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!
Check our posts about the big news stories for more details:
Mantine is a ride Pokémon! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJozSVLW4AAjuEW.jpg
Your late
You’re like 10 mins late pal
Dang
In the English trailer when the character turns around and talks to pikahu.
Hmmmm that’s the same kinda look in hgss when you talk to Pokemon you’re walking with.
I suspect walking with Pokemon may be back but only with some pokemon
That’s dumb
Yes!
What’s dumb? That GF limits things. Its like how certain Pokemon get me gas,
Certain Pokemon get signature z moves
Certain Pokemon say their name in game
Certain pokemon got alola forms
Pokemon is stranger to certain pokemon treatment
It’s dumb because they have all the models and animations
And they didn’t add it to sm and it was in the coding.
??? How does that change anything
Just because its in the coding doesn’t mean its going to be in game
Then why are they adding in only a few
Well because favoritism
Yeah, and that’s fookin dumb. Admit it.
Tell that to AZ Floette
Okay…but all of the models are in the coding..
We have models for every Pkm walking sooo
But they already have walking animations for every pokemon
If chandy is one of those then i’m ok with it
If all the stages of Alolan starters + Raichu are ones of them then i’m pretty Ok with it
Or maybe there’s an area like in DPPT were you can take out your Mon and run around with it (forgot the name of that area tho)
Amity Square
So will UB Assembly be like a reverse Guzzlord with crazy high defences and 20 base HP?
Sounds weird
It resembles a brick wall so its probably a bulky UB
Yeah, that’s what I thought, but unless they actually balance the stats instead of min/maxing it wil probably just be Guzzlord 2.0
Being hot is a power now. Cool.
Uhggg come on really?
i joked around that she’d just flash her tits
I think you were right
At least all the Lycanrock Forms get the unique Z-move and not just the new one.
Ok so as cool as the new UBS are I REALLY want something new I can use DURING the story!! Would have been cool if they showed us a new Alolan form, but oh well I’m still relatively satisfied
With the little nod they made to GS virtual console, I feel that there will be Alola forms of Johto Pokémon for a later news update.
We can only hope. I can’t imagine they would put in BRAND NEW UBS and only do 2 of them AND not do new forms
Pennywise’s daughter is back to haunt us
We need more clowns!!
No
Why are they telling us stuff we already know
Cause the furry character isn’t ready yet
??
Lola pop is inflation. Furries are the next step.
Animal Crossing…please…I beg of you, Nintendo.
It’s not goona happen dude. They’re just going to show Mario Odyssey afterwards
Why ;-; Literally everything has something coming for it except Animal Crossing
Maybe another day
Soon
HOLY BOLLOCKS I GOTTA TRY THAT ARMS UPDATE SOON
The new Z-crystals have different shapes https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/77c4e72b1e0771f11b7fa9cced51a3c7853ce3bb0abb3d75521591e95b4bcc9c.jpg (rf)
They look like candy
okay i love that you get to rescue villagers.
So we can cross Mantine off the list of possible gen 2 Pokemon to get new forms I guess
buff dedede im shook
AYYY
Omg Kirby Star Allies looks so much fun, i have to get it
Got a trailer
My Alolan Persian is watching too https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/36435c9dd24cdafd7efe2433497b3af4799ed76510b9f01063e1745b5a4c2631.jpg
WHAT?
NO HOLLOW KNIGHT OR STARDEW VALLEY???
RIGHT!?
Someone at nintendo has a clone fetish
7 minutes for Mario!!
and No smash
ODDYSSEY
Oh well. That sucked
yeah no smash >:[
The USUM trailer was satisfying
Yes.
No it wasn’t it showed the same thing as every other trailer with 2 ultra beasts
Names. Details. New locations.
Stuff we already knew
A mix of info we knew and new info is satisfying.
I guess to each their own
She wants to hate lets just let her hate
No I fucking don’t I want to be excited I want to be hyped but they refuse to let me
They be excited to learn it yourself when you get it
Like what did they truely leave to discover yourself in SM? Nothing (almost every detail was revealed and taken from the shadows of the secrets)
Now we are being kept from knowing everything about it and left more to discover on our own
Just enjoy what you have and what has yet to come
No it’s not because ITS THE SAME STUFF WEVE SEEN FOR 3 MONTHS
We have not seen the 2 UB’s ever before? I saw literally nothing we have seen of these game’s prior to today
OH DAMN TWO NEW UBS GOTTA PRE ORDER
And have you not noticed we haven’t seen mantine as a ride?
If that’s the most interesting thing then they clearly aren’t trying
No you need to be a little more positive.
You and Ultron are hard to please
The only new info were the Ubs
Details. Locations. Details (like the new ride). English names.
Just names from locations we’ve seen before and details of the story we already got in Corocoro
And we learned some more English names
Surprisingly actually. Not a blow out, but certainly had some cool stuff.
The UBs looked cool
I guess….
You seem to just hate everything these days don’t you?
Apparently because things continue to disappoint me
stop being so bitter while everyone is so hyped
we saw enough to know that usum will be games that have a lot going on
watch and you’ll see
i know that you will buy it and that you’ll eventually be happy with it
As great as Odyssey looks, no one needs to see anything else from this game..
Yeah i think they already show enough
Pracy has her own cappy named Tiara
New oddyssey locations. Cool.