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. so it was true they also removed the x/y direct when the sun and moon reveal direct was about to happen

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  2. hmmm what about more Alola Megas….none really catch my eye
    one i must try to make better
    Mega Kommo-o
    to start it off it grows a pair of wings where its little scale braid thing was, its a mix of bother dragon and avian wings with the scales representing feathers and some of the shoulder fur, its arms are the same except that cover plate on its fist now extends out like a blade and the other expands like a shield, its thighs and legs get more scales resembling a knight’s suit of armor (in this case a paladin)
    the scale (jez i’m scale alot) its headdress gets longer and more red while two scales cover the side of his mouth and he has a spike under his chin, lastly on his tail the very tip of his tail grows a very long spike scale
    as for stats it gets a boost to literally everything this thing needs all the help it can get and for an ability i don’t think much could get through that layer of scales maybe even deflect stuff so….MAGIC BOUNCE CLONE BUT WITH SCALZ
    HP: 75
    ATK: 145 (+35)
    DEF: 140 (+15)
    SPATK: 125 (+25)
    SPDEF: 115 (+10)
    SPEED: 100 (+15)
    ability: Zealous Scale reflects status moves

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  4. Well she just asked what I’m passionate about? Thats kind of a strange question, but I answer truthfully

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          • No asians.
            There were a few Japanese in the younger years and I think maybe one Chinese girl in my year (and a couple of Indians if they count) but apart from that there weren’t many asians at my school.

          • If you’re after my first girlfriend then you’re barking up the wrong tree there in two respects.

            (That’s a really ironic inside joke that I might someday explain. Let’s just say that ignoring the fact she dumped me for another guy (a texan she met on the internet), I certainly wouldn’t be interested in her now.)

          • yikes, what a coward, she couldn’t have just broken up with you truthfully, people like that are awful

          • Worst bit: she told me in an email.
            Didn’t even wait to tell me at school in person, or call me, or text me.

            I’d be lying if I said it didn’t still bother me, but I forgive her all the same.

          • yeah she a coward lol, you’re better off, I’m also willing to bet mr. texan doesn’t actually exist. The only reason she’s still on your mind is because you haven’t found someone yet thats given you an excuse to forget her

          • If he didn’t exist I can think of two other reasons why she might have done it. One is perfectly understandable and I don’t blame her, the other means my ‘friend’ was even more of a backstabber than I thought (in which case I feel less bad about what I ended up doing to him).

            There was this one girl after my second girlfriend that I liked and I was actually closer to than either of my actual girlfriends but there was one small snag and it ended badly. It was a pretty daft decision to get involved with her, but I don’t regret it because even though she ended up betraying me to save her own skin, that one encounter we had was the farthest I’ve ever gone and will still remain a happy memory.

            Saly I don’t think I’ll ever forget any of them. Aside from having so many unanswered questions and so many things about my school days that still haunt me, I’m far too forgiving.

            I should probably get counselling or something.

          • you must be only young I take it, because these relationships don’t sound very mature, possibly middle school early high school mentality. Still you’re better off, because if they didn’t treat you well they probably weren’t in it for the right reasons in the first place.

          • I’m in my 20s. The last one was nearly 7 years ago (about 2011 I think, maybe 2010), the first was 2008-2009. This was a world ago, before I even knew what the differece was between a megabyte and a gigabyte was. I’m hardly even the same person tbh.

            Can’t think what alterior reasons they could have had, it’s not like I’m attractive or wealthy or anything. I can only think that they were more desparate than me.

            Long story short, everyone’s probably better off if I stop mithering on and stay single forever.

  5. Some more information about my starters:

    Bearine (Bear + Vine)
    Grass
    The Small Bear Pokemon
    These pokemon are friendly but can also be great pranksters. They will always protect their friends if there is a need.
    Looks like a small Bear with green fur and vine-like leafs on it’s face (instead of fur, the face is visible).
    Based on baby bears, vines and kinda on the “Brother Bear” characters.

    Snakoal (Snake + Coal)
    Fire
    The Snake Hatchling Pokemon
    Snakoal are clever but they don’t like company of pokemon or people they don’t know. Their fangs aren’t fully developed yet, but it still hurts a lot when you get bitten.
    Looks like a small orange snake with a zigzag black pattern on it’s back that transforms in to a black flame shaped mark on it’s “forehead”.
    Based on snake hatchlings and Vipera Berus snakes.

    Waterole (Water + Vole)
    Water
    The Baby Water Vole Pokemon
    They are still babies so they aren’t very active. They have their eyes closed because they can’t see very good yet. The porcelain/clay-like cups they’re holding are very important to them.
    Looks like a baby European Water Vole with wet light-blue hair and thick yellow whiskers that is holding a simple cup made out of a porcelain/clay-like substance.
    Based on Baby European Water Vole (what a surprise).

    What do you think about them? I’ll post the second stages soon.

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  10. This is all so bizarre. There’s no way that something won’t happen very soon. Need I remind people that the NX reveal trailer was announced at around 6PM PST?

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    • Was it now? I guess that makes sense. I suppose the problem we have here is that we are still in need to of two steps. First wee need to be told about the direct and then the actual direct has to happen. I imagine the direct will happen at it’s usual times of early morning for the west (well the US anyway) or early morning for Japan. I’m just wondering when we’ll even hear about it. lol

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  11. We should have been running books on when the news is going to happen. My money is still on ‘not this week’.

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      • Main reason is that it’s still not been that long since SM was released.
        Aside from the time it takes to develop a game, there’s also the fact they’ll be wanting to cash in on all the events, anime, merchandise and competitions first.
        It’s only been 6-7 months since SM was released.

        If it’s coming this year, it will be in the latter half of the year, closer to SM’s 1 year point.
        Might come as early as 8 months since SM, but I’m willing to bet closer to 10-12 months.

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        • I mean it’s not like they haven’t done back to back years before…..The may immediately after XY was released we got an ORAS announcement and that wan’t more than 2 extra months than we have going on here. As for the development of said games GF has at least 2 teams. They work on their games concurrently and swap people on and off as needed in order to get the best result. Of course they aren’t going to be able to make a fully realized game in only 6 months……The fact of the matter is that they wouldn’t have started making whatever comes next in November when SM were released it would have been shortly after (if not slightly before) they were finished making SM. Even then like I said they start production on games even when they are still working on the already announced games. I don’t remember when it was exactly said, but back when XY came out I think Masuda stated that they had technically already began production on XY when they were finishing up BW (or maybe BW2 actually) I think you are underestimating GF as a company. They don’t have a one track mind where they can’t multitask. I will agree with you that the game will likely come out late 2017. It goes with the release model they’ve made for themselves so it makes sense. As for the cashing in on SM merch I’d say they can do that regardless of whether a new game comes out. They may be able to make even more if the next games are still set in Alola. They’ve done this before it makes sense for them to do it again.

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          • Well actually they technically didn’t release something in 2011 for Japan, but even still lol

          • ‘something’ yes.

            A mystery dungeon game, pokemon rumble, pokemon shuffle, something like that I could believe. A mainline game though is highly unlikely.

          • I want a new Mystery dungeon but I don’t wanna be stuck as a Litten most as the game
            I wonder if they’ll make Pokemon other than starters, maybe a Rockruff
            Or at least give us more moves to play with like in Super
            Seriously Litten learns nothing fun except Fire Fang

          • Agreed. The other week I rediscovered Gates To Infinity and found I hadn’t completed it, so I finished completing it and then forgot about it because there’s no post-game and they only had 5 starters available.

          • So how long do you think it takes to port 100,000 lines of code? (That’s a conservative estimate ftr)

          • Plenty of time except when you have a head start doing it while making SM and you have early access to a system descirved as being super easy to port and develop for

          • Most of the developers saying it’s easy to port to will already be using x86/x64 processors or existing major game engines (like UE4), but Pokemon will almost certainly be running on an in-house engine, which they’ll have to port themselves instead of relying on a 3rd party to do.

            They’d have to have been working on it at exactly the same time they started on SM to have both done in time.

          • … which the eurogamer leak confirmed. They WERE working on it at the exact same time. Besides,
            most stuff like environments, animation, music and models can be transferred over. There isn’t much work they would have to do at this point as far as porting goes. All that’s left is developing the new stuff for Stars

          • Actually in hindsight, Platinum (2009) through to BW2 (2012) were all using a slightly modified version of the same engine, which explains the fast turnaround.

            XY they must have started working on much much earlier, either 2011 when the 3DS was already released or slightly beforehand.

          • 2 months is a massive timespan in game development.

            Like I said to Infinity, I could believe they’d release a spinoff in that time, but not a mainline game.

            XY->ORAS was an exceptional case because they were developing for the same console and only upgrading the existing game engine. And notice that took at least a year.

            If you’re running under the assumption that the next game will be for Switch, then here we’re talking about porting the game engine on top of actually making a game, which is going to be a massive time sink on its own.

          • But GF don’t make the spin offs…..They only make the mainline games…..Also the rumor about the game being on the Switch also states that the game has been in development as long as SM were and was only put on pause for a short while when they wanted to polish SM. Other than that pause it’s been in development for a long while.

          • Seems very unlikely that they’d start making a game before any hardware was finalised.

            It would depend how long the Switch has been in production for and at what point Nintendo decided on the CPU and GPU spec.

          • You can’t make a game without having some idea of what hardware you’re going to be using.

            You can draw up images and scripts and storyboards, but you can’t write any code if you don’t have anything to test it on unless you’re using a multiplatform engine like UE4, which GameFreak almost certainly don’t do.

    • I agree on not this week. However, I its a little iffy on not this year. If not in May then definitely not this year, but it cant be this week

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      • Later in the year is much more probable, nearer Autumn/Winter.

        They like to wait until a game is well worn before announcing the next one so they can milk all the competitions and events first.

        They haven’t even properly released Marshadow yet.

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      • I was going to re-run the books every week so I could say ‘not this week’ every week and make a ton more money 😛

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  16. I swear if Pokemon doesn’t reveal this year and then next year its not DP remake There’s going to be hell to be raised

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  20. Jeez, the switch’s battery life is so low. I’m goona need to get one of those external batteries for the thing soon since I’m going to be on a 4 hour road trip to my grandparents in a few weeks and I wanna get three stars on all of the Grand Prix in MK8D

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  22. For me, this all seems too fishy to be a coincidence. I mean, they’re updating the site like they have before, the history of reveals in May lines up, the discussion of not skipping a year again, the constellation picture, and the corocoro? All of this will be one giant coincidence if nothing actually happens. I’m hyped!

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