Next week Nintendo runs two full Directs back to back, something it has never done before. On 8 September comes an anniversary stream for forty years of The Legend of Zelda, on 9 September a general Direct, and straight after it a Treehouse: Live gameplay session.
When to watch
Both streams start at the same time, 7am Pacific. Here is that hour where you are.
| Where | 8 September, Zelda | 9 September, Direct |
|---|---|---|
| London | 15:00 | 15:00 |
| Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris | 16:00 | 16:00 |
| Moscow | 17:00 | 17:00 |
| New York | 10:00 | 10:00 |
| UTC | 14:00 | 14:00 |
The anniversary stream runs about half an hour, the general Direct about forty five minutes. Treehouse: Live follows the second one and, according to VGC, lasts roughly a hundred and ten minutes. Nearly three hours across two days.
What is in them
- 8 September, Zelda. How Nintendo intends to mark forty years of the series. There is a precedent: for the fortieth of Super Mario Bros. the company shipped Galaxy and Galaxy 2 ports on Switch plus a line of merchandise.
- 9 September, the general Direct. According to VGC the stream covers Nintendo Switch 2 games arriving this winter.
- Straight after, Treehouse: Live. By Nintendo's own description this is people playing what the Direct showed, which makes it the only place with live gameplay rather than a cut.
On the rumour side. Images appeared online before the announcement showing an anniversary Switch 2 in Zelda livery and a matching Pro Controller. Nintendo has said nothing about hardware, so treat it as a rumour, though a special console for an anniversary is hardly an exotic idea.
For our purposes the interesting part of this pair is technical: whether we finally see how the Switch 2 holds up with the big winter releases. What actually runs on weak hardware we went through in a separate piece.
Sources
Dates, times and running lengths: the official Nintendo Direct page, checked 5 September 2026.
Treehouse: Live length, the subject of the second stream and the anniversary console rumour: Video Games Chronicle, 4 September 2026.
