Pokémon Direct 2016 Mysteriously Pulled from YouTube

The Pokémon Direct from 2016, which celebrated the franchise’s 20 year anniversary and also revealed the titles for the next games (Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon) has mysteriously been removed from Nintendo’s official YouTube channel. This comes on the heels of the Nintendo Direct page also having a new slot added. Some fans have pointed out that Pokémon Sun & Moon trailers have also been pulled from various Nintendo channels.

Why would Nintendo remove these videos? We don’t know for sure, but if they were going to reveal information about a title that follows Sun & Moon it would be reasonable that they wouldn’t want fans to get the trailers confused. Depending on how similar the titles look, viewers may mistake features and Pokémon from the previous game as representing whatever title is revealed next.

A new Pokémon Direct coming soon? More and more signs seem to be pointing in that direction.

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969 thoughts on “Pokémon Direct 2016 Mysteriously Pulled from YouTube”

  1. Should I learn coding and game making and all that stuff just to make my own fakemon game? I mean, would it be worth it?

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    • You don’t need to know how to program to make a ROM hack.

      On the other hand if you’re talking about making your own Pokemon game from scratch, then yes, some programming is required.
      There are tile-engines and tools out there already, but all the ones I’m aware of require some programming.
      Except maybe RPGMaker, but RPGMaker games tend to be pretty terrible.

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    • I actually have a qualification in game development and I’m an intermediate programmer with knowledge of various languages.

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  2. My regional birdies

    Shardinal
    The Cardinal Pkm
    Normal/Flying
    Big Pecks/Keen Eye HA: Sheer Force
    A very small grey bird with rusty red wings and head plumage, it has a very large crooked and jagged grey beak, and lastly pink feet
    “Their hard beaks are tough enough to peck holes in trees in search of food, when at rest they sing beautiful melodies high above the treetops”

    Into
    Sparroh (WIP)
    The Arrow Pkm
    Normal/Flying
    Big Pecks/Keen Eye HA: Sheer Force
    A much larger and thinner bird Pokemon with a greyish white color with that same rusty red color in its wings and head, it’s wings are long and very thin with two stripes at the tips, tail feathers sticking straight outward, and a small head with a very long pointed beak with an arrow shaped notches
    “Agile and extremely fast, they can dive bomb through openings no bigger than 6inches wide, with this great speed they can pierce right through trees and still keep going”

    Finally
    Halbird
    The Polearm PKM
    Steel/Flying
    Big Pecks/Intimidate HA:Sheer Force
    A large bird of prey Pokemon, a fit compact body with grey sleek feathers, it’s wings have three red streaks that end with points, it’s neck is slightly long and has a mask like face with a crest on its head and under its chin resembling an axe head, it’s main feature is it’s mighty 3 foot long beak with several wedges and barbs that resembles a powerful spear, and its tail feathers are long and streamer like
    “It’s soaring through the sky it spots prey from over 2 miles away and dives straight for it, skewering whatever is in its way”

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    • Mines just a coconut solider
      Cocojoe
      it’s basically a Deku scrub with a coconut helmet with a tiny palm tree on its head
      It has a funnel mouth which lets it spit pellets at a powerful range (and it’s fluids on the inside are volatile and uses the palm leaves on its head to heat up the mixture to make it explode)
      Evolving into Cocomando which is bigger and has more camo with a freaking mortar for a mouth

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      • Cocojoe
        The Coconut Pkm
        Grass/Fire
        Skill Link/Sniper HA: Chlorophyll
        As I just said, a small plant Pokemon with a ruddy red tan and green camouflage patterned body with two half circle hoofs, a large coconut shaped head with a funnel mouth and two holes for eyes and a second coconut half on its head with a miniature palm tree with three leaves on top
        “It swallows anything round and keeps it in its belly, when the time comes it spits them out with enough power to pulverize stones”

        Into
        Cocomando
        The Mortar Pkm
        Grass/Fire
        Skill Link/Sniper HA: Chrolophyll
        It is mostly the same except a bigger body with bigger feet, it has a large wad of grass on its shoulders like those…military scrubs thingies, it’s mouth funnel is much longer and has two red rings on its side like a cannon, it’s face has red and green zigzags like face paint, and the helmet as a chip in it while the palm tree is longer and the leaves bigger
        “It soaks up sunlight to raise its body temperature before fighting, it can fire explosive seeds in rapid succession that can blow apart a tank”

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  3. Wait Earthen about leaked SU

    Do they make it to Home world? Is an Emerald seen? Do the rest of the gems have a role in the arc?

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  4. I feel like a leech, I spent the last 20 minutes on the can, just 16 more minutes then I’m done with work

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