{"id":1186214,"date":"2026-09-04T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1186214\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:00:21","slug":"nintendo-announces-two-directs-for-next-week-8th-9th-september-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1186214\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Announces Two Directs For Next Week, 8th &#038; 9th September 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Nintendo Direct\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b37307af182d6\/nintendo-direct.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nintendo-direct.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"Nintendo Direct\"\/><\/a> Image: Nintendo Life<\/p>\n<p>After a busy Gamescom, we assumed it&#8217;d only be a matter of time before Nintendo popped up with another showcase, and today, it&#8217;s done just that! Twice, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, Nintendo has just announced not one, but two Directs for net week. We&#8217;ll start off with a special The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on <strong>8th September<\/strong> at <strong>3<\/strong><strong>pm BST \/ 4pm CET \/ 10am ET \/ 7am PT<\/strong>. This one will last for around 30 minutes and will cover &#8220;a variety of information related to The Legend of Zelda&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Then the very next day we have a standard Direct on <strong>9th September<\/strong> also at <strong>3<\/strong><strong>pm BST \/ 4pm CET \/ 10am ET \/ 7am PT<\/strong>, this one promising around 45 minutes of news and announcements.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the exact time that the events will get underway in your region:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\" first\"><strong>North America:<\/strong> 7am PDT \/ 8am MDT \/ 9am CDT \/ 10am EDT<\/li>\n<li><strong>UK\/Ire:<\/strong> 3pm BST<\/li>\n<li><strong>Europe:<\/strong> 4pm CEST \/ 5pm EEST<\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><strong>Asia\/Oceania:<\/strong> 11pm JST \/ 10pm AWST \/ 12am (Wed) AEST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As if all of that wasn&#8217;t enough, Nintendo will follow up the Direct on 9th with a Treehouse presentation, featuring gameplay of some of the titles that appear in the showcase. Gosh, what a treat!<\/p>\n<p>The shows will be streamed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@NintendoAmerica\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo of America YouTube channel<\/a> (or your regional variant), though you&#8217;ll also be able to watch along with us here on Nintendo Life, if you fancy a bit of live chat too.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think we&#8217;ll see next week? Give us your boldest predictions in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Life After a busy Gamescom, we assumed it&#8217;d only be a matter of time before Nintendo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1186215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[12,128,667,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-1186214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-news","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-direct","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117213374155712853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}