The best chance is this week or next week. Next week is the Investor's Meeting. If we get a Pokemon Direct this week it'll be announced on Monday or Tuesday. There's a slight chance for an announcement on Wednesday.
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Pokémon Switch Rumor Discussion and Speculation Thread
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The best chance is this week or next week. Next week is the Investor's Meeting. If we get a Pokemon Direct this week it'll be announced on Monday or Tuesday. There's a slight chance for an announcement on Wednesday.
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Yes, even though most of the "rumors" and "leaks" are BS and random twitter posts. It's just better to have all those potentially fake rumors in this thread. If the rumor/leaks/news was actually confirmed and was actually from a good source, most likely there would be a new thread based on that.
Just let people have their fun and be hyped. If people are disappointed in the case of fake rumors/news, that's their fault for believing in a non-legit or unofficial source.
Yeah, BW2 can look really great. In some areas I think it looks better than HGSS, but it's very inconsistent.Reversal mountain looks pretty great, especially im B2.
I really love the look of gen 4 and 5 in mountain areas and the way elevation looks. Victory road in BW2 also looks really cool.
Yep. It was announced the same day as Nintendo released their financial earnings in 2014. It was May 7 both occurred. This year Nintendo's financial earnings is April 26.
Yeah. Very weak announcement, but I think Nintendo needed some good news, they were struggling a lot during that time
I mean, most of us are expecting the game to have its own Pokémon Direct.
This was such an uninspiring and stupid first reveal for in-game stuff.
Seeing Ethan/Hibiki/HGSS MC walking around in New Bark Town where they took the winds of a new beginning theme literally with the effects, and seeing Chikorita walk around made me 100% sure it was going to be an amazing game lol. Blew my mind.
Yea, the first shot should have been from the intro with brendan or may on the bike and seeing latias overhead.
I can't wait for the next Pokemon direct to feature nothing but 3DS spinoff news and no mention to be made of Pokemon switch at all. Then some guy from GF will be interviewed and act really surprised when the internet has a collective shit fit.
No matter what the next Pokémon games are we'll all buy it. It'll suck of course if they don't meet any persons expectations, but we'll still buy it.
If it's gen 8 I'm buying day 1. If it's contemporary Kanto I'm buying it day 1. If it's diamon and pearl remake I'm buying it day 1. I need my new Pokémon fix lol
If it's gen 8 I'm buying day 1. If it's contemporary Kanto I'm buying it day 1. If it's diamon and pearl remake I'm buying it day 1. I need my new Pokémon fix lol
That was so long ago that we need another journey through Johto again ;)
That wasn't even the reveal haha, this was
Came the day before the FY 2013/4 investor meeting...
I mean i bitch now about "ugh Kanto again" but i'd buy it anyways I'm a sucker for Pokemon.
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm just saying that video as a "sneak peek" footage is just wrong.
To be fair, the sneak peek was intended for the Japanese variety show Pokémon Get☆TV and, because of worldwide reveals, they had to show it in a video globally soon after
- Gen 8: will buy regardless of if they fail to make the strides in world-design, production values, and presentation they desperately need to make as long as there is a decent-sized batch of new monsters (including variants) and an appropriate amount of campaign/postgame content
- Gen 7 taking place in an old region with less than ~50-60 new monsters: will be my first ever hard pass on getting a Pokemon game at launch unless it takes aforementioned improvements to the way the game world is developed
- Gen 4 remakes: will buy pretty much regardless because my expectations for remakes are a little more lenient
Getting a new Pokemon fix will mean nothing to me unless there is a substantial amount of new, a huge leap forward in their map-crafting and overall presentation efforts, a campaign that isn't a combination of piss-easy and underwhelmingly short, or some mix of these three things.
I remember when people were theorizing that it was a sequel based off the "explore a dramatic new world" along with the different looking Groudon and Kyogre
Just goes to show that the marketing speak in all the reveals is meaningless.
"It all comes together" with Sun & Moon, for example. This caused some people to think the series was about to end and be rebooted. It's not. One YouTuber went mad with his theory based on this, doing long videos explaining Pokémon is about to end/reboot.
"The more you battle with your Pokémon, the stronger your bond becomes" with X & Y. What the hell does that even mean?
lol, poor Lockstin. I remember those videos.
That was some 12/10, A+ theorycrafting though (GF should hire him).
I hate the fact that we're forever stuck with the gawdy 90's logo in the west while Japan and Korea get new logos every game.
Availability isn't the reason they do remakes, and if it was a new Kanto game would be further off since they recently released the Gen 1 games on 3DS.
Remakes are made for multiple reasons;
1. They make money
2. As time passes people get nostalgia for older games
3. They can make it easier to obtain some older Pokemon
4. It allows them to bring older games into the modern standard
5. They can introduce new fans to games they missed
It doesn't matter if you can still find the Gen 4 games, that is a non factor for doing a remake, Gens 1 and 2 sold far better than Gen 4 and that didn't stop those from being remade.
Also new Gen 1 games wouldn't stop them from remaking Gen 4. It feels like you are arguing against the first Switch games being Gen 4 remakes, but pretty much nobody is suggesting that they will be, they're just talking about what could be done when they do get remade, because it will happen eventually.
You say we don't need Gen 4 remakes, but the series has changed a lot since that Gen and who knows how much different it will be in Gen 8, the Gen that we will likely get the DP remakes.
He made a fair few leaps, like saying the release date was evidence. Then using the anime as evidence thinking it ended with a certain episode just because we didn't have titles beyond that episode at that point.
HGSS reveal was perfect, simply because of the involvement of Pokemon Sunday and the insanity revolving the lead up to the reveals. This whole twitter storm is tame in actuality if you were around back then. For a week, I shit you not a whole week, the forums where up in arms because half of the members thought a new game one year after platinum was too soon and if it is it won't be Johto remakes, and the other half were sure Johto remakes were coming for sure. Why a week, and why did I mention Pokemon Sunday? Because the whole debate was based on an episode preview that promised news, with them celebrating the news with Gold and Silver Foil party poppers ornamenting the stage. Its why I will never not see clues where there shouldn't be TPCi and especially Pokemon Japan has a very notorious history.
I never understood this considering we got FireRed/LeafGreen and Emerald within the same year
Did you guys buy US/UM? Because I sure as heck didn't buy it.
A few Farfetch'd :P ideas sure, but the whole alchemy / flower / hawai lore theory crafting was very well done.
I mean, Eternal Floette was coded into Gen VI and didn't end up getting released, so I frankly wouldn't be surprised if Game Freak have straight-up abandoned that idea.
I did, but I don't think that has a whole lot to do with my expectations for a game on new hardware following two generations basically defined by the hardware limitations.
I more or less did a blackout for USUM, so I didn't exactly know what was coming when I got US. I expected typical third version fare, which was kind of fine for me since there were still new Pokémon I wanted to play the campaign with, and also move tutors were something I was wanting. I walked away from it somewhere between having got what I expected and mildly disappointed. I think it's by far the most lackluster third version ever for me.
Just because I bought third versions or you skipped them doesn't mean Kanto in HD SM engine is suddenly a great idea. Independent from my thoughts on USUM, Pokémon Switch really needs to aspire to be much more than it was on 3DS, and that means in terms of breadth of content for all kinds of players, online and offline.
Whether or not it's a """""New Generation,""""" it's a new game on hardware that lends it potential its literally never had. Kanto in SM HD would be almost laughable if many of the sensibilities from the 3DS games come along. At the very least there would have to be a huge chunk of Pokémon and campaign content for it to be something that interests me.
No. It was a Gen 6 event, and it wasn't distributed before Gen 7.
Wow, this is horrible. Not even the usual music in the background? Did they make that video like on the day they have uploaded it or what lol
If someone posted it on 4chan back then no one would believe them that this could be a legit announcement from Nintendo.
Independent from the twitter "leakers", completely lacking of any insider knowledge and in general just a really ezctiable fan. But today I have a strong feeling if the game is 2018, we will get a Pokemon Direcrt announcement for Wednesday or Thursday. If not today, tomorrow.
I remember having discussions on smaller boards about how they were maybe teasing a revamp of the friendship system.
Good times.
Every third/sequel improves on the first game so that doesn't say much.
"Well, at this time already! (Lol) Let's do our best this week too!"
I don't get it. Can someone properly translate this for us, please?
Could we get something this week? Sure. Anything is possible.
Is this tweet indicative of it? No
Nah. Every week Masuda tweets that they are hard at work. Its basically a "fuck its monday again" tweet.
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