Keep your hype in check, but Nintendo says that every year and they always show something farther out. I would absolutely expect a new announcement.
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Nintendo Spotlight Presentation (their E3 conference) to be 30 Minutes in length
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TheGreatMightyPoo
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If Retro was making a "2D" Metroid using the Donkey Kong engine, would it get any backlash for not being a 3D epic scale game or would everyone just be pumped that proper Metroid's back???
Unless its a new Smash Bros, I would hope Nintendo would not have a port as their big reveal, which also has been rumored for a while from a lot of sources
I think Smash Bros is a lock to be there tho
OrbitalBeard
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I think most people would lose their shit. In a good way.
Lord_Byron28
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They said they would focus on 2017 titles not exclusively 2017. My expectations are pretty much what has already been anounced will be what is shown off at E3 that will release in 2017. However, I hope they can show off and anounce new projects that will release in 2018 focused more on the early part of 2018.
I'd be over the moon.
Professor Lexicovermis
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My anticipations:
Odyssey looks good; we get a brief introduction to the Rabbit bosses and maybe a new world or two.
Mario X Rabbids isn't mentioned, or at least gets very little screen time.
An indie reel ends with confirmation of UNDERTALE on Switch.
New Sonic Mania trailer with an all-new Zone announced.
Splatoon 2 trailer of some sort.
Something that hasn't been leaked or hinted at appears.
ARMS isn't mentioned until the Invitational, where the first DLC character is announced, shown off, and dated.
Pokken DLC is teased.
Kirby 3DS game is detailed at Treehouse.
Odyssey looks good; we get a brief introduction to the Rabbit bosses and maybe a new world or two.
Mario X Rabbids isn't mentioned, or at least gets very little screen time.
An indie reel ends with confirmation of UNDERTALE on Switch.
New Sonic Mania trailer with an all-new Zone announced.
Splatoon 2 trailer of some sort.
Something that hasn't been leaked or hinted at appears.
ARMS isn't mentioned until the Invitational, where the first DLC character is announced, shown off, and dated.
Pokken DLC is teased.
Kirby 3DS game is detailed at Treehouse.
Yoshimitsu126
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If Metroid 2D uses the environment like TF, I'm punching the elderly if they have the last Switch before this game releases.
I'd prefer a gorgeous HD Prime but I'd be thrilled regardless
Nintendo can actually win this E3. Microsoft and Sony certainly didn't.
Reminder that Nintendo said the focus will be on 2017 games and Xenoblade is most likely a 2018 game.
Reminder that "focusing on 2017" doesn't mean Nintendo won't announce a 2018 title. They want to sell Systems after all and they know "Hype" is a big part of it.
Reminder that Reggie hinted at a Metriod in a year when interviewed by GameSpot. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLAu113idcs#t=08m33s)
Reminder that "focusing on 2017" doesn't mean Nintendo won't announce a 2018 title. They want to sell Systems after all and they know "Hype" is a big part of it.
Reminder that Reggie hinted at a Metriod in a year when interviewed by GameSpot. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLAu113idcs#t=08m33s)
can't get much lower effort than the FE Switch announcement
QuixoticNeutral
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This was a possibility that was very much in the air until Ubisoft led their conference with Rabbids today. It wasn't clear at all that Rabbids would get that much more stage time than Skyrim at Bethesda's show (one minute) or FIFA at EA's (nothing in the conference, just a separate press release and playable show-floor demo), although the leaked slides from last month indicated that marketing proceeded mainly under their guidance rather than Nintendo's.
I'm more confident in what first-party Nintendo will have to show us now that Rabbids has already had its day in the sun.
2D with DKC-like environmental interaction has been my dream scenario for a Retro Metroid ever since I played DKCTF, but I was hungrier for a 2D Metroid than for another Prime in the first place, and I know that isn't the case for everyone.
SuperLeviathan
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Now that Smash has made the transition to HD now, Sakurai wouldn't have to start from square one with a sequel. His team has perfectly good assets to go back to for most of the characters and whatever stages and modes return. They wouldn't have to redo everything like the Splatoon team did.
Now that Nintendo has two new franchises that are screaming for representation, a Smash 4 port with minimal alternations probably wouldn't be that much hype.
Rightly?
I like to pick up a console when it has 3 games I'm really excited about so I'm hoping that we see the third such game for Switch tomorrow. When I bought Wii U it had Pikmin 3, Mario 3D World already released and Xenoblade Chronicles X announced. Was a great way to get the console and ensured I loved it from the start.
Right now for me on Switch it's
-Splatoon 2
-Mario Odyssey
-???
If they fill in that third game (and it could be Xeno 2 if it shows well) I'll be happy to buy a Switch, despite being seriously pissed at the lack of concrete online service news and lack of VC. (Both issues which may be solved tomorrow in the treehouse, who knows.)
Tropical Freeze is up there with Bloodborne, Witcher 3, Pikmin 3 and Zelda BotW in my top 5 of the generation so I'm gonna disagree with you there.
Yeah, they're never totally strict about that stuff. It's just to keep hype in check, pretty much, and it's a good idea.
There's no way they don't show some Xeno 2 despite it being a 2018 game in all liklihood.
Right now for me on Switch it's
-Splatoon 2
-Mario Odyssey
-???
If they fill in that third game (and it could be Xeno 2 if it shows well) I'll be happy to buy a Switch, despite being seriously pissed at the lack of concrete online service news and lack of VC. (Both issues which may be solved tomorrow in the treehouse, who knows.)
Tropical Freeze is up there with Bloodborne, Witcher 3, Pikmin 3 and Zelda BotW in my top 5 of the generation so I'm gonna disagree with you there.
Yeah, they're never totally strict about that stuff. It's just to keep hype in check, pretty much, and it's a good idea.
There's no way they don't show some Xeno 2 despite it being a 2018 game in all liklihood.
JershJopstin
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Going to bed now. Decided I'm not concerned about the shorter time; cutting the fluff from the spotlight portion to focus on announcements seems like the natural next step from 2014 and 2015, and that's what I expect them to do.
darkistheway
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Nintendo, you are our only hope.
Now with Kremlings = Everyone loves it
Real surprises are hard these days, when most games are prequels/sequels/remakes or spinoffs. Or leaked.
OrbitalBeard
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I believe they announced five new games at E3 2015. They were mostly horrible announcements, but announcements nonetheless.
I dont know man Sakurai has a unhealthy obsession with Smash, to a point where it makes im ill. I would rather see him working on a new ip tbh. OR KI
DecoReturns
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That one doesn't really count. It was mostly telling us that the future of Fire Emblem was heading to the Switch and on a console after a long hiatus.
Xenoblade is a 2017 game.
TheGreatMightyPoo
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You guys know everyone is going to be like "Nintendo Fucking Blew it LOL" and then as the Treehouse goes on and more information comes out, most will realize Nintendo's E3 was actually pretty strong.
Nintendo are good at surprises. So...I think they'll have a couple of those today.
ThoseDeafMutes
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It's not that I think Retro doesn't have something cooking, but for a 30 minute presentation in the first year of the system's life I don't think they're going to show it. They revealed all of their 2017 big guns for Switch earlier in the year as part of their effort to hype it going into launch. If Retro had something earthshaking that was ready to show in a meaningful way as of E3, I feel they would have shown a teaser in Q1 rather than hold it for now.
It's definitely not impossible something will show, but 2018 feels right for their next game and the Switch selling well means there's not any incentive to announce games that are quite a ways off. A direct in Q1 2018 would be fine for a Q3-4 game.
I'm expecting perhaps one or two surprises at most, and those will probably be on 3DS. Most of the direct will short clips of their already announced 2017 slate.
It's definitely not impossible something will show, but 2018 feels right for their next game and the Switch selling well means there's not any incentive to announce games that are quite a ways off. A direct in Q1 2018 would be fine for a Q3-4 game.
I'm expecting perhaps one or two surprises at most, and those will probably be on 3DS. Most of the direct will short clips of their already announced 2017 slate.
check and mate
I've been around, just ignoring that talk lol. Ubisoft did a pretty lengthy reveal on their own and put out a lot of info themselves, so I don't believe for a second Nintendo is going to spend much time on it.
Miyamoto once announced a Pikmin game was in development in passing at a Developer round table. (I believe that was Pikmin 3.)
Well they have been working on the same game since late 2013
It's been...4 E3's since they've shown something. People getting worried about Retro again.
Yoshimitsu126
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I just want to see how Sand boxy Mario Odyssey works and if we get another great hub world like Princess Peach Castle/Defino Plaza again and not the lame planet thing in SMG2.
Yoshi and Mario Maker were by no means horrible
TheGreatMightyPoo
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Don't worry, they are eating well.
DecoReturns
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Those were not new game announcements.
OrbitalBeard
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Mihael Mello Keehl
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Get ready for Metroid to be called an Indie game LOL.
"Shadow Complex did this in 2008 and looked the same if not better!"
Idk.
Like a FE that looked aesthetically pleasing to me and came across as having story/world/character chops, would be a surprise to me. And it's announced already.
A Metroid would be a surprise to me and it's a sequel.
DQXI localization news or Switch version news would be a surprise to me and they've been showing a lot of that game.
An EO successor series/sequel for Switch from Atlus would be a surprise to me, and it's a successor series/sequel.
And so on in this vein...
If any of these things are 2018, Nintendo can surprise me and give me a good show, whether they choose to or not.
That's good. I was wondering how they were affording food given how long its been since they delivered anything
Please show something Retro
and don't be fucking DK
I sure hope thats the case. The wait has been too long. I just hope its fresh new take in the series. No fps, please.
Depressingly accurate.
Oh yeah, right. My bad.
MrSaturn99
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I can't sleep.
I need this now.
I need this now.
Yeah, this is the argument against it for sure, and it's a sound one.
But it's also possible that
a) Retro simply wasn't ready with marketing materials / a vertical slice, and now are, or
b) Nintendo didn't want to show a 2018 game before launch, or
c) Nintendo knew that Zelda would carry the hardcore crowd through launch and didn't need it at that time.
Now that Zelda has come and gone, they need something else to keep the hardcore and various youtube influencers etc praising the system on social media. Metroid or a new Retro game would move the needle and do that job. If Retro's game is Q1-2 2018 I think they show it. If it's Q3-4, they don't.
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