But it is possible that Lippe's information is already old, and Nintendo planned this Direct with their third party developers. Other studios likely also have announcements for their games planned on this Direct as well. This rumor is perfect in the sense that there's enough rope to just allow people who want to believe a Direct is coming soon to believe that it's this date, and also enough loose ends to allow people who are skeptical not to believe it. In any case, the date is kind of irrelevant, compared to the promise of Nintendo wowing us with more games coming to the original Switch. Nintendo already promised that Metroid Prime 4 is still on the way, and a Monolith Soft director indicated their desire (not a promise) to bring Xenoblade Chronicles X to the Switch. So those are the kinds of games that could still get fans buying their last few Switch games.