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It's worth mentioning imo that Bethesda's biggest reveal for Switch early on, and in fact one of the most prominent Switch games in the early stages throughout marketing, was Skyrim.
I genuinely feel that Eight could be in the running if this is the case. That'd be pretty cool.
Wouldn't it seem possible for them to receive their AAA games but also get characters that majority of their fans wanted? Unless the idea is to advertise the games with the DLC.
I'm not gonna lie, but that would actually be the best Smash bamboozle ever, and I would give Square and Nintendo major props in order to outsource the leakers and insiders. All of this noise, about him being in only for it to turn out to being a Mii costume in the end, along with the real Square character. I mean, yeah, I would feel a bit of sting, but I would get over it eventually. I don't think it would hurt me as much as Isaac though, with being an Assist Trophy again.
I agree with that. The main issue as to why people seem to be so concerned about it (myself included), is because the last time a promotional character happened was Corrin, so there's no seemingly good reason to trust Sakurai or Nintendo on that regard. Of course, if Joker is really promotional, then opinions could change. I'm actually confident that these promotional characters can be accepted just fine so long as they belong to brand-new franchises (first or third party, doesn't matter much which), because it's basically expanding the amount of worlds colliding in this already massive game, which is gonna attract many into it, compared to the "Ugh! Another goddamn Fire Emblem character!" situation that Sakurai risked into.
That was just me going back one more time onto Reggie's comment on expanding the Switch's userbase. Attracting developers by including their characters in Smash and yadda yadda. But okay.
I think you mean 39 1/2 ft.
I got burned by the deconfirmations of Shadow, Isaac, and Mach Rider.
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Rumor: The Next Nintendo Direct May Be On January 10th https://t.co/1oG72hqFsE pic.twitter.com/4TNmduIbOf
— My Nintendo News (@MyNintendoNews) January 3, 2019
HOOGH
At most there will be info for Joker and Plant. Doubt we'll get another reveal so soon, but possible.
"Gaming Intel"
Yeah i almost feel tempted to tell them "no **** captain obvious" lol. This is way too obvious to happen in January (it's been like… only one year where it didn't happen, every other year it always happens). I do think we might/could get something smash related btw.
So what they meant by their second Direct was the Nintendo Live event. They apologized for this.
Reading up on their article, they claim that their source for this correctly predicted the dates of previous directs, which looking through their site seems to be true.
If we get anything Smash-related, I'm sure it'll be Mii costume DLC or something, along with PP's actual release date and a tiny, "We're working on it, pals," update on Joker. Maybe stuff on spirit events, too? I dunno. That's probably the limit of it, though.
I would definitely like to see a render artwork of Joker at least, which would mean also his pose for the amiibo in the future. Plus i'm super intrigued to see how he will look in 3D lol
See I thought TGA would be really soon as well.
The 2nd Direct ended up being the Nintendo Live event.
Joker is fair, but I think the difference is that TGA is a HUGE audience, so even if it’s soon you gotta reveal a characeter just to have eyes on it. This is shown with a compromise of Joker having no gameplay. About the focus thing, Nintendo’s big marketing push this year was all about Smash, and let’s go to a very lesser extent. When you place a huge focus on something, other projects will inevitably get less attention. I dont think Nintendo would want to heavily push Smash for 2019 as well, so it would make sense to spread out reveals more so attention is divided. Think about it this way, in 2019 there’s E3, TGA, and potentially even EVO all as avenues to reveal a character, alongside a direct obviously. That’s 4 spaces. If the January direct is a mini, then it would make sense to have no new character, cause what’s the point.
On the topic of the Grinch Leak, I'm kind of surprised we all just dropped it. Anyone else curious how they did it? They caused multiple companies to panic so it's not likely that anyone will come forward anytime soon but, still, probably one of the most elaborate ruses in gaming history.
The theory that mariotehplumber comissioned the art and set it up seems the most plausible but who knows.
If you think about it, whoever made the grinch leak was super ****ing lucky. They had no idea that the wendy’s video would come out or how the companies would respond.
I mean...I just don't think I can agree. They have shown a heavy want to push Ultimate as much as possible. It's not gonna take the fore-front like it did for 2018 but they are doing this DLC pass knowing the majority of the characters will be released in 2019 and must be marketed heavily as such.
Speaking of the Grinch Leak, how many people do you think worked on it? A few posts on Reddit show an unbelievable amount of work went into the leak, so I think it's more likely several people worked on it.
Yeah this is why i'm somewhat hopeful and would not surprised to believe myself that we could actually get a reveal or something. They DO want to sell that season pass after all, and if we are getting characters like joker revealed, that ensure the sales even without gameplay showing, i don't think there are any limits to when they reveal them. The sooner they keep the interest on selling them the better, it's not really gonna make much difference to announce them later if the effect due their impact will be the same.
Someone on 4Chan was able to track the Chorus Men render used in the fake, but outside of that, no one seems to care about it.
I think it’s a mini cause last year, the exact same thing happened with a direct in September follow by a mini in January. The big directs tend to be fairly spaced out, so it makes sense. You have a direct in March, E3, and one in September. So there’s usually a 6 month gap between directs ignoring e3. As for the pushing Smash, obviously they’re gonna still want to push the game and the DLC, but by spacing out reveals a bit more and giving minis room to breath, you allow the spotlight to be on other projects.
Woah, I'd like to see that if true. Is it possible it was one made after the leak surfaced, as I know someone on smashboards recreated it
To be fair, the N64 mini is another case of "Everyone got baited for Metroid Prime at the VGA" by Nintendo.
Wait someone made a recreation? Because if so, then maybe I assumed wrong and just bought into something false. But anyways, here it is:
Huh, maybe that's it. I don't know why they wouldn't just make one from scratch though considering they did it for the others and these seem the easiest to drawWait someone made a recreation? Because if so, then maybe I assumed wrong and just bought into something false. But anyways, here it is:
Anyone else seen this leak to go with it?