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The Legend of Zelda and Splatoon concerts to stream through YouTube very soon
Nintendo has just announced that two orchestral concerts will be streamed in full on YouTube after being recently cancelled.
After getting cancelled in December of last year and January 2024 for safety concerns, two concerts will be streamed on YouTube by Nintendo next month instead, available for fans over the world.
As reported by VideoGamesChronicle, these two orchestral concerts for The Legend of Zelda series and the Splatoon franchise respectively, were set to be part of the Nintendo Live events the company had planned to hold on December 2023 and January 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. However, these were both cancelled due to growing safety concerns after the company kept getting threats against their staff and, eventually, against the audience that would have been in attendance.
“Our company has been persistently receiving threatening behaviour targeting our staff,” said a Nintendo representative to VGC. “Recently, these threats have extended to the audience and staff of the Splatoon Koshien 2023 National Finals event as well. With consideration to the safety of our customers as our top priority, we have decided to postpone the event. Nintendo Live 2024 has been cancelled due to the inability to ensure the safety of our customers.”
Now Nintendo has confirmed that both of the planned concerts will be streamed as pre-recorded events through its YouTube channel, which means that they’ll now be available to everyone around the world who wants to enjoy them. Specifically, the Legend of Zelda concert will be available on February 9, 2024 at 5am PT/ 8am ET/ 1pm GMT.
The Splatoon 3 Deep Cut concert will be released on February 10 at the exact same times, and just as with the other concert it’ll be available to watch on official Nintendo channels.
Nintendo’s 2024 is still a mystery
As it stands right now, Nintendo seems to be in a bit of a mysterious position in the industry right now. Most of the games they have planned for release during the year are either remakes of older titles or (honestly exciting) spinoffs of their main franchises. The company did recently announce that The Legend of Zelda was set to come to the big screen through a live-action adaptation, but no more news about that have surfaced at the moment of writing.
Meanwhile, rumors of a “Nintendo Switch 2″ keep popping up, with even some analysts claiming possible features, and even a price tag. Is it time for a successor to the Switch after 7 years of this same hardware?