Honestly, even if Trev's reliability has yet to be fully proven by bishoptl (where is he when we need him, seriously), I find the idea that a whole bunch of stuff is considered false just because the code name for a Pokemon game is Rainbow downright histerical. It's a fucking code name, it's not like he said that there's a Star Tropics game / the epic Retro IP we've been waiting for. Just the code name for a Pokemon game, not even what it consists of.
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What we know so far about the Nintendo NX with sources
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OrbitalBeard
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Whether or not his rumors are true, the information isn't really that interesting. Most of it is stuff we've been assuming for a very long time (like cross-gen Zelda) and the 3DS code names are probably just localized games like Rhythm Heaven and Style Savvy.
If it's real, cool! If it's not....oh well.
If it's real, cool! If it's not....oh well.
Exterminieren
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Oh, who said it was the only reason to think this might be fake? There are several- Rainbow is just the most obvious.
Besides, Rainbow isn't listed as a code name in his report,
Only one of them he posted actually said unannounced game.
The other three are probably just late localizations.
So far only one thing has been confirmed from his leaks and that is the Wii U version or Mario and Sonic release date, as the months past we shall see if any of the other hold up, so basically we will know before E3 was this legit or not , unfortunately we all have to be patient
ecosse_011172
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Do they usually go through the process that Trev is going through here?
I suspect the answer is "No."-
It certainly feels like they could use something like that, my thought it if it's Amiibo Infinity, it will be cross-platform with NX.
On the bright side, just keep saying this every week and it's bound to become untrue eventually.
Bots are better than you
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Dunno where Bish is located at .... but he could be sleeping, or busy ... you know?
How dare he have a life?
I'm assuming the two casual friendly games have to be two of Picross, RHTB+ and Style Savvy. To me RHTB is a smidge less likely to be in that category. It's more of a niche game and IIRC that holds true with sales also. Perhaps that means those two are retail and RHTB+ is eShop only.
Another insider ITT indicated no fill reveal was coming until E3. When we spoke outside the thread they seemed pretty confident so of there is truth to their claim, I'd say you may want to set your expectations lower for that.
Does Style Savvy have a significant budget to be considered big budget by Nintendo? I was under the impression otherwise. Perhaps Shikamaru could shed some light on this for us. For my speculation otherwise, please see my reply to NinjaCoachZ above. I am hopeful though that N-Stars is an unannounced and significant game. I suppose the delineation that this was specifically was unannounced per the list amd the other two codenamed gamss were not gives me hope that this is a game that is a major release and has not been released in any region yet.
ETA: wait, I misspoke here. I guess Torte City, which I forgot about, is the only one that specifically said unannounced. So I suppose that's the only one we are most likely to have not already known about. I still think it's odd that Style Savvy would be referred to as big budget, though, but I have to admit it does sound more like now that the 3 games not listed as unannounced on the list are in fact the 3 localizations we've been expecting.
Not75Drops
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Man this thread turned really interesting. I saw the video of the 3DS list through someone on Twitter and the Pokemon Rainbow thing set me off because of those rumours 3 years ago.
Disney Art Academy seems out of the blue though and could be the thing to verify that there's some credibility to these leaks, since the codenames for the other games will likely never be confirmed.
Disney Art Academy seems out of the blue though and could be the thing to verify that there's some credibility to these leaks, since the codenames for the other games will likely never be confirmed.
I think it would have to be cross-platform with NX simply because for most 3DS owners, they do not have access to scanning amiibo into their system, so it would potentially prevent a massive percentage of the userbase from meaningfully being able to play the game. That's the only thing that really gives me pause about there being a 3DS-centric amiibo game, but perhaps it is NX cross-compatible.
The third option is that he was completely bamboozled, but I certainly hope not.
I don't think trev is trolling, or that his source isn't legit. I just hope that the list he got doesn't include any fake stuff Nintendo put in there to know who leaked what if its content ever became public, or his source is fucked.
I didn't know companies did this but if i'm not misremembering a friend told me something like this happened in one of those cboat threads a while ago, maybe someone who was already on gaf and followed those topics can correct me. Anyway i hope Pokémon Rainbow has nothing to do with something like that.
On a side note, i really want Disney Art Academy
I didn't know companies did this but if i'm not misremembering a friend told me something like this happened in one of those cboat threads a while ago, maybe someone who was already on gaf and followed those topics can correct me. Anyway i hope Pokémon Rainbow has nothing to do with something like that.
On a side note, i really want Disney Art Academy
Boy Wander
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Hopefully this is genuine and someone at Nintendo isn't trawling this forum pissing themselves laughing at grown adults trying to figure out what game "Caviar F" might be.
It's what I'd do. Give each group dealing with my shit one piece of fake news to see where the leak is coming from. It is def how CBOAT got popped.
ArchedThunder
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If Pokemon Rainbow isn't announced this Saturday I'm gonna go ahead and say this is fake.
Not75Drops
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Isn't it just a codename though?
It's weird that he still refers to #FE as SMT x FE. Unless he's just saying that so people know what he's talking about.
ArchedThunder
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Oh, whoops, didn't realize that...
Pancakes R Us
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Hah. Hype train is preparing for overdrive mode.
Advice: assume it's fake. These kinds of things usually end up being fake 9.5 times out of ten.
If it ends up being genuine, well, it's part of the .5.
Advice: assume it's fake. These kinds of things usually end up being fake 9.5 times out of ten.
If it ends up being genuine, well, it's part of the .5.
blu
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F-two-64
Every single one of these insider info leaks have been fake, as far as I know. Every real leak from nintendo usually includes pictures or video and those are incredibly few and far in between.
kuhnbeast91
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I just really hope the New Zelda isn't named Zelda for Wii u and Zelda for NX.
It's going to be called "The Legend of Zelda"
brainchild
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I hate to tell you this, but if this is legitimate information, the leak will be traced, simple as that.
NOA doesn't just hand out fiscal/budgetary information to most of its employees. There is a very specific group of employees that are privy to such pertinent information. In fact, I'm pretty sure I know exactly what department your source works in. How could I possibly know this? Because I also know someone who is privy to such information, and I can guarantee you that they would never have released this information, because they actually like, and want to keep their job.
I hope for your source's sake that someone leaked that information to them, because if they received it directly, it's beddy-bye for your brave little leaker.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I think this is correct. I would seriously be concerned for your friend's job unless Nintendo took a drastic turn in policy since Iwata passed away.
Also, N-stars may be the rumored Amiibo RPG/action Skylanders-esque game from months back.
Even if Trev actually is legit, I doubt his source is privy to any pertinent NX information anyway.
I mean, the 'big news' was doubling down on something that fans were already convinced would happen for ages now. It could just as easily have been extrapolated from Nintendo's past messaging, release schedules and forecasts. Like many in this thread already did. The rest of his statements were just as much conjecture as the average post in this thread.
And I personally doubt that a significant Nintendo insider would actually proactively contact a no-name fanblog to do the leaking for him/her. What's the benefit of dropping this kind of info in the lap of such an outlet? Why would they consciously target a random blog with a tiny audience, knowing full well that when the info turns out to be actually relevant, it would be on every gaming blog out there anyway?
I think Trev getting his own ass trolled is more likely than the above scenario of a random Nintendo-fan actually getting inside scoops from one the most secretive companies in the industry.
I mean, the 'big news' was doubling down on something that fans were already convinced would happen for ages now. It could just as easily have been extrapolated from Nintendo's past messaging, release schedules and forecasts. Like many in this thread already did. The rest of his statements were just as much conjecture as the average post in this thread.
And I personally doubt that a significant Nintendo insider would actually proactively contact a no-name fanblog to do the leaking for him/her. What's the benefit of dropping this kind of info in the lap of such an outlet? Why would they consciously target a random blog with a tiny audience, knowing full well that when the info turns out to be actually relevant, it would be on every gaming blog out there anyway?
I think Trev getting his own ass trolled is more likely than the above scenario of a random Nintendo-fan actually getting inside scoops from one the most secretive companies in the industry.
Legend of Zelda: Linkle's Awakening.
I can say when I had a Nintendo website of my own (with a staff of 40...at age 14 ;___
I would have plotzed for any such rumor. When we did rumor columns I just conjectured and made things up. I did get to interview Don Bluth, though.Graphics Horse
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I think the fact that 3ds is primed for a strong holiday it gives more reason for us to believe the Console NX is launching first this fall. Just look at that rumored fall line up, it doesn't really scream "New Nintrndo handheld launching this fall!!"
brainchild
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Here's the thing, what he posted is not outside the realms of what certain (but few) employees at NOA would know. The problem is that his source believes that they are safe. If the info is real, his source isn't safe at all, unless someone else at NOA leaked it to his source, which isn't even all that unlikely. I know quite a few people at the Redmond HQ, and they could probably stand to be a bit smarter about containing sensitive information internally between departments. NOA isn't anywhere near as good as NCL at ensuring that one department doesn't know what the other is doing, unfortunately. It's just that most of the time, NOA doesn't have anything worthwhile to leak in the first place.
Going on intuition and experience, I'd wager that trev's source is legit, but not very prudent.
The thing that makes it sound legit to me is how the marketing team isn't privy to NX info yet outside of it coming this year and Zelda being on it. I fully believe they'd be given a budget for how much marketing dollars each game this year will get and they were probably told ahead of time that Zelda would be a Wii U and NX game so that marketing could be planned accordingly.
If the marketing team sees a huge lack in Wii U marketing dollars in the fall, it's a big red flag for NX launching and they just aren't given that info yet to avoid leaks.
brainchild
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Yeah, there's nothing that makes me question the information other than the fact that the source decided to leak it.
To be honest, this isn't really that gigantic of a line-up as far as Nintendo output. And if Cadillac & Caviar F are Rhythm Heaven Plus & Style Savvy (you can swap the two respective slots if necessary), then those would just be late localizations. But at least in the case of Rhythm Heaven Plus, English versions of the vocal songs would have to be recorded if the previous two localized RH games are any indication, but that wouldn't be too far off from Nintendo hiring voice & Broadway actress Rena Strober for the role of Azura for Fire Emblem Fates. From the looks of this, only the bolded games are new games that are from Nintendo themselves that are unique to this year. The rest of this line-up is mostly third parties picking up the slack, late localizations, or both. Not that it's a bad line-up, but rather an indication of Nintendo moving most of their efforts elsewhere. That's just my take on the matter.
Though Pokémon Rainbow does sound interesting. It could indicate that it may be a celebration of every mainline Pokémon game out so far rather than just a sequel to X & Y, but can also serve as a means to tie up the loose ends of Kalos. It would be quite the send-off game for the 3DS as a whole. Plus the price cut does seem to indicate that Nintendo may try to keep the 3DS on store shelves after the NX Handheld drops. Speaking of, did your source mention a Wii U price drop?
Not sure if you saw N-Stars, but the prevailing theory ITT seems to be that that is Style Savvy and the other two you mentioned would be Picross and RHTB+.
It's going to be an F-Zero that takes place in Sweet Sweet Galaxy. Since, y'know, torte.
And Sweets Park.
And Yoshi & Cookies:
But would Style Savvy really count as a big budget game?
Spyder_Monkey
Easy now. This is an NX thread. The 3DS and Wii U lineup being revealed isn't too shocking.
The crow in this thread would be if the console comes first and the handheld enthusiasts crying for a few months or vice versa.
Or the thing ends up being more powerful than speculated and getting FFXV and FFVIIr so drive-by posts "ahaha" get silenced.
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