Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Was Clearly The Biggest Nintendo Direct Reveal, As It's Become Nintendo Japan's Most-Liked Tweet Ever

Summary

• One of the most surprising reveals of this week's Nintendo Direct was a sequel to Tomodachi Life.
• Living the Dream's announcement is clearly a big deal for a lot of fans, as it's breaking records for Nintendo's social media.
• In fact, the announcement for Living the Dream is now Nintendo Japan's most-liked tweet of all time.

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream was clearly the biggest and most-popular reveal of the latest Direct, as its announcement tweet has become Nintendo Japan's most-liked of all time - even surpassing the Switch 2's reveal.

This week's Nintendo Direct was a bit of a strange one, as it arrived less than a week before the full unveiling of the Nintendo Switch 2 that's happening in a matter of days. With that in mind, most of us didn't expect to see anything more than a few ports, indie games, and some generally smaller reveals than most Directs have.

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That wasn't the case at all, though. Not only did we get some exciting reveals like Marvel Cosmic Invasion and a new entry in the Rhythm Heaven series, but we also saw some long-standing PlayStation series like Patapon and Everybody's Golf making the jump over to Nintendo. The biggest announcement, though, was a sequel that everyone's been asking for - Tomodachi Life.

Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream's Reveal Is Nintendo Japan's Most-Liked Tweet Ever

It's Even Surpassed The Switch 2's Reveal

Despite being locked to the 3DS, the original Tomodachi Life was a massive success for Nintendo and is considered a cult classic that everyone has been waiting to make a return. That wish is being granted in 2026 with Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, which was the show-stopping reveal of this week's Direct.

If you want more proof of just how much Nintendo fans have wanted to see a new Tomodachi Life, look no further than Nintendo Japan's Twitter account. As pointed out by VGC, the announcement for Living the Dream has become Nintendo Japan's most-liked tweet of all time at more than 403,000 likes as of the time of writing.

The announcement is also doing big numbers for Nintendo of America, as it's now the second most-liked tweet about a specific game.

That means that Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream has somehow managed to surpass the excitement for the Nintendo Switch 2's initial teaser, which currently has 385,000 likes on Nintendo Japan's Twitter. Considering how highly anticipated the Switch 2 has been for the past few years, it speaks to how much people have wanted to see a sequel to Tomodachi Life that it's already managed to fly ahead.

Considering how short the teaser was and how little it revealed, it's likely that we can expect to see even more excitement and anticipation for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream as it gets shown off more. Here's hoping we don't have to wait too long for what appears to be Nintendo Japan's most anticipated game.

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