Nintendo at E3 2024: Nintendo Direct start time, how to watch, streaming schedule

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E3 2024 takes place June 12-15 as a re-imagined, all-virtual online event. Nintendo, Xbox, Bethesda, Square Enix, Sega, Bandai Namco, Ubisoft, Capcom, and others will deliver new video game announcements, trailers, release dates, and more.

Nintendo will stream a new Nintendo Direct presentation at E3 2024 on Tuesday, where the company plans to reveal new details on upcoming Nintendo Switch games. Nintendo will then offer a longer look at its Switch lineup in a new three-hour Nintendo Treehouse Live stream immediately following today’s Nintendo Direct.

The company set expectations about Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct, promising “roughly 40 minutes of info focused exclusively on Nintendo Switch software,” mostly for games scheduled to arrive in 2024. In other words, don’t count on Nintendo announcing that New Nintendo Switch Pro during today’s livestream.

Nintendo’s E3 2024 Nintendo Direct will start at 12 p.m. EDT/9 a.m. PDT, and you can watch it live via YouTube and Twitch. The Treehouse Live stream will begin after the Direct concludes, and promises deep dives into gameplay.

Nintendo’s currently confirmed lineup for Nintendo Switch includes Mario Golf: Super Rush, Project Triangle Strategy, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, Splatoon 3, and a sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. We’re also still waiting on news about Bayonetta 3 and Metroid Prime 4, both of which were announced in 2017.