Yeah.
Though in hindsight, Project Robot with Bill Trinen dressed up as a cardboard robot during that one E3 makes much more sense now.
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Though in hindsight, Project Robot with Bill Trinen dressed up as a cardboard robot during that one E3 makes much more sense now.
Yeah, there's no way it's a port of Smash 4 at this point. Releasing next November would be 5 years after Smash 4, that's a long enough wait IMO.
I desperately want that nonsense to be the genesis of the whole Labo idea.
Here's one I think should be added:
http://kh13.com/news/rumor-kingdom-...ntent-and-to-release-in-2018-to-meet-deadline
José Álamo, reporter for a site called Koi-Nya, released a number of rumors that turned out to be true. A lot of his stuff went under the radar, probably because his site isn't well known.
He heard Prime 4 was in development a month before E3, as well as confirming Fire Emblem Switch before the Direct last January. He also said Square was "internally discussing" the TWEWY IP. He's gotten a number of Kingdom Hearts rumors correct too, he also was the first to leak the existence of Last of Us 2, a week before PSX.
He also claims Animal Crossing is in development and will release this year, alongside Prime 4.
http://kh13.com/news/rumor-kingdom-...ntent-and-to-release-in-2018-to-meet-deadline
José Álamo, reporter for a site called Koi-Nya, released a number of rumors that turned out to be true. A lot of his stuff went under the radar, probably because his site isn't well known.
He heard Prime 4 was in development a month before E3, as well as confirming Fire Emblem Switch before the Direct last January. He also said Square was "internally discussing" the TWEWY IP. He's gotten a number of Kingdom Hearts rumors correct too, he also was the first to leak the existence of Last of Us 2, a week before PSX.
He also claims Animal Crossing is in development and will release this year, alongside Prime 4.
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Hip hip! Hurray!
Umm not quite. That 4chan pixelbit info is pretty close if you change Legos to cardboard, and Mario/luigi/bowser to robots and fishing rods. Maybe someone wanted to leak it but didn't want to be too specific and changed the materials/characters to make it seem less obvious?
It's a stretch, but it seems too much of a coincidence the rumor was about building/crafting (and it got the IR sensor thing right too) for it to have been made up.
Thanks, will read and add it if it's real.
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Added the Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem, Metroid one. The TWEWY one is too generic and not Switch specific (even though we now know it's for Switch). He actually heard about a Metroid Prime in Jan 2017, so that's many months before E3.
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Quite frankly, that's a huge stretch. The pixelbit leak seemed fake from the get go because of how "me too" it seemed. It didn't seem vastly different from something like Lego Dimensions, and that type of toys to life idea isn't really a growth market right now.
Uh, I'd have to disagree fairly strongly:
Nope.
Nope, unless "you assemble things by following instructions" is "similar to lego".
Nope. Even being very generous with interpreting "small sets", the "similar to... 8-bit..." suggests a pixel aesthetic which clearly isn't the case with any Labo devices.
Nope - you could maybe stretch to say that the camera incorporates the Labo Toy-Cons in a way, but it would be a hell of a stretch (the wording here is clearly meant to suggest something like amiibo or Dimensions, rather than the Joycons becoming a component of the Labo devices).
Total nope. No sign of any familiar IP so far, and the sets are assortments of more real-world objects and devices.
Nope. And all of the Labo are aimed at kids, and clearly advertised as such even in the pre-announcement.
Yes, but this is about the only thing right here and would be a reasonable guess for a fake rumour/prediction.
Nope!
So, it kinda got the building element, and said they weren't amiibo... and that's it :-)
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"Build shapes/characters/small sets, similar to the 8-bit Mario and Link amiibo."
That one is not entirely false, it says "shapes" and "small sets" too, which is totally something you can do.
"The IR Camera in the right Joycon reads them and incorporates them into games."
While it's not reading a character (I interpreted that as 'scanning' a character?), the IR in Labo does read the inputs you make with whatever you build.
"Harder" Pixelbits such as Bowser and Ganondorf will contain more "bits" are be aimed more at adults to put together."
We don't know what Nintendo has in store for Labo. Maybe they will have more complex grownup models further on?
The way I'm seeing it is that someone either knew about Labo, wanted to leak it and changed a bunch of details to not make it too obvious, OR, the guy heard a few tidbits and constructed a narrative from there. Either way, he had to have heard something. In my opinion.
I still won't add it though since it's a stretch :P
That one is not entirely false, it says "shapes" and "small sets" too, which is totally something you can do.
"The IR Camera in the right Joycon reads them and incorporates them into games."
While it's not reading a character (I interpreted that as 'scanning' a character?), the IR in Labo does read the inputs you make with whatever you build.
"Harder" Pixelbits such as Bowser and Ganondorf will contain more "bits" are be aimed more at adults to put together."
We don't know what Nintendo has in store for Labo. Maybe they will have more complex grownup models further on?
The way I'm seeing it is that someone either knew about Labo, wanted to leak it and changed a bunch of details to not make it too obvious, OR, the guy heard a few tidbits and constructed a narrative from there. Either way, he had to have heard something. In my opinion.
I still won't add it though since it's a stretch :P
One instance that really rubbed me the wrong way is when Laura leaked that Kirkhope was working on the Mario+Rabbids soundtrack. Basically he tweeted saying he was excited for a future project and couldn't wait to share it, and she replied basically saying "IT'S RABBIDS IT'S RABBIDS".
For Labo she said that she wasn't gonna ruin the surprise so close to reveal, but I'm willing to bet she had no idea what it was.
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That was probably she guessing.
It happened to me once when Jeremy Parish teased about the secret boss last boss in Final Fantasy 4 (GBA) and I said very confidently "It's Easy Type Zeromus". I was just joking around and it turned out to be true. I don't think Jeremy was very pleased with that.
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Please read the OP, specially the very first message in red specifically added by an administrator.
About the SQEX IP coming to Switch—could it Valkyrie Profile? Among top company's properties is the one that is more associated with PlayStation alongside KH. But KH obviously was on Nintendo platforms (hard to forget) while it's easy to forget about Convenant of the Plume.
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Well I've looked for any supermetaldave64 rumors on gaf and I didn't find any actual quotes/sources. I guess all his stuff is basically on his videos. From the few of his stuff I listened to back in the day, it felt more like he was speculating and not that he had any sources. So, I'm pretty much done adding old leaks unless someone posts some here.
So, I'll be focusing on adding any new credible leak/rumor that I come across.
So, I'll be focusing on adding any new credible leak/rumor that I come across.
An anonymous 4chan source didn't want to leak it and changed everything into something completely different, that was based on known concepts? And why not add: the leaker also didn't want to leak the release date, and said "June". "June" has 4 letters, just as "Labo"? If this was a leaker that "knew" something, then we can reconstruct any rumor to be a leak about something entirely different, IMO.
It was officially known that the Joycon camera could scan shapes since the Switch launch 2017:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017...contains-motion-tracking-camera-other-tricks/
And just for reference, here's a post of my own in the speculation thread prior to the video:
So, it's very easy to create such a 4chan "leak" by just mix LEGO Dimensions and the known Joycon IR Camera capabilities. And the fact that Labo doesn't use the IR Camera for 3D shape recognition (the IR in the piano model reads symbols that becomes visible when keys are pressed)... Or that most things in Labo doesn't involve the IR Camera at all. And so on.
The less time spent thinking about anything happening on 4chan the better. For everyone. Everywhere. Every time.
Another rumor missing from ERA member Chrom regarding FE release schedule:
Adding this to the Jose_Strife reports, if all are true, Nintendo would release Metroid, AC, and FE this year. However he specifically said up until fall, so the big holiday game is still unknown.
There is a possibility that the holiday game is Pokemon. Having all those 4 games this year would be absolutely insane.
Another possibility is that, if Fire Emblem was moved from spring to fall, then either Metroid or AC could have been moved to holiday.
Adding this to the Jose_Strife reports, if all are true, Nintendo would release Metroid, AC, and FE this year. However he specifically said up until fall, so the big holiday game is still unknown.
There is a possibility that the holiday game is Pokemon. Having all those 4 games this year would be absolutely insane.
Another possibility is that, if Fire Emblem was moved from spring to fall, then either Metroid or AC could have been moved to holiday.
I always expected FE to be first half of 2018 but Im ok with fall. We are still in January and this year looks to be a packed one already.
I don't know if this is the right place to ask about this but seeing Emily talks in these quotes :
Something is missing. Where is Capcom ? I thought I read somewhere that they are bringing Phoenix Wright series to Switch and I know they are are already bringing MM11+the collections. They also did great RE:R ports but I feel most of these are small projects. I hope to see more bigger projects from them in the future.
Something is missing. Where is Capcom ? I thought I read somewhere that they are bringing Phoenix Wright series to Switch and I know they are are already bringing MM11+the collections. They also did great RE:R ports but I feel most of these are small projects. I hope to see more bigger projects from them in the future.
REmake and RE4 need to be on Switch. Two of the best games ever.
Some other rumors coming from MysticDistance, a reporter at Persona Central. Says FFXV is coming to Switch, probably in 2019. He also predicted the January direct.
Also he mentioned on Wednesday that the Thursday Nintendo announcements wasn't the second Direct he and multiple other people have been teasing:
Also he mentioned on Wednesday that the Thursday Nintendo announcements wasn't the second Direct he and multiple other people have been teasing:
Sweet fuck if Prime, AC, FE, AND Pokemon release this year.
Move over 2017.
I'd be more than happy with two of those (AC is the least interesting to me however).
Move over 2017.
I'd be more than happy with two of those (AC is the least interesting to me however).
I don't think Bayonetta 3 will release this year but having exclusive heavy hitters for the second half like Pokémon, Metroid Prime 4, Yoshi and Animal Crossing would be insane. I wonder if they have some other smaller games for H2, maybe Octopath, TWEWY and another port or two?
If only we had a thread that archives the rumors ^^
it's in the OP and the source is reliable ;)
There's reportedly an RE reveal coming in the next few days. It's inevitably going to relate to REmake2, but I wouldn't be surprised to see ports of older games or even a downgraded RE7 for Switch.
Wasn't that from one store guy? It could honestly be some new games being added to a demo unit that probably hasn't been updated in some time.
This is a archive thread for old rumors, not for new ones. Read the mod edit in the OP.
EDIT: Ah, you mean the US demo kiosk update? That's probably happening, but that doesn't mean there will be more reveals. My guess it's Kirby, Tropical Freeze and such stuff.
When Nintendo delayed the 64GB card to 2019 and reports were that third parties planning to use it were angry, my first thought was FF15.
That was complete speculation. Mostly because it's nonsense since no third party is even using 32GB cards for anything.
I thought it was weird that anyone was jumping straight to 64GB but I can't imagine a complete edition of FF15 working on anything else.
It could be interesting if it actually had the zelda multi dub treatment.
Fun fact:
Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn was the first game Nintendo actually multidub to pal5 languages.
All the newer 3ds fire emblem only had japanese and english voices though.
entirely depends on how they compress their textures and how they handle cutscenes (real-time vs prerendered). not like huge file size stopped anyone else from releasing on switch. that's what these god awful "microSD card required" banners are for after all.
Man, Kirby, Yoshi, Labo, FE, AC, Metroid and Pokemon in the same year would be absolutely crazy. I was so sure at least one between Prime 4 and Pokemon wouldn't be until 2019.
However, I'm still left with what the hell came of all those Smash rumours? We aren't hearing much these days. That Smash port seemed a safer prediction for a long time. Now, who knows. I'd still like to get it...
However, I'm still left with what the hell came of all those Smash rumours? We aren't hearing much these days. That Smash port seemed a safer prediction for a long time. Now, who knows. I'd still like to get it...
Been an entire year since this rumor came and went and I'm shocked that the Switch lacks any sort of retro game service, let alone the GCN VC. I'll be honest when I say that this was one of my main reasons for buying the thing, due to the potential of being able to import VC games from Japan and thus be able to play all sorts of the obscure hidden gems the Wii U/3DS JPN VCs got, so the lack of any VC has just made me really frustrated. I know some people think they may be scrapping the VC in favor of making it Nintendo Online related (Due to the classic game service announcement), but I honestly hope that's not the case, as I'd rather buy my own games on a weekly basis instead of having to buy multiple subscriptions for both NA and JPN, and waiting every single month for new retro games instead of weekly like the Wii U VC (Which led to me buying 160 of the NA Wii U VC games over the years, and I'd happily rebuy the majority of them for Switch play)
Does anyone know what happened to this rumor outside of the theory of a move to Nintendo Online when they changed the format from loaning you a NES/SNES game to letting you keep it? I swear, if this doesn't launch in February (or if we don't get any news of Nin Online launching until the end of summer) then I'm gonna be pretty disappointed with the missed potential the Switch's region-free has had... Let alone the "all in one" potential. The upcoming ports of Wii U gems like Bayo and DKCTF (along with the newish stuff coming out this year like Kirby and Yoshi) prove that playing older content on this thing is an amazing thing to behold, (Especially with games so good) so I feel as if hoping for the original LOZ or gems like OOT/Panel De Pon/Live A Live/the GCN games rumored isn't too much to ask for... Right?
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