Not75Drops
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Those games were obviously in development simultaneously. There was an interview back before Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire were released saying that development started in November 2012, which was before XY was even announced.
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Nintendo of America says Metroid Prime 4 and "new Pokemon game" are 2018 titles
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Those games were obviously in development simultaneously. There was an interview back before Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire were released saying that development started in November 2012, which was before XY was even announced.
AcademicSaucer
Member
No way
.They do announce Zelda games early, but not much else.
Aaronrules380
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I mean, they wouldn't be though. The generation is going to end with USUM one way or another imo
Nintendo, outside of Zelda (though after 2014 it took 2 years and a near-final build for it to show again) and the panic Jab 2013 Direct has always been very coy about what they show off in their events. Instead of them having nothing to show I'd bet they had nothing they wanted to show. I'm in the believe camp with this one.
I took that to mean like not Pokemon Dash or something. A remake would still "fit" I think.
Velcro Fly
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I will believe it when I see it.
What if it ends up being Stars/Eclipse and they didn't release it this year since they didn't wanna hurt Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon sales in holiday?
Stranger things have happened, and this is the first time Pokemon is coming to a home console
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Hell yes
JMONNNNNNNNNN
Eolz
Member
Fall 2018 is more than a year off from E3 2017.
SMT x Fire Emblem and Breath of the Wild.
There is no way Metroid is coming out next year, if that was true, we would have seen some trailer, or CG trailer, or whatever at this past E3. no way
Well they did the same for Fire Emblem.
Though I'll believe it when I see it for both Metroid and Pokemon.
Neoleo2143
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XCX and BoTW were big exceptions to that. They're not averse to announcing 2 years early when the games aren't ready.
Dark Ninja
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Maybe we will get another January event and get trailers for these games then.
It's likely the opposite. The Sun/Moon follow-up will be 2019 where as Prime will be their big fall 2018 title.
I'm not sure why people think Prime is years away. Other than Zelda, you really don't see Nintendo take years to put out their games from their announcement.
Your timelines are screwy
Generation 1: 3 years 9 months
Red & Green: Feb 1996
Blue: September 1996
Yellow: September 1998
Year Off: 1997
Generation 2: 3 years
Gold & Silver: November 1999
Crystal: December 2000
Year off: 2001
Generation 3: 3 years 10 months
Ruby & Sapphire: November 2002
FireRed & LeafGreen: January 2004
Emerald: September 2004
Years off: 2003, 2005
Generation 4: 4 years
Diamond & Pearl: September 2006
Platinum: September 2008
HeartGold & SoulSilver: September 2009
Year off: 2007
Generation 5: 3 years 1 month
Black & White: September 2010
Black 2 & White 2: June 2012
Year off: 2011
Generation 6: 3 years 1 month
X & Y: October 2013
Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire: November 2014
Year off: 2015
Generation 7:
Sun & Moon: November 2016
Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon: November 2017
Every generation has been longer than 3 years and every generation has had one year off. Having the next generation be next year would be massively unprecedented.
Temper expectations. That won't happen.
Because Pokémon is about connectivity and losing local connectivity with other games and segmenting the userbase is hands down the dumbest thing they could do.
They're not going to shift hardware until it's a generation built up for that hardware.
Mr. Smiley
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Mister Wolf
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Nintendo and Bethesda are smart. Wish others would follow their example and not even speak on a game until its within a year of being finished.
Blackleg-sanji1
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Ugh that would disappoint me I know ppl will eat it up so I'm minority there I hope it's a new gen guess that's kinda why I want 2019 in a way
Lionel Richie
Member
One of them? Yeah, maybe. Both? I'll believe it when I see it.
The backlash would kill all hype for the game immediately.
Yeah don't believe them.
Is this going to be how everyone said XC2 was coming out in 2018 despite their steadfast commitment to 2017 and then got a confirmed holiday 2017 release date?
That's because its not announced.
I don't see it happening, but more than a year can still be 2018.
It could be much further in development than we thought. Maybe they saw the backlash Ultra Sun and Moon received when announced for the 3DS, and so rushed to get a teaser together for Metroid Prime 4 so the same thing didn't happen with Samus Returns.
mysteriousmage09
Member
I highly doubt it.
gate stormer
Member
I believe MP4 coming next year over a mainline Pokemon.
Blackleg-sanji1
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Mister Wolf
Member
Yes.
They already said it's a newly formed dev team. NLG isn't newly formed. If i were Nintendo I would let NLG make Luigis Mansion 3 asap.
I'm a huge fan of your site. It was my source of Pokemon news since 2015 but haven't you been wrong before? I hope because a new core Pokemon game in 2018 would be nice
victreeb3l
Member
Ohhh man.
Please.
PLEASE NINTENDO
Please.
PLEASE NINTENDO
My skepticism arises from the fact that they showed a splash screen and a guy saying "yeah, we're working on a pokemon game" respectively.
It reminds me of the people they brought out on stage at the original switch conference who didn't really have anything and for the most part still don't have anything.
Pokémon games don't require huge budgets or years of development.
The switch game is going to be heavily based around the last 3ds games most likely.
FFVIIr, KH3, Breath of the Wild, The Last Guardian should have shown that even gameplay trailers aren't indicative of a near-future release date by now. Having an outsourced CGI trailer of Samus walking through some space station tells us nothing about the development progress of the game itself.
RumbleHumble
Banned
I think they honestly think both those titles will release in 2018. I think it's more likely than not that Prime 4 is pushed to 2019. New Pokemon is very possible (provided that said Pokemon is far from groundbreaking)
Skittzo0413
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Again, Fire Emblem was announced for 2018 and we still haven't seen anything from it. Nitnendo has greatly shortened their announce -> launch schedules recently, with basically everything except for Zelda.
MP4 was likely in development as far back as January, and if they are using UE4 (which is 100% speculation) that can help immensely with development time. They likely didn't show any sort of footage because they don't want to distract from MSR coming this year.
Schucky Ducky
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I don't think we get a new generation of Pokémon next year as those come every three years. I think we get Pokémon Switch in November 2019 along with a cheaper model of Switch. We could see Metroid next year though, if it's farther along than it seems.
Renna Hazel
Member
Dang, 2018 sounds like a pretty bad year for me. It should have been expected since 2017 has been amazing so far. I'll have to hope someone else picks up the slack a bit next year.
sixteen-bit
Member
Sooner than expected for Metroid
LegitMcfalls
Member
To the doubters who think that these games wont hit 2018.
We knew nothing of Mario Odessey until the Switch announcement trailer last October and even then it was a 5 second clip. And nothing offical until the January event.
Those games are probably well into development and hopefully we get a Direct early 2018 for both Metroid and Pokemon.
We knew nothing of Mario Odessey until the Switch announcement trailer last October and even then it was a 5 second clip. And nothing offical until the January event.
Those games are probably well into development and hopefully we get a Direct early 2018 for both Metroid and Pokemon.
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