Julius

Don't even go there. Give me a Batfleck movie directed by Batfleck and I'll be over the moon.

If that were to be the controller, even if there were clip-on grips available, it could prove problematic. Especially if this is going to be a hybrid. Because that would mean Nintendo have forgotten one of their biggest lessons to do with ergonomics of gaming pads: there are big and small hands. Not only does this design not look comfortable for either, but smaller hands (thinking like five year olds here) might not be able to reach the triggers, and big hands? I think that's self-explanatory.

According to the Pokedex, it's less likely than 1 in 4 billion that you'll catch a Spinda with the same pattern. According to Bulbapedia (sorry Joe), are 4,294,967,296 variants. Double that if we count shiny Pokémon (though this would obviously dramatically decrease the likelihood even more). As for Vivillion, I believe we're currently on twenty variants.

I don't know what's left to say. These reviews are a mess. But if one minor spoiler I heard (in a NON SPOILER REVIEW) turns out to be true, there are going to be riots. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

...this theory is almost a month old. It might be a spin on it, but I don't think we'll get direct fusions between humans and Pokémon. Yet. 20 years time? Perhaps. Could probably be an evolution form brought on by closeness with a Pokémon in Amie or something similar to that. Perhaps maxed out Super Training and Amie so that the player and Pokémon are "one"? Just spitballing. Definitely don't take this seriously.

These reviews are all over the place, just like the ones for The Force Awakens (which, by the way, I LOVED). But the fact that it ranges from "meh" to "best movie of all time" at least says to me it's somewhere between 6 and 9 in a rating out of 10, which is pretty good. It has a lot to set up, so I wouldn't be surprised if it got bogged down in trying to set up the world. Looks at AoU. It happens. NOW BACK TO THE HYYYYYYYYPE.

Hitting it this year? Not so likely in my opinion, like 30/35%. Next year? Probably much more probable, at least in my books. As for E3, I can see there being a Direct which reveals the controller a few weeks in advance to start the hype before console and game reveals at E3.

I cannot wait for this film! The world-building will be what gets me going. The little nods and winks to future possible villains and heroes (such as the question mark in the trailer or Robin's costume hinting at a Red Hood storyline and the Death in the Family arc). Keeping an eye out for Metallo's creator, Emmett Vale, especially. We know we have Doomsday already, and with Zod already being incapacitated and used as something else in the movie we assume, I have to believe that Metallo is next in line to take on the Man of Steel. Perhaps a Death in the Family beating of Robin in the Knightmare sequence? We already have Darkseid basically confirmed at this point. I'm slurring my text just thinking that this is only a few days away.

Well. That escalated quickly. Back to the normal routine of speculating, folks.

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I was under the impression that black was an absence of colour, whereas white was the saturation of every colour. Black and white aren't colours, so to speak...

Mine are too! And I mean sure, he's haired, that's different. For now.

If this is legit Nintendo have a real problem on their hands (not arguing for or against its validity). The last thing they need after the last few months of yet-to-be-disproved "leaks" is NX related hardware/software getting out, especially as a photo.

Agreed, especially seeing as it allowed for a reemergence of a topic somewhat discussed when that patent "leaked". I can say for a fact that I actually hate the concept and shape of that patent now.

Okay. Seems like we're all a bit lost now.

I'm surprised it took so long. Oh well, at least now we know that we really don't want anything that resembles that. I don't, anyway. I love wired gaming but boy would that thing eat through your electricity. I wasn't too sure either. But I just want to accept it as such just because I've never loathed a controller so much, fake or not.

I'd have to imagine it would be painful to the Nintendo execs that they're thrown at. That things looks pretty streamlined.

Well, it's different, I'll give them that. If Nintendo want to win E3 it looks like they could do it just by revealing that controller.

A bunch of movie clips have been released. There's also some B-roll footage. EDIT: if these don't work they're all available on Joblo Movie Trailer's YT channel

Damn. Saw this the other day when it was released. Still saddens me to my core. I hope if and when Nintendo have their showcase of the new console at E3 that they show another tribute to Iwata.

Damn. That got to me. A massive chunk of my childhood just flashed before my very eyes.

I know, just thought it would be a great gesture. And as for the naming, we got the "Wii" and "Wii U", this would actual be a much more mainstream name than the aforementioned (I'd buy the console simply because it was called the "Iwata" that's how credible his name is), not to mention how it would swarm social media to the point EVERYONE knew why it was called that. Perhaps even just having a pre-loaded Mii that shows us around the interface called or having features of Iwata, I'd take anything, as long as there is some sort of gesture. The man's done nothing but make water into rainbow unicorns for Nintendo during his tenure, and before that at previous posts. "On my business card, I am the President of Nintendo. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer." I think that says it all.

I've been doing a lot of thinking, and watching a lot of videos from a long time ago about Iwata. Seeing as the NX seems to be his final console initiative (though I wouldn't be surprised if he'd gone into work on the next handheld too, especially if it is a hybrid), the most fitting and honourable name Nintendo could give the NX is the "Iwata". In my opinion, anyway.