The long awaited Nintendo Direct is just a few minutes away from going live! We’ve been promised a 45 minute presentation about what’s up and coming on the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, and the Nintendo Switch – and we’re incredibly hopeful that we’ll be getting some new details on Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon! We’ll be updating this post with any Pokémon relevant live updates down below (be sure to refresh this post), and make posts about any heavy hitting news shortly after! Sit back, relax, and join us in the comments for today’s Nintendo Direct!
LIVE UPDATES
- 0:40 – The Direct is starting off with Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon!
- 0:45 – USUM trailer is showing off lots of new footage from the games. Including new areas, and a beautiful cutscene showing Necrozma absorbing Solgaleo/Lunala.
- 1:30 – Overview of Necrozma’s focus on the USUM story, and confirms the English names Dusk Mane Necrozma and Dawn Wings Necrozma.
- 1:50 – “Charting New Areas of Alola” feature that shows new locations in Alola such as a beach where surfers gather (notice the new surfer NPC and Poké Ride Mantine), and a valley full of Pikachu. New clothes such as a Pikachu hat and shirt is featured as well.
- 2:15 – The way you choose your starter in USUM is incredibly different. The three Alola starters defend you from a wild Yungoos, and you choose one shortly after.
- 2:20 – Reminder of the event Rockruff that can evolve into Dusk Form Lycanroc that will be distributed for players who purchase the game before January 10th, 2018. If you purchase a digital version of the games before January 10th, 2018 you’ll receive 12 Quick Balls in game.
- 2:47 – Reminder that Pokémon Gold & Silver versions are coming to the eShop on September 22nd. If you purchase either one you’ll receive a special Celebi for your SM or USUM games via code. You can pre-purchase the Virtual Console games shortly after the direct ends
- 3:10 – NEW ULTRA BEASTS! UB Burst will be exclusive to Ultra Sun while UB Assembly will be exclusive to Ultra Moon
- 3:40 – A gorgeous PokéBall Edition of the New Nintendo 2DS XL will be available November 3rd
- That’s it for Pokémon! Enjoy the rest of the Nintendo Direct!
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Ugh, the stream is lagging on my Chromebook
Skyrim coming up. Am I crazy for holding out hope that Nintendo will allow mods like microsoft and sony…?
They confirmed that they aren’t
… ;/
Ok but did anyone see that Moba?
ID say smite but theyd make a god pun
Never thought i would see a Moba on a nintendo console
That Looks intresting
Nintendo dude you already showed this
Yeah and it’s still really weird
MANTINE IS A POKERIDE OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/012e9badea2d2df9e5f880070bc783d12bc0c84c4bccdbf9f91e1bdc73576274.jpg
THATS SO COOL!!!!!!!
Oh I swear to god if this doesn’t mean a diving Ride mode then I’ll eat my hand!!!
Better be in F*CKING game in the wild
But at least it got recognition finally
WAIT YAAAAAS
PLEASE be dive. That was sorely missing in SM
I just am happy its finally being acknowledged!
10 upvotes wow.
Also now we NEED Wailotd ride
It’s mantine bra?
The best water/Flying type
THERES A SCHOOL OF WAILORD IN THE USM MAP AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WE CAN HOPE
BOI
“Fill out your arcade archive”
Hmmmmmmmm
I want to see a cappy for Robbie Rotten… I MEAN WALUIGI
What if UB Burst is part Fire? It did a SE move v Metagross, doesn’t mean anything but a fire type UB would be cool tbf
Fire Fairy?
Fire/Fairy
Fire/Psychic
Fire/Ice
My best guesses
Isn’t it confirmed as Fairy Grass?
No? No types were confirmed
No types were revealed
Yea i said that earlier I def think its part fire
Skyrim actually looks pretty nice. Remastered is great
I love Skyrim <3
QUICK Everyone scour the new footage to find more new hints that may have been overlooked!!!!
DOOM ON SWITCH
Didn’t you or someone jokingly call this?
I didn’t but that’s insane. They are really getting that 3rd party
Nobody could predict that
the new battle interface:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7701e7089ae9fd8a286a56352f2428e2c48d2d0d700d578b29cb90496f11baff.png
More ultra
We’ve seen this already more or less from when they first showed off D Lycan
ooh my bad i saw it and i couldn’t recall seeing this before
Ugh Pokken coming up…
Boo
NOOOOOOOOOO
Unless they add Koko or Inci or aloraichu that’s bad
Wow that’s pretty cool
Does this count as VC? hahaha
So… is this virtural console orr
I need to know so I can cross it off my bingo
almost…
Did anybody notice Lunala …I mean Necrozma Dawn Wings back at 0:28 it seems Necrozma stab her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rQLqeX_LcQ
WOAH THOSE OUTFITS
Another weird arms character coming, get ready
I LOVE the style of this game
Everything but character isn’t pixel. Wow. That’s unneccesary
Yes it is?
It’s a really unique style
Oh ur right it actually Looks good
Square-Enix RPG=guaranteed to be good
Octopath looks so good
dont say shook