LordOcidax
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Agree, 2018 big titles.
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Nintendo of America says Metroid Prime 4 and "new Pokemon game" are 2018 titles
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Inspectah_Deck
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Thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense.
It says "talented new development team." That excludes NLG unless they fused them with some Nintendo staff. In Canada. NLG already developed a Prime game, even if people hated it's guts, that doesn't make it vanish from existence. NLG is not a new development team.
At least Fire Emblem was given a 2018 timeframe from the start.
Yoshi
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They said new internal team for Nintendo, but neither was an acquisition of Next Level Games announced by Nintendo, nor does the website of NLG indicate they are Nintendo-owned. I think NLG would be a great fit for Metroid Prime 4, but I don't see how it matches what is announced.
If Nintendo had bought them, they would be a new internal team.
I was being sarcastic ofc, but i mean come on both games were basically announced as "now in development(TM)" .
Especially a new Pokémon Gen coming out this soon is high unlikely , a new Poké remake would be more likely instead.
ForkNetwork
Banned
Prime 4? in 2018?
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Nope, that was people ignoring the last two characters which said "or later"
They only communicate online, not locally. That's still a huge part of Pokémon
Yoshi's Woolly World was finished in early 2015, the 3DS port in October 2016. They also had some smaller Streetpass projects in-between, but I could see that launch in February or so.
HAL has the two small 3DS eShop Kirby games, which were finished last year and launched in April or will launch this summer. They also have some multiplayer Kirby fighter which will launch on 3DS later this year, but which we haven't seen. But here it also looks like the team has moved on since Planet Robobot.
Nintendo doesn't have anything else announced for Q1 yet, and I would be surprised if Fire Emblem launched before these games.
It wasn't a mainline Metroid Prime game, so they could still say it's made by a new team; a new team as in not the team which made the original trilogy.
There's no indication that it's a new internal team.
RumbleHumble
Banned
Or they could've just seen the vitriol unleashed like a bath of acid after the Federation Force announcement, fast-tracked development, but didn't want to show anything so as to not overshadow more lower-key announcements for Kirby and Yoshi.
LordOcidax
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Did people really think that Nintendo only have Yoshi and Kirby for 2018?
Oh yeah, they didn't even give Metroid that, but they did for Kirby, Yoshi and Fire Emblem.
Unless those 3 are all early 2018.
SeanHollister
Neo Member
This.
I'll never understand people's disbelief in something coming out at a certain time. Is it because we haven't seen it? The way it was announced?
I'm not asking out of annoyance, but genuine curiosity. I feel like they announced Metroid and Pokemon out of the need to get the announcements out of the way after the Pokemon Direct backlash and the call for more Prime, more than not existing.
There's still 15-18 months before they ever come out, and that's tons of time. I'm sure they're already in development.
I'm not asking out of annoyance, but genuine curiosity. I feel like they announced Metroid and Pokemon out of the need to get the announcements out of the way after the Pokemon Direct backlash and the call for more Prime, more than not existing.
There's still 15-18 months before they ever come out, and that's tons of time. I'm sure they're already in development.
I don't think they'd do that with a Gen 4 remake.
If they did a Gen 1 remake? I think they would.
TheLegendOfCap
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I've been saying that Pokemon Switch is coming out Holiday 2018. They don't need to remake the Pokemon models from scratch, they're future-proofed.
They said "A little more than a year" so obviously not June 2018 but 1.5 years seems very reasonable. November 2018 for Pokemon Switch is my best guess.
They said "A little more than a year" so obviously not June 2018 but 1.5 years seems very reasonable. November 2018 for Pokemon Switch is my best guess.
Well yeah its really unlikely to happen but they never mentioned a new genereation did they? Just that it's a new core game. That doesn't exclude a remake.
The Maverick
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Only showed a title card and it's supposed to be 2018? Yeah right.
SatoAilDarko
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Prime I feel would be better to launch in the first-half of 2019 than facing off with the Holiday 2018 titles.
LordOcidax
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They not show anything about Mario, ARMS, Splatoon 2, Xenoblade 2, Fire Emblem at E3 2016... And here we are...
mysteriousmage09
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Of course not, they have plenty more shit to port over from Wii U, like Mario Maker Deluxe, Pikmin 3 Deluxe, Smash Bros. Deluxe.
Jonneh3003
Banned
Samus Returns is 4 months away and we had nothing until last week. What does showing nothing now prove?
Remember when there was no way Xenoblade 2 was 2017?
Skittzo0413
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Bad in what way? How is having these two games come next year bad in any way?
PB&J work for you?
Yeah, after that thread about what Tanabe was saying in 2015 I started to think MP4 is a lot further along than we think. It seems like Nintendo doesn't want to sabotage their 3DS releases by showing off the Switch releases in the same franchises which makes a hell of a lot of sense.
That could also mean not Retro. New to the Metroid Prime (main) series. I wouldn't really take that as confirmation of much.
As far as I know, they simply said it was a new development team. That just means "not Retro". It could be NLG in conjunction with a group from EPD. We don't know.
Not75Drops
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No? Fire Emblem makes sense because it'll be 3 years after Fates, which was same amount of time between Awakening and Fates. Retro's game has to appear soon. And by next year, it'll have been 2 years since that New Leaf update so I would say a new Animal Crossing is likely. A Smash Deluxe port could also happen.
No way we're getting a Pikmin port, if Pikmin 4 is on the way.
I can kiiiiind of believe it with Pokemon if they're just cleaning up some assets and recycling them heavily from Pokemon SuMo, but that'd be disappointing if that's what they're doing honestly. I want a true step forward and that should take GF more time.
With Metroid maybe they have the old games' engine running already and are well beyond the concept stage for the game? It'd also be somewhat disappointed if they're doing just "another one" or working off the others' foundations, but I doubt that from Nintendo and I doubt they'd work off of Retro's engine. So yeah doubtful.
Still, I can't see either being released before October at the earliest if they're really, really rushing to push them out the doors.
With Metroid maybe they have the old games' engine running already and are well beyond the concept stage for the game? It'd also be somewhat disappointed if they're doing just "another one" or working off the others' foundations, but I doubt that from Nintendo and I doubt they'd work off of Retro's engine. So yeah doubtful.
Still, I can't see either being released before October at the earliest if they're really, really rushing to push them out the doors.
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Do you all actually believe that GameFreak is capable of creating a HD-quality Pokemon in less than 2 years? There's like 500 Pokemon all with outdated models that will have to be re-done from the ground up.
Kirby and Yoshi I can see as 2018 games.
Metroid Prime 4? No, I don't think so. If all they can show off now is a logo then I don't think it's that far along.
Kirby and Yoshi I can see as 2018 games.
Metroid Prime 4? No, I don't think so. If all they can show off now is a logo then I don't think it's that far along.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Pokemon Red/Blue for Nintendo Switch
Fully 3D
Id be so in
Fully 3D
Id be so in
They wouldn't move hardware mid-generation
I mean, I feel like there's three possibilities.
1. Yoshi and Kirby are the only first party titles they'll release on the Switch next year.
2. They announced MP4 and Pokemon this year instead of the hypothetical games that are further along in development that are actually going to release next year for some reason.
3. This is true.
3 is the only one that makes sense to me. The end of 2018 is practically 1.5 years away ffs. It's not at all rare for games to get a shorter reveal to release turnaround than 18 damn months.
Shit, outside of BotW, 18 months between announcement and release seems like a damn eternity for Nintendo's stuff.
Me and all my nostalgia whore "gen-wunner" late 20s friends would flip our collective shit if it was a modern R/B remake. I can only catch so many, God Dammit.
1. Yoshi and Kirby are the only first party titles they'll release on the Switch next year.
2. They announced MP4 and Pokemon this year instead of the hypothetical games that are further along in development that are actually going to release next year for some reason.
3. This is true.
3 is the only one that makes sense to me. The end of 2018 is practically 1.5 years away ffs. It's not at all rare for games to get a shorter reveal to release turnaround than 18 damn months.
Shit, outside of BotW, 18 months between announcement and release seems like a damn eternity for Nintendo's stuff.
Me and all my nostalgia whore "gen-wunner" late 20s friends would flip our collective shit if it was a modern R/B remake. I can only catch so many, God Dammit.
killatopak
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I don't believe you.gif
Not even a trailer for MP4 and you tell me it's a 2018 release? lol
Not even a trailer for MP4 and you tell me it's a 2018 release? lol
Wouldn't be surprised if this was just a slip-up. Maybe right now they're aiming for 2018, but I can easily see it being 2019 or even 2020 depending on the scope of the game.
I could actually see Animal Crossing coming out first, especially since they already had all of those HD assets built for both the Amiibo Festival game and that random lobby thing on Wii U.
Actually a solid point.
I could actually see Animal Crossing coming out first, especially since they already had all of those HD assets built for both the Amiibo Festival game and that random lobby thing on Wii U.
Actually a solid point.
The Last One
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That would be incredible. Please let this be true.
The Pokémon models aren't outdated. They're too complex which is why the games struggle to run on the 3DS
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