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. I hate to say it but Game Freak is really kinda dumb sometimes

    – Has no idea what their audience wants (No Post Games after gen 5)
    – Leaves all the game data in the demo even after ORAS was data mined from the demo.
    – Refuses to embrace the fact that you can update games now and leaves in mythicals pretending like we’re going to be surprised seeing them 6 months before from a data mine.
    – Introduces mechanics in one game and just drops them after a gen
    – Can’t balance pokemon for shit (weak af Alola Pokémon, Mega Rayquaza)
    – Leaves in a bunch of doors you can’t open on Lumiose Badlands leading to players thinking there is more to find when there is it. Basically lying to your players
    – The entirety of the Delta Episode besides the very ending.
    – The fact that shiny locks exist screwing over a good chunk of players that want these shiny legendaries
    – Really bad difficulty curve in many of their games. Especially between the 8th gym and the E4
    – Over reliance on cut scenes
    – The fact that they can’t make a game right the first time and has to make a third version at all

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    • I have to call out the first post slightly… theres no way for them to know what their audience wants because their audience is so huge and diverse everyone wants something different. Im sure things like cultural influence, age, game experience ect, all make for different gaming wishes and such, I know for a fact there are things I want to see in the games that others even here would detest.

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    • Hmm about this

      -Yeah no idea like umm
      -Yes for Sun and Moon maybe a few leaked like Trumbeak, Dewpider and maybe even Salazzal, but not everything
      -I don’t understand? Explain
      -True Mega’s, Walking with Pokemon, Inverse battles!
      -Yeah M-Ray was a bad udea from the get go
      -Or in a few places like… I can’t remember any but they exist
      -All but zinnia and making Deoxys no longer mythical
      -I hate Shiny locks!
      -More like all of ORAS difficulty in general
      -Meh cutscenes are ok
      -Platinum was unneeded to the awesome DP action there was!

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    • The only problem with the update thing is that one day they’ll shut down the update server and you won’t be able to update the games.

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    • Also they can’t add Pokemon in an update because if anyone who doesn’t have the update tries to battle someone who has that Pokemon, their game won’t be able to comprehend it because the data won’t be present.

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    • I agree with a lot of this. I adore the Pokemon franchise and will be a lifelong fan but Gamefreak’s stubborn ‘two steps forward one step back’ is infuriating.

      I don’t need a ‘perfect game’ (there’s no such thing, you can’t please everyone) but for them to just stop removing previous technical features that made the games better and everyone loved, would be a nice start.

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  2. Y’know, when I stopped caring about X and Y, I got more out of the cutscenes than I did when I played through it the first time. The only cutscene I noticed was the AZ one where he reunites with Floette… I never noticed it but it’s …. actually really well made

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  3. Pokemon Game I feel a lot of peeps would like
    Level curve of SuMo
    Distance between gyms of Black and white
    BW2 tier aftergame with battle frontier
    variety of a round 400 obtainable mons pre elite four
    Story around SuMo tier
    Cutscenes around BW or X and Y levels

    Donezoes

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        • I think what Pharap and I both were looking for within the story is for more of Hawaii’s lore to be explored rather than all the sci-fi shit that went on in Sun and Moon. We expressed our disappointment for Gamefreak taking that route a few months ago if I recall correctly

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          • fantasy > sci-fi , the only difference of course is that one usually focuses on the past, and myths and legends, while the other is futuristic, and ill take the past anyday

          • I’m usually into sci-fi stuff, especially other video games and books, but it just wasn’t the right fit for a Hawaii-based region, since there is a LOT of Hawaiian myths/stories

          • the only sic-fi I’ve ever really been into has been Horizon Zero Dawn, but that was also a clash of primitive and futuristic soon

          • Random ramble before I make my point:
            The truly hardcore scifi fans like to differentiate between ‘science fiction’ and ‘science fantasy’, where the former is where events are actually plausible and the latter is where the laws of the universe are ignored or there’s no discernable scientific reason for things, in which case Pokemon would be the latter. I’m not a hardcore scifi fan but it’s good to know.

            The main event:
            I agree with @Dicie:disqus , I like scifi like Stargate and Doctor Who (though I have a love-hate relationship with the newer series), but I prefer when Pokemon is mostly nature with a few necessary bits of technology (Pokeballs, Pokedexes and CGear/Pokenav/Poketch, and a little bit of gene splicing and fossil reviving here and there) but not too scifi.

          • thats not what I meant and you know it, but yes I did actually know that because you have said so before

          • Better memory than me then, I’ve only been back for a week or so, so it must have been months ago that I mentioned that.

          • That’s part of it. Seems a waste to take everyone to a region based on Hawaii and say “screw the local gods, here’s some ugly aliens from another dimension and some psycho woman who hates her children because they aren’t ‘beautiful'”.

          • And you’re absolutely right. I’d feel the same way if they tried forcing an Ultra Beast story down our throats in a region based off, say, Greece, instead of tapping into the legends and myths. I hope this is a mistake they don’t repeat.

  4. This is the thing about pokemon games and our community. At this point nintendo has such a demand from their fans to push games out so fast because we absorb them so quickly, all of us here play them very quickly and we don’t pay attention or really get absorbed enough in the game to like it long after its release, then nintendo puts out another game just as quick and we all move on never really experiencing the games in the way we had in our youth such as Red and blue, gold and silver, etc. all games I’m sure we poured hours into, now we ask for things such as higher difficulties and longer games, its not the games that have gotten worse, its us who have gotten better, the difficulties we ask for now, many of us wouldn’t have been able to play when we were kids, and we play games so much faster now then we once did. But somewhere out there so kid is enjoying his experience with the newer games just as we had when we started

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    • Actually thats not true I’ve gone back to a few and it takes me longer to beat it than the first and thats without grinding sometimes, but anyway yeah we shouldn’t be rushing them so much I’ll wait for my D/P remakes till they can make a more perfected form that we can enjoy and still they poured their hearts into

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      • Do not expect much from remakes
        we had ORAS so you need to be willing to accept they may suck
        But if they’re amazing, that lets you see them as even better

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          • Soaring, revamped areas, the good old story (but now in 3D), the Delta episode, the best high-IV finding tool ever to hit a Pokemon game, actually involving Latios and Latias into the story slightly, making Deoxys part of the game with a bit of story behind it, better camerawork for cutscenes.

            Totally not different to the original GBA games at all.

          • *headdesk*

            You forgot the delta episode?
            I’ll admit it had its flaws, but how can you forget one of the longest post-E4 storylines they’ve ever had?
            I dare say it was more involved than BW2.

            And soaring, which continues to be useful post-game for uncommon Pokemon.

            And the Pokeradar, the best damn Pokemon finding tool ever made.

            How can these things be forgotten?

          • They made it different from the Secret Base theme, and made it more fitting of the city itself.

          • to you it might have, but by making it more different and slow its more fitting to the atmosphere of the city itself

          • I’m glad they re-made Ruby and Sapphire and not Emerald since I preferred one team being seen as the “good guys” and also Steven Stone as Champion. Did I miss the Battle Frontier tho? Hell yeah, and I was really expecting it to return in Sun and Moon. No Battle Frontier, no gym leader re-matches, and no Juan are my only complaints about ORAS….

            Kinda wish Steven was the Champ the first time through, then after completing the Delta Episode Wallace takes over in the Pokemon League, and Juan is in Sootopolis Gym as part of Gym Leader rematches. Steven can then be found in Meteor Falls as a re-battable super boss

          • I agree with most of that. I think Emerald’s flaw in regards to Aqua and Magma was to not have a 3rd team trying to stop them both (like the international police).
            Steven Stone is still probably my favourite champion.

            A battle frontier would have been nice, they should have taken the time to add it, but they clearly wanted to release it in time for Christmas.

            No gym rematch is the flaw with more games than just ORAS to be fair.

            The changeover would have been interesting and would have given a good reason to re-beat the champion, I agree.

          • He’s my favorite champion too xD They definitely wanted to get the game out in time for Christmas… what leaves a sour taste in my mouth is the easter egg stuff with references to the Frontier, really made me think at the very least it would be in whatever game was next. No gym leader rematches is a flaw that shouldn’t be, why is it not a staple by now?

        • theres no way a D/P remake cant be better than the original, for me its a very low bar. And as much as I love R/S, I love ORAS so much more

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          • its a R/S remake, not an emerald remake, not that I found emerald overly exciting, the only real thing it added was the battle place and I will never miss that

          • Not entirely it’s more the neutering of the difficulty byy going
            HERE’S A LATIAS M8

          • You could have not used it.
            I boxed Latios the moment I received it because I already had my team full.

          • I didn’t have a full team i used castform instead of Latias my team was
            Swampert
            Linoone
            Swellow
            Hariyama
            Pikachu (Cool cosplay)
            Castform

          • I swapped a few in and out by the end, but at that point I had 6 Pokemon and didn’t see much point in adding a Legendary.

          • I won’t admit to liking it more than the original RS because despite the things it improved, it also introduced new megas and I still don’t like the mega mechanic, but I preferred it to SM and XY, and possibly some of the older games.
            Certainly more than FRLG in terms of remakes (maybe not more than HGSS though).

        • You either get improvements like HGSS

          The same game with graphical updates like FRLG

          or something like ORAS which isn’t bad and has great aspects but just doesn’t have the charm of the original

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          • In FRLG’s defence, the Sevii isles were at least a small post-game, so it made small improvements.

            It would be impossible for ORAS to match the charm of the original because half the charm is the good old 2D tile-engine graphics.

          • I guess I’m the rare, unusual person who loved ORAS so much more than the originals.

            However the 3rd gen of Pokemon was a weird time for me, I didn’t like the GBA and all my friends has lost interest in Pokemon so I had no-one to trade with anymore.

            I was so grateful for ORAS because I finally got to enjoy Hoenn the way everyone else did before, haha. Plus it had gorgeous graphics!

    • To be fair, SM has been the first Pokemon game where I’ve actually put it down and stopped caring about it so soon after the main event.

      All the other games I have kept using for months after the release (I still use ORAS sometimes, mainly just hatching eggs and collecting items, but I still play it a bit).

      I actually don’t care if we have to wait until late 2018 for the next game if it’s well made.

      Frankly Pokemon is never going to be truly difficult because it’s an RPG with numbers at its roots, so it will always be able to be mathematically abused.

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      • I agree with the first bit, I played D/P more than I played SM, it just isn’t really all that fun for me, Ive never played any game more than XY/ and HGSS though I poured years of my life into those, and even ORAS is high up there

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          • I have played platinum, yes its a little better but I still am very meh about it, the remakes might make me love it though who knows, no matter what it’ll always probs be the lowest on my list

        • I think I’ve played all of the others more than SM. I’ll check tomorrow how much time I put into some of the games. I know I just passed 500 hours in ORAS, so I’m guessing most games are 200-300 and SM will be just over 100.

          XY I wasn’t a massive fan of, but HGSS was almost unfaultable.

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    • I think it was different then. It was the first couple games and trading and battling was enough to keep intrest in the game. But now players need content. Stuff like the Battle Frontier

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    • The problem isn’t that we absorb them so quickly, it’s that the replayability of Pokemon games has gone down considerably over the years. I can see myself picking up Emerald, Platinum, HeartGold, BW/B2W2, etc. any time from now into the future, but I can’t really say the same thing about any of the Gen 6-7 games. They just don’t feel the same for some reason.

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      • I can agree with that fact but only for Sun and Moon, its the only game I struggle to replay at all, it actually kinda feels like a chore

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      • If you discount ORAS from G6 then I agree.

        XY’s postgame was nonexistant.
        SM had the UBs but I don’t like them and I didn’t like the SM story so I haven’t touched it in months (whereas I have with ORAS).

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        • Yeah, I wouldn’t count ORAS because I love Hoenn and they did a decent job with those remakes. Sun and Moon are definitely good, but once you finish everything it just feels empty.

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    • This is absolutely not true, except for the last sentence. The issue isn’t us, not at all. while I’d love for GF to take breaks to make better games, the longevity of the games have gone down astronomically. Late gen 3 through gen 4 is the absolute peak of the series for me, since it just had a load of content packed in. As for the difficulty thing, I found SM to be difficult games, so that isn’t an issue anymore, at least not now. And it isn’t just that we’re getting better and older, I can go back and still have a tough time with some of the older games. I get what you’re trying to say, and it’s true to an extent, but the argument falters for me.

      Side note: keep in mind that we are a Pokemon community, so it isn’t fair to say that we don’t pay much attention to the games. It’s just that they don’t have the content to keep us coming back like they used to, at least during the peak for me.

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      • ok but this was a maybe statement as in “maybe this is why some of us have such problems with liking the games” but you also just kinda proved all of my other statements about how diverse the community is and how we all have different opinions on whats good within the games. And saying that we don’t really get invested or pay attention to the games is totally ok to say because I know a lot of people here are like that, not for lack of trying, some just cannot get into the games and don’t notice as much as someone else might.

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  5. I remember before I got Smash 4 I thought you could give Miis attacks from other characters. So like, Samus’s charge beam or Link’s bow.

    I still want that

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  6. So going around at dislikes there are a few I have no full seething hates for but reasoning

    Not a fan of
    Pyroar
    This is an odd one I just never liked how are only Fire/Normal is a weird lion whom I don’t even know much about

    Salamence
    It just always bothers me how its over hyped like come on its a quad. Form Dragonite same stats same over used Dragon/Flying type if it was a cooler type like Dragon/Fire then it might not get on my baf side so much

    Wormadam
    For annoyance in Platinum how it would never just win always lost even though it had the advantage and a two level higher difference trying to get it!

    Golbat
    We all know its for Emerald cause they always just ruin VR for me cause they can learn the trolliest moves then you catch one and its awful

    Pelipper
    For the reason of how its always got the same wild set even in games they all just Stockpile->Spitup or Swallow and it always gets me that when I see one I know I won’t leave soon from it cause they won’t let you just run

    And no I hate none these are just the ones I like least on my lists

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  7. i still can’t get over the fact that Hapu basically almost got destroyed by Guzzlord when using Tapu Fini….
    I know weaknesses and stuff don’t play as large as a role in cutscenes but suspension of belief can only go so far

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  8. Jim Sterling made a video defending Smart Steerig and the invincibility lead and all that and it got me thinking. Was the EXP share that bad? It’s there for players who want it but you can turn it off at any time

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  9. I remember reading a comment where someone said team skull probably couldn’t even kill someone… If I remember right, the game implies that that scenario actually happened

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  10. Watching a playthrough of XD Gale of darkness
    I love how some mons have such dramatic damage animations
    Like sandstorm is up and every single time the sandstorm effect happens, I just see this slaking get blown backwards and it looks frigging hillarious

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  11. What are my favorite parts of each game you might wonder well

    Yellow: I love the challenge and experience I got from it! And Muk

    Silver: I love the use of Characters and the regional set up

    Emerald: Fortree cities Ladders… this honestly was my favorite part and Fortree music

    D/P: everything I loved the mons, the beautiful music, character development, The end, how things were balanced (except razor claw being hidden in VR)

    SS: Walking with my Totodile for the first time as (Totodile of first forms is my favorite starter)

    BW: The 3d parts astonished me I was bewildered walking across the bridge to Castellia city and walking up Dragon Spiral tower

    BW2: Pokestar studios movies were amazing and very fun to act on

    XY: The looker story line it was very fun and hey i caught and Croagunk and named it Looker in memory of him (cause his dead partner was Croagunk)

    ORAS: The part of Liza and Tate that was the most epic battle I remember there I had Hariyama and Pikachu take them on

    SM: The starter scene and all the different landscapes they made for the games

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  12. @TCMets:disqus @BigGuyI:disqus @starstorm295:disqus
    I made a room and another person is expecting so first come first first serve

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  13. I have a good feeling tomorrow the direct will be announced and Friday will be the direct early in the morning. they always seem to have directs on Friday for some reason.

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