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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST7| It’s Showtime People! Famiboards Productions Proudly Presents: What Lies Beyond The Door? Act II - Rebirth

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RaikouLol said:
Guess who's back
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Any chance it’s whatever this is?

https://www.gematsu.com/2024/01/game-freak-trademarks-pand-land-in-japan

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Game Freak's game is probably what this is. If it isn't, then it might be a port of the Pocket Card Jockey sequel on Apple Arcade

EDIT: Ninja'd
 
Magic-Man said:
NES Remix is probably the weirdest absence from here. It seems like an easy port.
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NES Remix being made into some kind of NSO perk also seems like a pretty obvious move to me. Those players already have access to NES games, so wouldn't they have fun seeing them turned upside-down? Odd that the brand died last generation, but perhaps the developers or sales didn't show enough interest to continue it.
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
Pentiment is the only realistic one, an unstable 30 FPS Hi-Fi Rush would not be well received.
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Exactly my thinking. Maybe they could get it stable at 30fps, but I suspect the game will be better received once Switch 2 is out and they can release a hopefully solid 60fps version. Of course, there's the possibility they'd completely retool the game to work for a console of Switch's performance level (and maybe Switch 2 will still require that retooling), but I don't know that they'd opt for that route. My only hesitation is how big the install base of Switch is. Maybe Xbox won't want to pass that up.
 
Necro made a good point, they're totally porting Pocket over, maybe even shadowdropping it a la Hal and Part Time UFO
 
switchum said:
HARMOKNIGHT 2???????!!!!!!!!!!!!

/s cuz it’s never gonna happen but I would genuinely be psyched if it did
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Please! Game is so good. Drill Dozer sequel would also be good. Someone also said Pulseman on Twitter and that would also be great. Of course it’s none of these but can dream.
 
I'm sure, much like the Donkey Kong gif in September, that this is a case of Pyoro knowing exactly what they're doing. Which means it probably is a port of Pocket Card Jockey or something.
 
This is an exciting one since there’s a lot of possibilities around it. Our leaked games thus far had been pretty expected for a while now between Penny and Level 5 (which is probably Fantasy Life). I’m guessing the way the tweet is presented it’s a non Pokemon game, though my mind did jump to Pokemon spinoffs like Mystery Dungeon that aren’t made by Game Freak.

I’m down for whatever, though I’d be most intrigued if it is brand new like whatever Pand Land is.
 
It's probably just a shadow dropped port of the Apple Arcade game that came out not too long ago
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Looking at some of the "edge cases" that have made it into partner directs (Mario Rabbid 2, Warriors games, Part-Time UFO), a Gamefreak game could totally be part of a partner direct

Too early to be their Take-Two/Private Division-published action adventure game, Project Bloom. Guessing it's either a Switch version of the Apple Arcade Pocket Card Jockey, or whatever this is: https://www.gematsu.com/2024/01/game-freak-trademarks-pand-land-in-japan
 
rickyson33 said:
the March reveal talk was pretty recent

I feel like for that to have changed the Switch 2 delay would have to be a decision Nintendo just arrived at in like the last week or so
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Anxious Absol said:
Do we know if there's still going to be a Switch 2 reveal in March?
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I imagine that they likely will do the same thing that they did with the Switch, where they release a press release confirming they are working on new hardware that'll release in "March 2025", probably also putting out social media posts related to it as well. I do think that they just want it to be known so that the rumors subdue a little as they now begin to talk to more developers that would be outside the ones that would be there at launch or are important partners to the company! For me, it just depends if they do this before GDC like everyone was expecting before the reports or at their yearly Investors Meeting, which would replicate exactly what they did in 2016 for the Nintendo Switch! :D
 
EvilChameleon said:
Not looking forward to the discourse when Game Freak reveals something next week, and then a Pokemon game on Pokemon Day and the Pokemon game doesn't look like a diamond.
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I'm really looking forward to it cos I want to know what they've got to show after developing games on the Switch for nearly a decade now. It's completely possible to have a Pokemon game run well and look good.
 
Melpomene said:
Direct had better be on Wednesday. I’ve gotta go to Tokyo on Thursday, damn it.
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If it's on Wednesday, I might be sitting in the airport for a layover. That's kinda prime time tbh. If it's Thursday, it's hit or miss depending on the time.

I'm traveling for a business trip, so I don't have too much flexibility. 🙃
 
xghost777 said:
This is an exciting one since there’s a lot of possibilities around it. Our leaked games thus far had been pretty expected for a while now between Penny and Level 5 (which is probably Fantasy Life). I’m guessing the way the tweet is presented it’s a non Pokemon game, though my mind did jump to Pokemon spinoffs like Mystery Dungeon that aren’t made by Game Freak.

I’m down for whatever, though I’d be most intrigued if it is brand new like whatever Pand Land is.
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I know L5 has Fantasy Life and Deca Police so I don’t expect anything that’s not one of those two, but I did have a thought that possibly they’d consider the OG Professor Layton trilogy on Switch. They did HD versions for mobile a while back so adapting those to Switch probably wouldn’t be a huge project. I know the new 2025 Layton is set right after the original trilogy and we’ve seen collections of nostalgic DS franchises like Ace Attorney be very profitable.
 
goombaicebro said:
isn't any big 3rd party games :(
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These titles are exactly the kind of stuff I was expecting. I was never expecting anything big from this. Was hoping for something that appealed to me but even then I'm not hopeful lol. Hopefully Nintendo will give us a bigger event or at least announce some new first party games over Twitter eventually if nothing else.
 
It being a rerelease/sequel to an NES game most people have never heard of would probably be the funniest option

could also be that they liked the tweet because it mentioned that Pand Land trademark, or for whatever reason they just decided to like the first tweet they saw that included the "right answer" (or deliberately chose one that had multiple suggestions to leave it a bit vague)
 
ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
Why didn’t Nintendo have a general Direct June 2022?
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At that point in the year, they had already announced every single game that would be coming in 2022 (outside of Bayonetta 3 I believe, I think that was dated in July of 2022) so it wasn't really necessary for them to do one. They more than likely did a Partner Showcase because they made contractual obligations for an "E3-style Nintendo Direct" earlier that year, which could also be why the Partner Showcase was so full because of the fact they likely asked for heavy hitters for a larger General that would've taken place that month if E3 wasn't canceled. They had already done an Xenoblade 3 Nintendo Direct and a Splatoon 3 one would follow it soon after!! :D
 
This has my head spinning.

Are we getting NSO Pokémon games, finally?

Is a Pokémon game getting revealed at this showcase? If so, are we not getting a Presents on Pokémon Day?

Is it a completely different project? I know they had some other big game they were working on.
 
Anxious Absol said:
This has my head spinning.

Are we getting NSO Pokémon games, finally?

Is a Pokémon game getting revealed at this showcase? If so, are we not getting a Presents on Pokémon Day?

Is it a completely different project? I know they had some other big game they were working on.
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Won't have anything to do with Pokemon, because Pokemon Day is coming up next week. They'll save their announcements for that.

It's Pand Land or Pocket Card Jockey.
 
I have to attend a funeral on Wednesday, so I guess it's for the best I won't have time to visit this site until after I get home.

I'd say don't let the house burn down, but like...maybe leave something to be rebuilt when it doesn't live up to expectations?
 
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