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Nintendo's Indie Games Show Is on October 28: Here's When to Watch

Martin HollowayPublished 3w ago2 min readBased on 3 sources
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Nintendo's Indie Games Show Is on October 28: Here's When to Watch
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Nintendo will broadcast an Indie World showcase on Wednesday, October 28, at 10AM Eastern Time. That is 7am Pacific and 2pm GMT, so the same show starts at a different hour depending on where you live.

The show runs about 15 minutes. Engadget reports that the games in it will be for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, the current console and its newer successor.

Nintendo has not, in the material available to me, said when individual games will come out. Showcases like this usually save those dates for the moment each game appears on screen. The stream is a scheduled event. It is not a list of games already confirmed for release.

Nintendo's own announcement, as reported by Video Games Chronicle, gives the same Wednesday slot in both Pacific and GMT times. That matches the Eastern start. In practice, it means one broadcast at one time, watched by Switch and Switch 2 owners alike.

In my view, the fact that the show covers both consoles is the detail to watch. Developers have to plan one announcement that reaches two groups of players. Buyers have to read one schedule for games that may run on either machine. How a publisher labels a Switch 2 version next to a Switch version may matter more to a buyer than the 15 minutes of footage.

The broader context here is the format. A short, tightly edited show leaves little room for filler, so every game has to earn its place. Think of it as a short TV slot, where each trailer has only seconds to make an impression. For small studios, that can be an advantage. A game's name and trailer can appear in front of the same audience as the platform's big announcements, something a crowded trade-show floor rarely offers. Whether the games shown on Wednesday do that will depend on what appears in those 15 minutes.

If you plan to watch, the key details are these:

  • Start time: 10AM ET on October 28, which is 7am PT or 2pm GMT.
  • Length: about 15 minutes.
  • Platforms: games for Switch and Switch 2.
  • Everything else: the games themselves, and their details, will be shown during the stream.

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