Nintendo announced today that a Pokémon Direct broadcast will air at 4pm CET/7 a.m. PT / 10 a.m. ET, Friday 26th (3pm for viewers in the UK) containing the latest on Pokémon games.
To tune in, check out Twitch or the Nintendo Direct website at 16:00 CET on 26th February (15:00 UK time), where the broadcast will be streamed.
Source: PR
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I hope so haha xD
Why so early for the direct though…..don’t wanna wake up at 7 AM just for this…but I’m sure it’s worth lol
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Well in Australia I have to wake up at 3am
Hyyyypppe!
New 3ds game woo 😍
OH SHIT!!!! THIS IS GONNA BE HYPED AF
Omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg infinity…
People are saying it’s just 5 mins, which sounds weird. No idea about where they get the info, though.
Serebii, and I’ve read someone saying that the length is listed in the direct’s site. Haven’t checked myself, though.
I can’t find anything that says 5 minutes at all on the page :/
the xy direct was 11 mins. 8 mins of the direct was a brief history of Pokemon games and the locatlizon times
So is it February or November?
I’m guessing sooner?
February. Nintendo UK made a mistake in their press release. So this Friday!
I got really nervous for a sec because the first paragraph said it was going to air in November. I was like “I gotta wait that long?!” Then I kept reading and realized they just made a typo, they meant February XD.
Keep the hype in check. It’s probably just a heads-up for the 20th anniversary celebrations.
The Pokemon twitter considers it as”big news” so I doubt it would just be a “Here’s a reminder that tomorrow is the 20th anniversary that we’ve been talking about for ages now”
Weren’t the last Pokémon ‘big news’ just Masuda saying something on that TV program and Pokémon Picross?
Nope, they never referred to the announcement of Picross as big news. However they did back in 2013 when they were announcing the direct that would end up announcing X and Y.
I had this in mind: http://mynintendonews.com/2015/11/14/december-issue-of-corocoro-to-contain-big-pokemon-news/
You might be right. I guess we’ll see on Friday.
Any news on a general direct? This is nice for Pokemon fans, but it’s probably just one game, two if they announce a new one AND talk about Pokken. It’s been so long since a general direct.
Nope, haven’t heard anything about a general Nintendo Direct unfortunately. All we know is they’re looking to shake things up a little.
Thanks for the follow up Sickr!
If anything, making a separate Pokémon Direct probably means that the next general Direct isn’t coming for a while. Looks like The Pokémon Company of whomever didn’t want to wait that long.
Aww man. Not for a while? That stinks.
You could always see it the other way around: the next Direct is going to have so much content that they felt the need of separating Pokémon announcements from the main thing.
I mean, not that I believe that’s what’s going on here, but it’s not impossible either.
I just mean that it stinks that we are going to have to wait even longer for a general direct. But I do agree with what you said.
Sadly, that’s what we thought about E3 last year when Smash got a direct before E3. :/ Boy how wrong most of us all ended up being!
Ah, yes. Nintendo’s 2015 Direct. Makes me depressed just thinking about it. Lol.
March I would assume.
That’s not too bad. I’d be fine with March.
It’ll probably be news on Pokemon Go, Pokken, the Red/Blue/Yellow/ VC versions, Those Pokemon Aniversary N3DS’s, Those see-through Pokemon 2DS’s, that Pokemon Movie, and maybe (as you said) a new generation. Great for pokemon fans thats for sure.
Didn’t realize they had all that other stuff coming too. Then again, not being into Pokemon, I wouldn’t be in the know. You know?
Oh I get you, I myself am only interested in Pokemon Blue and PokemonGo, but its fascinating how TPC treats their anniversaries compared to Nintendo themselves. It seems like TPC is pulling all the stops, which is why I have been very interested on hew theyve been handling it. Which is why im a little more up to date with it lol.
To be fair, TPC’s purpose is to market a single franchise. Of course they’re going to be better than Nintendo at it.
Fair enough, the reason I expect more love from Nintendo is because of how over protective they are with their IP’s. They protect them to no end but when it comes to their anniversaries, if its not Mario, it gets pretty much ignored.
That’s true. They should celebrate the landmark anniversaries of at least a couple, not only Mario/Zelda/Pokémon.
Unless there is a new game there’s no point having a Direct. Not sure why people still care about Go. It’s obviously a marketing trick to get people who claim they “grew out of” Pokémon to go get a 3DS.
Well personally, the whole concept of Pokemon Go is what intrigues me, whether it’s executed correctly or not remains to be seen.
Boo, give us a real Nintendo Direct.
What’s more important than Pokémon right now? We know we aren’t getting a new Zelda game until later this year anyway.
Pretty sure the last pokemon exclusive direct was with the announcement of X and Y, which happened in the January of the same year it came out. After that pokemon “niji” news the other day, I would say that this can be none other than an announcement for the new game.
For reference, that Direct was 11 minutes long. It’s not beyond the realm of possibility.
It was announced at the 7 minute mark. With the full trailer spanning an entire 2 minutes. I’d say it’s very possible to see one.
New main series game or GTFO.
I’m not even that interested in Pokémon, but the hype always gets me before Directs. Will watch!
nice, always love any type of direct, it will great to see more and more.
Something I think would be nice in the next general direct would be a joke making fun of the fact that Nintendo has been so silent the past few months. A nod to the fans that “hey, we know haven’t kept you in the loop and thus caused a lot of confusion, angst, and rumors.” Perhaps a skit where one of the staffers went “dark” like an undercover agent or something. Nothing huge, as I obviously want a lot of info on the coming year, but just a little nod. But if they don’t, no biggie. Not the end of the world by any means.
Unless they plan on announcing a new mainline Pokemon game, remake or brand new entry, I expect no surprises whatsoever from this Pokemon Direct. So I’m going in with no hype & I’ll expect it to be bad. So if it is bad, I won’t be disappointed. Hopefully it won’t be like E3 2015, though, where I was still disappointed because it was actually worse than bad.
But that was the E3 where it was revealed that we could finally make Link wear a Zelda dress…
And we can finally play a Metroid game without all of the dark, solo atmosphere… And we finally don’t have to worry about realistic bodies… /s
LOL
I will say this though, I really enjoyed the Nintendo World Championship, that was actually my favorite part of anything that came out of E3 even though it was more like a pre-event. I really hope they do it every year. ^^
I liked the use of muppets at the beginning of the direct.
The fact that they used the Jim Henson Company was awesome for sure!
Based on the rumor that there is a new generation of Pokemon coming out for the 2016 holiday, they might be revealing that.
Anybody else hope that they start releasing ALL the old Pokemon games on virtual console? I mean, obviously they won’t, that’d be too good to be true, but deep down I would love that. Esp since I’ve never played the original versions of GSC and RSE. Since those games have remakes available I highly doubt they’d release the originals, but it would be awesome if they did.
Nope dog shit
Direct before the anniversary! Called it!!! ^_^
Is there a way to find the link to the direct without getting spoiled in the process? I won’t be able to see this until 6 hours later due to work.
just look for it in the eshop and press play
Knowing the eshop it will show pictures of what was announced. I want the news to be as fresh as it is watching it live.
the xy direct was 11 mins. 8 mins of the direct was a brief history of Pokemon games and the locatlizon times
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