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:
Derp Lizard
ODYSSEY LOOKS SO GOOD I CANT WAIT
BURN THE RABBIT
SAVIOR BIRB
Mario has an Ash caught a pokemon animation
As always the Japanese trailer is better ……at least u can see assembly inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV2Lx3k2U74
YO THE NECROZMA THEME MUSIC IS SO GOOD WTF
Everything about it is perfect.
I mean the music that plays with it
I know
The Purple dino shop is great
Trex Mario is still so awesome
“Oh my god! Have we every seen Mario’s nipples before?” -TheJWittz lolz
WE GOT EVERYTHING I NEEDED FOR USUM
MY FAITH IS RESTORED BOI
you didn’t need much did you
New mons
And they said new areas
It’s vague, yes, but that means it’s totally possible there might be a lot more! And jut the thought of it makes me super excited!
Do we really need more than its a main series game?
You praise Third games like Platinum and Emerald, yet they are the same deal as USUM (Just third games with an altered story) but unlike those two we can confirm more than 1 to 2 new areas
Lol what exactly did you need
Something. We got some things.
Confirmation of new areas and new mons
I need more. The only thing that excited me was the possibility of dive.
But here’s the thing
They aren’t showing more
all this trailer did was say that they have a fair bit more than they’re letting on
And that for me is perfect
It makes me think there’s so little to show that they’re afraid of putting everything out there.
I see both points and im so torn
It makes me think they learned not to spoil everything in the game :3
I mean…. It’s clear they took the time to do stuff!
They’ve spoiled nothing though, that’s the thing
More to find ourselves (I’m really getting hyped at what they are hiding from us)
Gamefreak never hides content from us. They always tell us everything to hype us. And it’s not like it’s disappointing that they spoil it, the disappointing part is that the content is scarce.
Maybe that’s why them doing it now makes so many upset, because we’ve never known true darkness
Pretty much, but it also makes me skeptical. Friends who I’ve talked to about the games don’t even want to buy it.
Wow! A neon Switch with two red joycons!
theres so much content in odyssey its insane
One of the best Mario games for sure
Burst’s head throwing animation is soooo cool
IKR
Odyssey already GOTY unless AC Origins turns out insane
Lol no…it’s not taking Zelda’s crown.
we’ll see
There’s just no way. 0%
Uhhh
BotW?
Smh totally forgot about BotW loool im so hyped rn
It was a good direct, very soild, but i think they could had some of those announcements at E3
But where’s smash?
They showed way too much stuff we already knew for like every game
Marketing upcoming stuff, how does it work?
I just need som animal crossing or stardew valley news please and thank you
Sorry
im just now realizing how much i like animal crossing too. i was always way more interested in harvest moon. Nothing beats magical melody and that nostalgia I have for it now
I missed all the Pokémon content from the Direct. Serebii just blew my mind. NEW POKÉMON IN USUM, WTF???
Yeah a whole two new Pokémon
Well it’s still unprecedented either way!
They revealed 2 new UBs and hopefully there’s more to come
IKR?! IM SQEEUING
RIP SMASH
Guess I’ll leave for now since I’m just going to be mad I guess
Mad about setting expectations too high?
Look when Necrozma hits the Altar of Sun/Moon. It splits into two parts; the armor and the pure light thing!
You’re right! Great spot
Also, I totally predicted that Pokémon-themed 2DS. I’ll take one, if you don’t mind.
Meh, I think it’s really ugly.
I’ll use Dusky
The double pack has the weird ultra eyes
Really digging UB Assembly. Hopefully we get some new regular pokemon or Alolan forms.
Ikr
Oh but first https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/85c2ed34b0144ac11700f1bc9cd9da5b3fd2681e906f208314ac75e6a018b03c.png
Bingo