RUMOR: Nintendo Developing Handheld-Only Switch Mini?

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The Nintendo Switch is a hot commodity and has exceeded sales expectations across the board. Bloomberg has published speculation by analysts that a new variation of the home console could remove the docking feature and solely be a handheld gaming device.

Citigroup Inc. […] expect the Kyoto-based company to release a smaller version of the Switch in the fiscal year through March 2019, according to analysts including Minami Munakata, Kota Ezawa and Alicia Yap. — Via Bloomberg

Interesting speculation which may mean a lot for Pokémon fans if a main franchise title does indeed end up on the Nintendo Switch.

If there were a handheld-only version though, would it defeat the purpose of the “Switch”? Weigh in below!

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  7. Last Pokejungle anime shitpost unless you guys want to do your own

    Season 1

    Arc 1 – An Incineroar Slayer Emerges?! Nah, But He Tries!

    Our heroes depart from their guild, an Incineroar steals Seraph’s cookies with its yaoi hands, war is declared.

    Arc 2 – Pikipek Disappearances!? Agent of Chaos Pharap Appears!

    Pikipek disappear, gang meets Star who uses her Pikipek as bait. Turns out the Agent of Chaos is stealing them for an unknown reason, Star’s Pikipek evolves and she’s unsure about Trumbeak but willing to try.

    Arc 3 – The Earthman Commeth

    Seraph participates in a battle contest to get Fightinium Z for his Jangmo-o, goes up against Star, Kuppo, Kurusu and an old earthen enemy…

    Arc 4 – Toucan Play at that Game!

    Star’s Toucannon evolves in a battle against Seraph’s Dartrix, she offers it to the agent of Chaos which he accepts. However, it returns to her, and Star leaves the party to perpetually avoid the toucan.

    Arc 5 – Fairy Nice…

    A mysterious ‘Fairy of Chaos’ appears, appearing at first impressive but is actually low ranking, young, and inexperienced. Teases Seraph about Incineroar, giving him more or a desire to slay them all.

    Arc 6 – Fehnal Fantasy

    Earthen, annoyed he didn’t get the Fightinium, launches a full scale assault with his clan against Seraph’s ghostly home town. Who’ll succeed? Seraph destroying the invading Incineroar, or Earthen destroying the town?

    I need a life lol

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  13. Okay kinda lied about the last anime post but it’s for my own sake if I ever do it

    Give your team of three, no duplicates at all. Deci, Kommo-o, Araquanid, Incineroar, Primarina, Mudsdale, Rhyperior and Garchomp are taken by the obvious people

    Star your stalker Toucan doesn’t count as one of your other two besides Primarina

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  16. Last question about jungle anime because I’m legit considering writing it in my spare time during study leave and summer

    Modern setting or fantasy setting? Kinda want fantasy but those interested should decide

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      • Nah this is gonna be like proper fantasy with like clans and stuff

        But with modern dialogue and equivalents

        For banter

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          • Just genetic type tribes I guess, like Ghost tribe etc with their own cultures

          • Yeah, thankfully Pokemon in general and the idea of this fanfic are pretty flexible so that’s good! 😀

          • I was going to write one once, but I didn’t feel like I knew people’s characters well enough. I could just about pull of Star and Earthen because they’re both quite vocal (although they would probably end up as charicatures). Everyone else would end up being generic or I’d end up insulting people my emphasising traits they don’t like.

          • Yeah, the only reason I’m going to do mine is because it’s complete piss take comedy so everyone’s going to be purposefully be a shitty caricature, but even just a slightly more serious fic would be so much more daunting 😮

    • You can mix both. There are parts of this existing world that aren’t very developed, and you could just make different places have drastically different levels of tech or something.

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        • If you assume the world to be a vast ocean of mainly small islands and only a few continents you can get away with massive disparities. Or assume a resource shortage in some places to make tech more expensive in less developed places (thus Alola has the Rotom Pokedex but Kanto can’t even afford XTranceivers)

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    • Dont forget about me
      I have a Politoed that always comes out of the pokemon on its own
      The Powerhouse Shelgon
      and a Sceptile.
      Just make it take place in Hoenn or something

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      • Don’t know if it’ll be Hoenn or a complete new world yet, but judging off consensus Hoenn seems to what it’ll be it I use real Pokemon locations

        Can I get some character info for your one? Just race, gender, and allegiance (‘good’, chaotic, ‘bad’) unless you don’t mind having them random

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          • Hmm, bad is what is kinda opposite to our heroes (they’re pretty much just defending their own people from an invading tribe) where as chaos is like neutral in that it’s between good and bad but they kinda follow their own goals and aren’t aligned with anyone, not even other ‘chaotic’ characters

          • Oh. I will be bad. Can I be the bad guy that always laughs and his enemy struggling. I want to be the the type thats always smiling like Hau or Acrola, but Smiling at your demise. That sounds fun.

          • Thank you so much! Love writing those types of characters 😀

            Want to be allied with the main baddy (who I guess at least for the first ‘season’ of the fic idea will be earthen) or your own faction?

          • Allied with Earthen? Sure. But Im doing anything for his goals. Just to see the people and pokemon suffering is enough to make me happy

          • Yess villain side is growing bit by bit

            Hopefully I will be able to at least churn a few chapters out, I think it’ll be a decent laugh for everyone

          • Ftr: I’m classed as chaotic neutral.

            Not good, not bad, I just do what I want and don’t care if I upset things. Occaisionally I’ll be doing something completely different to both the good and bad sides and end up hindering them both (or helping them both).

            CHAOS!

  17. @symmetricaljesus:disqus This Pokejungle Anime is going to be great XD
    Also, I just thought of something funny you could do. Maybe you can have Pokejungle himself be in cameos of each season like the Stan Lee cameos from Marvel lol.

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    • Wouldn’t want to do so without his knowledge really, especially since I don’t know if I’ll even get an ‘episode’ done, but I do love the idea of a cameo character 😀

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  23. finally a 5IV Thick Fat Tepig missing SpAtk
    now to WT 6 boxes of breedjects
    if anybody wants
    Adamant Steadfast Rockruff
    Careful Pyukumuku
    Modest level ball Drampa with Hurricane
    Jolly Thick Fat tepig

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  24. Why programmers like UNIX:

    (Warning, sexual references. Not for people of Ash Ketchum’s age)

    who && gawk && uname
    && talk && date && wine && touch
    && unzip && strip && touch && finger
    && mount && fsck && more && yes; yes;
    more; yes; umount && make clean && sleep

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