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Switch Rumor Archive (Read posting rules in OP)
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Should we also archive the NX rumors that were announced earlier before 2016, appearing after Iwata's NX announcement in 2015?
Interesting thread, especially to see what rumors are still out there and the record of various sources.
There are certain rumblings about things like Pokemon Stars and a Smash 4 port coming up enough from credible sources that I'm surprised we still haven't heard anything.
There are certain rumblings about things like Pokemon Stars and a Smash 4 port coming up enough from credible sources that I'm surprised we still haven't heard anything.
Hey but you also have to realize that sometimes...a lot of times...things change. They might have been reporting something 100% accurate at the time only for it to change last minute. For example...Devils third. Liam reported that Nintendo wasn't too happy with it and wasn't even gonna publish it. Then a bunch of people (myself included) jumped on him about when Nintendo came out and said they would. But when the game finally came out they barely pressed any copies and the game wasn't very good leading me to believe that he was probably right the whole time and Nintendo just decided to publish at the last minute.
I'd been meaning to do something like this for a while as a wiki or something so I'm happy someone's actually gone through with it. It's always a pain when someone mentions a leak and you have to try an retroactively vet the source, I think being able to reference a given sources history of early info and leaks is really valuable when trying to sort the wheat from the chaff with rumours.
Is this an actual rumor or is it a "I hope that this is being discussed" thinking from you?
I'm not trying be accusatory! I just really really want this to be a real thing!
Sakamoto talked a lot during E3 about wanting to make more 2D Metroid games and how SR was a revival for the series. He also seemed very happy to get a team to make these games (Mercury Steam), so I guess they always planned to keep developing 2D Metroid titles.
Link's Awakening was just an example. I'd be interested in any info about a good game or two to send the 3DS off on a high note.
I still feel Nintendo should have gone with Pascal instead of Maxwell...
What a pity...
Don't forget 4chan's wacky NX rumors, and how we got Ubisoft in Milan from a mere tree shadow reflection in the image showing an oval NX.
Reminds me when I made the threads at the old forum compiling all the facts about the NX. Good times. :)
Bet they will when they come out with the plus version of the switch, but it will only be for running cooler and better battery life not improved graphics
You should bring it back. We really need a museum of Rumors Archival.
NX was in development since 2014, before Pascal Tegra was ever fully developed, I believed.
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Please do, preferable from GAF threads since tweets can be deleted.
You're right, I'll change fake to something else. As for the Mother 3 stuff, it shouldn't even be there since that's a Wii U rumor, but I firmly believe it will come out on Switch's eventual VC-like service (or whatever it is). Thus my note on that entry. The reason why the entry was not red originally is because I'm still updating and I'm still tinkering with every entry. I'm still settling on a 'standard' so I can follow it for every entry.
Yeah. The point of my post was that ShockingAlberto had a source, which is the point of this thread, right? No one knew what Monolith Soft was working on at the time.
Sorry if this was cleared up earlier, but OP is gonna do some earlier years right? There were some pretty crazy leaks like the Gematsu Smash Bros leaks, SuperMetalDave, Mario Maker, etc
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Post some examples.
Added. I remember rumors about the NX using X64 CPU too. Were those said by credible people? I also remember someone, either Emily or Laura being certain that it wasn't the case.
Thanks. Will add. The 3d printed controller is so ridiculous (then, and now), but it gained so much traction that it's impossible not to add it.
Which credible sources? I haven't heard that, but it sounds interesting.
Here's some of the hardware stuff I reported.
May 2016: NX is not using x86 architecture like PS4 and XB1.
Sept 2016: Camera/Microphone are not built inside of the Switch console.
Sept 2016: Switch has 32GB of storage
Oct 2016:Switch has 4GB of ram.
Yeah I want to say the gameXplain guys said there were 6-7 games rumoured that were making the rounds with the youtubers on their prediction show
Canonically, this OP needs to include everything post-Acid Ghost and start with Acid Ghost.
Because Acid Ghost is the genesis of all things.
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- NeoGAF kicked off the rumor suggesting the Nintendo NX may have scrollable shoulder buttons, based on pictures in a patent. (Source) (Sept. 17, 2015)
- GamesRadar+ speculated the Nintendo NX may use your neighbor's system to improve performances. (Source) (Dec. 9, 2015)
- The Japan Times reported Nintendo will be the first customer to use the free-form LCD screens. (Source) (Dec. 16, 2014). This led to a series of rumors in which spawned from the patent of the infamous oval-shaped NX console, hinting a touchscreen with protuded joystick controllers. (Source) (Dec. 11, 2015)
- Nintendo is considering ending region-locking. (Source) (May 11, 2015)
- VentureBeat speculated Nintendo NX will use AMD chipsets. (Source) (July 16, 2015)
- Nintendo NX developer kits have been sent out. (Source) (Oct. 16, 2015)
- Nintendo NX devkits is speculated to cost 50,000¥, or $500 USD. (Source) (Feb. 18, 2017)
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For what it's worth the only recent rumors I can recall Emily missing on would be Mother 3, and the Switch's first year including Retro and Pikmin, although I don't remember if the latter was just speculation.
I do worry about this kind of thread though, perhaps it puts a bit too much attention on folks?
I do worry about this kind of thread though, perhaps it puts a bit too much attention on folks?
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Can you explain the foxconn one a bit? I'm not a tech guy so I don't know what's supposed to be true or false.
Nope. This is like your history book. We only record facts of rumors and their origins.
Ooohhh, the Foxconn leak is pretty substantial. I'm outside, if I had the time, I can go and debunk/confirm for each item of the leak.
Oh man, I remember the scroulder button concept. I wish they followed up on that patent :(
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If those are about the Wii U versions, then nope. I'm keeping it Switch only so far, with very minor 3DS stuff.
If those are about the Switch versions, then post links and I will post them. I'm still catching up with the ones I've found.
Looks like I will have to post the publication dates as well for each link I posted. One of the Switch rumors dated back to 2014. :/
Yeah, crazy how none of the scroulder buttons, "supplemental computing device," or freeform screen patents ended up going anywhere. NX speculation was a great lesson in not to assume too much from patents.
That's a concern of mine as well. The entire admin staff will keep a careful eye on this thread.
If we see members insulting or harassing others over silly rumors, then we're just going to lock the thread.
We're not going to allow a thread that promotes bullying.
By leaking info, they're already putting attention on themselves. Entire threads are usually made. This one just compiles them all.
Does this also mean, in case OP is busy/asleep, but there are more valid rumors to archive, the moderators may step in and help put the rumors on the list?
I'm mainly going off the unconfirmed rumors in the OP, as well as going off my own memory (which is a bit shaky on who said what at this point), but even some rumors I thought sounded off-the-wall and unrealistic have proven to be true, so I think if Eurogamer was able to get so many details in a leak on the Switch correct, they probably had some good sources on a supposed Pokemon Stars. I just mention both those games because they've been rumors that seem to have been given a high likelihood and have stuck out to me as there being some gain of truth to the rumor, yet we haven't heard anything.
That's still speculation, and in my opinion, that warrants a new thread for discussion. :) Just so we can stay on topic for the archival process this thread is all about.
To ReyVGM , do you consider this as the latest rumor for your Rumors Archive?
https://www.resetera.com/threads/po...ed-for-2018-release-in-nintendo-survey.16663/
I'm not really either, and I'm away from my computer now so I can't practically look it all over, but some people think it was partially real because it got the battery capacity correct and kinda-sorta got the different colored joycons correct (they said blue and orange, and said it was for Splatoon--both incorrect). But they got some huge details so wrong that, personally, I think the whole thing was fake, but they threw so much crap at the wall that some of it stuck.
Sorry I can't go into more detail at the moment. I know Cerium made a thread about it once; maybe he can chime in.
Considering all the work that ReyVGM is putting into this, I think it would be unfair to him to lock it in him due to a few (as of now hypothetical) bad actors. Seems it would be more fair to warn or ban those doing any bullying, rather than punish ReyVGM for it. That is, unless this thread promoted bullying to the point it became an epidemic. Then I see a lock being fair.
Wasn't Pokemon Stars a tech demo that people thought would be the next game
Fair enough. I'm not trying to throw rampant speculation into the mix in a thread trying to weed out actual rumors from speculation.
I know that Laura Kate Dale was someone who chimed in about a Smash and Pokemon port, though I don't know when or how her rumors came about but given her track record as well as being someone who leaked the Mario + Rabbids really early on, I think that she's a credible additional source. I don't follow the rumors very closely, which is why a thread like this is interesting to me, since there really is a ton of bullshit to attempt to sort through, it's hard to know what rumors to take with a grain or a whole truck load of salt.
Looking at the OP again now, I did realize it's missing the Mario + Rabbids rumor. I'm not sure if it started here but I found an article from LPVG in November 2016 about it that I think was the first source to talk about a Mario and Rabbids RPG. That rumor seemed really out there until the internal Ubisoft documents leaked.
I don't know, but I didn notice that Eurogamer did a follow up on what happened to Pokemon Stars given that they had broken the story with the codename of the game. They apparently talked to their original sources but all the follow up basically says is that plans changed, so maybe it was scrapped as Pokemon Company decided to go with a new game made for the Switch rather than a port.
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Some people get really aggressive about leaks for some reason, so I think it's fair to lock if this thread goes off-rail. The pre-Direct thread already had some really bad posts against the people who said a direct was happening just because of no announcement.
Right, but I still don't see why a scorched earth approach is preferable to dealing with the offenders, unless they are numerous enough that the direction of thread itself is hostile.
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Please, before locking give me a chance to remove the usernames then. I mean, the bullies will probably be warned/banned, and if I remove the usernames (and sources even), then there shouldn't be a reason to lock it.
Will add it now that it has its own thread and mods have allowed it. I know it was first posted in this thread, but the rules say not to post new rumors here. I basically just want to archive credible rumors, I do not want the thread to become a dumping ground for new ones (I think I should request a thread title change). It's best if people keep posting rumors the same way they have been doing since the GAF days.
I still have the tab open. Will check it out tomorrow then when I'm more rested. Right now my eyes hurt and my brain is malfunctioning reading tech rumors :P
Added. I had it on queue, but I have like a million tabs open of things I want to add, plus the stuff people are contributing here. I promise I read every post and will add everything that's pertinent.
Unfortunately I can't reply to every single post, but I do read them.
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Yeah, I was looking at it and most people ignored it. hahaha But based in what he did in the past, I'm inclined to believe that a new Metroid is being developed for Switch.
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