My Nintendo E3 thoughts and predictions:
- Smash Bros. is already confirmed to be there. It will probably include at least one new character reveal, which I hope will be Waluigi (of course). I'm also gonna expect a release date since it's supposed to come out this year. If they don't have a release date at E3 then it's almost certainly gonna be delayed to 2019.
- Yoshi Switch is likely to appear since they showed gameplay of it at last year's E3, so I'd expect it to almost finished by now. It's final name and 2018 release date will most likely be revealed. It's possible that this won't happen since this could be a similar situation to Yoshi's Woolly World where they take years to release it after announcement; however, Nintendo has been better with not delaying games on the Switch, so I'm still gonna predict it to be shown for release this year.
- Fire Emblem is weird, since it was announced almost 1 1/2 years ago and they still have not shown anything from it. They must have literally just started it at the time and only announced it because they didn't want people clamoring for a real FE game when Warriors was the only one announced. So... we might see this since it was supposed to release this year and I can see it being one of the big reveals for release this year. However, because of how little we've seen of it, I won't be shocked if it isn't releasing this year. We'll probably see something about it though.
- I'm expecting an announcement for Pokemon Let's Go any day now, because the website domains being registered pretty much confirms it as real. Pokemon games usually don't announce at E3, so I'm expecting a Pokemon Direct at any point between now and E3, much like the one that announced Pokken DX and USUM last year. It will also be mentioned at E3 and probably shown at the Treehouse. I'll be very surprised if this doesn't happen. I'm also leaning heavily towards it releasing this year (likely in November), but I wouldn't be too surprised if it comes next year since Smash Bros. already fulfills the big holiday game for this year.
- I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Metroid Prime 4 is not coming out till next year. I expect them to have a real trailer this time, but it will say 2019 at the end. Back at last E3 it seemed like they were more confident that Pokemon would be released this year than Metroid, and because of all the evidence for Pokemon coming soon, I don't think Metroid is coming this year. Even just Smash, Pokemon, and Metroid would be a shockingly large amount of heavy-hitters for only the second half of this year, and that's not even considering that Fire Emblem may be coming this year as well. Therefore, I'm pretty sure that Metroid isn't releasing this year, but it will have a trailer in the event.
- We miiight see Link's Awakening 3D since a guy who almost exactly predicted the announcement of WarioWare Gold also predicted this (and a VB Wario Land remake, but that one sounds less likely). He couldn't have known about WarioWare without being at least somewhat legit. However, I'm not gonna put my money on this since we don't even know if any 3DS games will be shown at all and it's still just a rumor. I'd be happy to see it, but I'm not gonna place any bets on this.
- Another rumor that's been going around lately is Star Fox Grand Prix, an alleged Star Fox racing game developed by Retro Studios. I think this game might be weird enough to be real. After Star Fox Zero was a huge failure, they're probably thinking they need to do something new and different to get the series back on its feet (the fans may not agree, but that's another topic). Retro Studios almost seems like Nintendo's go-to IP revival studio since they did it with the original Metroid Prime and Donkey Kong Country Returns, and it would explain what Retro's mysterious project is. On the other hand, there's no solid evidence that the rumors are true besides being fairly widespread as far as I know. So if it shows up at E3 I would not be surprised at all, but it could just as well be fake, so we'll just have to wait and see.
- So, about Mario Odyssey DLC... I'm really torn about the alleged Sunshine leak. There are inconsistencies, but it just looks so impressive and detailed... I really want it to be real, but there's a good chance it isn't, so... I don't know. Regardless of that, I think it's fairly likely that we'll see Odyssey DLC of some kind. By E3, it will have been about 9 months since the game's initial release which is about the same amount of time that Splatoon 2's DLC took to be announced after Splatoon 2 was released. Therefore, the timing will be right and considering they are selling DLC for most of their other big games, it would follow to do it for Odyssey. Who knows if it will have Isle Delfino, but I really, really hope it does... oh, and playable Luigi too, pretty please?
- Now for miscellaneous stuff: they'll advertise Mario Tennis and show gameplay for it; we'll probably see details and/or gameplay for the DLC of Xenoblade 2, Splatoon 2, and Mario + Rabbids; I really doubt we'll see Animal Crossing Switch; maybe they'll show Mario Kart Tour but maybe not since it's a mobile game; we could see an announcement for a Mario spin-off or other minor series such as Mario Party 11; there will probably not be very many 3DS games; some already announced 3rd party games will be shown such as Octopath Traveler; and there's sure to be a big shocker that nobody expected, because there always is.
Phew, that was more than I expected. :P
