentation will take place on September 8 at 7am PT \/ 10am ET \/ 3pm BST and last about 30 minutes. As its name suggests, the Zelda Direct will share information about how Nintendo<\/a> plans to commemorate the Zelda series\u2019 40th anniversary.<\/p>\n Then a general Nintendo Direct<\/a> will take place on September 9 at 7am PT\/ 10am ET \/ 3pm BST and last around 45 minutes. According to Nintendo, the Direct will focus on Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> software releasing this winter.<\/p>\n Following the general Direct, a\u202fNintendo Treehouse: Live<\/a> will stream on YouTube featuring gameplay of select titles featured. The livestream will last roughly 110 minutes.<\/p>\n This marks the first time that Nintendo has held two full Nintendo Direct live streams in the same week.<\/p>\n Nintendo has yet to confirm any official plans for The Legend of Zelda<\/a>\u2019s 40th anniversary, but a\u00a0remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/a>\u00a0is due for release later this year, and the\u00a0live-action Legend of Zelda movie<\/a> hits cinemas on April 30.<\/p>\n Recently, images claiming to show a special edition Zelda Nintendo Switch 2 console and Pro Controller<\/a> also appeared online, suggesting that limited hardware will be part of Nintendo\u2019s plans for the anniversary.<\/p>\n For Super Mario Bros.\u2019 40th anniversary, Nintendo marked the ocassion with various games, including Galaxy and Galaxy 2 Switch<\/a> ports, and special merchandise.<\/p>\n Nintendo\u2019s line-up for the rest of the year includes Fire Emblem: Fortune\u2019s Weave<\/a> (Sep 17), Nintendo Switch Sports Resort<\/a> (Oct 22), and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo has announced it will livestream a The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct next week, followed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-760580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760580","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=760580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}