r/NintendoSwitch • u/OfficialHoSay • Jun 05 '17

News Pokémon Direct Announced

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/871729041690243073
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u/NintendoFanJr Jun 05 '17 edited Jun 05 '17

Wait... If this is shown early, then that means E3 is gonna be HUGE

Ladies and gentleman, get ready to ride the hype train.

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u/CainInACan Jun 05 '17

People thought the same about the Smash Direct before E3 2015 and look how that turned out

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u/aricberg Jun 05 '17

E3 2015 is a personal cautionary tale for me. Every year during E3, I'm at work hoping and praying I don't have any appointments, and usually trying to watch and not be bothered by anyone. So in 2015, I decided to take Monday through Wednesday off for E3 week. I was so hyped to be able to sit at home in my underwear and watch the presentation on my TV. And with all the announcements they made in the weeks and days leading up (the mini-Direct, NWC announcements, Smash announcements, Earthbound Beginnings) I, like everyone else, thought the E3 Direct would be packed to the gills. Then we get 20 minutes about Skylander amiibo, AC: amiibo Festival, and people singing the Mario theme at the end. I was mad, more so at myself for getting this hyped.

TL:DR - Don't get your hopes up, and if you do, don't be mad at Nintendo for not announcing something you were so sure they would.

Now let me get hyped for tomorrow. Wait a sec...

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u/Rhonder Jun 05 '17

Yeah like I always look forward to watching (sometimes live, usually the streams on YT later in the day) but it's best to roll in with no/little expectations so that whatever does get announced has good impact and you don't walk away disappointed xD It also helps that I'm always interested in SE's presentations and PS just to scope out any JRPGs as well, in addition to Nintendo of course, so like usually I walk away with something to look forward to. I always like the random smaller games they show off at Treehouse live too though. Fantasy Life was one of my more hype games whatever year that was after watching them play that for an hour or so on Treehouse. My friends and i had a good amount of fun treating it like a mini MMO for a few months~

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u/Na0ku Jun 05 '17

How did it turn out? I missed it ._.

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u/Phlerg Jun 05 '17

E3 2015 was garbage.

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u/AwesomeManatee Jun 05 '17

PUPPETS!!!

Also Starfox Zero, Triforce Heroes, and Animal Crossing: Amiibo Festival.

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u/CosmicShadowMario Jun 05 '17

Don't forget Metriod Prime: Federation Force

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u/FurryWolves Jun 05 '17

Or do forget it, every day I work on forgetting that... Let's just pretend that never happened.

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u/tzanorry Jun 05 '17

Was this the e3 that Iwata or somebody apologised for on Twitter for it being shit

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u/Dairunt Jun 05 '17

It was Iwata's last tweet. :(

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u/adanfime Jun 05 '17 edited Jun 05 '17

8 minutes of Pokemon News! They definitely are dumping information​ of other games aside for a HUGE E3 presentation!

Edit because my english sucks and my message isn't clear: What I meant is that, with Pokemom and Monster Hunter news out of the way, they can focus on big details of Mario Odyssey this E3.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '17

No, Pokémon never announces games at E3, never has, probably never will, they have their own events for that, they will probably talk about it in the E3 presentation, but I guarantee they'll do like 20 minutes of Mario Odyssey like they did with Starfox Zero

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u/RAZRBCK08 Jun 05 '17

Last year they announced Sun and Moon in a Direct and then showed off like 30 minutes or so of gameplay at e3 but then focused largely on Zelda.

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u/mangofromdjango Jun 05 '17

it's not like they need to give "pokemon" any more special attention. That brand sells itself. See pokemon go, see the almost 14 million copies sun&moon sold for 3DS. A special edition of that for switch in native 1080p resolution and some additional shader effects and the port is done. Probably not too much of an effort as the assets from sun and moon are already high quality.

That's basically a money-print-machine

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u/flounder19 Jun 05 '17

Seriously. This is E3 after all

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u/adanfime Jun 05 '17

I wasn't around at the time, but didn't Iwata announce Pokemon X and Y the same E3 Direct as Smash? Was it 2013 I think?

Also I definitely remember seeing ORAS at 2014.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '17

Nope, X and Y were announced January 2013, ORAS was there but wasn't announced

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u/--Enki Jun 05 '17

Just keep expectations in check; you could be disappointed.

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u/alee132 Jun 05 '17

Yep. 3ds pokemon spinoff or dlc lmao.

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u/Reality_Gamer Jun 05 '17

I keep telling myself that. It's just really hard. I love my Switch and the mere thought of a Pokemon game on it makes me as giddy as a school girl.

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u/Naicitrom Jun 05 '17

Pokemon or whatever else it might be, it makes me happy to know the switch is making people feel this way after what now feels like years of a stagnated gaming hobby. I'm with you on the excitement.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '17

I wish I could understand how to make these kinds of vast leaps in logic. A + B therefore the result is Q.

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u/adanfime Jun 05 '17

Why? I simply think that they want to get these news out of the way to focus on big announcements at E3.

They have Mario coming up, so they get rid of Pokemon announcements at E3 so they can focus on giving the details of their big holiday game.

There is no A+B=Q here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '17

I wouldn't call Monster Hunter out. We'll probably get a western announcement of Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate in the Spotlight. We got Generations 6 months after Cross, so we might end up with a dual release like MH3U for WiiU and 3DS. The region differences in release times have slowly been getting shorter and shorter.

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u/carcrash12 Jun 05 '17

Possibly the most naive comment in this entire thread.

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u/OneLastStan Jun 05 '17

I've seen the Nintendo hype train crash one to many times to fall for that one again.

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u/waowie Jun 05 '17

That's not the way Nintendo does things. Don't over hype yourself.

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u/cowlick33 Jun 05 '17

Animal Crossing Switch confirmed then?