July predictions!

[Hikamaru]

Speaking of the movie, did it have a preview of movie 21? I ask as it might provide us some hints to what might be in U-SM.

If I remember correctly, we didn't even get a preview for the next movie.

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

If I remember correctly, we didn't even get a preview for the next movie.

Woah! How odd if true 0_o (might Lockstin have been right?)

 

[Alexander18]

We see what happens but i given up on july. Other months after are more likely.

 

[PkmnTrainerElio]

I want news soon, because I am so damn tired of the same, repetitive posts on r/Pokemon... No speculation whatsoever. And Google and Twitter give no help either, just Pokémon Go related stuff.

 

[pkmin3033]

It's very difficult to speculate or make accurate guesses outside of generally likely things in gameplay without more information, yeah...if CoroCoro says nothing about USUM, I'd expect a trailer this month. If they say there is a big scoop coming next month or something, then I would say we won't get anything in July probably...

 

[blue]

Trailers usually get announced only a few days in advance, so there's really not much of a gap between the announcement and release. Since there's still 20 days left of July, I definitely wouldn't rule it out for this month just yet.

 

[w1f1pa55w0rd]

Honestly, I don't care about what they show because last time they ruined everything. I know that some people don't care about suspense or anything, but doesn't anyone think that what they did last time was TOO much? They literally revealed the Pseudo-Legend in the beginning itself. WTH? And the data mining leaks, I don't mind, since I won't watch them anyway. But hopefully, they leave some things to suspense, as last time, I literally predicted that Cosmog would evolve into the box legendary, and I actually won a bet with my friend. Hopefully, they don't reveal way too much. Just small slivers should be enough to get fans on their toes, right?

 

[Alexander18]

I never really liked that we have pre-evolutions of Solgaleo and Lunala. Both pre-evolutions are useless and pointless. What was GF thinking?

On topic: July is clearly about the movie. Maybe some pokken news. But USUM news are getting more unlikely this month. I don't expect a trailer at all.

 

[pkmin3033]

The thing is, they have a global audience to consider...the movie means absolutely nothing to Western audiences, since it isn't releasing over here this month. I wouldn't be surprised if they throw us something to tide us over after the hubbub has died down in Japan. It might have originated in Japan, but the days where Pokemon is a Japanese franchise are long gone; they're not the only audience that matter, and that may factor in to their choices for information reveals. Maybe. Still 17 days left of July. I give it another week of silence before I'd write it off, personally.

 

[Smotemotem]

I think we're going to get the regular forms back for all the Pokemon that got Alolan forms. I also think we could see some Alolan forms for Pokemon that were introduced in Johto.

 

[Famon]

There is a rumor about a Nintendo Direct airing in July!
Is it true ?

 

[pkmin3033]

There is a rumor about a Nintendo Direct airing in July!
Is it true ?

Splatoon 2 had one last week, but other than that, there have been no official announcements for Directs for this month or anything like that.

...if there WAS a Nintendo Direct this month, the most we'd get out of it relating to these games is an annoucement of a news date anyway, since Nintendo release information in specific Pokemon Directs.

 

[Alexander18]

I doubt we get a direct this month. We would have been told otherwise.

 

[pkmin3033]

Yeah, if we DO get news this month, I think it'll be a short trailer...a full-blown Pokemon Direct a month after the reveal? That's highly unlikely.

Although the lack of notification for this means nothing - they've announced Directs within 2/3 days of them airing before. We'd definitely be told a few days beforehand, but that could be anything between a couple of days and a couple of weeks.

 

[blue]

I highly doubt there will be Nintendo Direct this month due to how many we've had in the past couple of months. If we don't get a trailer this month then I'd fully expect August to be packed with information. The games are already #5 on the top sellers on Amazon and we still know nothing, they need to start giving us something soon.

 

[Hikamaru]

Joe is right. With the lack of information right now, it would be deserving to get a trailer to drop soon, though with only two weeks of the month left we could pretty much confirm that July has been a drought month.

If that is the case, August will probably have to dump a fair bit of news to make up for the two-month long drought.

 

[janejane6178]

I hope there will actually be news to share...

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Did we even get another Pokemon Direct beyond the announcements for past games? I only recall XY and SM having the ones that introduced the games in the first place. Everything else came in short trailers.

 

[Hikamaru]

Did we even get another Pokemon Direct beyond the announcements for past games? I only recall XY and SM having the ones that introduced the games in the first place. Everything else came in short trailers.

If I recall, I'm sure the only Pokemon Directs were to announce games.

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

If I recall, I'm sure the only Pokemon Directs were to announce games.

I thought so. I guess that we'll need to rely on random trailers like we did with Gen VI and SM.