Pokémon Direct 2016 Mysteriously Pulled from YouTube

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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. This does add up more to the possibility for a Pokemon direct inbound. At this rate, I’d be surprised that there isn’t a direct this month, or even a brief announcement like ORAS.

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  2. What if in addition of a main series Pokemon game we get announcements for spin-off games as well?

    Seems unlikely but I can dream.

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  3. Hmm, its a hard call. On one hand it could be hinting at something. On the other hand it could just be cleaning house and this only stands out because we want to see patterns in nothing again. Time will tell I guess.

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    • I’d agree, but they have a ton of old ones and the Pokémon Direct where X and Y were revealed is still up. It seems weird that 2016’s was taken down when everything else is still up.

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      • Hmm, that true, but I wonder if perhaps there’s some legal reasons. Like certain music or the footage of all different pokemon game’s had legal rules behind them that limited it to about a year or something. Who knows really. Also it seems strange then to assume that while they haven’t removed previous pokemon directs when revealing a new one that removing one now means a new pokemon direct.

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    • It really was one of the most epic trailers we’ve received for Pokemon. Despite not showing anything of SM it made me so freaking hype for the games hahaha

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  5. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw a new article hahaha anyway yeah it seems like a Pokemon direct is coming. Before when they removed the JP Pokemon direct we could have chalked it up to them just making space and it being a coincidence that they got rid of the Pokemon, but with them now having gotten rid of the same direct on the US site it seems all but confirmed to be a new Pokemon direct. Hopefully we’ll hear about it soon so we can have a time frame of when to get excited. I can wait for the direct, but I at least want to know when it is!! hahaha

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  8. So i started a Dwarf Monk on Moonguard (which is the biggest RP server around)
    Tharrgo Brewgut
    aka One Mean Drunk
    a brutish drunkard who’s two passions in life are drinking and hitting things (oh and getting angry)
    Rude and insensitive towards anything and anybody

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  10. They’ve done this before I think. I remember sometime after the announcement of Sun and Moon, they pulled X and Y trailers off of YouTube. Could be pointing to something… And CoroCoro also comes out in a day or two, so we could get something from that.

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          • It’s not… the grade is gonna count later… I might not get college credit if I fucked it up
            And I have test anxiety

          • English, my best subject
            Buuuttttt… this test was extremely hard for NO REASON
            Like.. we took every single practice test available
            Not one was this bad

          • Practise tests don’t really help, the same questions are never used twice within a generation (if not longer). There’s an uncomfortable degree of randomness in the system, depending on what questions they choose some students will do better than others.

            Sidenote: stop viewing it as some major trial and start viewing it as a game. The object isn’t to win, it’s to do better than everyone else and if you mess something up it’s no big deal. Tackle it like a Pokemon battle – read up on what facts you need to know, think of a strategy (e.g. skim the entire paper first to look for all the easiest questions and the questions with the most marks awarded) and go in viewing it as a relaxed challenge rather than something life-changing.

            Heck, by the time you’re in college doing college work and getting college grades nobody is going to care much about your lower school grades anyway because the college stuff will be more impressive.

      • Funny coming from someone who spends their free time whining about fictional Pokemon that aren’t even as strong as some of the things they use

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    • Figured. It’s typically pretty easy to see through fakes like that. Unless the major sites are covering it there’s not really much to trick people lol

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  14. Totally real leak
    Pokemon Plus and Minus

    In Pokémon plus you level up normally but in Minus pokemon level down instead.

    The legendaries are Primal Plusle and Minun.
    The region is called equalia

    Z moves are removed

    Incineroar is removed

    The third legendary is a giant equals sign

    Math-Moves are added to give your Pokémon a proper education

    …

    I want news so bad

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    • I wouldn’t be surprised if they called a game plus and minus. The definitely need to announce and do the Nintendo Direct this week or next week. Other wise they might just be safer to wait till E3. Nintendo are experts at stalling stuff out until people are desperate for news. Here’s hoping for anything but a Sinnoh Remake, because I don’t want primal Dialga and Palkia to ruin VGC how Primal Kyorge and Groudon did. Though if Sinnoh Remake doesn’t have primals I would be happy for it exist as long as there are new Rotom forms.

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        • You can have your DP remake as long as there are more Rotom forms and of course no primals to ruin vgc. Though some people say the tapus and ultra beast already do that. I only run one legendary which is tapu koko though I might just change my team entirely and make a bulky team with bulu. Hopefully whatever game we get includes more auto terrain setters so I don’t have to always bring a tapu.

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    • This got no upvotes because none of us shut-ins can relate 😛

      (Seriously though, the Bill and Ted images must be working. Ganbare kurusu-kun.)

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      • True even though she and I aren’t dating, but I do like her but don’t know if I’ll ever say it to her

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        • Now there’s one thing I’m definitely not good at. Both of my girlfriends approached me.

          If I had to attempt a suggestion though, using my ‘older and wiser’-ness, I’d say…

          – Make sure you’ve got each other’s contact details,
          – Make sure you’re texting/talking somewhat regularly (a few times a week).
          – Look for some indication of interest, even things that might be innocent. *see footnote
          – Invite her to go and do something some day (walking, cinema, whatever. probably not bowling though, that’s more of a group thing), and if she asks or thinks it seems odd tell her it’s not a date.**
          – At the end (assuming you both enjoyed the day) tell her that you’re interested in her but if she just wants to be friends then that’s fine to.
          – Live with the consequences.***

          *footnote:
          Your mind will be telling you that she can’t possibly be interested in
          you and you’re seeing things that aren’t there, but ignore that and try to think logically. If you’re unsure ask someone the question hypothetically, preferably someone who isn’t going to figure out who you’re talking about (probably here since you can get more than one opinion).

          **footnote:
          Might want to take her places with mutual friends first so it’s less odd.

          ***footnote:
          She might say yes.
          If she says no, you’ll just have to learn to accept that she doesn’t like you back and decide to either stay friends or tell her that if she doesn’t want to be with you then it’s too painful to be around her.
          If she agreed to go somewhere in the first place and she’s a decent person she’ll probably understand.

          Final Disclaimer:
          Please get someone else to assess this post before attempting these things. Because:
          https://candlesandherbs.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/d6a1143f571184db25f94613edd43b40af6d3a629221aba00d9efdcfef5efd84.jpg

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        • just be chill, hang out a few times and you’ll most likely know from there, that being said if she doesn’t want to hang out alone with you she’s probably not interested, but like, maybe I’m not the best judge of character because I’ve never had such problems, being gay is very no-bullsh*t

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          • I know it was completely unintentional, but you’ve just given me a small epiphany.

            A few years back there was this girl I suspected was interested in me, and I always had my doubts but one day near christmas we went around town together for a while and now I’m beginning to think she might actually have been interested in me.

            Conclusion: I’m not very good at this, I think staying inside was a good decision 😛

  24. Well regional rodent is done its

    Voliume a normal type Vole and its Evo. Volodious still pure normal type they are very sound based Pokemon

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  25. Hm…So I haven’t said this before but I’m a pretty big fan of Doujinshi(self published/ fan manga) and something caught my eye. The current top selling book in Japan is a 16 page book that tells a brief history of some of the U.S.A.’s most famous millionaires/billionaires and depicts them as Moe girls. These range from those you would expect like Ford and Edison, to some that you wouldn’t like Chaplin or J.P. Morgan Jr.(I think). However the one that kinda seals it as being great is Donald Trump as a Moe girl and managing to have his weird scrunched up face. Regardless of your political feelings, I think we can all agree that its worth a little laugh and has some potential to be a new Japanese gag. Here’s a picture of it for reference.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_Y6sRfW0AAXFsV.jpg

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