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Hm, It could happen, It could not.
Could, but my bet's on week 2 or 3 of Feb, but realistically any week in Feb or the first or second week of March is possible too.
How do I shoot you with a cannon for what you said about later February? Nah, just kidding!
I'm betting on one for the second week of February.
Feb 14 for a lovely direct <3
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There's a difference between speculating/theory-crafting and "Fan rules."
I would have killed to be wrong about January, but I called it that we wouldn't get one after that Sakurai video on Byleth. There was no way in hell if they're revealing DLC 6 in the direct, and here we are without a January direct.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Early February is a very likely candidate for our first General Direct of the year. I won't be surprised if we see it within the first two weeks of the month and February is a pretty common month for General Directs
I don’t think it was Byleth’s reveal that month that was the reason there was no Direct. I mean, I don’t know what it was, but if it was delayed, it was maybe because of something else, to me, personally speaking.
Yup, I'm guessing week 2 personally. That would at least give some breathing room between Byleth releasing and the next reveal. Week 1 isn't a lot of time.
Not just Byleth and the timing, but the Pokémon direct didn't help either. Feb also just makes sense.
Probably so CP6's reveal would be in the Direct and so Sakurai can have more time.
I mean everyone needs to keep in mind that not only did they have to make and edit the Sakurai video (yes I know it was shot well in advance), but they also need to make whatever video will be for DLC 6. Will it be a whole trailer? Will it be a Sakurai video? Will it be like Isabelle's? Who knows, but the point is they need it to be ready for the direct. That can take some time.
Agreed. I figured he needed that, anyway.
Come to think of it, the Pokémon Direct could be the something I was thinking about.
I think if anything, the fact 2 out of 5 have no consistent pattern would hint at there not really being a pattern.
HOLY ****, that's what I've been arguing for months! Ever since the base game we've had non-fighter spirits of playable characters such as Kaptain K. Rool and the like, but the counter against that was that "oooooh, but those are variations of said characters! It's not actually K. Rool's spirit, there's a difference". Which is fair enough, BUT, there's nothing impeding them from rebranding spirits by adding their origin game/series in parenthesis to their names. We already had base spirits with that naming format, like Ganondorf (Twilight Princess) for example, but not any precedent of a spirit being renamed in DLC. Still, I always stood by the thought that it'd be very reasonable and even expected really, to do so in case a spirit character became one of our DLC fighters. I could always easily see current spirits being renamed to things like Bandana Dee (Return to Dreamland), Shantae (Half Genie Hero), and yes, Geno (Super Mario RPG). And my god, it actually happened!
okHOLY ****, that's what I've been arguing for months! Ever since the base game we've had non-fighter spirits of playable characters such as Kaptain K. Rool and the like, but the counter against that was that "oooooh, but those are variations of said characters! It's not actually K. Rool's spirit, there's a difference". Which is fair enough, BUT, there's nothing impeding them from rebranding spirits by adding their origin game/series in parenthesis to their names. We already had base spirits with that naming format, like Ganondorf (Twilight Princess) for example, but not any precedent of a spirit being renamed in DLC. Still, I always stood by the thought that it'd be very reasonable and even expected really, to do so in case a spirit character became one of our DLC fighters. I could always easily see current spirits being renamed to things like Bandana Dee (Return to Dreamland), Shantae (Half Genie Hero), and yes, Geno (Super Mario RPG). And my god, it actually happened!
It might be a bit silly of mine to be celebrating this hard over such a small thing, especially since it's not even a playable character that made a necessity for this name change. But the important thing is, the precedent is now there! They WILL be renaming already existing spirits in future patches if need be. And of course, if say, a certain blue puppet is by any chance one of the 6 FP2 fighters, a measly little text under his png in the game isn't gonna be a roadblock for him at all. So basically what I'm saying is SPIRITS DON'T DECONFIRM AND GENO IS COMING, LADS!
It's absolutely possible we may not get the reveal and we'll have 2 at E3 instead, with DLC 6 coming out almost immediately after E3 and 7 coming before September.
My guess is that if Fighter 6 isn't shown in the next Direct, it will have its own Smash Direct/presentation in March or April. E3, like you said, would just be too long of a wait without anything inbewteen
Yeah true, these aren't bad points. Who knows, maybe we'll have a direct next week.
And they admitted that character 6 was done. So combine all that and Nintendo would look really dumb PR-wise to hold off. Didn't help that they dragged their feet with Byleth's reveal.
I believe Sakurai mentioned in the Byleth Presentation that it may be some time before we get FP6, but I don't believe that has anything to do with when we'll learn about them. As such, I think there's a good chance we'll get a Smash reveal this coming Direct, with the release/presentation coming by late April/early May, which will certainly be a long while after Byleth's release.
The difference with that Gap though is that we had two character releases between announcements. With this we'd be sitting around for over 4 months with NOTHING hapenning.
Why do people keep saying 6 is done? What is the source for this?
That, and the video for Byleth was admitted to be recorded in November. Even if the character weren't ready to be released, they could still do the reveal trailer and boom.
Yes actually. I've made the joke before that I imagine some people in this thread walking around with the longest arms in the world due to all the collective reaching here. The term "evidence" is used far too liberally here for my taste. But this information is actual evidence that something like this has happened and therefore COULD happen in the case of Geno. Unfortunately this evidence doesnt necessarily point to Geno but it absolutely helps his case.
Of course. But, as you know, the biggest nail in the coffin for detractors' arguments would have to be if Geno himself, or some other Spirit character or maybe even an Assist Trophy character, becomes playable, or maybe a strong hint of some kind that indicate they are coming (which is not exactly the nail in the coffin as an actual reveal, but close to it).
... So my guy probably was right but they pushed the Direct back for some unknown reason... Nintendo... Why?
Yeah, I was thinking they pushed back the Direct for some reason as well. Such a shame, isn't it?
Yeah, it seems pretty likely we were meant to get the SNES controller announcement in a January direct but it got pushed back for whatever reason into February. I just hope it’s next week and not late February.
Maybe they thought Sakurai and Pokémon (but who cares) taking up January was enough and they wanted more for Feb since... Well nothing is coming out for Feb, is it?
Yes that is certainly the case. Until detractors are caught in their own web of certainty of the uncertain, they will always find a way to negate any point that is made in favor of anything they disagree with whether they actually disagree with it or just plain want to be contrary.
Yeah, but if anything, that possible Direct was still supposed to happen in January, and the SNES controller thing was supposed to be shown in terms of news in January, and assuming it was tied to the Direct or was part of the Direct; well; I have reason to believe that the Pokemon Direct and the Smash reveal had not much to do with the delay of the Direct from January to February. Maybe a little, but not by much, as in there was possibly another reason to it.
My theory is that they added something in rather than taking something out. Directs aren’t live. They’re all pre-recorded so a singular (or even multiple) game or DLC announcement being delayed wouldn’t heavily affect when they’d put out a Direct. It’d be as easy as simply editing that section out. Adding something in would mean recording new footage and voice over stuff along with editing it in.
I'd say those detractors are trying to hang on to believing that they are right, which won't do them much good, since they are literally only hanging by a thread, if you know what I mean. Something tells me if things go our way and a Spirit character like Geno is revealed, even before then, even before we know, those detractors may not last much longer.
I'd kill for a Spirit, Assist Trophy, and Indie to be in FP2. Break ALL the rules! <insert Allie Brosh's meme here>
Then the detractors will have to learn that making up fan rules will not help their case, since those rules are capable of being broken. Chances are, though, they won't learn, but it won't help them to keep trying with those fan rules, of course.